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Judas was stealing all the money in the ministry. He didn't call him devil. Me, I would just say nothing bad would happen to me. I was the one he called a member of Ubun. Jesus was tempted because we do not realize many of the strong temptations that came to him. We are waiting for some of those sma...
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27:00
You know, say, ah, are you a Christian? Why would you sleep with your boss for promotion? The man was pressuring me. I don't know what I was thinking of. God, oh. That was not the temptation. The temptation was when you went to look for a job there. There were two other jobs, good and nice. He said,...
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6:00
those three temptations summarize, that's my understanding of it, everything he's gone through. Before the father came to him and said, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased, what he was saying is that this is my beloved son who has faced all the temptations and he overcame. That was even ...
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4:30
The way we look at Christ Jesus, we look at him like maybe the Greek gods and stuff like that. We tend to forget the fact that he was literally flesh and blood. He was a living person. What the Bible says, was tempted in every way as we were. We're not qualified in that. It said, yet without what? S...
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51:00
That's what we call righteousness. It's not as if how much good works I have done. No, no, no, no, no. That's not what I'm talking about. But my message today, like I said, is about prayer. How did Jesus do it? How did Jesus walk in such a manner that he overcame every single temptation? I summarize...
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1:18:00
The seed of God dwells in me, and I am born of God. The seed of God dwells in me, and I am born of God. The love of Christ is working in me. I love the Word of God. By the Word of God, I keep myself from following evil people. By the word of God, I keep myself from the path of the destroyer. By the ...
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19:30
The very last one, you remember it. I like the way Mel Gibson depicted it in The Passion of the Christ. Even though, I don't know what happened is I like that, but I like the way he did it. You see him in the garden wrestling with the serpent. Can you remember that? If it was The Passion of the Chri...
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31:30
This is a message to the end that you will always overcome. We are teaching the method of the Lord Jesus. There was a method he used as our school of prayer. We want to emphasize that. So the Bible says in verse seven, in the days of his flesh of Hebrews chapter five, he offered up both prayers and ...
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49:30
You know what that means? When God says, leave him alone, let him drive by himself. And truthfully, you'll be waiting. The day Mr. Ochi is going to Onitsha, you don't balance for 90 miles, they wait for the man. And the man goes, boom! Then you overtake him, bam! Fast moto, SFZ, dangote truck, one c...
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30:00
Then finally one day they say, bow for the idols. They say, I'm an Israelite. Our God said we should worship the Lord our God alone, only he will serve. He said, only when you were eating, he did not know that. He said, I won't bow, the weight of the food will drag you down. All the things you ate, ...
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57:00
When I came back and found out everybody was doing it, I said, eh, so I have this ability. It even crossed my mind. You know that boy, his father is an athlete. Who remembers all this kind of thing? You know his father, his father gave them, what do you call it, special seeds to eat. They helped the...
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1:16:30
For those who don't know Nigerian English, it's warfare, amen? We have to speak proper English, all right? The proper English is what? Nafite, thank you, Nafite. Begin to declare as we close, say, I am born of God. Begin to declare it. Declare it, say, I am born of God. I have power over temptation....
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1:19:30
Command your soul, says soul, delight yourself in God. By the word of God, keep yourself away from the path of wicked men. It's warfare. The Bible says it was head in that it feared. Says sin will not separate me from my destiny. I will not be destroyed like Samson. Say, I make a covenant with my ey...
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1:15:00
No one who abides in him sins. No one who sins has seen him or knows him. Let me just jump down because of time. Verse 9, it says, No one who is born of God practices sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. People have taken this scripture to argue whether C...
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22:30
What am I going to explain? I hear all kinds of arguments that people would be fighting that this was heresy. The man was trying to say Jesus was all flesh. He doesn't want to say he was all divine. He wants to say he was a combination of divine and flesh. Divine and flesh cannot mix. I hear all kin...
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16:30
Think about it. You are saying, I must go to the cross. I will be beaten. I will die. I will be punished. See all these people that don't like me, one day the hatred they have for me will blow. And it will happen that they will catch me, beat me, strip me naked, and they hang me on the cross. And th...
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15:00
That is what it is about godliness. I told that brother that day, you are happy giving? He said, yes. I said, congratulations, you just gossiped. I said, now you're a true Christian. It's in the Bible like that. He said, because you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. It's just what you l...
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9:00
It's interesting. God did not allow a second chance for Moses. He said, because of that single transgression, you will not enter into the promised land. And it was not an impulsive decision. I know because three times Moses went to beg him, and God said no each one of those times. And finally, he sa...
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3:00
These sacrifices are the sacrifices for saints. And as every high priest understands the importance of those sacrifices, and he can identify with the need for them. Why? Because he also is beset, he said, with weakness. And now, many of us, I mean, we have to bear this in mind, thinking about the Lo...
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1:21:00
Say, the cry of Jesus was for my sake. Therefore, I am delivered from loss. I am delivered from every affliction. I want you to speak to every temptation in your life. That sin that doth easily beset. Say, I speak to you, not anymore. I overcome you. I am purified. I am washed by the blood of Jesus....
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58:30
Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips. Verse two, let my judgment come forth from your presence. Let your eyes look with equity. You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me and you find nothing. Now notice this, I have proposed that my mouth will not t...
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33:00
The hardest temptation he had to face, I told us before, was going to the garden, going to the cross. And when he saw the cross, what did he do? He ran to the garden. He didn't try to do a boju. I'm a man of the spirit. No. He didn't do that. He just left everybody. He said, come, when you got there...
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1:04:30
He prayed, and prayed, and prayed. He knew what was coming. The other boys did not know. They were sleeping. He said, pray that you will not fall for temptation. Peter was saying, I won't deny you. What else? Is it not to deny? I will not deny. When the Lord came again, he saw the picture. Get me? I...
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1:06:00
I will not say, I will not bow. When they put fire inside your nose, oh boy. Let me tell you the truth. If you inhale hot smoke, you say, but there are sidebombers dying for Allah. They did not feel anything. They blew up. If they do it like this, trust me. No, I'm saying that if we bow, God will sa...
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7:30
If you have a pastor and he's doing that, it will be the first in town. It will be the largest in town. Just say, Pastor, I went to listen to Pastor Banki and he said that you have sinned. Go for confession. Kneel down. And say, Father, forgive me for I have sinned. Let me sit down. I want to sit on...
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21:00
That's one way we look at it, which is very, very wrong. All right? Listen to me. We talk as if he could not have fallen for the temptation. Let me just say something to you. If he could not have fallen, it was not the temptation. Oh, if the chances are zero, it was not the temptation. The Bible wou...
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1:13:30
But some will have gone to ask, you know, it's my age. My grandfather had this problem. I heard that my uncle, the tale finished him. So my mother took, brought it into our family. And now, once we accept it, the devil will say, hug me, I love you. Now, why did I say this? We use the word of God to ...
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42:00
Every earthquake in the world, trouble for your soul. Why? You bought the house in Japan. You hear there's bushfire in America, you are calling your insurer. Did it pass through California? Which part of California? And you think, oh this man is prosperous, he has a house in California. No, he has a...
