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subjecting themselves to the Lordship of Jesus by obedience to the
word of God. As this kingdom is released into anyone’s life, he
begins to experience the promises that are to be revealed therein.
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Long life is my portion....
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What you cannot declare boldly you are not yet convinced of. If
you were persuaded about it, then you would talk about it freely.
If you are a believer, then those expectations should be declared
boldly from your mouth. What you really believe will come forth
spontaneously from yo...
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en of God, however, it is simply living
below the glory. If you behave thus, you are simply not a believer.
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PRACTICAL LIFE
Many people, when they talk like this, claim they are being
practical. To them, faith in God is ju...
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place of God’s
placement for my life. There I will always be found.
Prosperity flows towards me, I do not go after it.
I go after the will of God for my life and all other things are added
unto me.
I am saying all these to get us to understand that faith is indeed a
present thing. One is not a be...
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and not for evil, to give me a future and ensure
that my hope does not fail. He is watching over His word to
perform it. I am here by divine commandment, and until He says
otherwise, here I shall be.
Security and prosperity are not in any place; they are only in the
place where God has ordained you...
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someone about issues of life and when they give
you their reasons for taking the decisions they are taking, you do
not hear one single consideration of the counsel of God. I had one
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of such discussions recently with a brother who had just made a
major decision that would affect h...
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the sake of the kingdom.’ No, He is saying that, for
you, His way is the sure way to abundance and His path will lead
you to the breakthrough that will be far above what you could
ever have dreamt of.
Again I say, there is a counsel of God for every situation. The word
of God, applied to any issue ...
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ord.
What you conclude based on the word of God will ever be the best.
The word of God is the real wisdom that will cause you to
overcome in all issues of life. This was what Paul was telling
Timothy.
…thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able
to make thee wise unto salvation… 2 T...
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expectation in life. This word had a direct
relationship to his situation. His faith was not at all something that
had no relevance to his current life; it was real, it had an answer to
his situation.
The second level of faith is that which you have in the word of God
that has something to do with ...
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delight.
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the wicked…,
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night. Ps 1:1-2
What you enjoy is what your have made up your mind to enjoy.
Think about those who smoke and drink...
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make me dwell in my own home as the
joyful mother of many children.
“I will not die young. I will live and see my children’s children.
With a very long life will I be satisfied by the Lord himself.”
Friends, this is the way that the believer talks. He speaks exactly in
agreement with God. What the...
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ath. What James was saying here is that just as a dead body is
without the breath, so is a dead faith is without actions. The lack
of breath is not a cause of the dead state but a manifestation of it.
As a doctor in training, one of the things I had to learn was how to
decide that a person is dead,...
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me, it is a very productive way of getting the word into
me. Every time you enter my car you will always find enough
teaching tapes to keep you busy for the next 6 hours at least. I
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soak my environment with it. I hardly can be found without a
book. My reason is that I may have to...
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that should become you attitude towards
the word.
Know for sure that the voice that your second-hear is the one that
will determine your experience in life. Remember the issue of
Peter on the waters.
Peter stepped out according to the word of Jesus. He had told him,
‘Come.’ With his focus on that ...
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re, but in the light of the promise of God, he understood
that God would have to raise him up from the dead. This is faith as
the substance of things hoped for. No wonder God got so excited
about him.
Those who have taught that faith is present tense are very right;
but they should not have been so...
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dwell in the house as joyful mothers
of children. If you can’t believe this, then maybe you are a Muslim.
A believer believes it. (For more on this healing issue, please see
my book The Law of Life).
Listen to me, the word of God has ordained that every child of His
should have a long and fruitful ...
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any other negative things are almost as common in the church
as they are in the world. The church has no hope because the
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people believe nothing. We have limited our faith to a creed,
which is only good enough for us to ...
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that God would raise him from the dead if necessary. It was this
faith that he demonstrated in God that excited God about him. It
was the reason why God began to swear to bless him.
That inherent propelling power that is in faith and which moves
the person of faith into automatic...
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he first level of faith is that which has to do with
essentially historical events that one did not witness by himself
but has to rely on the testimony of others to know. But when a
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word comes to you describing what is yet to happen; a thing that
affects you personally; accepting...
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He will cause all kinds of grace to
abound towards me so that not only will I have all sufficiency in
training those that are mine but also I will super-abound to train
many who are not so privileged.
In recent times, the Lord has caused me to understand that any
seed I plant in the land in the tim...
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is may say what they like and try to
discourage us believers, but we have chosen the report of the Lord
alone as the relevant report for our lives.
The issue is who each person has chosen to believe.
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CHAPTER 9
THE SECON...
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gs that he believes
that are matters of history, but also in the things that he believes
that are matters both of today and of tomorrow—what are the
expected outcomes tomorrow of the matters of today.
One thing that pains me everyday in current day Nigeria is the
way believers respond to the matter...
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just because you are there. He
will by blessing you show what He can do to anyone who follows
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Him wherever they might be.
Physically prosperous places hold no special promise for the child
of God; neither does the place ...
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I totally agree with him.
Buy truth, and do not sell it,
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Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. Prov
23:23
The way to be strong in faith is to be filled at all times with this
word. There is no other way. ...
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ed but has no personal expectation
is not a believer.
One who believes that Jesus died and rose but does not know that
he, the Child of God, has therefore passed from death to life is not
a believer.
One who still fears what the world fears is not a believer.
One afraid of death is not a believer...
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r,
there is no hope until there is faith.
This is the order: First, the evidence (which is the word of God);
then faith to receive the word; then hope, which is a natural
consequence of any evidence.
When we misunderstood this hope, we thought that when a
person has ‘hope’, he or she should then g...
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one do I believe?
You are only a believer if the one you believe is the report of the
word of God!
What do you believe?
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Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called Pastor
Bankie, is a teacher of th...
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That is the way by which the real faith is manifested. This is why
Paul used the expression, hearing and hearing.
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
word of God. Rom 10:17 KJV
Many people who go to church are only involved with the first
level of hearing, and that is why th...
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He that believes
HE THAT BELIEVES!
Dr D. B Olusina
Bible quotations marked NLT are from The Holy Bible, New Living
Translation ©1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. All rights reserved
Bible quotations marked AMP are from ...
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osper. He will cause economic
policies to be altered to fit your life of abundance. When I think of
the events that surround the birth of Jesus, it gives me courage to
trust that He will do it for me.
Remember that according to prophecy Jesus was to be born in
Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), and just before...
