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Patience is when you believe something. Now listen to this carefully. If you go to the book of Hebrews chapter 6, the Bible says, quickly open that, let's open it, I think. So let me just quote in it. It was talking about those who have faith, how we receive our inheritance, Hebrews chapter 6. Let m...
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but we must hold on to the progress we have already made. Please let me read verse 15 and verse 16 again, this time in another translation. It says, let us therefore, as many as are perfect, that's spiritually mature, have this attitude. And if in anything you have a different attitude, God revealed...
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1:12:00
maintain that faith. That faith has to keep, that is why I said no, I will teach the word of God concerning the word of faith. I will teach the word of faith because when, you know this man said something, R.J. Lutono. Lutono said that if I knew everything about businesses, I would have failed by ac...
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because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteo...
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1:13:30
That is what you need. That God will constantly be amongst those helping you. So what we need to get this manifestation is keeping what? Faith. Keeping faith. That's what you need. So it's through faith and patience that you inherit the promises. By that faith, God is able to do what he wants to do ...
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Faith that is held over time. That's it. At a moment, at a point in time, you can ask yourself whether I have faith or somebody has faith. But then, to constantly have faith is what is called patience. What is patience? Listen to this. It's very important that you understand. Every time in this worl...
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1:25:30
It brings this kind of derision. It brings this kind of harassment. And let me say this. That's actually the aim. That's why God said that those who don't have what? Depths of earth. They fall away at that point in time. I look back to those who were in school. I just look back to university days. A...
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takes time a lot of times we promise something many times you see thousands of years it happened before it comes to pass and it comes to pass in what the Bible calls the fullness of time the fullness of time that is what do you mean by fullness of time that is all the events have been put in place m...
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2:21:00
They have all kinds of health advice to give you, apart from, thus says the Lord. They are the ones you should hide your progress from. When you are believing God, hide it from them. They are in church, they are not in witch schools. They are the ones that tell you to obey God halfway. No need to be...
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Elder John, that your friend, that man I was talking about the other day. That's what happened to him. His church was booming. There was a time this church grew, church grew, and preaching faith and this. He said one day he woke up and the Lord said that what he's doing is not good. So he went back ...
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I will jump here and there. I will let you know when I'm doing that. So whatever happens, my brothers and sisters, that this, finally my brethren, I like that first line in a conservative translation. Finally my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Somebody say that after me, rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice ...
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2:27:00
And see, it doesn't get easier. Because of time, let me just run straight. Then there was a time, hi. You can imagine I come here for Bible study, and there's nobody. Maybe Eldadjon and Judah. And Judah, that's because he just said, let me come and help you put on the machine. Eldadjon just looked l...
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Now, I need to say this, Christianity brings the spiritual into the physical, you know, manifestedly. Again and again, let me just put it like that. The Bible says the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. That thing is not just about Jesus Christ becoming a human being, but they say it's an etern...
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1:24:00
Brendan, stop that thing. Drive your car, it's okay. But nobody's listening to you because of the car you drive. If you bring that whole matter up, you're making the gospel nonsense. You are undermining the gospel. I'm not saying you shouldn't drive your car. Please, drive it. I'll be honest with yo...
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2:19:30
What is even the subset in it? Nonsense and ingredients. Where did that expression come from? Each of you will know. Nonsense and ingredients. I don't know. My wife has had one now. She says it's nonsense and the ingredients thereof. The Lord is good. Brethren, relax. Nobody can do anything to you. ...
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2:22:30
For example, there was a test of popularity. His ministry had become successful. In John chapter 6, he failed 5,000 people. They said, this is the king we need in Nigeria. Food will become abundant. So you know what he did? The Bible says, he withdrew to a mountain by himself, seeing that they were ...
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1:51:00
is not allowed to be a reason for decision making as a Christian. God expects that if you want to preserve yourself, you talk to him. Any other thing is a sin. A believer's life is a sacrificial life. It's how do I pour myself out? It's not how do I save my soul. It's how do I pour my soul out? Lord...
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but it's not the elixir for eternal life. If you eat honey, you will still die. Do you get my point? So relax, please, I'm begging you. However, this point I was making, what is not good for you, the Lord will let you know. According to your level of faith each time, you're praying to him. If he say...
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1:49:30
I can say this confidently, at least 85% are not in Enugu. I don't know them. If I met them in Enugu, I probably would have greeted them. So, somebody said, I will go from here to get somebody to help me. I don't... The temptation has never come to my mind. People start jumping up and down because o...
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Lord, fill us afresh this morning in the name of Jesus. Amen. As these words come forth, the sick will be healed. Amen. Minds will become clear. Amen. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you, Heavenly Father. Now, because we believe all of these things, we declare as follows. One, two, let's go...
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He can now face ministry. What advice do I have for him? I felt like saying, the advice I have for you is that you are not called. Don't bother. That was the only advice I had for him, but I couldn't tell him. But I told my wife, I said, sweetheart, please, make sure I never tell you this. Otherwise...
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So we Christians, we learn what? That service, that faithfulness, that diligence, that responsibility. Let God take care of the reward. My friend I'm telling you about was rewarded in his own company, but it doesn't always work. That's why, when I'm telling these stories, I don't like finishing it t...
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1:27:00
Now, we're going to the parable, right? Where were we? Among the rock, yes. Then the next level are those that have depths of earth. Yes. Except that when they sprang up, time to produce. This time, it's not the world pushing them now. I've already used some of that illustration now. It was themselv...
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hold the devil and beat him. We can say those things in teens' church. Are you getting my point? You know, in teens' church, you can do what you like. I mean, you guys have to exercise themselves. When you pastor teens, you can't tell them, guys, today we are going to exercise on the devil's head, a...
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So I asked that time, you gave me an answer. I'm not going to ask it again now. I said, would you like if somebody asked me, for example, 10 billion naira not to write that book? I wrote the book as a single man with fire in my bones. It was shortly before I got married. I sent it to my wife just to...
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if you were dead. In that case, leave me here. A poor bank is better than a dead one. So leave it. Just leave it. I see all of it as temptations to drag me out of where God wants me to be. If you want to motivate me, all right, I mean, your name is Satan, you want to help me, please obey God. Please...
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1:52:30
That's my utmost for its highest. That's the world's number one daily devotion. All right? So they say, you look back, it looks like a life fully lived. Is that OK? Except for one thing. That life, like a long life, will have meant nothing were it not for the woman he married, Biddy Chambers. becaus...
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Before that, he was worth something like between a quarter to a half a billion dollars. So he wasn't poor. He wasn't an average poor man on the road. But by the end of that, he was so broke, he went to commit suicide. He left a note for his family, apologized to them, waited as a train track that pa...
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A God that did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens. It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens. When he utters his voice, there's a tumult of waters...
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2:12:00
My wife will tell you that sometimes, it has happened before, maybe she did something that really upsets me. She's going, she's literally checking her back, whether God is coming. It's not me, it's not me only. She has driven her car, she has left the house. This man of God was very upset this morni...
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d we get
spent right out. If we are doing things inside God's
arrangement for us, the natural exhaustion is so quickly
recuperated by the resurrection life of Jesus that we do not feel
the exhaustion.
There is a joy and drive that keeps a person that is in the
centre of the call of God for his life...
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their
shoulders, with the poles thereon as Moses had commanded
according to the word of the LORD. 1 Chron 15:12-15
So we see that problems sometimes can be that of the
methods that one is employing.
Once, I heard a message preached by a seasoned elder
in the faith, and he was talking on this calli...
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is my point: root, or seed, is easy to tackle, but fruit
is outside our control. Whatever we desire, we must
observe to tackle it from the root. So it is with working
for God.
THE ROOT OF GOOD WORKS
In all endeavours of life, Jesus declared, only one thing
is needful. It was that thing that Mary c...
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THE START
uard your steps as you go to the house of God, and
draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice
of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.
Eccl 5:1
THE ART OF LEARNING
Learning is the foundation of real spiritual work; our
first emphasis must be to learn. It must no...
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s
purposes. You will deny yourself certain pleasures and
human promotions so that you can take hold of the
Spirit. It is those things that are the real tests of your
seriousness.
FAKE CONSCIENCE BALM
I have found out that many people use this working-
for-God thing as a form of atonement for their...
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matters of the
Law. In all of this he attained many natural advantages
which unfortunately turned out to constitute stumbling
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blocks to his becoming anything in Christ Jesus. There
is a goal that God has set for every single ...
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e by the teaching of the word.
Believe me, it worked.
The word of God is interesting; it first shows us our
shortcomings, where we are living below the glory of
God, before it begins to transform us.
For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than
the sharpest knife, cutting deep i...
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Zipporah circumcising her son so as to keep
Moses alive (Exodus 4:25).
SPANNERIN THE WORKS
This leads me to one last point, and this is still talking
about how one may know he isin the wrong calling.
Now, sometimes God just throws the spanner, like we
often say, into your works just to point out t...
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ough our outer man is
decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For
momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal
weight of glory far beyond all comparison... 2 Cor 4:16-17
So you see, people who easily lose heart are very likely
in the wrong place (except of course for ...