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1:00:00
by using God's word. That's actually where my message was going. Remember I said Jesus did this by using the word of God in prayer. The job of a believer is to overcome the temptations of life by using the word of God in prayer. Our duty, it is satanic, all right? It's a satanic job to be excusing i...
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28:30
Because his simple scripture says, not from the east or the west or from the south comes exaltation. God is judge. Should I have told him that time, sorry, but because of a job, I will change, I will suddenly become, I will become younger on paper. Say, sorry, my body can't handle it. You are not sm...
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1:22:30
Like I said earlier, they were eating all kinds of food. Now they say bow to idol now. They have become Muslims. Bow in front of idol five times a day. They will come bow in front of idol and they don't like it. And then they come to bow, they don't like it. They wish they didn't have to be bowing f...
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1:24:00
Some men, they are not married today, not because anything wrong with them, but God said they have a wrong concept of marriage. Same thing with women. Just say, Lord, teach me. Those are the real sins. A very important prayer. That's the most important prayer for today. Because sometimes people are ...
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10:30
It looks like a small thing. But that's exactly when the sin begins. That is the real ones. When he starts pursuing things that God didn't want him to pursue, that is actually when the problem begins. So the other things you start seeing, lying, cheating, stealing, committing adultery and stuff like...
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25:30
a British citizen, whatever I am, does not determine my prosperity. Did you hear that? That is the word of God, true or false? East or west means, whether I'm in America, or Nigeria, or UK, or in South Africa, whatever I am, does not determine my prosperity. That's what east or west means. Now, when...
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1:12:00
I know the kind of thing they'll say. Small fingers. They will tell me I have maybe early signs of rheumatoid arthritis. I say, me. Of course, every day I'll stand and say, in the name of Jesus, I speak to you. The life of Christ is working in me. The life of Christ is working in me. You know the fu...
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So he thinks there's a problem there. I said, what is the problem? I said, do you brag about it to anybody? He said, no. I said, when you go to pray, do you tell God, I have given, you will give me back? He said, no. So the only thing that happens is that when you finish giving, you have this sense ...
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before we could just jump things like around our knees, maybe something like mid-thigh, because we'll run back and just jump straight. Then when I came back, boys were jumping things across their chest. So when they showed it to me, I said it's a lie, it's not doable. They said it's true, this perso...
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If God does something for us, if we don't know what he has done, we don't enjoy the benefits of it. Open your Bibles quickly. 2 Peter 1. I want us to read that one. Peter said, Grace and peace be multiplied to you. Verse 2. in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that His divine power ...
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1:25:30
come out in the company and then think you have joined KUVU. You know, if you've never joined a cult, you are not going to prosper in this life. Everybody must be in a cult. You must join your own cult. Me, I don't join. I don't know what you are waiting for. And in my cult, we have incantations. Al...
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43:30
Very few of us ever, listen, that's why I tell you that we can overcome sin. We can, we can. The reason why we haven't is that we have not yet realized that it's bad. We think that God is so kind, it's not a big deal. The Bible say he was head, why? Why? Because he feared. He was head because he wha...
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24:00
Why? That's what the word of God says. The reason why we, you know, there's something that Paul said. He said, there's no temptation that has come to you that is not common to man. That God will never allow you to be tempted more than you are able to bear. And anytime there is a temptation, look aro...
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48:00
And you say, small, small boys and girls, young, young men and women running forward. Want to break the back of poverty. Weakest soul wants to break the back of poverty. Lying soul wants to break the back of poverty. Selfish soul wants to break the back of poverty. They are working in all kinds of i...
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1:07:30
Let's take the first one. 1 John 3. 1 John 3. Let's just read as an example. Sometimes people make a mistake. Let me quickly explain that before we read this. Sometimes people make the mistake of trying to explain the Word of God by their experiences. Don't ever do that. Why did I say? What I'm tryi...
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1:06:00
and take this helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. Let me stop there in verse 17. Now I'm going to expand these things further to see how we use them, all right, to tackle the Satan in our lives, the devil in our lives. One thing I just want to bring out from thi...
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1:04:30
So, you see, therefore, like I was saying, what Satan is going for is that disobedience to God. Is that disobedience. It comes with accusation. There's another scripture we should remember, we should read down now, and then I'll finish it, I'll add it to what we have read now. But then we'll now fin...
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1:13:30
and stay with my father, take care of him until he dies. Then I will not be free. I cannot come and follow you." And Jesus said, there's no problem. You can go wherever you want to go. But remember, it's only the dead that should be bearing their own corpses. That's the literal Greek. And so if anyo...
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I have it in Jesus name. Say it like you believe it. Say, I have it. I have it. I have it. I have it. I have it. As you are saying it, every confession in your life is destroyed in the name of Jesus. Amen. Somebody came in here this evening thinking, what do I do? I said to you now, that confession ...
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who I've talked about a number of times, Pastor Corrigan Sokoto. He came down to the South to preach somewhere recently. One of our brothers there was telling me that when he explained that he had been in Sokoto pastor for 17 years, they couldn't understand. Like, what is the special reason? Well, o...
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40:30
Sir, all the universities will reject me. Uh-uh. What are you talking about? I thought you've built four universities here. It doesn't matter. Primary school, I will not be able to go. What do you do? I will come and say praise the Lord. Brethren, I'm just coming from Minister's conference that we h...
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43:30
That's what mammon is. So when the Bible says that Jesus was left, it was for a period until an opportune time. And what was Satan gunning for? You know, let me explain something to you about Satan. He understands what a lot of people don't understand. He knows who he can kill. He knows who he can't...
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34:30
Satan, Jesus answered him, it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God and serve him only. And then he went to the next one, led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the pinnacle on the temple and said to him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here. And they gave him a scri...
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1:03:00
You're not thinking God has disappointed because you did something for Him. Say, no, no, God said, no, I don't play that game. No. Don't let Satan have words to speak in your life because he's going after your faith. If you have that kind of mindset, that your faith easily gets at it. That sister sa...
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6:00
Say it, I walk above sin, I walk above the devil, I walk in righteousness, and I walk in holiness unto the Lord. Let's declare this again before we sit down. Say, my eyes are open, I have understanding. He said, one of the things that God does to people that he wants to punish is that he removes und...
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30:00
That's what happened. What have you been eating? What have you been feeding on? When somebody sits you down, let me talk to you. You know it's your good I have at heart. It's not what you have at heart that we are talking about. It's what you have been feeding on that you want to regurgitate for me....
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You hear Jesus say, Herod, get behind me, Satan. No, no. It's not, you know, some people's words are not temptation to you. The only people whose words, all right, are temptation to you, all right, are the people who can call you down, call you, you know, sit down. I have a minute to talk to you. Al...
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So all this temptation is disobey God. All the temptation is disobey God. That's all. That's the temptation. Even when he collects something that's precious to you, he's just hoping that after I've collected, you'll be so angry with God, you will disobey him. You know, there are things you hear and ...
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I am walking in the light. I am sharing my inheritance. I am walking in the will of God. I am filled with the knowledge of His will. I walk in a manner worthy of the Lord. And I please Him in everything that I do. Every moment of my life, I walk in a manner pleasing to the Lord. said he has rescued ...