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yet there was not one of them. Ps 139:16
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
And before you were born I consecrated you;
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jer 1:5
What applied to Jeremiah here in being called a prophet according
to the will of God for him does ...
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ouths of people, but also from the ‘mouths’ of the
environment and our circumstances. As we saw earlier, it is these
words, or reports, that create expectations in us. They move us.
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Again, let me point out that it is not every report that can move
everyone. I remember being at a ...
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the things that are not seen
(historical things), and as a furtherance of this faith, has a specific
thing that he or she is believing that God will do in this present
day life or in the near future.
A believer is one who interprets all the events of his current day
life in the light of those thing...
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s questioned concerning how He got
results when He cursed the tree, His answer was simple: “Take
your faith away from all the other things that you hitherto had
faith in, and place that faith in God.”
It follows first that a believer has placed in faith in God. But if I say
that I am a Christian an...
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h just because
the maker indicated that it can.
One will buy a beautiful and expensive wristwatch with a lot of
money and yet jump into a pool with it just because ‘water
resistant’ is written on it.
These are all examples of believing.
See, most of us have never seen ozone; we don’t know what it...
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faith that we know them. Our faith is therefore the
conviction of these things we did not see before accepting them as
facts.
Faith is… the conviction of things not seen.
Why we believe these things
There must be a reason why we are accepting as true the things
that we have not seen and are build...
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the fact that, as I read in an edition of the National
Geographic, some people are claiming that there is no scientific
evidence that he lived. We accept the accounts of Jesus testifying
to his life.
We are convinced that he had a son in his old age by divine action.
We are convinced of God’s deal...
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the conviction of the things that we do not see.
Everyone who claims to be a Christian must believe all these
things. Accepting them produces a general righteousness in the
life of the one believing.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power
of God for salvation to everyone wh...
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and saved Noah and his family by an ark.
We know he believed all these and yet was not declared righteous
as a consequence. What was it then that he believed that caused
him to be declared righteous?
You have given me no children, so one of my servants
will have to be my heir."
Then...
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according to the word of God without a
conscious effort on his part. Joshua and Caleb were not trying to
please God when they returned with the rest of the spies and
spoke the things that pleased God.
“If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us
into this land, and give it to us ...
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verse of the Bible is describing the source of hope that a
believer should have. It is saying that my expectation is not based
upon the things that are around but upon the evidence of the
word of God.
The hope that the Bible is describing is that which a man or
woman has but which is not explained ...
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od with
repentance from unbelief in your mouth, committing your life to
faith, and He will give you the spirit of faith, a heart force that
easily takes the word of God and real.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
The second thing that is important is the knowledge of the word of
God. However I need to point ou...
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eve that God is one. You do well; the demons also
believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize,
you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?
James 2:17-20
Many times people do things that they claim are done so as to add
works to their faith. I recollec...
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ness can hold me down or kill me before my
time. It is irrelevant what the human experts say; the word of God
is supreme in my life. That is the faith that calls you a believer and
a righteous person.
You are not a believer if the word of the doctor is what decides
your response to the situation. I...
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Just read the life of Solomon. You won't live the rubbish life you are living. Because where Solomon reached, you will reach there too. You will discover that you are wasting time. You see, we can never prove Solomon wrong. If you say something is bad, eventually you will discover. Look, Solomon was...
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Do you follow what I'm saying? Now please, I want you to notice that very carefully. Now quickly, let's go back to where we were, the book of Galatians chapter 5. Open your Bibles again to the book of Galatians chapter 5. Alright, I'm going to start from verse 16. And then I'll jump a number of vers...
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That's not giving your life to Christ. Jesus appeals to the rich and the poor. It's a spiritual matter. It's a spiritual matter. He appeals to everybody. If you see gospel that is the only part we want, listen, it's not balanced. Don't tell me that, look, it's not balanced. If it's balanced, if it's...
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He said, no, real faith is that I understand that wherever I am, God has a word concerning my situation. Therefore, man does not live by bread alone, but by every word. That's what real faith is. I hope you're getting my point. That's why it's possible, you know, if you don't, the way we used to pre...
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He go, look, he said, why take the risk? I'm telling you, beer is massive an animal. And David went after it. All God wanted was a heart that wanted to go after it. Then the spirit of after it went into David, strength entered his heart. No, listen. You don't run after a beer and just snatch food, c...
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They're always asking God, always receiving instruction from above. That's the way they do their things. Do you get my point? That's what Christians are. That's what the Bible calls grace. Maybe you left school, you had the first class, you knew everybody, and God really wants to use you. He will ma...
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God is not lawless. He may be sovereign, he's not lawless. Lawlessness and sovereignty are not the same thing. What did I say? Lawlessness and sovereignty, they are two totally different things. If God just wakes up in the morning and say, you, you will not believe, that's lawlessness. You, you will...
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of having sown proper seeds and the fruits be ministered by the power and the grace of God. So Moses said to Joshua, now these are many things I want us to understand, you know, talking about our faith, the foundations of faith. One that I'm bringing out today, you know, last time I talked about lov...
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You know why it says blessings, not faith? It didn't say the blessing of God is riches. It didn't say so. The blessing of God makes rich. Are you getting what I'm saying? That's why people say that, ah, John the Baptist was not working in knowledge. If he understood the knowledge of God, he would ha...
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Her name is, oh, what's her name? Linda Force. I said, did I startle you? I said, startle me? Nothing is big enough to startle me. No, I said, did I scare you? I said, scare me? Nothing is big enough to scare me. That was the time I took a stick and I was walking like this. Somebody said, Doc has 60...
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and fruits come on you. That's why I say you will do something and then something will do you after. Fruits come on you. Seeds are the things that you can sow. Are you getting the point? Seeds are the things you can sow. You cannot stop the harvest when the time will come. God is the one that minist...
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and we start walking like that in small things, then great things will begin to happen in our lives. Listen, everything we said that God will do in your life will take great faith to bring them down. Are you getting my point? But that great faith does not come by striving and struggling. It comes by...
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These are the fundamental things that every believer should know. When you give your life to Christ, what you did was to start accepting, finally, the will that God has for your life. And attaching yourself to the will of God for your life is what real faith is. Do you get my point? That is what rea...
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Actually, our so-called faith is actually sowing to our own flesh. And all we are reaping from our flesh is corruption. How? Through discouragement. The hope that is deferred makes the heart faint. The more faith we exercise, the less we receive, the more we become discouraged. Eventually, we say, c...