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before which we must all
appear, you will be judged a failure. In all the parables
of Jesus about talents and minas, the Lord always asked
the servants to show what they did with what He gave
to them.
In the New American Standard Bible rendering of Luke
19:13, the thought is so beautifully expresse...
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nd
the cares of this world, we will find Him leading each
one of us automatically into the right place. That is part
of what is meant by ‘He leads me in the path of
righteousness for His name’s sake.”
The Spirit of God will lead you concerning the steps to
take so as to progress from whichever stat...
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we all do that. But to look beyond the current
circumstances and focus on the promise and plan of
God, and determine to pray until something changes,
that is work. Itis work for God and He rewards it.
The promises of God are interesting, especially when it
has to do with a group of people, such as ...
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the world in his
temptation of Jesus, but God in His wisdom is
honouring the faith which the Lord Jesus showed when
He refused to bow down; He is doing that by handing
over everything to Him forever.
Now, in everything the Lord wants to do on this earth
He uses people, and to take over all the king...
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ally show in our inability to do many things even
though we might be willing still. Itis so easy to overlook
imbibing your vitamins, but the effect will eventually
manifest.
LIKE VITAMIN TO YOUR SOUL
Just like vitamin deficiency in the body, the
manifestation of lack of rest is often not so quickl...
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o not
come only to those who want to do them but also to
anyone engaged in things which constitute their roots.
This is what Paul was explaining to Timothy when he
was warning concerning covetousness.
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by
longing for it have wandered awa...
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his times to explain away his
actions. God says, “Only acknowledge your iniquity!”
The man committing adultery uses his wife's bad
attitude as his excuse. God says, “Only acknowledge
your iniquity!”
One major reason why people try to justify their actions
is that they do not know how to stop doing...
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st rule to apply to this thing
so as to make prayer unnecessary; all the things I have
explained are to help each person know how to
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approach the throne of God, as Solomon said in
Ecclesiastes 5. The Bible says you are to take word...
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it means to work for God and
be free from every kind of bondage to human ideas. I
pray that no one will exercise himself or herself
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needlessly thinking that they are pleasing God. I also
pray that those who may have been going the ...
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e in
Him. Believing in Jesus allows you to be called a
righteous person, even though you are not perfect; all
the shortcomings are covered by the blood of Jesus, as
long as you remain of faith in Him.
Now, this righteousness begins to generate in your life
the ability to do good works. Forgiving ot...
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you simply
do not enjoy the work that you are doing, and there is no
real reason for this that a natural person should easily
understand, it is possible that's a sign that you are in the
wrong place.
When the Lord calls someone to do something, the
passion for that thing tends to grip the soul so t...
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wer, you are rewarded by the Lord
separately from the answer.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you.
“May peace be within your walls,
And prosperity within your palaces.”
For the sake of my brothers and my friends...
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God...
Ps ...
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explaining things that were
happening even before He died and went to the cross.
This tells me He was already taking these infirmities
and carrying the diseases in the days of His flesh. How
was that?
He would pray all night for the sicknesses and the
troubles of the people that were to meet Him th...
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to be able to make petitions before
God. Situations sometimes come in life when you are
just without strength even to pray. Like David once said,
the heart can be overwhelmed (Ps 61:2). Eli was tired.
Spiritual exhaustion was what led Solomon to support
idolatry in his latter days. He was never an ...
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outward
work that we might ever do. Once it is being well done,
then outward works will come out without much effort
and without the risk of running contrary to the order of
God.
DOING THE MAIN WORK
To be transformed into the image of Christ is the main work
which we have to do as believers. When ...
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ted through us.
It is the work of God and the work of ministry to put
excellence into all that we do.
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SOUL-WINNING TOOLS
Aman came to see me once and he told me that until he
started listening to my messages he did not ...
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ur time; abide within the realm of
your calling.
IT's A MATTER OF LONG LIFE
When I say ‘don't die before your time’ I mean it literally.
One of the greatest teachers in my life in the matters of
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ministry is the departed Kenneth E....
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fulfilment.
Give Him no rest until He establishes...
Pray for your nation.
Pray for your local church.
Pray for your friend.
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Pray for your husband or wife.
Pray for your fiancée.
Pray for those that you love.
It is difficu...
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chmen; all
day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind
the LORD, take no rest for yourselves; And give Him no rest
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until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isa 62:6-7
Notice that He says th...
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Derek Prince said when he heard the report about this
prayer of the General, a cold shiver went through him as
he recollected his prayer, and the Holy Spirit said, “That
is the answer to your prayer.”
It was not a one day prayer; it was prayer that was
prayed again and again until there was a turn ...
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et and you
will have a reward before God.
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CHAPTER 21
THE RIGHTEOUS
INTERCESSOR
am explaining that the prayer of intercession is
hard work, and a persistent one at that. When yo...
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ptance. They are done as a natural manifestation of
the new life in Christ. You are doing works you were
created to do; they are not done to gain acceptance. Let
me use the following story to explain.
Many years ago my friend and I attended the same
church (that was the church I mentioned that the ...
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es for exercising your gift. | remember the
story told by Ben Carson, renowned American
neurosurgeon, formerly of Johns Hopkins.’ In his book
Gifted Hands, he told of how he honed his surgical skills.
Immediately after his residency the Lord led him to
Australia to work for a year. While there his ...
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people or a place. It may
also be an assignment that is imposed upon you as you
prove faithful in your all-round walk with God.
He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's
sake. Ps 23:3
What the Lord does is to lead us in our everyday life
until we find ourselves in our calling. That...
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t was always with him. The zeal was consuming
him. He initially tried by his own hands and failed;
afterwards the Lord sent him with His mighty hand.
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Please note that the identification of a need and the
passion that wan...
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n his serving; or he who
teaches, in his teaching; or he who exhorts, in his exhortation;
he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he
who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Rom 12:6-8
In the previous section, my emphasis was to help us
understand that secular work is part of God's ...
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ons. They think it is
a sign of commitment but it is totally rubbish. These
things offend the Lord.
Read here the verdict of the Lord Jesus on such things.
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But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents,
‘Sorry, lca...
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today were written in those days, and
as at the time of writing this I still have so many
unpublished materials from the same period.
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The point I am making is that the main work of God is
inside you, and once that is being done, the...
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e direct instructions of God. He had begun to forget;
the flesh was beginning to gain the upper hand in his
life. His disobedience was the symptom of a deficiency
disease that was beneath the surface.
The Lord saw that and decided that a radical treatment
was needed. His favourite man, Moses, had t...
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teacher and prophet.
He had been a pastor for about twelve years and had
pastored different kinds of churches. At this point he
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was the pastor of the best church he had ever pastored
and was living more comfortably than he had...
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r ministers for ministers;
they minister to prepare ministers. Every believer is a
minister, either in service or in training.
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Actually one of the major things I have been trying to
get across to every believer is this fact t...
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ugh.
SPIRITUAL CONFLICT
Derek Prince taught an audio message series titled
Spiritual Conflict; one of the messages in the series is
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Aggressive prayer, and in this he described the use of
certain words in prayer that may need to be...
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nds of copies in the initial period of some
months. The tracts were distributed free. The summary
is that my guiding attitude was to exercise my gift as I
am given the opportunity.
EXERCISE YOUR GIFT
This is the point where many people miss it, especially
when their gifts are more secular than spi...
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o God on their behalf, put the Lord to
remembrance concerning His promises and request a
fulfilment.
You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves; and
give Him no rest until He establishes...
It does not require the speaking of big words or much of
praying in tongues (unless the Spirit com...
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See, I understand
that their lives do not have to revolve around me, but if
they are not willing to make the sacrifice to come and
listen to me, then they cannot be serious about what
they are asking.
I have learnt over the years that you do not have to go
and ask someone to be your mentor. If you ...
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in his life, but more importantly it was to keep him
talking while I connected in my spirit with the word of
the Lord for him.
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As he spoke I realized he loved his profession, he was
financially alright and showed no signs of ...
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his word and it would be
very wrong to take that away from them. The strength
to do anything meaningful for God comes by this very
word and so we must not take it away from Mary or any
other disciple.
The word of God transforms us as we sit in its presence.
It is not about intellectual imbibition a...
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from
him. He was not just spontaneous, rather he took time
to prepare. Let us follow this example of David.
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Set an ambitious target for your giving. Say to yourself,
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to a lonely place and rest a while.” (For there were
many people coming and going, and they did not even have
time to eat.) And they went away in the boat to a lonely place
by themselves. Mark 6:30-32
The passage above describes what happened upon the
return of the twelve apostles of the Lord after...
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We all need this because
there must be no end to the increase of the government
of Christ; that is the only way by which peace, real and
enduring peace, will come to the earth.
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
The hope that the world has is for the sons of God to
increase and by their increase drive out the ...
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down the king alone. 2
Sam 17:1-2
Notice that he understood the fact that David was most
vulnerable in the time of tiredness.
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This was a strategy of physical war but which also
applies to the warfare our lives are in as Chri...
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people
obviously expected to hear what they were supposed to
do as outward works, but the Lord turned their
attention to the place that the work of God really starts
from — inside.
THE WORKIS BELIEVE
Jesus said that the work of God is to believe. Believing is
something that has to do with the stat...