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1:15:00
And the word hatred is not as if you stab somebody. You get my point? Say, I hate you so much, I'll kill you. No. It's a relative terminology that is because of my love for the Lord, it makes my behavior towards other people sometimes appear like hatred. So what do I do about it? I don't rationalize...
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42:00
And Jesus said, this is what? Temptation. He said, look, now is my soul troubled. Remember he said that. He said, will I say, Father, deliver me from this hour? He said, but for this cause, I came to this hour. So when Peter raised that matter up that you will be delivered from this hour, he said, g...
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1:12:00
Yes, you can suffer alone. Countries like this, yeah, you are believing God. Things are going to be, people are making moves. No, I'm one guy, as a young boy, my friends were doing it, I'm one guy who never made the move to go abroad, to leave the country. Not because I didn't believe good things we...
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27:00
One man was talking to my wife the other day. He was saying that, I don't go to church. I don't believe in God. But my own Christianity is in my heart. I don't do anybody any evil. I said to my wife, the devil will do him evil when he wants him. He knows where he is. Such people, devil likes such pe...
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No, you know, people have a lot of faith in things that don't carry any weight spiritually. Like Jesus said clearly, it's not the multitude of words. No, it's not the multitude of words. People talk and talk and talk. That's the statement you made, I heard it the first time. Saying it 20 times does ...
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1:07:30
And as a Christian, our weapons are mighty through God. So we use the word of God as our sword. That's what it is. So when we want to handle the devil, when we want to hack him down, it's not just by shouting, devil, I hack you, I hack you, I hack you. What is in the Bible that devil, you are hacked...
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1:01:30
The word redemption in the Greek is ex-agorazo. Agora, you've heard of agoraphobia? Yes, the fear of the open. Literally in Greek, it means the fear of the marketplace. Agora is a Greek word for market. That is God went to the market and paid and took you out of the market. Anytime you go to the mar...
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33:00
What he, what he was looking for is the words of unbelief. The words of unbelief that Job will utter and say, God is not the good God I thought he was. That's what he wanted. He wanted Job to say, we have saved the Lord in vain. That's what he was looking for. He wanted to, like his wife said, he wa...
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Alright, let's start from the book of Colossians chapter 1. Whatever version you have, let's all read it together. We'll start from verse 9. Alright? If you are there, say Amen. Alright, let's start from verse 9. I want to go. For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to...
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1:18:00
That's Satan. You are jabbing him. He's moving back. You are jabbing him. He's moving back. You are jabbing him. He's moving back. Satan does not go back by being reasonable. This is what I mean by being reasonable. This calling. You know what we are going to do? We will first say to my father and m...
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is that I am not under any curse of any ancestor. Even the curses that my own works brought into my life, I have been freed from them. Are you getting my point? All right, that's why we say it boldly. Say it again, I have been removed from the domain of darkness. I have been removed from the domain ...
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That's always my best example. So what do I do when the man is not reasonable? I don't try and do anything. I just take a scripture. Because that's where Satan rides. You must understand. When Satan wants to ruin your children, that's where he comes from. I remember I told you sometime ago, you're a...
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Do you know federal government did not agree to pay salaries or even allocations to the debt? And how can economic activity be generated? In fact, we're in trouble. Critical time like this, fuel is going up in price. They want to remove subsidy and kill all of people like you who don't own a car. Yo...
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All right, we have, there's a prayer we prayed before. Like I said, I do pray this prayer for anyone who listens to me. And if you indeed are listening to the Word of God that I am teaching, then I have prayed this prayer for you. And it's working in your life. If you believe that, say Amen. Amen. A...
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1:21:00
We have passed out from under the curse into the blessing. All things have passed away in our lives. We are now filled with the spirit of Christ. We live above sin and walk above the devil because we are seated high above with Christ. This is our season of fruitfulness in the name of Jesus. Amen. Th...
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I mean, over the next few weeks and months, I'm going to give you something finer than the one that's spoiled. Any cloth that tears, buy a finer one by vexation. Are you getting my point? You have an Asian suit, somebody burns a hole in it, buy an Italian one. just to show that you're angry. The Lor...
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You buy a private jet. Where's my private car? Where's my private BMW? Where's my private Mercedes-Benz? I'm not asking for a private jet. Go and get me two private Jeeps, my friend. And if you fly this plane on to that day, I'm not talking it here, so. Why? It's in the scriptures. Paul said that, h...
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I like the way Mike Muddock says it, he said maturity is the ability to delay gratification. That a champion knows how to delay gratification. A man who will be victorious in life knows how to delay gratification. What is temptation? Temptation is that immediate gratification which is appealing to t...
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Do you get my point? They know that eventually it is poverty and failure that you are going to experience. So he said it like this. He said, a man with an evil eye, he stings after wealth and does not know that poverty is what is going to come upon him. Do you understand that point? So these are the...
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But you have lied all your life. You have gotten many things through lying. Yes. First thing you make up your mind that no, I want to forsake the former ways, but please take those things to God in prayer. There is no salvation, but in God, you will say in prayer, father, in the name of Jesus, I com...
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We are talking about what your future will be, young woman. And it is today you are deciding when those days will be, what those days will be. It's not when you get there. I just want to emphasize that before I go. Temptations are real, but the Word of God is more real. You need to determine the rig...
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Welcome to the Way of Success. Pastor Banki is teaching the principles of life established in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose kingdom indeed reigns over all. Relax and listen and you will be blessed by this message. Let's begin to round off the things we've been saying about The 7 attitude...
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He said, what you have is money, but it tells us how you will handle greater responsibilities. That is, when you give to Joseph money, how he handled the money in the house of Potiphar, tells God ahead of time how he is going to handle the office, alright, as a ruler. That's why it's so important th...
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It's important, but I want to modify that a bit and talk a bit more widely about that particular context. And that's the issue of unfaithfulness. Now to continue that, I read the scripture last time, I didn't get there, but let's read it again, and then I'll develop it. Proverbs chapter 28, from ver...
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You are still scheming for the $200 you will get by keeping the customer waiting. It is not necessary. It is the faithful man that we are bound with blessing. I don't want this message to keep on going for a very long time. Let me quickly add the last thing to it so that we can summarize everything ...
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Even the Englishman has said it, pride goes before a fall. Alright? And then we say, you must have principles. A man who you see always forsaking principles, just doing things as each moment deserves, without having solid structures upon which his life is built, is a man, again, who is preparing for...
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You're pursuing things you don't understand. Is that the job they sent you? So one day, I said, I feel like I could say, You told me you're a pastor in the church. Now you're marketing how to trade crypto. You and your crypto, you know you're all going to zero. Why do you want to bring the church of...
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curses. These are blessings. These are sound warnings. They've told you now this is where problems come from in life. These are the things you will do and trouble will come into your life. I'm talking about laying your doctrines in context. So see these words, even though they may sound negative, pe...