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Why would she be a wicked soul? The reason is because when you go after what the Bible calls your lust, we always think lust is a bad thing. What's a lust? What's lust? Hey, he's a man of God, and he's married, and he has a girlfriend. We think that's lust. Listen, that's lust, amen? That's lust, am...
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They can make doughnuts. They can pound yam. They can make cars. They can fly airplanes. They are good things. If it is real faith, if you are not of faith in Christ Jesus, you can't tap into it. I'm bringing something in all of this as I'm saying. So let's talk about building strong faith. You know...
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Okay, let me just talk about that real faith. Real faith is that I have forsaken every other thing and have thrown my confidence totally into God. I'm talking about faith basics. These are the fundamental things Christians should know. A lot of us these days, we go to church, we learn how to get thi...
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As far as I'm concerned, a man is supposed to make a woman happy. So why should I be chasing 20 people to make them happy? It's an investment. I don't know whether you get what I'm saying. So if God says, no, Nubanki, make one woman happy, I say, thank you. It's cheaper. You know, it's cheaper. I wa...
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God said, are you hearing what I'm saying? It is a land that flows with milk and honey, and that that's what he has appointed for me, being a descendant of Jacob, that my inheritance, all right, as a member of the tribe of Reuben, is over there. So I'm going to the inheritance that God appointed for...
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Just preaching this gospel of Christ. That's what faith is. Our only faith is praise God. And now I drive a Lincoln Navigator. Hallelujah. Yeah, it shows that God is good. And I drive this in the presence of a non-believer, he will believe. What if a cocaine man drives in front of him? If it is the ...
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What am I saying? I just alter. So after she harassed me enough, okay? You know, if you know children, you have to answer. You get to answer. So after a while, I said, listen, you're a daughter. If I'm your daddy, that makes me a father, you know? What I'm trying to say is that I wasn't confessing, ...
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So, but after I heard those words, I began to leave. Therefore, listen, I don't have, I don't get time for choir. I'm not saying choir is bad, but I'm just impatient. What burns in my heart? I'm talking about sense of purpose. There's no light in Nigeria. Light in Nigeria, when Mungo Park, they ride...
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because it is so important. And that's the fact that everything we design in life is what? A fruit rather than what? The seed. That is what we do in life is that, what I mean by rather than a seed is that, a seed is what you have control over. Fruit is what you don't have control over. That's how ou...
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That is the power of the human soul. That's how God created us to be. If I want something to make noise here, I don't need faith. You know what I mean? I just carry something, throw it up like a bottle, it hits the floor, it shatters. Is that faith? I just know how gravity works and the breakability...
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I don't know whether you're getting my point. He said, who's on the other end? He said, it's one gate man somewhere. He said, I need people to move mountains. But you don't understand. He has located that man at the appropriate place to give information to the men waiting to move. So this is what ha...
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If a donkey can receive the anointing, a human being that's a non-believer can receive it. When Saul was walking in sin, he stumbled into the midst of prophets. What happened to him? He prophesied. What I'm saying is a lot of things you see people do in life that are so heroic is the Holy Spirit ent...
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If it's anybody whining and grumbling about the country, he has no purpose, no sense of direction. He doesn't have anything he wants to achieve. This woman was born severely. I don't know whether she survived the fire incident, but all her children survived. Her house caught fire. She ran outside. S...
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Who is giving it to them as an inheritance? Who is giving it to them as an inheritance? Oh, you see, hey, I wanted to get to that level. Some say God, some say Joshua. Whichever one you said, you're correct. God is the one giving it to them. But God now turned around and said, Joshua, go and give it...
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You will talk, there's one girl, the girl was looking at me and said she was going to pass through my eyes into my brain, collect all the doctrines, swallow it and go back to her seat. And look, those two children would not be more than 15, 14, 15, that would be their age. There were three of them, ...
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the book of persuasion. This is what faith is. Listen to what I'm saying again. Real faith is that I have taken the book of information or I've tuned my ears to the frequency of information from god and everything I hear him say and everything I read that he said, every single thing forms my new per...
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ves us an opportunity each time to practise diligence, righteousness and blessing someone else’s life with our abilities. Faithfulness is being dependable in what things God has given into your hands.
People oftentimes say there are no jobs; I always say there are always jobs. A job is the opportun...
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nd as your own area of calling, passion, or training. To dwell in the land means to stay where your expertise or calling is, and not to change it just because another man is making it in his own area.
We often think of success in the life of another person as a result of the juiciness of the career...
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nt seed for your destiny. A sign that you are trusting in God now is that you have become one that does good.
2. Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
What does it mean to dwell in the land?
We can deduce two things from here. Dwelling in the land refers to staying in one geographical loc...
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etend to be." Jer 17:10 THE MESSAGE
"Life is spiritual. Your physical existence doesn't contribute to that life. The words that I have spoken to you are spiritual." John 6:63 GOD'S WORD Translation
What the word of God is telling us is that it is the hidden part of our actions that really count....
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o evildoing.
9 For evildoers will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land." Ps 37:3-9 NASB
Let us bring out a few things from here.
1. Trust in the Lord and do good.
Trusting in the Lord, which is what we call faith, is a heart matter; it is an attitude with which...
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It is a fact that life operates on the principle of seedtime and harvest. Oftentimes we do not realize this and we are labouring to reap where we have not sown or what we did not sow, or we are doing the work of harvest during the time of seed and wondering why we are reaping nothing. Many people li...
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use our seedtime. This is the only time we can influence what we reap; we cannot change our desires later when harvest season comes and start reaping what we did not sow. We can only reap what we sow.
So it is vital that we learn to sow the right seeds in the time appointed for seed sowing.
We must...
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loved righteousness, and hated wickedness;
"Therefore God, Thy God, has anointed Thee
"With the oil of joy above Thy fellows." Ps 45:7 NASB
When you love righteousness, patience is easy.
CONCLUSION
Having said all these things, remember, there is a season that is due. God will cause events to ar...
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in the Lord outwardly is by delighting in walking according to His rules and principles of doing things. Here is how the Lord Jesus said it:
If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word… John 14:23 NASB
Delighting in the Lord is not the same as delighting to go to church, or dance in church or to ‘wo...
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use me pain." And God gave him what he prayed for.' 1 Chron 4:10 TEV
How will you like your life to be a testimony that God answers prayers rather than a testimony of human striving, which is vanity?