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hoice
making process, then God is second or maybe even last,
and once God is not first, consider Him totally absent. In
the words of Oswald J. Smith, “He is either Lord of all or
Heisnot Lord at all.”
Callings demand sacrifice, and if you are not willing to
make the necessary sacrifices you will mi...
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God in a manner
pleasing to Him. Among the things explained are:
* Transformation into the image of Christ as the first work of
God for everyone.
* How our secular jobs relate to the service of God.
* Howto pray as a service to God.
* The true role of giving in serving God.
* The place of resti...
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to know God personally. It is that knowledge and
relationship that provokes the work that you do. You do
Christian work out of love for the brethren and out of
the knowledge of your gifts and calling.
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As an example, I am a te...
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egularly for the teachings
which we hold twice a week at the ministry office, and
that it is as they do this that the external work will
eventually manifest. That is the way it works.
GOOD CO-WORKERS
I like the kind of men that I have, people who love the
teaching more than the work. I have severa...
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e would not be much effect to your
prayer because it is not being backed by a fervency of
spirit. It is the earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of the
righteous man that avails much (James 5:17 AMP).
The Lord Jesus kept awake in intercession for people,
and He is still doing that today. The Bible ...
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les that they should freely ask
God for whatever they needed and expect answers
simply because the Father loves them (John 16:26,27).
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The love of God the Father for the believer is the reason
why things get done for him or her. This...
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me the only help, but he was careful to let the king
know where the answer was actually coming from.
That is how to testify about God.
For the world to see the gospel of Christ, we must be
witnesses.
Awitness tells of what he has seen, what he personally
experienced, not what he read somewhere or ...
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r regular jobs and duties. We cannot feign
faithfulness to God by doing well in church because He
does not look there only. He would have first checked
us out at our regular jobs before anywhere else.
One of the things we Christians must learn is that the
Lord has a method for judging those invisib...
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from putting in the necessary effort into his studies to
make him succeed. He was thankful the man left.
At other times we are trying to be something to please,
say, our parents. Some are doctors just be...
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blood of Jesus. I
do good works because it is my nature to do them. It is
very much like a mother nursing her child; it is the
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nature of the mother, not because she is trying to get
something from the child or the child's fat...
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e said to the Master, “your mina has made ten
more!” And the Lord called him a good and faithful
servant.
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The
functional word here is learn. The proper way to serve
God does not come naturally; it is something that we
must make the effort to learn. He said to 'draw near to
listen.' David said it this way:
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of
the LORD. Ps 34:11
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in those accounts
happened literally in the course of everyday life. Let us
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CHAPTER 22
THE PRAYER OF DANIEL
n the first year of Darius... in the first year of his reign I,
Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years
which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah
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meone
who he hardly knew. I charged him to forget all about
church work and to begin to concentrate on learning,
not for the purpose of working or preaching, but simply
for the purpose of knowing God.
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CHAPTER 14
WHAT A CALLING IS
trictly speaking, the word 'calling' is used in the
New Testament to reflect the life and purpose
which the Lord brought us all into according to
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CHAPTER 17
THE ZIPPORAH
PHENOMENON
hen I said that he, Kenneth Hagin, almost
died in the process I am referring to when
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A PERSONAL HISTORY
hile I was a student in the university, I was
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is a holy man of God. Let's build a small
room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, a table, a
chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever
he comes by.” 2 Kings 4:9-10 NLT
She was not trying to get anything from the prophet; in
fact when he called her to ask what she wou...
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ome. Concerning our
God the Bible testifies,
He is the Rock; his work is perfect. Everything he does is just
and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and
upright heis! Deut 32:4 NLT
The decision to kill Moses and take him completely out,
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We'll answer that in a short while but first let me explain
the meaning of these words: gift, calling, and ministry.
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GIFTS, CALLINGS
AND MINISTRIES
nd since we have gi...
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t must be in the heart of every
child of God as they seek to do any business in this life.
We must forsake the doctrine of I-don't-want-much
which we had held on to supposedly as a matter of
humility.
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prosperity are not about self-pleasure bu...
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Opportunity to minister the word was produced as a
result of teaching a medical subject.
ALIGHT SHINING
You see why it is ministry to live an honest and decent
life, to abhor what is evil and to succeed...
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get a new car, what I
would have obtained is an answer. But if lasked God for
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back for praying for my friend while answering the
prayer, that pat on the back is a reward. A rew...
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ain is dulled
temporarily, the wounded person is deceived into
thinking that the wound is completely gone. But, of
course, the day will come in which the effects of a deep
unhealed wound will be felt.
THE PROBLEM WITH RELIGION
Religion heals our wounds superficially. We do what we
think pleases God...
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ly made his drink full of
nutrients and low in alcohol as a means of delivering his
countrymen from addiction to whiskey. The following
is quoted from a web article concerning him (from
www.iccc.net).
He was elevated to the House of Lords because of his
philanthropy and because of his wealth and he...
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far beyond these proportions I have suggested and
actually do not calculate proportions — they just give.
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THE GIVING MINISTRY
There are persons whose specific ministry from God is
to give; Paul described this ministry in Rom...
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e to go and pray and get the
assurance again that we are in the right calling. If that is
certain, by various means, then we can check the matter
of timing and that of method.
CALLING, TIMING, METHOD
In Numbers chapter 22 we read the story of Balaam.
When Balaam went ona journey not in accordance ...
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accepted by Him. That is what it means to be made
righteous by faith. Paul wrote this thing clearly in his
letter to the Romans thus:
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But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him
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prophets. We just need opened
eyes, and we will see the truth about the Christ in
everything in the Law and the Prophets. After this I
read the book of Isaiah until the pages in my Bible
became brown.
I learnt the role of sufferings in the life of the believer. I
understood for the first time what ...
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tried to
correct, who claim they have a particular gift and I
wonder who lied to them. That very thing that they are
trying to do is what turns people off from them, and yet
they think they can doit.
Ona personal note, before I began to think I could teach,
I heard other people, mostly my seniors, ...
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many.
It is interesting to note that the people who Jesus called
and made apostles were all doing something when he
called them. They were not idle people who were
supposedly waiting upon the Lord.
What I have tried to explain in this chapter is that
Christians must bear in mind that God's work ...
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res, both in your mind and brain, which
you have and others don't. This gift, though spiritual in
foundation, affects your physical body. David
explained it thus:
For Thou didst form my inward parts;
Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonde...
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ce.
And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the
grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground
produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your
hands.” Hag 1:9-11
If you read the whole portion of that book of Haggai
you will see that the people were suffering a...
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ssure from a
preacher who wants him to quickly make a
commitment. If what you will receive is what is in your
mind as you are giving, you are not giving to God but
are essentially throwing away money.
ACHANNEL OF BLESSING
The basic understanding that every believer must have
is that God has appoin...
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ification of our beings from all defilement
of flesh and spirit. It is done with the instrument of the
word of God which we pay the greatest attention to.
That is the first and primary work.
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nd to persons he is
commanded to honour, such as parents. We will see
more of this in the next chapter.
A similar law to the law of tithing is to be found in the
law of gleaning.
THE LAW OF GLEANING
‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall
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n had to pray
to get a decent believer to have as a friend. I served
somewhere far away from civilization in the barracks of
a battalion of the Nigerian Army in a predominantly
Muslim part of Nigeria.
This story is leading somewhere and that place is of two
different encounters I had with two ladie...
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doing much. Why not?
My answer was simple; I explained that everything has
it’s time and that God has made everything perfect in
it’s own time. As far as I felt then, it was not the time for
activity.
Then I got one of the greatest insults of my life. She
accused me of justifying my inactivity with...
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The senior pastor of the
church called me one day and asked me to choose
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options were presented and I jumped at the one that
was teaching based. I still remember that the p...
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n of resources
according to the situations we are faced with. This is as
long as we consciously put the knowledge of truth into
our hearts (which is what you are doing right now by
reading this book).
As I mentioned earlier, many insist that every Christian
must give a tenth of their income to thei...
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us and we foolishly believe
them, and as a result we start pursuing things that only
men approve but which are not of God. How many
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Chapter 7: The Word and Spiritual Progress............. 63
SECTION 2: SECULAR WORK IS ALSO GOD'S WORK.
Chapter 8: God’s Plan for the World
Chapter 9: The Lord Checks at the Business Office. 85
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n and
many other outward shows of dedication even if there
is no proof of character improvement and increasing
godliness in the lives of the people. They are interested
in the outward and little else.
Yes, it feels good to have people all around you running
up and down at your command, but you are ...
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CHAPTER 5
HERE IS WORSHIP
ut an hour is coming, and now is, when the true
worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and
truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His
worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship...
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is word, simply go to Him in prayer and acknowledge
that you have a problem in that area. He said all you
have to do is acknowledge (Jer 3:13), and He will take
care of the spiritual healing.
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HOW TO
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HOW TO
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m during the Full Gospel
Businessmen's Fellowship meetings. He learned to
recognize this manifestation of the Spirit and would
always buy the animal so indicated. That was how he
always gota good buy.
When people came to ask how he did it, it became a
witnessing point. In answering the question abo...
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nd in our manner of doing things.
