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Once, I had, look, I said, because the reason why I listened that time, I wasn't going to take the advice, I just wanted to listen. It was just that, let it not be that I'm resisting God because I made up my mind concerning some things. So that's why I just started asking, just started to run the is...
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that wore expensive clothes, well-dressed. Once a man was coming to their church to minister. As the man came down and walked, suddenly the urge to fall down and worship came upon her, that the aura about him made her want to go on her knees. So you see, it's not whether you're wearing fine clothes ...
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21:00
So that day, I told my friend, look at what people are saying. He now made a statement, which I know was by the spirit of God. He said, what they're asking you to do, many people are doing it already. He said, but how many people are doing this one that you are doing? As soon as he said it, I said, ...
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When I made requests, this, this, about a lot of things. That was the first thing the Lord at night would say to me. The point I'm making is this, listen. For us believers, it's about pleasing God on a daily basis. Serving the purpose of God in everything we are doing. It's not about right or wrong....
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4:30
I'm praying like Gentiles. And one of the reasons we miss the purpose of God is the focus, not just the method of our prayer, but what the focus is. I've explained to us that the fact that you're not stealing, you're not lying, you're not cheating, does not make you much better than the unbeliever. ...
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And he laid down. God pulled out his spirit. The real Moses came out of there, and the body was remaining. So God dug a grave, put Moses in it, and covered it, and said nobody will ever find it. He knew how to do it. When it was time for Paul to go, he said, which death will glorify me? Remove his h...
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And I don't want us to ever forget that point. We are looking at a higher purpose for Christian prayer. We've been looking at that for some time. It's our school of prayer where we learn how to pray. I believe that why God said we should start doing this is so as to stop believers from wasting time....
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Will this please the Lord? If that in my wife and I, just about two nights ago, we're talking in the house, you know, something led to it. I just said that, look, this is a nice thing to do. I said, but I'm not sure the Lord want me doing such things. And she was a bit taken aback. Like, ah, this is...
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46:30
The hearing of the people are dead. She couldn't affect Paul directly. After that, Paul said, no, not anymore. What am I trying to say? We're talking about purpose as a preacher. It's not just where you stand to preach. What your life represents is more important than the words that you are speaking...
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1:28:30
Fear will not hold you from your blessing. Fear will not prevent you from having your name mentioned in thanksgiving. Paul said it. Because of your gifts, many thanksgivings rising up to God in heaven. Fear will not deny you of that. Your name being mentioned as people are giving him thanks. Fear wi...
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1:03:00
Somebody has to tell people the truth. The Lord is good. So we Christians, we are responsible on a daily basis. But where we are going to get to in life, we don't know. We don't know. He's the only one that knows. As I like a Franklin song, my life is in his hands. My life is in your hands. He leads...
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1:27:00
You just see one old woman, just give her 2,000 naira, crisp notes. The woman will look, look at him, look at the money and start dancing. This is not enough to pay for one bowl of ice cream for one girl in the mall, you know now. Okay, don't buy ice cream for other girls again. You used to buy ice ...
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except you hear from heaven, you will not move. But as we speak, we too cannot go anywhere. So we must talk to you by force." So God answered him according to the idol in his heart. But he went around claiming he had God. An angel of God decided to kill him on the way. Thank God he survived that. Ev...
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But the young woman said, I just feel confident, let's put it like this, my spirit witnesses that with this guy you will fulfill the will of God. See, it's the kind of question you're asking that determines the answer you will get. It is not how much you have learned to hear from God. I see that emp...
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That's the meaning of sanctified. Something that's only used in worship. So when we are made holy, we have been dedicated purely to the service of God. I hope you're getting my point. All right? So let's bear that in mind. So Christianity, people, we need to wake up to that in the game. You want to ...
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55:30
You will understand what Jesus meant when he told Paul. Why are you kicking against the bricks? He's more stubborn than you. He said, I'm not going to change my mind. Go and check the people in the Bible that he doesn't want to answer. After the third time, tell them to stop this nonsense. Moses ask...