Remember when you pray, you pray in the name of Jesus. To pray in the name of Jesus is beyond just...
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ve. They fret, and become tempted with wrongdoing. If they begin to get involved in the wrongdoing, they have lost out.
"…but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with him." Heb 10:38 TEV
We must be persistent and determined about our faith and the path with God we have chosen. One way...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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however not understand what it
is, but they will know something is different. What
I am explaining is that the filling of the Spirit has an
observable effect in the life of the person that is
filled.
Remember the time, in the early days of the
Church, when the apostles needed to appoint
deacons. Th...
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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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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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, 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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ages that are available on
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 SPIRIT
Operations and Manifestations of the S...
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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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ay Witness Lee says this:*
We must take the baptism in the Holy Spirit by living
faith. If we are right with the Body of Christ, we are in a
position to take the baptism in the Holy Spirit. We should
* From The Divine Economy by Witness Lee. Published by Living Stream Ministry
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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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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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int I used that story to illustrate is that desire,
manifested in heart-felt prayer, is a crucial
ingredient in receiving the Spirit. Those young
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women couldn't have gotten anything, judging by
their attitude. No matter what other pathway to
re...
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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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f you are
actually speaking in the tongues given by the Holy
Spirit of God. I think that the proportion of
gibberish-speaking among us is shown by the
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amount of the power of God that is absent from our
midst. For goodness' sake, the Holy Spirit does...
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. That was what
the Lord Jesus told us about His words.
What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use
at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-
giving Spirit. John 6:63 GNT
What He was explaining is that when we hear
words, it is not the physical sound that actually
matt...
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d
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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mps
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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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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hat the
Holy Spirit brings into us is power, ability to do
good works, and a sound mind.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but
of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 Tim 1:7 NLT
I have seen this many times. I remember a
particular incident in fellowship on campus. There
was a...
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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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ly
Spirit is a gentleman and He does not force or
compel anyone to do anything. It is implied that the
Holy Spirit only nudges and whispers to children
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of God so as to give them direction; for this reason
we have to be very sensitive to His gentle nu...
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ave. I say this
judging from the record of scriptures. Prophesying
is a frequent accompaniment of being filled with
the Spirit but, unfortunately, we have often failed to
recognize it or encourage it.
Please don't get me wrong, I am not trying to take
away from speaking in unknown tongues at all,
r...
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ven is more real to you; you seem to forget
the things of this world. What has happened is that
you got an infusion of the Spirit by that interaction.
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To create an ambience of faith around yourself is
both unconscious and deliberate. The unconscious...
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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ongues only,
but earnestly desire the manifestation of more gifts
in your life. Expect the manifestations of these gifts
of the Spirit. They are the effect of the presence of
the Holy Spirit with you.
Visions and Revelations
I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 Cor
12:1 KJV
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t 6:6-9
These verses show us how to generate the right
spiritual atmosphere. It is generated by the words
that come from our mouths. The word of God and
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the praises of the Almighty must first be in our
hearts, then we must allow them flow often from
o...
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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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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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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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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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at-is-all matter; it is rather to be a continuous
process. That was why Paul wrote to them not to
get drunk with wine, but to be filled with the Spirit.
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Now, Paul wrote this in the Greek language, and
those who know it explained that “be filled” is in...
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has decided that the Son has in
Himself the full nature of God.
Through Christ, God reconciles all things to Himself.
* Col 1:13-20, Psa 2, Jer 10:6-16
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God made peace through the blood of Jesus on the cross
and so brought back to Himself all things, ...
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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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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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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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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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re to a set of
professionals, and at the end of it everyone
spontaneously rose and gave him a standing
ovation, including his partners and colleagues in
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the assignment—people who had known him for a
long time. Everyone was impressed at the delivery
an...
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free e-book from pastor.ng
Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called Pastor Bankie, is a
teacher of the Word of God. He teaches from the
platform of Kingdom-Word Ministries. The emphasis of
his teachings is the separation of the church from the
world by the obedience to the truths of God. He...
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hat you are where the word is being
preached; it is pertinent that you are careful how
you listen.
If you want the word to convey a spirit into you,
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you must avoid distractions. You can't afford to
interrupt the flow to go and use the bathroom. Th...
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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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devices around you. Fill your air
literally with the word of God and the Spirit of God
will be present too; they go together.
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LAYING ON
OF HANDS
Contact Transmits the Spirit
There are differe...
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certainly it
is not everyone that will have such a dramatic
encounter. Many people will be filled in a gentle
fashion but will realize the tangibleness of it as the
signs begin to show in their lives.
Among many who had an initial dramatic
encounter, there are many who often take it as a
badge of h...
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l visits, but
* 1 Cor 6:12
**1 Cor 5: 9,10
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making them our bosom friends, who we share
close fellowship with regularly, is definitely not
expedient.
If you want to be filled with the Spirit of God, then
make it a habit to regularly visit places wh...
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this man… and the faith which comes
through Him has given him this perfect health… .” Acts
3:12-16
Peter was quick to ascribe the glory to the Lord.
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If God manifests His power through His Spirit in
your life, you must be careful not to claim the gl...
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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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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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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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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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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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God and was preaching the gospel in many
villages of the Samaritans.
But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, "Get up
and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to
Gaza. Acts 8:26
That was how he met the now famous Ethiopian
Eunuch. It is not every time you will make the right
d...
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Are you getting my point? All right? That's because people don't understand that that is not the only place where you can be an effective Christian. It is not. I said something earlier on, that as the word of God is abiding in you, one of the things it does for you is to help you see things clearly....
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1:30
is the words that I'm speaking as they are entering into you that maintain the bond of unity between you and me. It is not by the activities. Please, you know, I just need to explain this thing again and again because that's something that seems to be missing the body of Christ today. It's not the a...
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13:30
Then when they have heard it, they will go out and be a fruit that shows that they are disciples. Listen, there are statements you can never make. You can make a statement that Nigerians are going to church, the country is not changing. That's a correct statement. You can make it. But there's one st...
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Welcome to this time of Refreshing. This is a radio message that was put from the platform of Kingdom Word Ministries by Pastor Banki. Alright, let's continue again. Let's read from the book of John chapter 15. The Lord Jesus was speaking. He said, I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresse...
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4:30
Therefore, our first preaching is not the one we preach with our mouth. Our first preaching is that which our lives experience. That is number one. And I said that number two, God gave us assignments to do in life. I said that Jesus was essentially, as a human being, when he was on earth, before the...