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that moves that boundary. In our doctrine, in context, that's what I was making. So please, to alter these words, you are not speaking against the spirit of Christ, because the spirit of Christ does not, does not shield you from the consequences of disobedience. What Jesus does is to forgive you of ...
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He has to. He has to tell you something is not what it really is. He has to say to Eve, you surely will not die. Or you will surely not die. He has to. He has to start telling you things. He has to make you start thinking that what God said is not good for you is good for you. It's only that time yo...
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they must have knowledge. They must have understanding. And as they approach, because they can see, they approach, they know homes surrounded with chariots of fire. They know it. And you can see the testimony. Satan said it. Have you not surrounded with a hedge roundabout? Those people that really h...
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1:30:00
But I can't come, why? Brother Larry said I should be his special guest at his own anniversary. It's the same weekend. I'm so sorry. Tell him like that. Apologize to him. Say, maybe next year. Well, if you let me have the date on time, so I will lock it down for you. You all know something, God is t...
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welcome to school of prayer again where we learn how to pray and where we pray we're praying now for 30 minutes let's take some instruction along the line of overcoming temptation that we have been talking about before we start the instruction let's take our declaration igniting our spirit to receiv...
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1:52:30
Okay, so God, let's just have an arrangement. You understand? I say, I won't twist your words for money. Before all of them will start telling lies. They will go to campus and join cult. Why? Because their father lies on the pulpit. I use those things. Eh, see, I'm not gonna say, in the name of Jesu...
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arch enemy, Satan, doesn't have the kind of power people pretend like he has. He doesn't have it. He can't kill you. I know he wants to. He can't. He can't make you sick. I know he wants to. He can't. He can't take your money. I know he wants to. He can't. He can't make you lose in life. He can't ho...
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three million people will gather. They will line the streets from one major northern city to another one, all wearing black. And God said, pray, let me uproot them. You think you are still intact by chance? Don't worry about the bandits. Don't worry about the kidnappers. Their time is coming. The Bi...
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good and scares you towards him with a vision of evil. A vision of what is bad. He will give you something to run away from. I don't know whether I get my point. He will give you something to run away from. He told the people of Israel, this is how it's going to be. Now, why I say take your doctrine...
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There are pastors that won't come to church for the next few weeks because they went to stretch out in Dubai. And it's not about being rich or poor. And if you are now poor, where will you now stay? The hotel will not, ah. Some people, God has been telling them, stay in your house. He said, no, my m...
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have the kind of power we think he has. I say it again, this is the only power he has. God gave that one to him to attempt, to try to deceive. All right. And that's deception and temptation, they go together. As God really said, you shall not surely die. That's it. Then when you, and that's where he...
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I just gave you one as an example now. Come and be a judge, and an abeter, he refused. Come and be king, he refused. Avoid a cross, he refused. These are all temptations. Why do we resist these temptations? That's what we're emphasizing. It is because it is a way by which Satan gets an inroad into o...
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all right I want us to read from Psalm number 66 Psalm 66 there's a principle I want to bring out from here I just love the way David used it and it will help us to learn that principle again let me just start by saying that let's always learn doctrines in context what is it let's always learn doctr...
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a body of supposed Christians came, want to be registered members of PFN. He said, you people, oh, he said, no. I'm not sure you guys are born again. Please, all these Satan worshiping churches, find another church. When he stayed up the owner, I told him the person that the Bible talks about the mo...
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for you to say, to warn your soul. That's where I'm going. It's not unbelief. To give caution to your soul is not unbelief. We are not confessing negatively. God didn't tell Israel to confess negatively. He warned them. He was warning them, be aware of the consequences of disobedience. Moses said, M...
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be careful so you don't fall. It sounds so, so modern. come with you for you speak in English you have to be careful it's kind of slippery ground oh is there less is it one you hold your leg like this let's keep you by your head say father good let me not fall okay by your head say Lord no no no I w...
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cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord. They walk of the hands of the craftsman and set it up where nobody will see, in secret. And all the people shall say, shall answer and say what? Amen. Sorry, is that negative talk? It's not negative talk. It's a warni...
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boundary mark. Is that a curse? No, it's a blessing. You know why it's a blessing? He has told you now what brings curses. So when you see boundary mark, leave it like that. Photograph it. Do GPS marking. Tell your children, don't touch it. This is where the time bomb is. Don't activate it. That's a...
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is what David did in Psalm 66. There's something David did. I just want to bring it out. Just to show you a principle. Let me read from verse, where I'm going is verse 18. Let me just take it in context. It says, come and hear, verse 16. Come and hear all who fear God, and I will tell you of what he...
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He said that all these temptations of life. He said these people will be corrupted by smooth words. Smooth words. You must understand the smooth words. That is, if you sound nice, everything they are saying will sound good and authentic and, you know, have a good disposition towards it, they will be...
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You need insight to do your business well. You need insight to run your home well. You need insight to run your career, anything you want to run. You need insight, we're talking about here, to keep yourself pure. To keep yourself pure. Some of these people call it temptation. I don't call them tempt...
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that we do this thing the way we do it currently. Just for those who are wondering what I'm talking about, what I mean by that understanding, it affects the kind of message you preach. Yeah, it does. It does. It's not about wickedness. It's not as if you modify your message. If everybody comes with ...
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It might be good, but does not make it right. And it is temptation, actually, which you also have to resist. It is also temptation, which you must resist. And it is more terrible when it is good. That is, the resisting of it is more difficult. After a while, with all the visions and revelations that...
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I've had people tell me that, look, this is where I am. This is how much I'm earning. It's not fantastic. And my friends are sending me forms. Look, fill this form. Fill the form. I say, please, I talk to them. I feel I am in the place where I'm supposed to be, at least for this season. It happens. ...
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You get on your knees and you pray. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. Nevertheless, not my will. That is, look, if a man of faith understands what everybody else understands, it's just that he understands some things that other people don't u...
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All right, and so the lawyer was telling me the issues about it and all of that, that normally what they would do is they would pay off the prosecution and all of that, you know. That's temptation, you know, money. Take perfect justice. That's one kind of temptation, okay? But there's another kind o...
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There's another part of town now. Sorry, another part of Nigeria. That was the only day. When they talk here, talk good there, I just give way. I say, me? Please, I love long life and prosperity. The Holy Spirit has made it clear to me, if you enter that place, somebody will choke you, will die one ...
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You know, just by the way. You know mobile phones, they're always changing new model. As iPhone 4 was coming out, Galaxy S3 came out. iPhone 4S came out with it. Then Galaxy S4 came out. And then iPhone 5 showed up. You know, they'll just be competing. But somebody said, by the time they're releasin...
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that you people have corrupted the song of God. We want to reinstate the correct singing. When they say, all my enemies, holy ghost fire, I say, wait. Holy ghost fire, fire, follow me. Don't follow my enemies. They will not be anointed. You see how Confucian has come into our lives in Christianity? ...
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So let us go now. That was how they mobilized how she went there. Look, the good, nice temptations are the difficult, the dangerous ones. You could not have brought his mother to come. It's not possible. You could not have done anything, but you were the one like, look at it. Is it good? Is it a son...