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52:30
So let's get that point clear. That's what I'm gonna emphasize. Let's get that clear, all right? So it's not how well we can tune our ears. I've taught this thing again and again and again. I think I've taught it so much, I don't feel like teaching it again, but I just have to repeat it once in a wh...
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the holy purpose for Christian prayer. Why did God give us prayer? It is not to serve ourselves, but to serve his purpose, to serve his purpose. That's the holiness side of it, to serve his purpose. Last time I began to talk about intercession and for time sake, I will probably just introduce it aga...
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My spirit said to me. That's why we have confusion. Because everybody's spirit says something. Who told you your spirit is right when my own is saying something else? I've had arguments on that. You trying to say I can't hear God? Yeah. People have argued. Couples have fought over those things. Husb...
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Now again I incline my ears to His Word. Word is entering my heart. It is giving me light and direction. It is healing me in every area. And it is making me more and more like the Lord Jesus. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Amen? I said Amen. That will be your portion today in Jesus' name. Unders...
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We cast out demons in your name. They were not lying. They were not lying. Disobedient people can get results. They were not lying to him when they told him those things. I told my friend that day, listen. I said, don't worry. I'll be back. I just want to emphasize something. I'm talking about livin...
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Satisfy my hunger this evening. Grants me understanding. As your word will be coming forth this evening, lord grants me understanding. Father, we give you praise. Blessed be the name of the lord forever. Thank him. Thank him. Say lord, thank you for answered prayers. Thank you. For your word that yo...
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“those who
honour Me I will honour, and those who despise
Me will be lightly esteemed.” In summary, the
fulfilment of the promise of everlasting priesthood is
tied to the precept of honouring the Lord.
It is the duty of every child of God to search out the
precepts of God in every area of life. When...
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ible spiritual truths
we are walking by. They are physical but they are
sacramental in that their relevance is of deep
spiritual significance. The two best examples are
baptism and the communion table.
Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in
the name of Jesus Christ for the forgi...
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de to partake of that ordinance of
baptism by immersion in water.
Communion
The communion table is another important
ordinance which the Lord commanded us to
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participate in.
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to
you, that the Lord Jesus in the night ...
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he
final sacrifice for my sins.
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By this will we have been sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Heb 10:10
All Things Are Freely Mine
Many times you see Christians giving so that they
may get from God. The...
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in Christ there is no Jew or Gentile; all are one
in Him.
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed
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yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free man, there...
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not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat
or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you
will put on. Ma 6:25
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!
Phil 4:4
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your req...
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ing holy things is a precept we walk by.
Showing mercy to the weak and patience with the
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ignorant; these are all precepts of God. *
The word of God is full of precepts, and the wise
will seek them out diligently so as to build the...
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e empowered to live above sin. It is
adding sin to sin to try to justify an evil deed simply
because you are guilty of it; you would by such
behaviour be moving yourself farther away from
deliverance.
The first Step to Deliverance
A while ago I saw a YouTube video of a Christian
singer who ‘came out...
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spiritual blessing in the
heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even
before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in
Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. Eph 1:3-4
NLT
The faith teaches me that my Lord Jesus has paid
for everything. All the promises of God are mine i...
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licitly stated, we have a
*Heb 6:12; Ps 37:3,4; Eph 6:2; Rom 14:1
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duty to seek them out. Let me take an example from
the word of God given to Eli by that unnamed man
of God.
The background to this was the life and practices of
the sons of Eli who were priests serving with...
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r the
Lord Jesus said we are to seek first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness, and all other things
will be added to us. The love of righteousness is
what opens the heart for the spirit of faith.
On The 3rd Day, The Lord Will Come
There is this third-day principle in spiritual things
which we ...
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WHAT IS THE FAITH?
not be a place of judgment but the throne of grace
and mercy. There you will obtain mercy and find
divine assistance, that is grace, in the time of need.
Peace In The Higher Planes
As a believer in Christ Jesus, you do not practice
meditation for decades to a ain inner peace; you...
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accuses you in judgment you will
condemn. Isa 54:17
For thus says the Lord, “Behold, I will extend prosperity
to you like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an
overflowing stream.” Isa 66:12*
We tend to know many promises and we try to
claim them by faith, and we should, but we must
not fo...