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24:00
He's very rich, yes. His village will say he has three houses. He has two in Lagos, five in Abuja. He's rich. He has two in Port Harcourt. In the village, he has five. Very, very rich, he thinks. And so he says to the Lord, I built houses in your name. God will say to him, get away from here, thou u...
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Because the Spirit of God was dwelling in him according to the testimony of Pharaoh. There was a time something came up in the land and they brought him. And essentially what Joseph did was to tell them how things should be. Do you follow what I mean? That is, because of the understanding of God he ...
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15:00
Are you getting me? Yes, I have. And that's where I expect him to bear fruit. Please, there's an emphasis I've been laying again and again. A businessman who got called to be a businessman is doing iniquity if he decides to become a pastor. Why? Because he's neglecting the job that he was given. And...
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7:30
As only I've learned, there is a reason, do you follow, why God gave me life. There's a reason why God gave me the resources I have around me, both, you know, goodwill, human, material, financial, everything. And I think, to some extent, I have discovered at least part of it. And I said, this is wha...
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27:00
Listen, don't knock your head thinking, hey, how do I do this? No, just pray. Say, Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you. Because before I was born, you created something for me to do. Where is the plan for the next phase? If you are struggling to do something, the struggle is too much, leave it...
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28:30
but his delight is in the law of the Lord. Are you getting my point? What we want to do is to struggle. God said, no, no, no, no, no. Just choose where you want to rest. If you desire to rest in the word and the love of God, then in all that you will do, you will prosper. And like one day, one man o...
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elieve yet or you are ignorant of the kind of spirit you have.
“You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good…” Acts 10:38
We do not say because we are prosperous by His promise we will stop giving. No, no! That is sensel...
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of God over everything.
Say to your body. You are well because Jesus died to make me free. The spirit of Him who raised Christ Jesus dwells in me and is giving life and health to my body (Rom 8:11).
Declare to your business and to your pocket, “prosperity flows toward me like a river, and the weal...
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s sons but to the field as servants. Prosperity is a promise as we saw earlier. We should claim those promises.
STUDY
“They do not know nor do they understand; they walk about in darkness.” Ps 82:5
Ignorance of the promises of God can be as devastating for us as if the Lord never made those prom...
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e bitterness except that God showed him mercy (and let us never forget to hope in his mercy at all times). He learnt the lesson, repented, and when the prayer of faith was said for him, he was healed.
What should this man have done?
He should not have thought that he was immune to troubles simply ...
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and all that I command you, you shall speak.” Jer 1:7
“… and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.” 2 Cor 5:15
The only agreement you can make with God is that of total commitment to obey and to serve Him in e...
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y have to do something special for God.
As Christians, we do our good works naturally and as much as we have opportunity. We are also careful to pursue our specific purposes in life.
WHY THIS SERMON
This message is similar to the one I wrote titled “Works or Faith, the doctrine of mercy.” The mai...
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r my children because I am supposed to be a good father, not because I think providing for them will make me get promoted. This is simply my duty as a father and an effect of my love for the children.
The basis of the blessings of the Christian is the whole of the promises of God which are confirme...
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TO RECEIVE FROM GOD
Something burns in me which I wish to teach on here; it is nothing new but that which I have written and preached about here and there.
Recently a man died, a good man and a Christian at that, and people were contemplating how such things could happen. A young woman was contemp...
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why we are joint-heirs with Him.
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.” Rom 8:16-17
Christ is not just a name or a person; Christ is also a principle. Christ Jesus is the personal su...
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biblical principles, eg the biblical truth of sowing and reaping, however our application is mostly erroneous and does not correctly express the truth of the grace that in to be found in Christ Jesus.
Let us get this thing called the grace of Jesus clear. The basis of God’s blessings in your life i...
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e blessings to others. That is the Abrahamic and Christ order; our faith implies that we must spread the blessings. The blessing did not come because we activated any other principle beyond believing.
I am emphasizing this because I see a lot of people behave as if God already owes them something f...
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e once-and-for-all sacrifice that washes away sins and removes ancestral curses. The real has come and so the old had to cease.
“He takes away the first in order to establish the second.” Heb 10:9-10
In many areas we need to be careful when copying Old Testament acts. They are types and shadows, a...
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ght to make a covenant of blessing with God. Listen to this: there is no covenant of blessing that you can make beyond that which is already made by simply having faith in the finished work of Christ.
When you look to your good works to get you blessings from God you are not praying in the name of ...
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e the joy of living, not just in
this life but also in that which is to come. It is just
that the only way by which this can be truly achieved
is through faith in Jesus and His propitiatory
sacrifice.
I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one
comes to the Father but through Me.
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Words like these are better words to speak
than words of complaining about the wrong things in
life. They impart blessings into your surroundings.
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CHAPTER 6
THE RELEASE
Having said all we have so far, I believe the
importance of blessings should have become clear
to everyone...
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e to get it because you
understand it is the most precious thing that a
person can ever hope to possess.
Please let me explain something that is
expressed in the above quoted passage of scripture:
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Pastor Bankie (pastorbankie.org)
When the Bible says that something is reserved in
heaven for ...
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e Lord has created; it is like an extension of
the Spirit of God that maintains all that He made.
This life affects the environment around the one that
has it. It affects the very earth upon which you
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stand. It is the solution to all sicknesses and failures;
the...
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, Acquire Life
8. Grace to live by
9. Grace to Prosper
10. How to Work for God
11. So, Who Will Pay For This?
Minibooks by Pastor Bankie include
1. The Righteousness of God
2. Prophesy!
3. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
4. What is God’s Will Here?
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e little God-bless-you’s you get here and
there will amount to a great thing in your life. It will
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deliver you in time of trouble; it will give you favour
before men.
Bless yourself
The words you speak over your life are just as
important as the words spoken by others, if not mor...
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e darkness, but shall have the
light of life."
John 8:12
When Jesus said “I am the Light of the world”,
what He was saying is that all the good that the
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world needs will come to it by Him. To be the light of
the world means that the b...
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fe. Thinking
about it, he remembered once when he and his
brothers and sisters ganged up against their parents
and had a heated disagreement over an issue. It
must have been a serious event because he
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recollected that after the whole thing was over he
was deeply troubled in his hea...
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He understood
the value of the blessing of God and lived a life full
of the expectation of the release of that blessing.
This was why he could refuse what looked like an
opportunity.
A small caution
There is something we need to know about the
riches that you get in life as a believer that do not
...