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And that's what we're saying last time. That's why I just went into reviewing that briefly. All right? That is, we don't need to worry ourselves with what is happening outside in that regard, as long as we are sure we have kept ourselves inside. And that's why we've been talking about prayer and per...
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The watchers in heaven, they look at your life, and this is the day of their judgment. You're only 25, you're only 30, but they've decided what your life will be like when you're 70. You don't realize that they have already come. You're sitting there waiting for when the Lord will come. But it's a d...
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Collected the thing and went back home and bought the stuff I was supposed to buy like a real dutiful man of the house. You won't know the amount of faith and discipline it took not to borrow, you know what I mean, that kind of borrowing. That's when the issue is. In church, you can raise hand, rais...
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The Bible said that he was tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. I said that if there was no possibility of him sinning, if the reason why he did not sin was purely because he was a son of God, then he was not tempted in the way we are being tempted. That's a matter of fact, alright? Tha...
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The nurse says, yes, I'm back to my office. As a civil servant, I always collect a small kick from everything. Now, I would not do that anymore. Then the poverty starts. Brethren, that man has to learn to pray. I am emphasizing something, all right? God does not promise immediate deliverance. That's...
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There are things that are temptations to one person. There are no temptations to another. Yeah, it's true. And that's where God is leading us to. That we'll get to a point. Look, don't think if Jesus had to go to a second cross, you'll pray that prayer again. I don't know that I get my point. No. Th...
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Let's take that one first. Give the Lord thanks. Say, Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus Christ. I thank you because you are purifying me as gold. Say, Lord, I thank you because you have a great plan for my life. Thank you because of your strength that is available for obedience. Lord, thank ...
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Say, Lord, I confess this as sin. I confess this shortcoming in my life that this is not right. This is where my patience ends. Impatience is not a right sin. This is what I do. This is how I make money. It is not right. This is my attitude towards my work. It's not right. I have joined amongst thos...
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I'm telling you God is concerned and so he's tired. Look, there's what the Bible calls not loving their lives unto death. He said he that we want to grab his life is the one that will lose it. The one that will despise his life for my sake is the one that will keep it. What I'm trying to say, listen...
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But when we have come out, fire only burns impurities from people who are made of pure gold. The only thing fire does for Christians is purification. What did I say? The only thing fire does for children of God is what? Purification. But believe me, it's still fire. But when you have come out of it,...
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Please, when you enter such prayer places, if you want to speak your tongue, speak it at the beginning, before you get to this level. And afterwards, when you finish, God, I want to worship you. Say anything you want to say, fine. But when it comes to the matter of confession, you say it in black an...
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The Bible says that he's mindful that we are both flesh. He knows that it can be difficult to obey him. And that's why in verse 16, it said, because Jesus understands and he had the method, he had the mechanism he used to overcome temptation. He said, let us therefore draw near with confidence to th...
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you'll confess your sin. I say, Lord, men have done this in serving you. The word of God has demanded this in serving you, but I have never been able to do it. Therefore, I confess my sin of inability to obey this particular kind of principle in the name of Jesus. Therefore, Lord, cleanse me of all ...
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All right, when it become me, I'm doing a business, and God said, no, I don't want to continue like this. Initially, it will look like loss. The great thing about God is this, especially in matters like that, it is because he has something greater for you to do. It is because he has something greate...
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But if we walk in the light, as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. There's something about walking in the light and cleansing from sin. Now notice this, if we say we do not need it, we do not need this cleansing f...
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God, you understand now, country is hard. You understand now, what will happen to my children. You understand now, and that's where the prayer ends. And God says, no, this man has not yet resisted sin to the shedding of blood. He has not yet resisted sin to that level. Please, this is what prayer is...
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Alright, let's continue our discussion on the 100 fold blessing. In the book of Mark chapter 4, the parable of the sower. Jesus talked about the sower who was sowing from verse 3 and said there are different types of soils. But I said our emphasis is on verse 8 in which he said another seed fell int...
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and the Bible says clearly God disciplines us, his own children. Let's not ever forget these things, all right? Okay, so God is not interested in them. The main thing is in our lives is not outward. It's first of all, inward. The reason he deals with us in different ways, all right, is to bring fort...
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The pastor said that when this kind of thing occurs, your job is to assess the job, whether it has been well done, and if it's well done, just authorize payment, certify the quality, and authorize payment. Normally, you know you now. Normally, you can say, OK, the job has been well done, but the con...
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And then listen, there was something that Jesus said, you should understand the principle behind that. He said, man would not live by bread alone, but by every word. He was quoting what God said to Moses. And what Moses said to the people, all right? That this was to prove it so that you will unders...
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By the time you finish in the place of prayer and instruction with the word of God, actually it is a word first. That's what, because without the word, you don't know what to say. You don't know what to say. If Jesus did not know this was the will of the Father, why would he be saying that, neverthe...
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That's why Paul will write about don't get tired of good doing. Good doing can get you tired. While waiting for God you can get tired. Are you getting my point? Now God will always come through if you are found doing what you are supposed to be doing. In Galatians 6 Paul said it like this, You will ...
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Search me. Search me. Search me. If there's any hurtful thing, I come against them, Lord. In the name of Jesus, I confess my sins to you. If God reveals something to you, confess it. Don't make excuses or just confess because he's faithful and just to forgive you of your sins and to cleanse you of a...
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So don't brag and stallard. No, no, no, that's not what God is saying. He said, when you hear Paul said, those of you who think you are spiritual, restore such a one, the spirit of meekness, lest you, fearing, lest you yourself be tempted. So when you see the log in somebody's eye, take it as automa...
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and somebody gave him an offering to give to the church and the money was with him. Are you getting what I'm saying? And he has certain principles, certain disciplines that, no, that's not my money. That is ministry money. So what he did was that he told himself, all right, that's my thing now. I wi...
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What must I do to gain eternal life? Jesus said, go and sell all that you have. That is the problem you have right now, is that you have too many. You have too much. When you have sold it, you'll be able to follow me. Then you will discover what is called eternal life. And the man looked and said, o...
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He was calm about the situation. It doesn't mean they did not beat him, but he was calm in the face of beating. After they had finished pommeling, properly depicted by Mel Gibson, a man began to insult him. Another man came to his defense. He calmly lifted his head, turned to the other fellow, and g...
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Do you follow what I'm explaining? There's a degree of obedience. I mean God sent Saul and he obeyed but he did not finish the obedience. That's true Samuel. God finished the Amalekites. He did everything, collected a hand. That's where the obedience ended. Do you understand? When the man, look, he ...
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I hope you are getting what I am trying to explain about faith. Faith is about using your ability to pray to hold on to the Word of God. Life will bring up challenges that will make you want to doubt God. I said something last time, let me say it again. Disobedience, even though God understands the ...
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But the Prince of this world, He has come. That's why we talk about temptations. The only way the devil overcomes the people of God is through temptations. Balaam looked, he sacrificed from every high place around, from where he could look, over the temple, over the people of God. He said, there's n...
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and say, what must we do to be saved? He will look at the policeman, that's the Roman soldier at that time, stop taking things by force. If you are in Mopo and they tell you that, it sounds nice when you are in church, it's on Monday when you go back to your post, you will know the difference. They ...