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ns to
have a change of heart, to desire to change direction
concerning one's way of living, and to therefore
turn from actions that displease God. That is what
you find in a heart that seeks after God.
John the Baptist came to Israel preaching a message
of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. He ...
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the shelf; we start to claim
money, health, protection, etc. But there are words
we were supposed to be obeying even when we do
not have any immediate need. This oversight is
why faith is often weak.
The word of blessings is just one aspect of the whole
of the word of God. The word of God has sever...
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to the point of shedding blood in
your striving against sin. Heb 12:4
We must be ready to speak in accordance with the
*Rom 1:27; Lev 18:22
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word of God until we enter into the grave. It is not
about our experiences; it is about speaking on...
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d concerning in the New
testament.
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some
people do, but encourage one another, especially now that
the day of his return is drawing near. Heb 10:25 NLT.
Physical gathering is important. Faith is sharpened
at such meetings and the right spirits shared....
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scribed how to use your
imagination to bring things to pass, and there were
so many stories in the book to testify of the
effectiveness of the methods. It was all spiritualism.
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So, people put pictures on the wall and focus on it
until the things become real. They even learn ...
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t the instruction was not given primarily
because of oxen but because of ministers of the
gospel. The precept of God concerning caring for
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ministers of the gospel is to be learnt from there. So,
Paul said, “Let the one who is taught the ...
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d-centred faith is a constant lifestyle. Yes,
everyone has one form of faith or another, but
genuine faith is that which is placed in God and it is
characterized by constancy.
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Constant Faith and Every Word
One major reason why faith doesn't seem to work
for some of us is be...
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f the
effect of the lack of preparation in the lives of some
of the people; Luke testified that, “the Pharisees and
the lawyers rejected God's purpose for themselves, not
having been baptized by John.”*
I believe that this woman whose faith we are
examining, the one with the issue of blood, being an
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hey would see. But a closer
look will show that that was not what the Lord was
saying. His emphasis was rather on a particular
query. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” That
was the emphasis.
The faith that their healing was according to was not
about desire but about their reliance on His...
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be about the
man Jesus, Son of God, who was born of a virgin,
who died on the cross, who was raised by God after
three days and three nights, and who is alive
forever. The same Jesus is coming again.
Many times, Christians put a cap on their
spirituality because they do not understand the
faith of ...
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prophets explained to the people that their lives
were out of order because they had forsaken their
God. For the people of the covenant, that was the
place where faith started from.
Sometimes people argue that to be a Christian, faith
is all that God asks for and that repentance i...
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of them in our lives, just as He
did in the life of Abraham.
Declare with me: I am a demonstration of the
faithfulness of God. My life shows forth His righteousness
and His faithfulness. Hallelujah!
All Expectations
It is all our expectations that we are to build on the
word of God, not just thing...
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of
many nations’. That was what the Lord made him.
Sarai had to learn to call herself Sarah for the same
reason.
How are you referring to yourself? Are you
speaking words of life, or words of defeat?
Say, in agreement with God, that you are forgiven.
Old things have passed away in your life. Say, ...
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person seeking to walk by
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faith must deliberately hold this opinion.
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
Prov 31:30
Charm, in this context, refers to all those natural
qualities that most people appreciate in a woma...
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turn safely, it will mean that the Lord has
not spoken through me!" Then he added to those
standing around, "Everyone mark my words!"
1 Kgs 22:20, 28
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Chance is not God; it doesn't kill; it doesn't save; it
doesn't prosper people.
If you are runnin...
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been concerned for me, but you didn't have
the chance to help me.”* It was the concern that was
their motivation. They were intent on being a
blessing to the man; they were not looking for a
miracle.
Many times we try to learn faith for receiving when
what we should be learning is righteousness. An...
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come we are
convinced of all these things?
…for we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor 5:7
Our faith shapes our expectation for life after this
one.
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4. The words we speak
hen training ourselves in faith, one of
the m...
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e
the blessing is the reason for the repentance and the
good works, the spirit of faith is not supplied and
the people do not get anything.
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When John was calling, people repented because
their hearts smote them for their sins. The only
's...