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seasons of learning, but he or she cannot ever
fail. The emphasis with the Lord has always been
that people will be blessed. What the Lord wishes to
give to people is the thing called ‘the blessing.’
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It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich…
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t us labour therefore to enter into that rest…
Heb 4:10-11 KJV
Friends, our pursuit must be to enter into this
rest where we are truly blessed.
Labour to enter
Mike Murdoch made a statement that the proof
of desire is pursuit. That means that there are thing...
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nonsense of the
predictions of doctors.
If a doctor says your condition indicates an
early death or that you cannot bear children, the
blessing stretches its hands to the scripture that
says,
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But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from
the dead dwells in you, He w...
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Heb 12:16
It also good to note that this same portion of
scripture called this birth-right that he missed ‘the
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blessing’.
For you know that even afterwards, when he
desired to inherit the blessing, he was
rejected…
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)
Eccl 3:1,11
Beloved, let me emphasise to you that the Lord
cannot ever fail to come through; He is worth waiting
for; He will not fail.
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Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called
Pastor Bankie, is a teacher of the
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it is the main blessing or other kinds of
blessings, the implication of a blessing is still the
same; it is an empowerment to succeed and to
prosper.
The impartation of blessings- The power of
words
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, "Thus
you shal...
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of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord…
that I may know Him and the power of His
resurrection…
Phil 3:7-10
This is why faith in God appears to be easier
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for those that do not have much to trust in the flesh;
they do not have rich pare...
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water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes; But its
leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit.
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Like we mentioned sometime earlier, it is vital
to note...
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ng. I do not believe there is a blessing
possible that is not already provided in the believers’
package.
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CHAPTER 3
THE BLESSING IN YOU
Do you really value it?
You see, the value you attach to a thing
determines the amount of zeal with which you
pursue it. I...
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them, choosing rather to give them back to the
king of Sodom. He knew that this blessing will soon
produce an abundance of wealth for him and he
didn’t want anyone mistaking the source of the
wealth.
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Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn
to the LOR...
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loves
The Lord pours His blessing on those who
know they need Him and live like they do. He has no
time for the Esau type of people who feel they are
okay and are able to succeed by themselves. I met
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a man once who was doing fairly well in his medical
practice ...
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The devil will make you rich quick if you strike a
deal with him but this will come with an unusual
amount of sorrow and a propensity for an early
grave. The Lord, on the other hand, will only give
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you a promise; that promise will guide you in your
planning and actions for life; it...
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hat our actions by
themselves invoke blessings or curses on us. In
fact, it seems to me that the words of a man only
affirm those blessings or curses. We can see this
from the life of the sons of Eli.
For I have told him that I am about to judge his
house forever for the iniquity which he knew,
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lso the tongue is a small part of the body,
and yet it boasts of great things.
Behold how great a forest is set aflame by such
a small fire!
James 3:4-5
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When the above portion of the scriptures says
that the tongue boasts of grea...
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anywhere because you think there are
greener pastures there; the blessing of God in you
will cause a barren ground to blossom for your sake.
The Lord has promised again and again that he will
do this.
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"The beasts of the field will glorify Me; The
jackals and the ostriches;
...
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en his descendants would partake of this
blessing. His environment would catch its own part
of it. If it was a dry land, it had to become a well
watered garden. The issue was just to get the
blessing.
Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,
And of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance...
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But there is this blessedness that was in Jacob,
when it manifested, it made him rich no matter
where he was and how much Laban, who he was
living with and working for, tried to ensure otherwise.
These twenty years I have been in your house;
I served you fourteen years for your two
daughters ...
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nerations after you.
This is why you need to be careful to ensure that it is
the blessing of God that is making you rich.
Anything produced from the struggles of the
flesh will not stand testing.
…All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like
the flower of the field.
The grass withe...
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d.
Blessedness is a state you exist in, not just a
chance occurrence in your life. A man that is
blessed is blessed; for him there is nothing like
“opportunity comes but once”. What happened once
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can and will happen again and again.
For this reason, a blessed person is not...
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ss my wife properly and to pronounce
upon her all that she might ever wish for and that I
might ever want in her. I still do it regularly; I bless
her day; I bless her womb; I entreat the Lord for her
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sake. In fact, if I don’t do it for some time, she calls
my a...
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d there was a lot to say; this is recorded in Job
29: 1-11. At the end of this he explained how it came
to be.
Because I delivered the poor who cried for
help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
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The blessing of the one ready to perish came
upon me,
And I made the wid...
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prayers.
"But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and
who trembles at My word.
Isa 66:2
Please do not forget:
“…blessed are those who hear the word of God
and observe it”
Faith
Blessed is the man who trus...
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Paul got angry. He saw people committing adultery in the church in Corinth, scattering the church while they're having communion, prophesying without control. He didn't get that angry. He rebuked them. He cautioned them. He warned them. But when somebody went to the churches in Galatia and told them...
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Definitely scores and scores, which I have already underlined. If I want to compose praise for God, it's not hard. Thank God for smart devices. I press a few keys, you see, hundreds of lines of praise will pop up. And God doesn't mind. See, it must come from your heart. Why do you think I went throu...
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May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands, even tens of thousands. And may our oxen be loaded down with produce that is so heavy as our harvest. May there be no enemy breaking through our walls, no going into captivity, no cries of alarm in our town squares. Say yes. I'm going to modify...
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But he said, at least you have more hope than those self-righteous people who think that they can't end their salvation. So what is Christ? The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. What is the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ? It is that he was rich, yet for our sake he became poor, so that we, through his...
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So many of the things he said, they were prophetic. They were not just his desires. His life, you must understand, God sometimes will give you a life to paint a picture. I hope you're getting my point. So that's why Isaiah meant when he said, behold, I and the children that the Lord has given me, we...
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A lot is good. I will take our seats. All right, once again I say good morning. You know what that means? It means a good morning. You will be blessed this morning. All right, let's take up two portions of the scriptures as our Bible reading. We'll start from the book of Psalms. We've been reading f...
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and they will have security, will have safety. Enemies breaking into our homes, hacking into our accounts, kidnapping us on the road, armed robbers taking things from us by force, land grabbers grabbing our lands. He said those things are not the will of God. He said there should be no enemy breakin...
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count her towers, consider her ramparts, go through her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation. For such is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us until death. Amen? I said amen. Such is God, our God forever and ever. And he will guide us until death. Father, we thank you this...