The plan of God is to train us first before employing us
outwardly, and the period of training is considered by
Him as a valid period of working, howbeit spiritually.
Remember my answer to Roseline, the lady who
wanted to know how involved I was in my church then,
...
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ysical
law does not accept spiritual seed; for example you
cannot sow words into your farm, or good deeds or
prayer, and expect corn to come to fruit. You must sow
physical corn to reap physical corn.
On the spiritual side the same principle applies; you
cannot sow physical things into the realm of...
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tened to my audio
CD, etc.). Some have even asked whether I pastor a
church because they would have loved to attend. These
are people who reside in the same city I live in and in
which I teach weekly.
Well, I always tell them that I do not pastor a church but
that I hold teaching meetings weekly at...
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ave recommended here, he is automatically promoted
to ranks outside his calling. There are many 'pastors' I
have met who are such only by promotion, and this was
given asa reward for diligent service.
Many have been encouraged to forsake their businesses
and professions to head church branches just...
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sonal
and managerial discipline on the part of the minister,
we will discover that begging is not necessary.
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This is why I never push for offerings or make pleas for
donations either for myself or for Kingdo...
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listened to
The Gospel of Abundance by David Oyedepo more than
70 times before I lost the tape. Yet at this time I was
having a craving for something more. I did not even
know what this something was.
It was about this time I told myself that I had to get
involved in ministry work. I must have thou...
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to relax and to take His meals whenever He was in
Bethany. John's gospel testifies of how He loved
Lazarus.
On this particular day the Lord Jesus was around and
Martha was up and about trying to fix a meal ...
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atter of fact, in a few years it
will also be declared eradicated. The scientific
knowledge is already at work. What the public health
scientists are trying to achieve is what is called herd
immunity.
Asimilar thing happened with infections generally and
the use of antibiotics. Until a few centurie...
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of the main body. The frequency of my ministrations
increased as time went on, and I preached quite a lot
during the last part of my tenure as the president. I was,
and still am, basically a teacher.
I have told this short history to highlight the fact that I
was very active in my Christian group i...
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tian.
I think it will be perfect to end this chapter with a
Biblical example of secular work as God's work.
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GOD AND POLITICAL POWER
We all acknowledge and take example from the life of
Joseph, as being an example of a man of God. ...
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oever else their sponsor is. (This is
the problem with legalism; it easily entraps in
arguments about letters of the law which nobody can
truly win.)
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both alike will be good. Eccl
11:6 AMP
Whenever you give there is a reward, that is if you do it
with the right motive and in obedience to God's due
order.
So, what are the right motives?
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CHAPTER 24
MOTIVES FOR GIVING
mong the wrong motives for givin...
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e people to go
visit other churches may mean the membership will
reduce. But they are wrong; a man can receive nothing
except it is given to him from above. If God gave them to
you, they will be back.
Let me conclude by saying that there is a duty to rest as
you do the work of God. Plan a restful h...
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of Christians. If we understand it, we will
tackle ours job with prayer and meditation and not with
the crass un-spirituality that most of us are guilty of.
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PREFACE
he initial edition of this book was first released
in 2009. Before then I had written a few books,
and I have also released some more since then.
However, I consider 'How to Work for God' to be the...
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ow God. He needed to realize that
becoming acquainted with God is actually the real and
fundamental work of God.
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FAITH IN GOD'S LOVE
Christians must understand that God does not require
their works for Him to love them. He loves th...
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rking For God ¢
of Luke; you will see that what the Lord said is “Give
and it will be given...” and not “Give, so that it will be
given...” There is a world of difference between the two
expressions.
“Give and it will be given...” is describing a law of life
while “Give, so that it will be given.....
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n. The Lord is
watching and is judging us in how we are handling our
secular duties.
And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is
another's, who will give you that which is your own?
True riches is given to those who have proved faithful in
what belongs to another person. In this ...
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think he deserved to
be answered as he hardly did anything for God. That
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laughed very much. He was someone who knew me
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he use of unrighteous mammon,
who will entrust the true riches to you? And if you have not
been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will
give you that which is your own?” Luke 16:10-13
In the previous chapter we saw that God has a plan for
the world as we know it and that the work o...
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ernment affairs; but they could find no ground of
accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was
faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be
found in him. Dan 6:3-4
WHERE IT MATTERS
It is interesting to note that the place that the people
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Him (Dt 14:23). Anyone there who wanted to serve God
had to run the errand of delivering the tithes to the
proper places.
It is that spirit behind the law of tithing that Christians
are supposed to learn. The reason is t...
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es of the ministry
include weekly Bible classes at the ministry
office, publication of free teaching tracts
and books, radio/TV broadcasts and
organizing teaching seminars in various
towns and cities.
Pastor Bankie's catalogue of audio
messages includes hundreds of messages
which are available on C...
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amous but mostly misinterpreted
statement:
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for
those of his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse
than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8-9
We usually quote this to instruct men to take care of
their wives and children, but that is a misi...
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allowed people to ask
questions and raise issues so I could help answer them.
As one person after another spoke, I noticed that the
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greater number of the people claimed they had a gift of
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sleep. Ps 127:2
The productivity of the earth is tied to our allowing the
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sabbath-rest. If we do not allow things enjoy sabbath we
soon lose them. The Lord gave the Promise...
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eople; it
is then that the Lord will move you into your ministry.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for
that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. 1
Tim 1:12 KJV
Ministry simply means that God has committed a
specific assignment into your hands; it is almost t...
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wanted to get a bull that could come into the
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fold and pass the good genes it has to the offspring
through as many cowsas possible.
Now, to determine which bull would have these
characteristics was not easy and so specialists in d...
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tly pursue it. Our giving
must be as instructed in the word of God. You are
working for God when you give as He instructed in His
word.
So, how has He instructed us believers to give?
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WHERE TO GIVE TO GOD
n talking about how to give t...
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ugh them in the Church, and number
three, what He wants to do through them in the world.
The way by which we do outward work for God is to
use the gifts that He placed inside us so as to bless
people.
There is something that other people need that is found
in you alone and you owe it to them to use...
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e ability to teach (a gift) may be
called to teach secular academic work, or to teach the
word of God. The ability to teach is one thing; the field
in which to use it is another.
ITUs NOT IN THE NAME
From what we have seen here, it is obvious that it is
easier to identify a gift than to locate a c...
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close relatives who are
inneed. It is all those poor close relatives that I refer to as
‘widows of your household.’ Please bear in mind that
we, as Christians, are to practice piety in regard to them.
It’s not an accident, or the fact that you are smarter than
all else, that made you richer and ear...
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I came down to Lagos, I went everywhere
listening to the teaching of the word. Remember I
mentioned earlier that my service year was
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characterized by not much happening spiritually for
me. Well, that left me with such an intense cra...
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giving is because you have not made it a
matter of importance. I believe that is one of the
ungodly attributes of the natural man which every
Christian must strive to overcome with the Spirit of
God.
That same depraved human nature is expressed often
in life in the fact that most people do not unde...
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. Love for God is actually defined
by obedience to His commandments and His precepts;
therefore a person who is serving God in the area of
giving is using his money as the Lord desires that he
should.
One thing many Christians do not realize is that the
only thing that we can actually give to God i...
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1:13:30
That's real suffering. If those of you study science, medicine, you will know that pain, the most, the most grievous part of pain is the side of, pain has two components. If you injure your leg, it plays pain in you, but there's a pain reflex, there's a pain component in your brain. Do you understan...
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Paul said that when I don't have anything, not in sport. If I have too much, I don't go crazy. Why? I can endure affliction. I can endure prosperity through Christ that strengthens me. So when you are rejected and you are beaten, I can endure the pain through Christ that strengthens me. And with tha...
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and you won't come out until your obedience is what? Complete. I hope you've gotten my point. Just for a few seconds, just pray meanwhile and say, Father, I mean, each person in each person knows his own thing. You know where your decisions lie that you have to make. You know where obedience is diff...
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those acts of obedience, all right, that are born out of faith. If you don't do them, listen to this, you will not step into the next level of fold of blessing. Are you getting my point? You won't, but this is what I want you to understand. He said the weapons of our warfare. Now, why won't you, let...
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If I drop this money, I'm not sure. It's called the fear of tomorrow. That's called mammon. Are you seeing the way it's going? Now, there are different reasons. This is what I'm making. You can't just use obuju to overcome those reasons. You can't use counseling to overcome those reasons. Listen, be...
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16:30
A friend of mine has come from a journey and I have nothing to say before him. You notice that the reason why he's disturbing himself is so that he might be a blessing to somebody else. Please, I hope you are getting my point. Now, that's one. That's the second one. The first one was what Jesus said...
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What I mean is that I may decide without thinking ahead of time that, okay, this is a check for 50,000 towards this thing. And for me, it's opposing in my heart. I don't know whether I get my point. There are offerings you can give without having to pray. I hope you are getting my point. If it is no...
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it appears like it's our capacity to receive God's blessing that he pours to fill. 30 fold, 60 fold, and 100 fold is a preparation of the heart that determines whether you are going to receive 30 fold, 60 fold, or 100 fold. Please, I hope that is clear. All right, I hope you've gotten the point. All...