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through His clothes to kill off any and every
ailment. That conviction was a result of the faith.
That is why the word of God says to us in Hebrews
11:1 that faith is the conviction of things not seen.
This woman was not trying to practice a religion. It
was not an a empt to do something out of the
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n.
We understand that God is in charge, and that Jesus
is alive. We know that He is the one upholding all
things by the word of His power. We know that His
power is above all.
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We understand that His cross was necessary to
reconcile us to the Father, and that now that we
hav...
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n you make conclusions
without giving the promise and person of God the
pre-eminence in the midst of all the evidence before
you. It is when you believe what the doctors say but
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not what the word of God says. It is when you
believe what the news reports say and that
determine...
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e meditate on your unfailing love
as we worship in your Temple.
As your name deserves, O God,
you will be praised to the ends of the earth.
Your strong right hand is filled with victory.
Ps 48:9-10 NLT
Meditate on Jesus
Stop meditating on troubles and failures. Many
people do not understand that the...
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ousness or the will of God will be
dethroned by Him. Until then, we pray for all rulers
with thanksgiving.
*Ps 22:28, Dan 4:17
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eyond thanksgiving, a discipline required
for walking in faith is that every wor...
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do things for Him a fraction
as much as He regards those who take His word so
seriously that they will risk their lives and
everything for it. They will risk everything for the
integrity of His word.
We are so eager to do for Him, but He is saying,
“Entrust your life to Me. Risk everything on my
fa...
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n, and faith in the business area is to
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search them out and operate in business according
to them. It is not just to claim business growth.
Another example is in marriage and the home.
Faith is not just to claim that we are believing God
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ol-only category. The woman said she
thought about it and decided to go on a retreat to
see Jesus the healer. She abandoned the
prescription.
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The day she arrived at the retreat centre, she
a ended a service in the chapel there, and the
prea...
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the opinion of the
Lord. It has nothing to do with how I feel or what I
think. I must not be caught speaking against the
Lord. In the military, it is mutiny to speak contrary
to the commanding officer.
Many people think they can only speak if their
personal lives are in perfect conformity with the
wo...
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ard but it didn't profit them
because the spirit of faith was not in them. God had
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withdrawn the spirit through the prophesying of
Isaiah.
It is important that I point out that God does not
give this spirit arbitrarily; it is supplied to...
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distressed Abraham greatly because of his
son. Gen 21:11
It was not easy, but he had to let Ishmael go,
because every word had to be obeyed.
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Even though he had been anointed king, and the
incumbent king was chasing after him to kill him,
y...
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d this, we can pray in faith. I do not see
viruses; I see a plague of God's wrath and spirits
released over the earth. I see the solution as prayer
for mercy to the throne of God. I can pray in faith.
I remember the story told by John G. Lake about a
region in South Africa which was ravaged by the
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a house in heaven, an eternal body
made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We
grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on
our heavenly bodies like new clothing. 2 Cor 5:1, 2 NLT
So we understand that this current flesh is not our
last chance at having a body and enjoying life....
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Jesus is a doctor. Because
of this, two women came to share their testimonies
with me after the service. One said that in her
family of four or five siblings and two parents, she
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was the only one not taking anti-hypertensive
drugs. She controlled her blood pressure with the
wo...
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s Jesus went on from there,
two blind men followed
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essage about Christ, in all its richness, fill your
lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom
he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to
God with thankful hearts. Col 3:16 NLT
My child, pay a ention to what I say.
Listen carefully to my words.
Don't lose sight of them.
Let ...
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that I am looking out for
the power of God to heal HIV. I am a minister of the
gospel; I do not need anyone to reinforce the
natural pa ern for me. I already knew he was going
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to die unless something special happened, and he
followed that established natural pa ern. I need
t...
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ow faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen… By faith
we understand… Heb 11:1, 3
The understanding you have of things around
produces certain expectations each time you face a
sit...
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gnize that you are the provider. I recognize that
this good thing has not come to me by any strength
resident in myself. All the good that I experience
are manifestations of Your goodness towards me.”
When doors open for you, recognize that it is God.
No man should be able to take glory in your lif...