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Looking at him alone, you may not know exactly why but what they move. Do you understand what I'm saying? But the fact is that Adai is running after something or he checked behind, Bingo is pursuing him. Something... Do you understand what I'm saying? But this is the point. Let's get back to the mat...
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This is what truth does for you. I told you John said it. Let's quickly go to the book of John. That's the last scripture I want us to read. The book of 1 John. Let's quickly read that. Brethren, this is what prayer is about. Prayer is not about food. It's not about clothing. Jesus said it clearly. ...
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that it will be impossible. Listen, out there in a country like ours, corruption is not an ordinary matter. It's a spiritual battle. Oh God, I wish you get the point. It's a stronghold. They are the most dangerous, wicked weapons guarding the field of corruption. And listen, they cannot injure any b...
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Peter James and John and the rest of the disciples whether they were praying no he wanted to come out and they had it sounds funny as he approached the gate when he saw the prospect of the crucifixion his heart filled again he ran back into the garden say boys are they come I get my point he prayed ...
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So we'll pray, we'll go pray. I said, but this is our prayer. We have to pray properly. Because if you pray, God, judge! God said, guys, nice and shush, I'll go start to. I'll kill two or three pastors to show you people examples. You guys think I'll start with governor. No. No, I won't start with g...
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The Laila is coming to tempt you whether you want to be tempted or not. Do you get my point? And God, so that he won't break his word, is pouring to you, into you, all the strength required to overcome the Laila. So if you still forfeit the Laila, it's your fault. One of the strength he's giving you...
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This is the point. The man was by that licking away the spiritual ability that God gave him. His ability to resist Delilah was what he was wasting. Because like I said in that message, listen. Delilah will come one day. Everybody has a Delilah coming. Even the women have Delilahs coming because Deli...
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You are getting my point? So what are you going to do? What are you going to do? But if you're already a giant killer inside, that helmet you wore covering your whole face becomes a disadvantage. Please, I hope you're following the point I'm making. Therefore, we said the first battle is where? Inwa...
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and your knowledge, self-control, and your self-control, perseverance, and your perseverance, godliness, and your godliness, brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness, love. And I said in verse 8, if these qualities are yours and are increasing, please notice the word increasing again. They re...
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Nicodemus came to him and explained that something must be going on that the rest of us don't understand. Are you getting my point? And so Peter was saying the same thing here. That there are things you put in place and the result of that would be the manifestation of the divine nature in your life....
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Take the back seat for now. And when your time comes, leave this seat and go for the front. And stop sitting down there as if I don't know how to make good things. And be lying to me that it's humility. It is not humility. It is the fact that you don't have vision. That's your problem. I'm not going...
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Look, anytime I say things, I quickly tell myself, you know, there are ways I behave. And I tell myself, why did you do that? Maybe I enter the place, I quickly straighten my shirt, wait, you want them to think that you came on time? You know you are late. So I'll definitely, I'll deliberately rumpl...
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Are you getting the point? He said in verse five, now for this very reason also, applying all diligence in your faith supply moral excellence, and your moral excellence knowledge, and your knowledge self-control, and your self-control perseverance, and all of that. Now this is the point he was makin...
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So it waits till you have reached the peak of your career. I like the way my pastor said it then. He said, God doesn't judge things until they have reached the top. That before Nebuchadnezzar was judged, he had become a victory. So that's how it is. Satan knows when to put that thing in so that the ...
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Eve would not have eaten. It was a mind thing. She first came and said, has God really said? Mm-hmm. They began to talk. Mm-hmm. It was changing her mind, changing her perspective, changing her viewpoint, until suddenly the fruits that she wouldn't go near suddenly looked desirable. Your perception,...
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You know, the last day of our meeting in Abuja, we went to go and eat somewhere. That was the last night of the meeting. That was the conference I went for. So we had dinner in a restaurant. So as I entered the place, man, it was the finest restaurant I've ever been in my life. This is Abuja here. A...
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Because that's not my vow. Are you getting my point? My own vow has nothing to do with the head. Now, just by the way, everybody has something that must never be touched in their lives. Everybody. I said that somebody asked a question then when I was preaching Nuku. He said, how do you know which on...
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only acknowledge your iniquity. Only acknowledge your iniquity that you have transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your favors to the strangers under every tree. Now that would acknowledge I like the ways rendered alternatively on this in the margin in New American Standard here....
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We can say it's the will of God as it's the general will of God. God set the laws in place. All right? We can say it's according to the will of God like that. The Lord set the laws in place. But God did not want him to die when he died or how he died. What simply happened was that the man was exhaus...
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I won't say more about it. When I saw it, I said, no, I'll share this with you. Because last time, I was saying things here. That scientist guy, they were talking, talking, talking. I said, listen, there's nothing they are saying that with the spirit of Christ, you can't discover from the scriptures...
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Delilah was going to come. And when Delilah came, Delilah killed him. And Delilah comes to everybody. Assuming there were 10,000 Samsons, there would have been 10,000 Delilahs. Or one Delilah going from one Samson to 10. So maybe 1,000 Delilahs. But each person would have had his day of the visitati...
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Nobody comes to me and is helped. Look into the mirror and say to yourself, every time they are talking about giving, giving, giving, I have never given. Tell yourself the truth, I'm always looking for how to get. Because there's enough words you have heard to tell your true character. Listen, it's ...
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And how I refused to accept it, he looked at me, he said, that is a difficult thing you did. Because he had experienced lesser issues. And he was shouting statism. You know, there's tribalism. And I found the word statism when I came to Enugu. Never saw it before in my life. Now, I'm bringing an iss...
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That is, what happened was that David was able to kill the giant. He was inside a giant killer. Like we explained before, David was not very strong outwardly. No, you must understand that. He wasn't. When the Bible described him as being ruddy and of a handsome countenance, there are two ways to loo...
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It's from the Thayer's Greek lexicon and Brown-Driver and Briggs Hebrew lexicon. All right? So these are deep stuff for theologians. All right? It's a Leviathan. This is how I define it. It's a dictionary. A sea monster, a dragon. Listen to this. It's A, a large aquatic animal. B, perhaps the extinc...
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There is no scheme to ensure he didn't answer Delilah. There's no scheme. All Delilah needed to do was to be slightly persistent and something would have fallen. Simple. Simply because he didn't have the energy. The little he had left, the woman just needed to grind him a bit. Just a little bit of a...
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But now, I want to look for somebody that's better than you. Are you getting the point I'm making? Now, my emphasis is this. Everybody gets to that point, but this is the emphasis. When they get there, will they have strength to withstand? That's the issue. You see, I've said it again and again. Chr...
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just because I was told. Divine viewpoint, that's what this whole thing is about. That's what it's about. You get the point I'm making? Now, let's continue. So we are saying it, look. We need, okay, I was saying, so our first battle, therefore, is inwards. So we say, even though God has called us to...
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I think about it all the time. I observe. The person you call rich in this life is just the man that has control. That's all. He doesn't work harder than other people. He's not physically stronger than other people. It's just that God puts him in a place where he has control. He can say, do this, an...