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raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. And we are ready to punish all disobedience whenever your obedience is complete. Please let me stop there. What I want to bring out is the fact that he said that this is what we are doing, and...
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or discouragement is a simple thing. You just simply realize that I am not yet where I am supposed to be. You just get off from there, get down on your knees in prayer. And Jeremiah said, only acknowledge your iniquity. That's why John said, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive...
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with that word by faith in their hearts. Therefore, they were not able to enter into rest. And it was seen there remains a rest for the people of God. That's why it is not taught about the power of the word of God. So it says, let us be careful therefore to be sure that there is not found in any one...
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1:21:00
This is what prayer and fasting is for. This is a prayer of fasting that will liberate you into victory. You have to make a decision and it looks like you have to make it between now and day after tomorrow. Those are the times you don't sleep between now and day after tomorrow. Those are the times y...
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and these things enter in and choke the wood and it becomes unfruitful. And in verse 20, he talked about those who bore proper fruit. And those are the ones we are interested in, in this our teachings. He said, and those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil. and they hear the word, ac...
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He pray, pray, pray, pray, say, okay, that's done. He went to combat. Ah! Once he saw the Roman soldier, he saw the cap of one in the distance. He said, no. And they come. That was why he kept on going. I wish you would believe me. That's why he kept on going and coming back. Are you hearing what I'...
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We started last time talking about the hundred fold blessing. Um, it's our prayer meeting series and it's a foundation for proper prayer. And we're going to continue it today. And as I go on, let's read a few scriptures and then you will see what's very important for us to note in this. First of all...
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At that time now, you cannot step up percentage wise. I don't know whether you are following what I'm explaining. All right? That's the beauty about Christianity. God develops your spirit. But I'm going to explain something about darkness. You see that what was okay while you were a student, one day...
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Alright? Paul said that we are ready to avenge all disobedience after your own obedience is complete. I brought that one up to bring out an issue. That first, the place prayer starts is to finalize your own obedience. And I said life is in stages. Alright? And what is light to you today is darkness ...
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Listen, that's what happened between Abraham and Melchizedek. People don't understand. They keep on making a big... Look, what happened to Abraham was that... And it happens to me too. My wife would testify. Look, we would go somewhere and say, ah, this is this man. You know, one person came to town...
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Now, that's why in the book of Hebrews that we read, it was explained to us that some people, because of the degree of impurity in their hearts, they were not able to enter into rest. And it said there was a way that Jesus handled that. And I said to you before that, don't think that you as a person...
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we can confidently, with absolute assurance, listen to me, sometimes I think, I say, God, those who don't know you, what do they do? Because I know what I do when I have problems. Me, I don't know how to speak big English in grammar or in prayer. You can ask my wife. Oh, the Lord is good. Father God...
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delivering us from evil. Please bear that one in mind. Then in verse 5 it says, Suppose one of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend lend me three loaves. For a friend of mine has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to say before him. And from inside...
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Are you getting my point? So we may think that we're all human beings. Well, the sin before God is a lie. It's a big fat lie. People are so different before God, not just as we are different in height and in complexion. Now, so we did different, all right, in spiritual qualities and in esteem. God c...
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Let me tell you this, if you need something, let me say it again, if you need something, God does not expect you to talk for more than a minute. I don't know whether I get my point. It should be a passing thing. Just say quickly, give us this day our daily car and forget it. Give us this day our dai...
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What he knew to do is what we read from Hebrews chapter 4. He knew how to draw near to the throne of grace and obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need. That's what he knew how to do. Like I said, you can't increase the fold of the blessing except to do that obedience. No matter the p...
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We read from verse 14, went into chapter 5 and ended, well today we'll go over it again around to verse 3. It says from verse 14, I'm not going to read this in full, but let me take a step back. I didn't say this last time, but let me go backwards a little bit. If you go back to the beginning of cha...
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What they need, and that's why you go for Bible studies, that's why you read books, is to have your heart exposed. And because you understand the danger of sin, I said, if you are like me and the greatest fear you have in life is that you will not fully execute the will of God for your life, then ev...
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The degree of oil she got was directly dependent on the intensity of her faith in the word of the prophet. If she had totally believed the man, she wouldn't start pouring that oil until she has first rented a new house. Are you getting my point? Both jars on credit. Borrowed the rest. Do you get my ...
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I'm using all of these stories to describe the issue of confidence. Don't, let me say it again, don't step out on water. Even if Jesus was the one that said, come, until you are sure you can come. You know the story of Peter. You know, John and Paul were very smart. When they said come, he said, Pet...
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So I asked my friend, I said, why didn't you tell him to phone the man who told him to do something dangerous to see the glory of God? Why is he calling him banking? Why are you two of you now conspiring to ask banking? Now I'm bringing up something here. After a few weeks or months, look, he's a ri...
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that bore fruit because it was good soil. But we said there are different levels. Is that OK? So there must be, since we saw those ones, there must also be variations in the degree of goodness of the various hearts, which is why some will be only 30-fold, some will be only 60-fold, and some will be ...
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So I begin to call it a confession against God. You know what I mean? I have the spirit of fear, boldness, a sound mind. I'm not afraid in the name of Jesus Christ. You yourself know it's not devil. That's why you forget. Two days later, you know the response doesn't leave you. Instantly, you start ...
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And there is a method. And that's what we are discussing. I'm just going over what we said before. That method is what we are looking into. There's something I want to use to explain to you the difference between 30, 60, and 100-fold, which I mentioned earlier. Let me say it. Can you remember the st...
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Your blood, the blood you drank is that of animal, of a corrupted human being. I drank the incorruptible undefiled blood of Jesus Christ. Before I die, everybody in your generation will have died if they didn't repent. Oh my God. I mean, what was I saying before I went into politics? Oh, what was I ...
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Because we think that every time we do what is right before God, we always get breakthrough, breakthrough, breakthrough. There are some times that obedience brings you nothing but breakdown. Outwardly speaking, it's called temporal loss that makes for eternal gain. Are you getting my point? So somet...
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It is written, you shall not be only calling you with a non-believer. I cannot disobey God now. And because I want to please the society and please man. And what he said, nothing will happen. I am working with, that is, you will look at it and people will say that you are very careless. You don't ev...
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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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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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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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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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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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Prophesy!
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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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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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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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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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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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.
The future of my nation...
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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
exposition is...
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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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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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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 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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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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now how to speak,
Because I am a youth." Jer 1:6
The Lord cautioned him quickly and taught him the
principle of faith.
But the LORD said to me,
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"Do not say, "I am a youth,' Jer 1:7
What Jeremiah was doing is what most of do every time
(be...
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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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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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prosperous, healthy?
Whatever you call it, that it will become.
Your tongue is where the power is.
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'With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be
satisfied: He will be satisfied with the prod...
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ents that call their children all kinds of
names. You here things like, “this boy is useless”, “you will
never amount to anything”, “This child is irresponsible”,
“what a dull boy”.
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Now, these things are said for real reasons. The child
has really done something that seems to des...
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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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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
Pastor Bankie, is a teacher of ...
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wer supply, about the Police, about the roads, and
of course about the government. The President is bad, his
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ministers are fools, his wife is too outspoken and the
legislators are all rogues. Of course, as f...
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God said, you know why I allowed that to happen to you? I am testing the righteousness of your heart so that I can do you good at the end. Then one day, a kind of prayer will rise up. And the man will say, God, how long will you withhold your hands? He said, arise, oh God, and let your enemies be sc...
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what we gain. The Bible said the kingdom of this world have become the kingdom of our lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for how long? You are getting what I'm saying. You are getting what I'm saying. That is what brings forth enduring prosperity into the lives of people. Listen, God allows c...
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No, he didn't. And then his $1,000 suits are actually worth $1,000. But he's not struggling with you. The problem in life is when young people now want to live like that. Now, so the man who was analyzing that explained to me that, listen, this man is a lawyer. And that he has been a lawyer for deca...
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Each time he will pray, God will give him an idea. And I'm going to talk about some of that if I have enough time today. God will give him an idea, and he will use that idea to respond to the trials that Laban was imposing upon him. At the end of the day, Laban, this man was getting richer and riche...
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He knew he was a Jew. He believes very, very strongly in God. That's why he says, God does not play dice with the universe. People have misunderstood that expression. They think the man was saying that these Christians, they don't know what they are saying. No. The man was saying that this universe ...
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there was a problem who was going to interpret it. And let me say that to you again. Anytime there is a challenge in life, it's God's opportunity to distinguish somebody. Do you understand what I'm saying? Problems in life are the opportunities that God has given you to be distinguished. Listen, you...
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And listen, God doesn't expect to be fighting those who were there before. Paul said, I did not come to you with what? Excellency of man's wisdom, but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power. That is what convinces people is that you eventually showed them that it works. Now, there's somethi...
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You know the challenge for the Nigerian generation? Is to walk into that same market. And people will say, no, you won't survive here. He said, watch me survive. No, you won't survive. You don't do it. He said, just watch me. And the first year, it will appear as if you are not surviving. The second...
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Do you understand my point? God tests people like that before he gives them anything. Otherwise they will die in battle. We've shared before that the Bible talks about the weight of glory. Blessing is a weight. You have to be able to carry it. Do you hear what I said? Blessing is what? A weight. You...