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n't have the faith to
claim it yet, just leave it alone. Never argue against the
word of God. Even if you don't understand, say like
Mary, “Be it unto me according to your word.” It is
safer that way.
Just Say Amen
Our expectations must be built on the word of God.
If the Word says, “With long life...
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with you’, ‘Have a safe
journey’, ‘Go and return safely’, ‘Have a fruitful
day’ and such. Those are words pleasing to God. I,
and the people around me too, have learnt to say
amen to these blessings.
Don’t Call Evil Good
Something that is quite common among young
people is to turn bad words into ‘c...
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the word of giving along with the word of
receiving.
It is the word of deliverance at the same time as the
word of dying for the faith.
It is the word of taking up as well as the word of
laying down .
We don't only receive things from the Lord but we
also lay down or forgo things because of Him. We...
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don’t lean towards that because such would take
more than one night. Whatever be the case, it
would have been seen as a natural occurrence by
people around, but we know it was the action of
one angel.
We know, as a ma er of fact, that Sodom and
Gomorrah were submerged under a rain of fire and
burnin...
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s!' and he
does it." Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled at him,
and turned and said to the crowd that was following
Him, "I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such
great faith. Luke 7:6-9
What was this ‘such great faith’ which the Lord
marvelled at here? A close look shows that it was
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“you are
saying if I can? The problem is not if I can heal your
child but if you can believe!”
"What do you mean, 'If I can'?" Jesus asked. "Anything
is possible if a person believes." Mark 9:23 NLT
The Lord had to make special intercession not
chronicled in the text to get the ma er solved. He
di...
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process information with the word of
God as the basis of all conclusions. Everything is
interpreted with the foundation of the word. With
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this faith, we have true understanding. Any way we
process information that does not take the word ...
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Whether we feel like it or not, and truly it is
sometimes hard to accept the temporary loss, we
have come to know and accept this truth.
Now, how do we approach our own death as
individual believers?
Apart from the fact that we know that death is only
a translation to another place, we also know t...
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that country put together are
God. But the Lord says, “I am God and there is none
else.” He said to Israel:
You shall have no other god besides me.
There are many things around pretending to be God.
What do we mean by God? Sometimes a god is
someone or something you bow to in worship, but it
is n...
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rinciple that governs
every activity we engage in, and for each part of life
we must seek it out; that is the practice of faith.
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3. Expectations for everything
crucial area where we also practice our
fait...
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rstand this. This woman whose faith
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healed her chronic bleeding got information that
shaped her pa ern of reasoning. Remember that it
is that pa ern of reasoning that is faith.
She started out with the physicians because she
thought they could help, but they failed, and she ...
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chapter 9, when Jesus said, “this type does
not go out but by prayer,” we just assume that the
demon was tough; but the demon was not tougher
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in itself than other demons the Lord has driven out
of people nor was it stronger than other probl...
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rance of prosperity or security, but by the will
of God.
If you are changing location for the sake of
prosperity, you are saying that location is God.
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That would be idolatry.
There are many women who want to marry a rich
man so as to get out of poverty. They are saying a
h...
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the prayers are not
prayers of faith. They are prayers of desperation
and grasping at straws. There is li le faith in them.
Faith is a system of life; all these years they have
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walked by natural knowledge, so it will take time to
turn their hearts to true faith in Jesus the ...
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ured,
and were destroyed of the destroyer. 1 Cor 10:10 KJV
We should take a lesson from their lives. They
grumbled until God declared that none of the
adults there would enter into the Promised Land.
Many of us are murmurers like them. We complain
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opposite of the faith in God. It was not
about their desire; it was about their understanding
of the flow of spiritual power. They definitely
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wanted to get healed, as there were many sick
among them. Jesus wanted to help them, and so He
lai...
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y the only
way to God. The world usually tries to embarrass
you by painting you as being ridiculous for making
your faith exclusive as the way to God. “Think of
the number of Muslims and Hindus in the
*Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex,
Asexual. The list is now longe...
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come flesh exactly as He planned it. It is in our
lives He wants to see His word manifested. We
have to put our faith in Him until we bring that joy
to Him. Who will love God enough to do that for
Him?