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To not have abundant mercy, to be able to approach Him for somebody else. Let me tell you what it means to intercede. When you're studying prayer, please don't miss the next one on Friday. In the discussion, even if you're not here physically, just log in. Alright? Join us online. It's on Kingdom Wo...
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Abimeleku, go talk to Abimeleku. What are you doing? Abimeleku said, like what? I'm sleeping. He woke me up. I mean, there's a new wife you have. Oh yes, I mean the sister of the man that just came. God said, no, you're a dead man. Why? Because you took a prophet's wife. He said, but you were there....
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Good morning, everybody. Let's start today, as usual, by declaring the glory of the Lord. Psalm number 48. I want to let's go. Great is the Lord. And greatly to be praised in the city of our God, his holy mountain, beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion on the far north, th...
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e of life
where you expect good – in your marriage, your business,
carrier, health, children etc.
Words are powerful.
With words, Adam formed the characters of every
animal.
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"… the Lord God formed every beast… and brought
them to the man to see what he would call them; an...
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peaking
those words. Don't ever forget that continuity is very vital in
spiritual things. If you stop, it is as if you never started.
What has He said about your life generally?
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He said 'with a long life, I will satisfy him and let him
behold my salvation' (Ps 91:16).
So ...
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end is when they need to hear it more.
The time they fail an exam is when they desperately need to
be told how great their future is, and it will come to pass
just as you have said.
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7. Prophecy! Again I Say
Prophecy!
I am a light to my generation.
He satisfies my mouth wi...
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8. Grace to live by
9. Grace to Prosper
10. How to Work for God
11. So, Who Will Pay For This?
Minibooks by Pastor Bankie include
1. The Righteousness of God
2. Prophesy!
3. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
4. What is God’s Will Here?
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prosperous, healthy?
Whatever you call it, that it will become.
Your tongue is where the power is.
13
Prophesy!
'With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be
satisfied: He will be satisfied with the prod...
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n my house. No matter the
country I dwell in, I will prosper and flourish.
I am not anxious, I do not lack anything good.
I am favoured in everything that I do and at every place
that I reach.
I am the future of my country.
This nation prospers because of me.
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direction is the way the
driver turns the steering wheel. In the same manner, the
direction of your life is not determined by your history but
where your tongue is forcing it to go.
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4. The Words That Carry!
It is not every word that comes out of people's mouths
that have stro...
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ve that those things which he
saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith". Mk 11:23 KJV.
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Jesus was here telling them of the way of God which we
saw in Isaiah 55. He was saying that the me...
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of
life. If you do this, despite the fact that you may have
physical setbacks, time and chance will happen to you to
cause you to succeed.
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2. God’s Superior Method
What we are discussing in this book is how to shape
your destiny; how t...
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Proclaim Your Own Victory
Pastor Bankie
Prophesy!
PROPHECY! Proclaim Your Own Victory
© 2005 Dr D. B. Olusina
ISBN (print edition) 978 8062 47 4
e-edition © 2013 Kingdom-Word Ministries
Published in Nigeria by Bezalel Enlite.
P.O. Box 2273 Enugu, Nige...
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half won already.
What we are about to expound is a critical procedure
that the Lord ordained for us to use to obtain victory in life,
to create a beautiful future for our lives.
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1. Spiritual Things Are Real
The first point I want us to get very clear in this
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land, and all that rejoice and
pray over thee will know thy peace and thy prosperity.
I step into the cool ground of my future.
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Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called
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o be cool, you must start and
continue to throw the water of the Word ahead of you into
it. You must learn to speak into your tomorrow.
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3. ‘Words’ is it!
Words are powerful forces that control the realm of the
spirit. I noticed ho...
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of God.
To shape your future, and destiny, what is God’s way?
“for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways...
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“for as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there without watering the e...
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ded by chance; the man who shot him was
shooting at nobody in particular. The arrow entered into a
narrow gap in his armour. The probability of all these
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happening is so small, yet it happened. That archer may
never know he was the one who killed Ahab....
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we confidently say, not doubting, only
because “He Himself has said...” That is what gives faith to
your heart. That is what gives weight to your words.
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Words that will carry weight to shape the life of the
child of God must be in accordance with the ...
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hard. Things become difficult. Issues that God
ordained for you to easily accomplish will take you a lot of
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hard labour or a long time. In their departure from Egypt for
the Promised Land Israel spent 40 yea...
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r impulsive in thoughts...'
Eccl. 5:2.
What are you to declare? What He has said! Once you
find that out please start declaring.
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5. Prophecy! Son of Man,
Prophecy!
I heard someone preach that “prophesying is for the
orderly...
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coming. Princes will bow down.
To me, mountains are highways, express roads.
I ride above them.
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Challenges are stepping-stones.
I cannot be moved.
I am not covetous. My loyalty to Jesus Ch...
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I am healed. I have the vitality of health. I am
well; no sickness can dwell in my body. I have been made
whole by the death of Jesus.
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6. Do Not Say
The problem with most of us is that we have a greater
tendency to repeatedly aff...
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heals every consequence of past sins).
Stop saying that “My father is not rich and I have so
much family responsibilities that I cannot get married.”
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Stop saying “I am not beautiful; no one will marry me.”
Stop saying “I am too short.”
Stop ...
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orting evidence. Of all the
evidences presented to you, the ones that you choose to
accept determine whether you will doubt or believe.
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If you are going to say something and not doubt that it
will come to pass, you must have a report ...
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le will convince you about them. The doctor
will tell you they are real. Your best friends may be there,
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telling you to stop wasting your time. All these people think
they mean well, but they are actuall...
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God, you know, if you look at the true depths of Christianity, you'll realize that you can't, like I said before, you can't out-think God. You can't innovate for Him. He has thought of everything that the life of the believer can ever require. Every single thing. Every single thing. And it's those t...
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We do two things. We continue to maintain our righteousness and then we do the one declaration that is general. You get my point? What the Bible has said about your life. For example, that you will live long is established. That you will live in health is established. That you will prosper is establ...
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hard disks, whatever it is. On those pages, everybody has a part written. In fact, there's a segment with your name on it. Do you follow my point? And that's what controls your life on the earth. That something was written about you in heaven. Not that you learned how to manipulate physical laws. An...
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I caused prosperity to flow towards you like a river and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream. What I learned from that is that bank is not supposed to look for money. You should just relax. Do his work. God will bless him. But as a matter of certainty, I can never be poor. That one ...