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You want your life, if you want enduring success, then make your dream that of your life counting in the lives of other people. Wake up in the morning and say, how can I be a blessing to other people? Listen, what God gives to you is what? Wisdom for salvation. The day you stop thinking about yourse...
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Now, I'm not a proud person who says that, look, I'm not in ministry because of money. I don't need your money. No, that is also another pit. You get my point? Try and stay in the middle of the road in everything. Are you getting what I'm saying? There is a balance to everything in life, all right? ...
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They came and told my vehicle, and I said, yes. And they look, this is my name, this is what I do. And they will apologize, and that is the end. But those 25-year-old boys who were driving Lexus's those days, half of them vanished. Nobody gave them the strength to go and reclaim their cars. All fles...
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That's why I tell you, look, everything that happens in life is a test. Do you get my point? What God is doing is testing your ability. God is testing something inside you. Do you have that strength? You know, this country is very, very, very bad. You don't know, I don't know what's going on around ...
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Now, what am I trying to explain? There were many people that God also called, and they never manifested the power of God, so you never read their stories. I'm not interested in reading the stories of failures. How much more God writes in them? You are getting my point. Listen to me, child of God. W...
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You know God said something about Babylon. He said there are instruments in my hand, they are like canes, I use them. Then when I finish using them again, I'll laugh and say, hey, you're this wicked cane that I have been using. Now, let me tell you your offenses. Then I'll not use fire to light that...
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Are you getting my point? A lot of people, especially in my dear beloved country, Nigeria, who have made money corruptly, it has prevented them from downloading serious substances onto the earth. They would have created companies, but somebody had baited them away with cheap government money. Listen...
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Are you following my point? In fact, this is on record, that men who are really blessed in life, every economic hardship only makes them richer. And that's why I said that the poor is always getting poorer. The reason is because, see, in fact, this is, somebody gave this to me as a fact, when they a...
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When affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. Now, what I'm explaining here is this. In life, there will always be tests, there will always be challenges. Are you getting my point? Now, please get this principle. Why did they die away? They were scorched. Now...
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When it's ready, you phone me. But I just made up my mind that, dear Lord, as from Monday, I'm not even going to harass my wife again. And I'm telling you, I will dress up in the morning. I just wear nicer shoes that can rock a little bit. Now, it is not likely that this will happen. But I'm trying ...
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How we do this guy now? He damaged some more. He said, shall we receive good of the hand of the Lord and not receive evil also? He said, after he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. And at the end of the day, how he responded, decided where God placed him in life. Are you getting my point? So ...
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If you've never heard me preach anything before, there's what I call excuses for Satan. You start agreeing with Satan to keep you in bondage. You say, if you are childless, it doesn't mean you are less. I know, but I want to be childful. You get my point? Don't help me explain away my blessing. I do...
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Everybody knows the man from McDonald's, but you know what? He makes money from his real estate business. Buying land, selling land, leasing land, and all that. Now, my favorite example, Mary Kay Ash, because I read her story and it really impressed me. The woman is known for Mary Kay cosmetics. Whe...
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I always say this and I'll say it again. What a man is earning now, he has no bearing, there is no way you can use it to calculate what he will earn in 20 years time. You can't. The man who is earning heavily today can become very poor tomorrow. And the one who is barely earning today can become the...
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That's very, very unique, very, very peculiar. I'm persuaded that, in fact, there's one radio message we had the year before, which I titled, Righteousness in Your Generation. In each generation, this is just, this is in every generation. In every generation, God wants his own people to carry the le...
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Are you getting what I'm trying to say? That if somebody will travel from somewhere, may it be the kind of person who will come, collect some materials, and go home and share with people. I gather people, say, come, let me tell you what I brought back from Enugu. And, you know, release the word to t...
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One of the men who invented, I don't know whether it's Salk or Sabin. Now, polio can be eradicated. The major reason why polio has not been eradicated in the world is because it's difficult to get, like now, they wanted to vaccinate in Kano. People were refusing to take vaccines. Otherwise, polio ca...
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And Pharaoh will now get up and say, hey, now let's even assume he interpreted it correctly. He said, what can we do, what can we do? Hey, let us pray, let us pray. Let's sacrifice to the gods. Maybe they will not punish us like this. Joseph will have gone back most likely to prison. Or they will sa...
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So you go, you look at one corner, but there is your... So the man said, where will I hang my suit? So like suit, you came with suit. So the man said, where will I hang my suit? And the man carried his bag and walked back and walked away. He said, run into the bush and started crying. Are you gettin...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That's all God is checking. Like Job, remember we talked about Job? God just wants to know whether Job is seriously serving Him or not. God knew that but He wanted to demonstrate it for everybody to see. And your life must have a demonstrable evidence before God that it is indeed a righteous life an...
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And that is what it means to be the head and not the tail. Heads, I always say, take the lead. Tails are the ones that follow. What do I mean? If everybody is going in one particular direction, they are just swimming with the stream, only a head can move against the stream. And once he has gone agai...
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His principle was simple. That was the wisdom for his salvation. That my cars must be cheap, even the workers that build the cars must be able to buy it. Do you get what I'm trying to say? When I, as a person, was going to start out in ministry, I said, this is my principle. That the earth must be f...
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or pleasing to God. You cannot live anyhow you like. You are around time partying and sleeping around and having fun the way you like and then when it is time to find a husband or a wife you now settle down to church or you start sending signals to your village that your mother should find somebody ...
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That is, have you ever heard that the reason why Bill Gates became the richest man in the world, as he's reputed to be today, did he become the richest man by making sure he caught a special niche for himself? No. What was paramount in his heart was that everybody should be able to use these things....
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Paul said, be imitators of God as dear children. That is, learn the ways of God. And this is what I'm trying to say here. The Bible says that whatever is born of God overcomes the world. That is, if you learn the ways of God, that is the order that came out of the heart of God, what it is that you a...
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Look, let me tell you something. The things of God does not fit common sense. If it fitted common sense, everybody would do it. That is why if you are going to come out in life and become outstanding, there must be something you are doing that everybody does not think is reasonable. Are you getting ...
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Do you understand what I'm saying? The person who comes into your life after you have made it is not your help. It's not the person that has come to walk with you in life. What am I saying by that? I'm explaining that the path of success is that we learn the ways of God. And when you build your foun...
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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. Today I want to continue what we've been discussing on cooperating with the phases in life's adventures. I've explained that there are many adventures in life and th...
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properly with the wife of their youth. What am I trying to say? You will find out that it's only the principles of God that has given women what they really desire in marriage. What God put in their heart that a husband should be, it can only be found in the life of the person or in the family that ...
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at least 10 years minimum. I had been meditating upon what it takes to make a successful marriage. I remember that I had a lot of arguments with people. There was a time I said some things about what I understood from the scriptures and a woman looked at me and said, you better go and find your wife...
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Jesus said in the book of Luke chapter 14 verse 28, he explained that anyone who wants to build a tower must first sit down and count and consider the cost to see exactly how it will cost him to bring the results to be. And we said that first stage in which a man sits down and considers or counts, w...
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This is the most important thing to me that I am pleasing to you. If you read the book of Ezekiel chapter 14, we discussed this one, we're talking about the will of God. That is, God said that this is why a man will not know the will of God in life. When he has idols in his eyes, when he has idols i...
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If you follow the general path of life of this world, the general path of Satan, you will discover that you will get the wealth but it will give you a lot of sorrows because you are taking the thing out of its season. Now Jesus said something about seasons. We will find out from Mark chapter 4 that ...
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The guy just stood. This was an impromptu question. She just thought and thought and thought. Well, whatever I am today is a summary of everything that I have passed through. So let it be. You are getting what I'm saying? That is why it is not wise to say, if I had known what I know then. Now, but t...
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It is only described in hindsight. So we said to succeed in life, and I have to read this to summarize that. 2 Timothy chapter three. Now verse 10, it said, now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at An...
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In fact, Maurice Euler said something, that you need an experience in life. To work with God, you need what? An experience. That is very simple to say. Everybody just go out, lay hands on the sick, and they will get healed. He said, it's easy to see. He said, but what is what God does? One day He wi...
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And I noticed that thing as a sign in a child. I really saw it in my kids then. It was very small. If I twerk his bum bum, like we say in the house, nobody else can make him stop crying. It has to be me. Are you getting my point? You are the one that beat him. So it's as if he starts following you a...
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or something like that, tell a long story. He said he told himself that that would not be right. So everybody missed, he was the only one sitting in class. He did not know that that day his professors were testing for the most honest person in class. So he sat down there, he couldn't lie about it. S...
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I consider the Disc 1 of that series as the most, the singular, most important message I've ever preached. I call it, Take Hold of the Kingdom. That's Training to Reign, Tape 1. It's so important because once you have taken hold of the kingdom, without doubt, your life will naturally manifest domini...
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Use that for a season. We wake up one morning, God just helps you to understand that that season has passed. Another wisdom for salvation drops. But the men who are only copying your wisdom for salvation, they die in the season because they are not connected to the source of the wisdom for the salva...