He is asking you and me today to make up our
minds to live a life based on His promises, and not
b...
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g to God. That is one easy way to go about
speaking right. It is possible to give thanks to God
all the time. Anytime you have to comment on
anything you have observed, simply start with
thanksgiving.
Like I mentioned earlier, a major area that even
Christians murmur against God, and they do not
re...
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FOR OUR FAITH
apart from the God who we know in the Lord Jesus,
is another god you have chosen.
…so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the
Lord is God; there is no one else. 1 Kgs 8:60
Chance is not God
Recently, the Spirit laid it upon my heart to explain
to the people of God that c...
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have just
boarded. You simply get in and sit down, trusting
that the bus company and the government
regulators are doing their job of ensuring safety.
Faith is the way of life.
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WE WALK BY FAITH
The Object of Faith
Because faith is simply the way life is lived, what
we have to do once in a wh...
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f the works
I have done, the prayers I have prayed or the seeds I
have sown. Christ is the source of my blessings.
All the promises of God that are in the word of God
are mine because I am in Christ.
For all of God's promises have been fulfilled in Christ
with a resounding "Yes!" And through Christ...
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dern ‘liberated’ woman may have
shouted. She only pointed out to Him that when
children eat, crumbs fall, and these are usually
thrown out for the dogs to consume. It therefore
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WE WALK BY FAITH
follows that since she was close enough, she could
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ve done that it was because he chose to
walk by faith.
…for he obtained the witness that before his being taken
up he was pleasing to God. And without faith it is
impossible to please Him… Heb 11:5-6
So, to walk by faith is a decision we make. It is like
giving our lives to Christ. Each person mus...
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only you can do that. I
want your life to be built up according to My promises,
according to My word. I want you to form your
expectations on the basis of My revelations to you. That
is what I want.”
How do we allow the plan of God become real? It is
simply by believing every word that we read from...
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and all its wicked deeds. Put on your new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like Him. In this life, it doesn't matter if you are a Jew, that is, in this new life as a believer, it doesn't matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric or...
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where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand. My New American Standard uses this expression, keep seeking the things above. Set your sights, New Living Translation says, on the realities of heaven. Verse two, think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you have died...
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Say it again, I have been set free. I have been set free. Free from every bondage. Free from every bondage. Free from every attack. Free from every attack. Free from every work of the devil. Free from every work of the devil. I have been set free from sin. I have been set free from sin. I have been ...
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The thing that God does for his children is that it's not that he makes them not... these rules don't apply to them. No, what he does is to give them the ability to live above the things that are dangerous. That's what he does. He doesn't say that now because you're a child of mine, even if you're a...
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Say, Lord, thank you for your truth. Just declare it again. Say, in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. I am walking in manner worthy of the Lord. I am walking in manner worthy of the Lord. I am pleasing Him in all respects. I am pleasing Him in all respects. I am bearing fruit in every good wo...
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Me and a brother was sitting down and his wife was looking for where to sit. I had half gotten up for her to sit down. When I realized that it's not my wife, for goodness sake, it's his wife. And I was looking at him like this. And it was raining. We squeezed under a canopy. And his wife was fidgeti...
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All right, it's our School of Bible Exegesis again. Let's continue studying the book of Ephesians and the book of Colossians. We have been on that for some time. We should be coming to an end in a short while. Now we'll just quickly continue from where we stopped. Can we just open quickly to the boo...
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giving thanks through him to God the Father. I'm stopping reading there, that's verse 17. I just feel like reading everything through and through without any serious interruptions. The third time I'm saying it, this is a summary of everything we read in the letter to the Ephesians in the last two me...
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No matter how you try, pressure will come to you and you will steal. Let's take this as an example. Promotion, we said, exaltation does not come from the East, or from the West, or from the South. We know that God is judged. If you focus on that, making decisions about your life is easy. Some ICC Ch...
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you work hard at them, making sure they are always increasing. So let's continue reading. What we're going to read this morning is a summary, like I said, of what we read earlier in the book of Ephesians. And I'll be quick with this. I'll read everything through without passing any serious comments....