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Do you get my point? Our fight is to be able to carry that glory when it will come. It is not, listen, it is not that we are going out to struggle alone. In fact, let me not remove the word alone. We're not going out to struggle. We are going out to manifest the grace that God has poured into us. I ...
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We are supposed to be meek. We are supposed to love. He said, basically those who thirst and hunger after righteousness. That is, it must be something your intense desire must be to know that which is pleasing to God and to do it. Now, I'm just summarizing that. Those are the precepts. These are the...
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But he's so good with temptation. He's so good that way not that God limits his power. He'll catch almost everybody. So that's the first thing he has. Please remember that, okay? Number two, he knows how to, as part of temptation, his job is to deceive. He doesn't try to kill you directly, he doesn'...
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For your own good. For your own good. You are not allowed. People don't know that. You're not allowed to lecture your senior. You see people, because they're angry. No, sir, let me just say what is in my mind. See? You don't do that. You calm yourself down. Tell the landlord, God bless you, sir. It'...
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Just to explain, please, stop looking for excuses to skirt around precepts. Labor to obey the precepts. That's why I want to end it. Stop looking for excuses to obey them because this thing was given for your protection. Stop looking for how you will do what God says you should not do. No matter how...
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Sometimes you have a dream. Sometimes an angel will walk in and tell you what God said. Sometimes a prophet will come and call you and say, God said that she will tell you. Do you get what I'm trying to say? You don't live your life based on that. Those things come in less than 10% of the times you ...
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How do you handle it? I'm not going to discuss it. But you will not say, Nigeria, I will collect. You will go and pray and say, God, how do I handle it? How do I handle my friends? I won't discuss how. I don't want to go into that area. Because I probably don't even know. I've never walked there. I ...
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Now the guy had come out of the bathroom, called his chief bodyguard. Her father was a very influential man in the society. He said, go to her house, behead him, and bring his head on the platter. The guy left, went to the girl's house, brought her the father, beheaded him, put his head on the platt...
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So what he does is that, number one way he helps you therefore is give you more information. Just give you more information. So let me see what you will do with it. And that's again, one thing you must bear in mind. As Christians, we must be constant disciples. Always learning. It's not when you are...
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I said, if that was your boss in the office, would the Holy Spirit have needed to talk to you? They said, I'm going. So I said, look, if that was your boss in the office, would you have needed the Holy Spirit? Where am I going? Her testimony should not, I say boldly, should not have been Holy Spirit...
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Anointing doesn't flow from boyfriend. Boyfriend can't lay hands on you. Receive it and you get anything. You won't get anything. What did he say? You can only get pregnant. Thank you. But anointing comes from pastor. It comes from the prophet. God speaks. So you have to train yourself. Now, please,...
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The first one has passed. There are two more. Two more. Of this latter two, alright, the initial one is Him coming in you. You'll be coming like the sun. So does He want the sun inside you to manifest? That's second. That's first. The second one is the final coming of Jesus Christ. He wants to delay...
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with the knowledge of precepts. And let me tell you this as a matter of fact. Maybe 80 or more percent of the times, if you analyze the precepts, you know the right thing. Do you get what I'm saying? 80% of the times, if you analyze the precepts, you will know what is right to do. You won't need any...
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He didn't have his own car. If you know the way Texas is, most of America is like that. If you don't have your own car, it's a hard life. But most of them, they don't have good train system, unlike Europe, where you have trains and buses. You don't have them in America, in most places. You have to o...
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is a spirit. Now, the power in that word will not be appropriately released except you have used the word in a particular way all the while. I hope I get my point. For example, you can't take the word of healing and declare it. When somebody talked to you yesterday in the office about the word on ho...
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How do you know you're a mad man on the road? It's prejudice. It's pure prejudice. After all these days, now we have seen that a lot of same people are also wearing a rag. So the fact that I'm wearing a rag does not mean I'm mad. Now that's the argument they're trying to have in some countries now. ...
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Please, I'm telling this story because, you see, sometimes, and I told this one, I saw one that was so angry that my wife said, you have come again. I said, yes, I have come. Why won't I come? This one, I would say, is good to listen to the Holy Spirit. It's good to listen to the Holy Spirit. She ha...
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There's another one that happened to me later in life. I've told this story but I don't tell that one much. The instruction the Holy Spirit gave was, you're a student, you don't go to a class at 8. You know there are times you just wake up, you just create a bad habit. I just created a bad habit tha...
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You train your mind as you are growing up. Let's take an example about wife and husband. You're a single man. Your mind must be trained to see charm or favor is deceitful. And beauty is what? Vain. It's vanity. It fades. It means nothing. It can be bought in a shop. It can be lost overnight. So you ...
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Say, what have you brought? What do you offer? You put it down, 100k. Ooh, here it go correctly, not a problem. If it's money small, 2,500. What do you want God to say on 2,500? Say, Pastor, that's what we'll have. No, no, no, no, no. The Lord cannot speak like this. Then you go and bring more, add ...
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He can't tempt you more than make sure you shift. That he can't do more than tempt you so that you will shift out of where you are supposed to be so that you will contribute what you are supposed to contribute into the coming of the Lord. That's all he can do. Basically, if we don't cooperate, he fa...
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Say, we need money, who do we invite? Say, it's Pastor Dami. I like the way he rejected it. He said, oh God, not me. Not even a joke near that area. You are the one they start calling when they need money. Look, before the end of the year, you have familial spirits. You don't have to ask for it, the...
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Occasionally we'll get to, and I'll talk about that in a moment. Occasionally we'll get to crossroads, and it needs to make a decision. And then he will reason. Now, can I say something again? Be careful when you are following other people's testimonies. Be very careful, because there are so many th...
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The Lord is good. Where am I going? The guy was making my, I don't need anybody, because bishops said it. They said, we will let you know you are not bishop with people. He came to service, there was nobody in church. So he went to bishop, bishop said, go back and tell them, I need all of you. After...
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You know, we go to church and teach how to live. Look, when all those MMM things were going on, there were no churches that the pastors were telling people how to enter. I know churches that started their own. One of my brethren told me that in their house, in fact, the children came and said, give ...
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isobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 1 Thess 4:3-8 NLT
So then, get rid of lies. Speak the truth to each other, because we are all members of the same body. Be angry without sinning. Don't go to bed angry. Don't give the devil any opportunity to work. Thie...
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ll wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good. Titus 2:11-14 GNT
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up caus...
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ing you are perfect but definitely you will be moving forward. You will be departing from sin and using the power of grace to remove it from your life. God loves us, and that is why Jesus died for us. He died to deliver us from sin. If we are not willing to depart from sin, it is not grace we believ...
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tually cried out, “Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?” It is a doctrine that is so easy to twist to one’s destruction. Peter warned about this twisting even those days. … just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as...
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h alone is very attractive to those who desire to have eternity secure while ‘enjoying’ the pleasures of the flesh in the now, but they are walking by a twisted version of the true gospel. It is like the doctrine of prosperity; in the twisted form it allows many to live worldly and in co...