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but you get all the papers. Once you start doing that, once they sell a visa to you with a name that is not your own, know you are using iniquity to run away from the training of God. Because listen, Christianity is not a guarantee against adversity. I don't know what I want to say. The fact that yo...
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from the dead. Now, please notice this. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect. That's what he was talking about. I have not yet known him as I should. He says, so I press on that I may learn hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. He said, brethren, I ...
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We have been speaking about what we titled as, How to Enter Enduring Success. Most importantly, we took our text from Psalm 118. We read that the Bible says that there are different gates in life. And I explained that the gates refer to the methods by which you get into whatever it is that you are a...
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that is anything that you will have in life that we abide forever must be a product of what the word of God has built in your heart. Do you get my point here? I'm trying to bring out a principle that what comes out on the surface as enduring success is that which was built into the heart with the wo...
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What am I going to say? I am not competing with anybody. It doesn't concern me. I am just in the appropriate season. Listen, let me emphasize this. I wanted to talk about that wisdom for salvation. Maybe I'll connect it from here. Listen to this. What you are supposed to do in life is that issue of ...
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example of that. Job was an interesting example of that. God said the law can take you thus far. It has helped you. But Job, I see your your your love for you. You have in my heart, in your heart for me. But you don't have understanding. Let's move to another level. So allow Satan to tempt him. The ...
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There is something you do physically speaking that what James says is a perfection of the thing that we cannot see. That in your heart there is faith, but God said there must be a demonstration first of that faith before God can begin to do something for you in life in that regards. And our example ...
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that as many as are perfect, they should have this attitude. He said, if in anything, you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you. What I'm explaining here is this. The goal, the pathway to enduring success is to follow this path of having the quest of knowing God more every day....
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I keep on reminding people so that they will know that. It's not as if everything always was like that. No, God brings people to a level and says, make a choice, and you go up to another level. But when he's doing that, it's in the furnace of affliction, you know? Things are rough. No, Satan won't c...
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So the angel said, ah, you don't understand. The man does not live by bread alone, but by every word. So he said, this word I have given you is enough to make you conceive. Do you understand my point? He said that no word of God shall be void of power. That's the meaning of the word with God, nothin...
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On Sunday, maybe I tell you that we will meet for church. Sunday, say, I wait this guy. Say, ah, somebody called him early in the morning. I heard he has taken the first flight. He's going to maybe Lagos or Port Harcourt. Eh, OK. We say he'll come back by Thursday. Thursday, he's checking house. He ...
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Listen, I told you Paul planted, Apollos watered. What God wants from you is to plant the right seeds. And what is the right seed? We did that series on radio, building a great future for your life. Seed number one is faith. So your responsibility in life is actually to work with God to build up you...
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Do you follow my point? You know, I've told you that nobody goes, there is not a good testimony to go around saying that, you know, I'm a very stupid person, but yet God made me above because I'm above alone and not beneath. That's not what God was talking about. God say, I will make you no longer s...
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Listen, he said, it is God that is at work within you, both to will and to do. The problem is that people do not let God work. Do you understand my point? That is, God said, Abraham, I am taking you on a journey. When you are through, when we are through, your faith will become the standard for all ...
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Then the woman was praying, God, give me a child so that Penina can shut up. God said, no problem. I'm not going to give you a child so that Penina can shut up. So he made Penina talk even louder. Then went out of desperation and said, God, give me a child, then I'll give him back to you. God said, ...
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Let me explain what I'm trying to say. The moment Isaac was born, Abraham could die in peace, knowing that indeed his generations will inherit that land. Are you getting my point? The moment Isaac was born, it was a sign to Abraham that God could never fail. That was why, now listen to this, that wa...
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It was because he took the wrong step first. Listen to me. You cannot help but take the wrong step first until you have been trained on how not to take the wrong steps. And training you on how not to take the wrong steps is not just by telling you, don't take, don't take. You have to take some criti...
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for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. Please notice a few points here. Paul was explaining to Timothy that this is the way life is. Anything you will get in life, we say, is a matter of faith. And the Bible t...
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Do you get the point I'm making? Isaac was about Abraham. It's so important we understand this. Now, let me go into what I'm saying. That is, there is a process of learning, that's what I'm saying, and full persuasion that what happened was that God took Abraham through a lot of experiences to bring...
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You are getting my point. If you are still struggling and praying and interceding so that you might get wealth, you won't get it. What you need to struggle and intercede and pray for is so that your mind, your heart will get to the place where you no longer care. Do you follow my point? At that poin...
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You are getting my point. So I now said that to the man. I wanted to ask him a question or to bring us some issues that were enlightening me. Then he told me something. He said, that is literal, that the word doxa in the Greek that describes glory, are you following my point, is actually wit. I said...
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He doesn't speak the tongue I speak. So it is wisdom for salvation is different from mine. Remember what I told you about Bishop David Oedekwu? God said, this is how it will happen. And he got up and began to teach seminars every month. For him, it was wisdom for salvation. Ron Kennedy, what happene...
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Do you get my point? When you are using the wrong clock to judge God, he appears slow. You not start telling Moses, look at you, as old as you are. At your age, do you know what Joseph had done? Joseph at 30, he had become Prime Minister. You are 80 years, you are tending sheep. 80 years old, you ar...
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In fact, she called me on the phone. I said, is your car badly damaged? He said, no, just a little bit. Me, I don't have time to answer. I said, enter the car and drive away. So she did that, left that. Then one day, I think I went to Benin. He came and told me a story. She took one little car, I th...
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Are you getting my point? So that's what we're called what? Sowing in tears. That that is a seed of your faith. That seed, there's a seed principle in life. I'm not going to go over all of this because I'm just trying to bring out the things we've said in previous times. There's a seed principle in ...
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What Jesus was now saying to Satan, therefore, was Satan looked at him and said, you have not eaten for 40 days. Jesus said, you don't understand. If a man doesn't eat for 40 days, but there is bread from heaven at such times, he is not really hungry. Are you getting the point I'm making? Satan thou...
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Do you understand what I'm saying? Listen, I believe that as preachers, we have wronged the people of God. We have made it appear as if, do you know how you get success? Do this for success, do this for success, do this for wealth, do this for victory, do this, do this, do that. So the man is doing ...
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There are a number of stages that the blessing and the enduring success of God goes through. I said number one, there is prayer. Number two, there is a seed. Number three, there is prophecy. And then number four, there is what? Rest. I said rest. I will try and go over this and maybe we'll get one o...
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Are you getting my point? Drive well. Don't injure people. Then you have to learn how not to be injured. I said, that's the second one. I think you have to learn it. Do you know since then till now, I cannot remember any story like that. Because she said, thank you. That is, yes, all the people were...
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Bible says that, go and read Hebrews chapter 11, that he considered that God was able to raise him up from the dead. So he told the mother, we want to go and sacrifice, we will be back. It wasn't right. He would say that you have to be wise. You know, if you had told Sarah, there would have been a p...
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55 keys to effective business success. You can read all of them. Are you getting my point? But don't ever forget that thing I said. They were written after a man who never read them succeeded. I hope you know that. Do you get my point? They are analysis of the life of a man who did not read the same...
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It will help us to connect what I want to teach today. Also, what I was going to teach today anyway, see the continuation. So this will just help us as a link. Are you following my point? Now, these are the things we began to speak about last week, and I want to just go over them again. Our text scr...
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Are you following my point? Now, when you've done such things, then you, of course, you begin to prophesy. There's a reason why I'm talking about that because what God does, what God did as creation was to speak a word. Do you follow my point? Actually, that prophecy comes out of your heart after yo...
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And he said that, well, then I'm not going to tell the whole gist. But some people were judging the disadvantages in their lives by the amount of money somebody else was making, earning as income. And I told him that it's a matter of pride. I said, what do I mean by matter of pride? Look at it. Thes...
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ess of his heart
rewarded him in due season; I witnessed his promotion above all
those his mates.
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Chapter 3. Temporary Afflictions
Are you wondering about your present situation in life? I
think you should read this!
"You s...
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ne that
procedure.”
The scripture says, “when a man’s ways are pleasing to the
Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”(Prov
16:7)
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Chapter 5. A Test Period
Are you maintaining your integrity before God in your place
of work while others make money and yo...
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enter into because you have chosen to obey God. It is
reserved only for the people that have chosen to leave Egypt
(spiritually and by not being conformed to the world's standards).
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In this season, there is little physically to boast of, you
seem to go hungry once in a while. No!...
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m."
What are you to do? You are to go ahead, knowing that
God is only testing to see what is in your heart so as to make you
humble. He is righteous and so will do you good.
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Chapter 4. Patience, My Friend
"For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the
love whic...
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understand the testing of God. They did not understand that for a
while, before the final manifestation, God may appear
unrighteous. They simply did not understand.
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Some of you reading this today are in this same position.
Many are going through similar experience...
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me to frustrate Satan with your determination. It is
not the time to look for a quick way out of the pain. It is the time
to wait.
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All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change
come. Job 14:14 KJV
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t it.
Now, if God is the one that will set you on high, it makes
good sense therefore to endeavour to be pleasing unto Him.
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Whatever you are doing, do it with the realization of God's
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omise but a promise from God must be activated by the
works that the faith in them provokes. His conduct in Portiphar’s
house, especially with Mrs. Protiphar, was his work of faith.