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Peter was even saying it, that the fellow is blind. He's not seeing what is real in the realm of the spirit. If he could see those things, he will produce certain results that are in keeping with what he's seeing. That's just the way life is. So how you judge things that are invisible is by the thin...
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It's easy to be content. For example, when you realize, and you tell yourself every day, a man's life does not consist in the abundance of things which he possesses. What are the things that are above? Let's talk about that for a moment. The things that are above are simply the things that are in th...
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If you come, park a Bentley outside. I say, pastor, enter. I went, I say, oh boy, is this a Bentley? I will jump inside it. But some want to pretend like we are used to it. This poverty-stricken guy from top to bottom, he's used to it. Spell Bentley. He can't. The Lord is good. We're supposed to be ...
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Life is controlled by spiritual things. It's not controlled by our effort. It's what is together in the realm of the spirit that decides what happens on the earth. And the most powerful way we connect with the things of the spirit is through the words that we speak. And that's why we always start ou...
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What do I mean by that? It's school fees period now, right? There are people who brag on it. I would rather not pay my children's school fees so that the work of God will not lie far below. What's the work of God? You want to roof a church building. You should know people that are smoking. I said to...
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What God does is that if you find something is wrong in your life, you take it to God in prayer. Alright? You confess your sins and trust Him for grace to overcome them. That's work for God. Working like that until the life of God is manifested in you in that area is what is called working for God. ...
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defiling people. What was he saying there? You see people do what is evil. It is not the doing. It's not the thing they did that is the primary problem. It's that inside them there was bitterness. That root is invisible. It's beneath the surface. But it's there, growing. Then one day it shows up. Wh...
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That's what happened. It's not the precious of life that's in your mind. It's a distraction that they constituted so that you are not as filled with the spiritual wine as you used to be. What I want to emphasize is that no matter how filled you are today, just like wine, it's temporary. Just like fo...
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But if you want to give to God, you say, the sign of your love for me is what? Obedience. So that money, you share it appropriately. Don't focus on yourself alone. The money is 5,000, and I will start giving each person his portion. For the preaching of the word of God, this is their portion. To hon...
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But when they made that statement, what happened was that the man said, ah, you want land for sacrifice, take it free. You want animals, I give you free. They will say, wait, I am the one giving sacrifice here. How come you are the one planning to pay? It's like you are in church. Somebody says, no,...
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all of those things. Don't work in malice. Don't use dirty language. Don't lie to one another. If you consider, if your eyes are focused on the things that are above, performing these things will be easy and automatic. That's the first point I want to take from here. All the other things, I'm not re...
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The way I treat my wife is actually the God in her I'm treating like that. The way I treat my children is a God in them I'm treating like that. The way I treat people who follow me, who listen to me, who walk with me, it's a God in them I'm treating like that. The way I treat those above me, it is G...
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That was what he said to children. Have you ever noticed it? Why is the question you will ask? Obedience and submission are two different things. Obedience is easy. Submission is hard. Obedience is, don't do this. I will not do it, stupid man. Did you see that? This is obedience. Don't do it. As a h...
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Please read my book, How to Work for God and Grace to Prosper. I identified it there. There are different places you give to God, that is, you give to, and it is that you are giving to God. If you are giving to somebody in need, the Bible says they are honoring his maker. If you have relatives that ...
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kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish out of the way. Do you understand? When you see a man who has manifested, you will agree. Then you begin, you know, you set a new standard. Then maybe one man wants to marry one day, and the mother wants to say, hey, look at him, he has no, hey, hey, he...
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Are you getting my point? He said, this is the way it works. You want to walk with God, you have to agree with him. The only way by which you can agree with God is to be cleansed by his word. After all, what do we call sanctification and holiness? That is agreeing with God in your purpose in life. R...
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When God was going to destroy, what did he say? He said, the thoughts of the hearts of man is constantly what? Evil. That is the imagination of his heart. That's what God concerns himself with. Are you getting me? So when God wants to cleanse people, it tells you simply that he's cleansing their tho...