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with their mouth, with their tongues in agreement with what God has said and don't ever, ever change your mind because of what outward things say. Now I did a series some time ago on radio which I called cooperating with the seasons of life's adventure. That's where I want to end this. I will do som...
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Is that power of temptation? He wants to tempt people. That's all. God had to warn Jeremiah, do not say, hey, because if you keep on saying I'm a youth, what you will discover is that you will be unable to effect my purpose in your life. Do not say I'm a youth. I told that Christian faith can look l...
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that what I am bringing forth in his life is not dependent upon the surrounding circumstances, but I have a force bigger than that which is experiencing that will bring forth results in his life. Are you getting what I'm trying to bring out from there? So that if that young man will just step out in...
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After that, he found the woman Eve and then gave her a name also. Now, listen to what I want to bring out here. When he was speaking names, names vary in languages. What he was doing was that he was looking at the form of each animal and assigning function and character to them. That's what name is....
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The blessings of God, they make rich. And they don't ever allow any of your children open his or her mouth and say that blessing was a cost to our family. No, those two things don't go together. Blessing and cost, no. The Bible says you choose one. And what am I teaching? How to choose that blessing...
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That is not divine order for the Christian. What God aims to do in Christ Jesus is to reverse the curse that was upon the earth, so that I don't have to fight an accursed earth now, but the curse upon it is lifted for my sake. Therefore, it quickly yields its increase for me. Now, we often learn the...
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So I said, the life of the believer is lived by what? Promise. You don't prosper. Listen, let me say this again. You won't live long because you learned how to pray. You will not live long because you learned how to hide yourself from evil. You are not going to live long because, or you are not goin...
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One, born of very wealthy parents. They can afford anything. They can send him to any school. Alright? So the guy, maybe the plan that he has or that God has for his life is that he is going to become a heart surgeon as an example. Now, there is no problem. His parents have money and none of that th...
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Is that if you don't say you're strong, you fall with it. If I wait, you're a dead man. I won't kill you by myself. I'll just watch you try to kill me. And next thing you know is you are dead. I know you have a wife, you have children. Let me leave their father for them. Your life is precious, belie...
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He made a provision for your life. And you know, he went to Adam, he said, you have no problem. Just obeys one simple instruction. The problem we have is when we take those simple instructions and disobey them. Do you know that, you know, I was thinking about it. I said, you know, the food, if you c...
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A man got up and labored and labored and labored and succeeded and he said we should gather and learn from him how to labor. I won't. Because I know the Bible said it is vain to rise up early and to go to bed late. He said, but he has results. I said, look, me, I can't. This is a man that argues wit...
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Money, you used to pray for this, you used to pray for that. Today, God gave me a very blue shirt, a very nice, a very nice Calvin Klein. Why? Because you went out somewhere, you saw somebody wearing it. Do you understand? God said, no problem, let's engineer it. On the way, you change your mind aga...
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There's a particular one that God has ordained, and it's called the gate of righteousness. It said, open that gate for me. There are two things that characterize that gate in this particular context, the heart of gratitude and thanksgiving, which comes as a result of number two, that that gate is op...
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Where are you needed least? I don't know whether you understand what I'm saying. And instantly I was able to decide in one second where I was needed least. All the while I was checking where I was benefiting most. And for months I was not able to come to a decision. then the moment the Holy Spirit l...
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Number one, I said in any endeavor in life, all right, that there are five phases that the believer experiences. Number one, there is a stage of sitting down and counting. Can you remember it? For those of you who remember. I said number two, there's what? The stage of the trial of your faith. And n...
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Therefore, the reason why you walk is not really for food. Listen, this is a believer's life. Walk is meant for two things. For the world is God's way. of blessing people through you. Do you get what I'm saying? That is, as far as God is concerned, the work in your life, this is what he does. Number...
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Your life is to be lived by grace. What is grace? The power of God that is manifested while you obey God in simple matters. Are you getting what I'm trying to explain? Grace is the power of God manifested while you obey God in simple matters. Struggling! People who are not of faith were destined to ...
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I discussed that last week. The knowledge of those promises. Please listen to this again. There is a path. In fact, you know there was something that John said and I want you to hear it. John, when he was putting a curse upon people who will manipulate his words in the book of Revelation, he said, i...
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attuned to heaven number 225, whatever it is. That's his own. Paul said there are three heavens he's talked about. There's what the Bible calls the third heavens. But this is what I'm trying to make. There are higher spiritual realms in life and the life of the believer is controlled from the highes...
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Alright, can we quickly begin again today? Let's open our Bibles to the book of 2 Peter. 2 Peter chapter 1. Remember what we have been discussing is the fruitful life and in it our aim has been to understand how Christians are supposed to obtain their results in life. There are different ways of get...
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Because if you think you can prove the scriptures wrong, when he said, it's vain for a man to rise up early and go to bed late, I won't follow you. I've read many books, according to Paul Getty, talking about how to become rich. There's a quote of him. He said, this is how you make money in life. He...
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There are things you will do that God will find it difficult to make you not prosper. He looked at those building the Tower of Babel. He said, if they continue in agreement like this, we can't stop them. You know that? When he was sending Isaiah, he said to Isaiah, go and blind them and deaden their...
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good label like that is the will of God. Do you get my point? All right, don't say that I'm a child of God, therefore I cannot carry sand. You can carry sand if at that point in time in life you are supposed to carry sand. So if God says, this guy, go and carry sand and use that money to eat. He wil...
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In year two, I wanted to be an anatomist, because I loved anatomy. When I got to my fourth year, I had to be an orthopedic surgeon, because the man was so good. My fifth year, I had to be a dermatologist. Finally, I remembered that all I wanted to do was be a cardiothoracic surgeon. You would never ...
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Doubting does not mean that can God do it or can God not do it alone. That's one part of doubting. But the most dangerous one amongst Christians is the doubt of themselves. What I mean is that they are not even sure what they really want. That's what the Bible calls double-mindedness. Today, he want...
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I'm not ugly, you're not fine, and I'm not fine, we just like, you just like yellow, I just like brown, whatever. So, I'm just trying to bring up an issue. When I heard that story, she came to my mind and said, I feel like that's usually hard. Okay, well, I'm not just saying that I heard this story....
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And what if we tell you, I just moved from one house I used to stay in to a new one. Before I finally made a decision to move, she will tell you one day I called her and said, baby, she had been shouting and angry with this landlord. I said, do you realize they have not looked at us yet? So we knelt...
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