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gh I disobey the Lord I’ll still be blessed even while living in disobedience. If a Christian is living in sin and disobedience, it is an indication that grace is not working in his or her life. It means that the grace the person claims to have is doubtful. Grace is tied to the faith that we h...
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s already available on missions, and the collection would be pittance. So James explained the mind of God – all the prayers were not backed by faith. The people did not believe! How did he know? If they did, they should have put their money where their mouth was. Now you see why many prayers a...
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That is how it is, that we are dwelling places on the earth for God. Now remember, I didn't read that again today, but we read it before, Matthew chapter five, when Jesus was telling us about characters that are expected of believers. You know, one thing I was developing last time, all right, which ...
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All right, let's just repeat after me. Say, I'm filled with the knowledge of His will. I'm filled with the knowledge of His will. In all spiritual wisdom and understanding. In all spiritual wisdom and understanding. I walk in the manner worthy of the Lord. I walk in the manner worthy of the Lord. I ...
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Paul said to Timothy, he said, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness. The emphasis is that it's discipline. It's not something that will come to you spontaneously. It's something you will make up your mind to do. You'll put in the effort. You will fight. He said, discipline yourself for t...
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That's a matter of fact. So we don't want for evil spirits to come into our lives. Back to Galatians chapter five. We run away from every walk of the flesh. Every single one. No matter how trivial it looks. One of the ones that looks most trivial there, we read from there, outburst of anger. But at ...
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Because we've read that severally, I am going to be quick in reading it, just to bring out the thing that we want from there. Let us start from verse 16. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spiri...
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That's where we are going. That's what God has created us for. But if you mean that if I do what is sin, it is not sin, don't lie to me. You are driving the presence of God out of my life. Please, forgive me what I'm about to say. But we just have to say these things openly as much as possible so as...
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without the seed of Christ being inside you, there's nothing attracting you towards holiness. But that's what he does, he puts a seed inside you. Then he now says to Timothy, discipline yourself for the purpose of having that thing express itself outwardly. Peter said, applying all diligence. This i...
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that we don't knock out the society's immune defense system, which is the moral standards of the society, okay? And this is where I'm going to init. Now you see, I gave this example last time, take this homosexuality thing. They keep on making it look like it's just an alternative lifestyle, and I'm...
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The spirits are not bound because you don't want their presence. That's not why they are bound. What drives them away is the environment conducive, or is it not? If the environment is conducive, as soon as you finish driving them, the Bible says, Jesus himself said, they will go through dry places, ...
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are quite true, all right? The reason is that, let me give you an illustration. Most of us know about AIDS, right? AIDS, HIV, AIDS. For those who don't know, let me just educate you for 30 seconds. The issue with HIV itself, it doesn't cause any particular illness. What it does is to kill the body's...
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the human body, is the most precious physical thing that he ever made. That is it. The most precious. Go and check, it was the last thing that he made. He formed him out of the dust of the earth. Listen, angels loved it. Evil spirits, they still love it. It's a privilege we have to have it. It was p...
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Said to everybody's amazement, the boy just saw a bottle. He bent down, picked it, smashed it, turned around, boom, the other guy was dead. His eyes opened. Except, you've killed somebody, you arrested him, put him on trial, put him on death row. Many will tell you that it was Satan, they are not ly...
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What I was preaching, the second part of my message, the first part is that this world is made for. It's made to express the nature of God on this earth. It's the suit we wear, where we fine-tune our spiritual nature. Listen, whatever you do with your life, you do with your body, you do with your, l...
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Don't lie to yourself if you're a fornicator, that I'm a righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. No, I am a backstanding righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Maybe a former righteousness. I used to be righteous last week. Maybe. But please, don't deceive yourself. And walk around confident as if noth...
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It's a bragging right for him. The one he did that I wanted to curse him there, except that he's cursed already, so I didn't bother, is this. He chased one girl, die. The girl said, la la, I reserved myself for my husband. So you know what he did? He called, he took his friends, and went to the girl...
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I've said it again and again in this series. Many of the things Christians are praying for are nothing but the things that come because of the absence of God's presence. That's a long way of explaining it, but you understand my point. That is, God is not dwelling in that place. So the troubles are t...
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and your perseverance, godliness, and your godliness, brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless, please notice that, it is possible for a Christian to be useless, they render you neither useless nor fru...
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Let me try and remember the statement. My friend just quoted it for me. He said that... Please, the statement just escaped, but this is a summary of it. It was like scripture. The man said simply, that is... Yes, I remember now. He said it is better to sleep with one woman 4,000 times. That's what h...
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He told people, he told his wife. His wife reminded him, are you going to see Reverend Higgins? No, and I'm not going. And the elder in the church reminded him, are you going to see him? I was there the day he said you should see him. He said no, and I am not going. He told one of them, I'm not goin...
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So in those countries, once government, VOA, VOA, Voice of America, will not take your advert. CNN will have to take your advert. But anything, C-SPAN, things that government spends money on. However, in our country, we don't even care. You know why we don't care? We know once it is public, give the...
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2 Peter chapter 1. We've read this Galatians a number of times. I just wanted to read it again, get us connected. 2 Peter chapter 1. I'm reading from verse 2. Grace, of course Peter was speaking, grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divi...
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I mean, I should read that again, because a lot of these days, Christians think, that's a Christians, people. I don't know whether they are Christians. They are bishops, so, but I'm not sure they are Christians. No, no, no, no, no, let's go to Europe. Those guys are not Christians. Go to North Ameri...
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That was what he thought. But it didn't go out like that for him. I've read many stories, seen many things, and there are people who are in prison, both in Nigeria and abroad, on death row. And until today, they are wondering, how did I manage to kill somebody? There are those who hadn't, I know. Bu...
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Huh? Nevada also. Yes, Nevada, yes. Reno. There's a particular city there called Reno. So that's where that devil was headquartered. And the reporting said that you will find that there is a first place in the United States where you could get divorced in an hour. This man knew it beforehand and sai...
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When he calls you, you will feel peace because the spirit is not there again. I'm telling you, you will feel peace. You will feel peace. The Bible says a strong man, when he keeps his goods, his goods are undisturbed. That's literal Greek. So when you get to a place, it's a burial ground, every corp...
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Should I be honest with you? I'm feeling very anointed. There are days like that you just want to preach, you just feel like preaching. Right now I feel like preaching. So please beg me to close on time. I will. The Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. Alright, now, so, like I said, I think we sho...
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If it comes to that, that you have to remove your eyes, please remove it. But what he was trying to emphasize, however, is this. If you realize that removal of the eye is where you are heading for, then do what is necessary so that you will not have to remove your eyes. Do you get my point? So he wa...
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Inugu? Mm-hmm. Or like you say, the Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. Let's continue reading. I just digress into that. So when you see the world, they tend to tell us that because homosexuality is natural to some people, which is a lie, it doesn't change the fact that it is demonic in its orig...
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Because when cancer starts developing, by the time you see it, it's been growing for a few years. Two years later was when his own cancer suddenly showed up. And he now died sometime after. But I like to tell this story because it shows you that when a man gets desperate, you'd be amazed at the amou...
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