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Because of the righteousness of God, the Lord gives
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he
earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart are
perfect towards Him". 2 Chr. 16:9 (KJV).
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Chapter 7. In Summary
God is set to lift people up. He is just using this season to
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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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get that oil company
job, or because you did not study a particular course in school. If
you are walking with God, you are on your way up and none of
these things can keep you down.
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Your destiny is not tied to any degree, any company, or any
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Everything spiritual is in measures and until the necessary
measure is filled the next event will not happen. The point is this:
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there is a purpose for your particular situation, until you full-fill it,
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God will not forget you. All the choices you made with Him
in mind will definitely be rewarded; your change will come in due
season. This due season comes at the fullness of time.
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Chapter 6. Due Season
Let's conclude this discussion by looking briefly at the issue
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... increase
the harvest of your righteousness.”
(Please bear in mind as we go on that 'just' and 'righteous'
mean the same thing. To justify means to set forth as righteous.)
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To be righteous therefore means to do right, that is, to do
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Now, note that not every season is your season.
Before examining further the issue of due season, I'll love
us to look a bit at what I call 'the principle of Daniel'.
THE DANIEL PRINCIPLE
Daniel, a Hebrew name, means ‘God, my Judge.’
What does it mean when God is called Judge?
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ks that are righteous. These works
are manifestations that the faith that you profess is real. (For
more, please see my book ‘He That Believes’).
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Chapter 2. Unrighteous For A While!
In examining further on this issue of the righteousness of
God, let us briefly look at 2 Corinthia...
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Enduring to the end, that's what God finds hard to find. I'm not kidding about it. He finds it hard to find people who will endure to the end. Most times they endure for a while and then they backslide. They give up. They endure for seven days. Samuel said he would come on the seventh day. At the be...
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Say, Lord, I'm sorry. So what do I do? You know what to do. You pull out. I'm losing money on a daily basis. Somebody has to buy the whole business. Say, don't worry, I'll get you a buyer. And the Lord just said, he not turn to do. He said he turned around, but nobody was listening. Say, God, please...
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Life depends on this. I began to understand things in 1987. That will be later this year to make it 32 years, okay? Now, the emphasis is that I've seen things. I have seen things. Even though we have to try not to judge the things of other people, but there's a risk, okay? I mean, there's a tendency...
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and the authority on behalf or for the purpose of the Lamb. And that is why the Lamb will overcome. You must understand the principle here. Being the Lamb is not a sign of strength. When you talk about the Lamb, he was talking about a sign of weakness. I don't know whether you're getting my point. T...
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The kings are not just people who claim they gave their lives to Christ. No, that's not who the kings are. The kings are not people who claim that they are Christians. They are the called. Now, everybody's been called. Now, amongst them, some have been chosen. And then amongst those who have been ch...
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Regularly. Look, His greatest temptation was not even that one. His greatest temptation, you will read it later, when He was going to face the cross. Do you get my point? Even in between, there were temptations. Come, let us make you king, was a temptation. The crowd following Him, they were a tempt...
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because you will reap a reward in due season with one qualification, if you faint not. So Christians are supposed to learn to constantly do stuff so that they don't faint. So how can we sustain it? You know, we're talking about faithfulness. How can we sustain being faithful? Remove the promise rewa...
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Do you understand? He should take heed lest he falls. If he thinks he stands, he has to do that. Because the pull is constant, never leaves you alone. That is the sin that easily besets you that you've overcome today. You understand? You've had it made. It will wait for a while. That's what it does....
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Are you getting my point? You can't even keep stone as stone. Who will be tempting you to turn stones to bread? It's the anointing you have that becomes the temptation in turning stones to bread. So the moment you are anointed, it doesn't mean you've had it made. It means that you now have a new lev...
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In Israel, there were very few thieves. Do you know why? Stealing was not necessary. In the time of Solomon, they said if you kept your silver on the road, it was not counted as anything. Everybody had enough silver not to be bothered with silver. And if you understand the principle of life and the ...
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I said, how long did he give you for? He said, two weeks. I said, no, no, no, no, no. I said, the medicine he's giving you doesn't work in two weeks. I said, you take it for a lifetime. The moment you stop taking it, the effect is gone. That is, the benefit has left your life. He said, no, no, no, h...
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And then decided to backslide from precious in life. Let me tell you something about Satan and about life. Satan never gives up. Life never gives up trying to sleep you, you know, make you slide, make you sleep away. You understand? That's why, well, I believe it was Paul in the book of Hebrews tell...
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were like four or five. The first one was Thanksgiving, that in the midst of everything, this girl stood. We are men of God, we don't stand, she stood. We are wise people, we say use wisdom, we don't stand, she stood. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego did not know that wisdom. They say if you want to ...
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Are you getting my point? Those that do the works that counts, don't stop to count them. They just do them. They don't even know they are doing anything. And it's in the Bible like that. They asked him, when did we see you and helped you? They didn't know. They say, oh, you were nice to me. You visi...
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What is this principle, how do they really work? All these people are saying. Then I understand, it came to my head. I started laughing to myself. I said, all they are teaching people is how to build circuits. They've not taught them the source of power. No matter how much you build your circuit, th...
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Answer me, does it heal? Yes. Does it prosper people? Yes. But I'm telling you, remove those things from the front of your eyes. Follow righteousness. That is the key to faithfulness. Unfortunately, in this generation, you find a lot of people that the service of God is for the miracles of Jesus. Th...
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Tell your neighbor, recognize. Even me, I preach it. I'm not trying to mock anybody. We all preach, it's part of faith. But that's not all there is to faith. This man did not know who Jesus was. The power of God didn't give him the ability to doubt. It didn't allow him that. Again, I'm back to it. W...
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Let Him use you for whatever He wants to use you for. That is what it means to give your life to Christ. Jesus is not the way by which you multiply your potential. No. No. Jesus is the way by which you discover what God wants to use you for. Paul said, all these things that I gained, what happened? ...
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Let me tell you something you may have overlooked. There are people that joined the Baptists baptized, and they died before Jesus came. Nothing wrong with them. God was not punishing them. It's just that the day of Jesus had not come. But in eternity, they get their reward. I hope you're getting my ...
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Go and read the story, different stories that Regina told there. You know that the heavenlies, all right, they are real. People like that have a throne. People like that will have a crown of glory. That's a matter of fact. What faith does for us, that's what I'm gonna emphasize. Faith is not the way...
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I've been found to be faithful. Paul said that when God found me faithful, that was when he committed to me a ministry. He gave me something to do because he had found me faithful. And all I've been saying is that faithful people are very hard to find. That's a matter of fact, they're very hard to f...
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like the one we quote all the time, Paul said it, you know, I pray that you'll be filled with the knowledge of his way. In other words, I pray that you'll be filled with the knowledge of his way. In other words, I pray that you'll be filled with the knowledge of his way. In other words, I pray that ...
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I don't know whether you get what I'm trying to say. It's called the spirit of faith. That's why I wrote the tract. This is faith. That was what's inside the tract, to let us know. Faith is not my ability to squeeze my face. I refuse to doubt right now. I received from God two duplexes. A brand new ...
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He's a faithful God. He's just calling for people who are truly faithful, upon whom he can pour his power. Let me say it again. He said there are very few. He said, Banke, go and recruit more for me. People who don't love their lives, even when they are faced with death. Why? They gave their lives t...
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I want to bring out an issue here. We've been talking about, even though I did not intend for it to be a series, it has turned out to be like that. We have been looking at the fact that God needs something. That is what the Lord is looking for, people that He needs. You know, one of the scriptures w...
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When I say gospel of results, do this, you will get this. I prefer the gospel of righteousness. The gospel of godliness with contentment. What is the gospel of righteousness? What is the gospel of godliness with contentment? We do it because it is right. Will it produce? Is it relevant? It's not bei...
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Cana of Galilee, he started. What do you call it? Anyway, he started miracles, one after the other. Now listen to this. The moment he started, the door was closed. If John did not baptize you, if you were not baptized the first days of Jesus, you couldn't get healed until you went to the cross. And ...
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All right, the Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. If you believe it, give me an amen. All right, let's rise our feet. Let's declare the words we normally do before we start studying the word of God. Now I declare, the Lord has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,...
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Can you reduce the punishment? I remember when Akindo was a little boy, very smart boy. One day he did something, I said, I'm going to flog him. You know what he said? Daddy, can you use belt, not cane? The guy realized that the belt, because it's broad, it makes a lot of noise, but it doesn't reall...
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Verse 68, Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have believed and I've come to know that you are the holy one of God. That's why I want to stop reading. Please everybody read verse 68 with me. Want to go? Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom s...
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People who come from afar, I want to come and see you. I don't know you. This is my phone number. Don't worry, I'm about to hide it. I've gotten a new one that nobody knows, apart from the son of, you know, Bankia and the men and women around him very closely. Sometimes there are strangers calling m...
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God's presence will be opening doors for you. Amen. And the lack of his presence will shut those doors that you are not supposed to enter through. Amen. In everything, his name will be glorified. Amen. And safety will be your portion. Amen. Progress will be your portion. Amen. And glory will be his ...
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