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No, I'm telling you the truth. That what is sanctification? That evil thoughts or evil behavior come out of evil thoughts. God said, my problem with human beings is that their thoughts are evil constantly. So God says, one of the ways I'll handle is the church is a pillar of truth. They have to brin...
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God says, no problem, you will find pain. Then you pass through and no pain sticks to you. You say, God, but I said I wanted pain. He says, yeah, I've placed pain there, but only those who can attract pain, carry them along when they pass. You say, what am I going to do there for? Come back and let ...
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Listen, the church is a pillar of truth. That is, they are the ones that hold up the standard of God. That's what the pillar is. Are you getting my point? So, when you use the thoughts of the world, the pattern of thinking of the world to do things, you are offending God. That is, you are supposed t...
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We will carry our own materials there and put a stand there and say, buy MP3 CDs, buy normal CDs, buy books. The same thing we'll have done at our own expense. I say, God is indeed good. Then suddenly, all our plan of, we take seminar here and begin to rearrange it, say it's not necessary again. The...
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the little one we did with all the background noise that we try to cut away. I don't want to go on TV just like I told you that day. And the camera will be shaking. Praise the lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord. Echo everywhere. No, no, no. No, I'm dreaming those dreams. That is that the earth will ...
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Watch me, anything you see, just know. No, let me share you my personal experience. Let me just explain what happened that night. I woke up, the Bible talked about the horror of great darkness that came upon Abraham, all right? Before he was going to make that covenant. So I woke up, suddenly there ...
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You know, I think I grew up, I don't know about, I'm not very good at church history, but I think I grew up in the time when the transition between, in the particular transition period in the body of Christ, at least in this country, in which we began to play down the holiness things. I mean, I part...
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So they were joining his college of, well he didn't call it his own college of bishop, but they were all submitting to him. They were not submitting to anything. And we came to submit to the great prophet himself. We see what God is doing in his life. It's not true, it's money. That's how God got an...
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2 Peter chapter 3, in verse 10 it says, But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burnt up. Since all these things are going to be destroyed in this way, P...
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It's very important. If you're a pastor, preach what you are supposed to preach. If he drags 500 people to church, fine. If he drives 500 people from church, fine. You are not accountable to 500 people, you are accountable to the Lord. God specifically said to Jeremiah and to Ezekiel, I will send yo...
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You dust your hands, dust your seats, and get up and walk away. What's the plan? What's the next plan? No, sufficient until the day. Yeah, it's those assignments we have done, the job we have done. I hope we did it well. I hope our master will find us faithful. If people have to remember you, it's w...
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then you gain Christ. He said that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having the righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ. Please bear this in mind, the desire in this m...
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I have to say to the Lord, please let this be my testimony. What am I going to say? These are the kind of things, there's a goal you have to set in front of you as believers. Now I began to talk last night about endurance and waiting. Waiting for what? What are we enduring? Please let's know, it's v...
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Lord is good. Father, we thank you for this beautiful morning, a day that you have ordained to infuse us, your children, with more of you. You have caused us to love you. Therefore, we have gotten up for those of us in Enugu here who are physically present. You have gotten us to get up early, get dr...
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What he's building is individuals who he can look at and say, this one is righteous, really before me. He said, this is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased. So Paul said, like I said, that's what he's building. So Paul said, what is the attitude we are supposed to have? Now remember, it's an at...
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The Lord has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, and I am being filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. As a result of this, I am walking in the manner worthy of the Lord, and I am pleasing Him in all respects. I am bearing f...
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It's not like I want only 10. I just hope 10 will become 100. 100 will become 1,000. If I see progress, and Abraham, that would be good. Abraham said, OK, OK, OK. So if 10 is the least you can take, yes, I think 10 is all right. Is that OK with you? Abraham said, 10 is OK. Abraham was sitting lying ...
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Now because she heard about Jesus, she now said, if I'm able to touch, she had not done anything. She just became convinced, and then she acknowledged that fact. And listen, when she touched, all she needed to do now was just get to there. There are those who are begging to see Jesus Christ, say I d...
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I hope you are getting my point here. So listen, in spiritual things, knowledge is not just that you have facts in your head. Now, what I'm talking about is that, do you know, a lot of struggles we have in life, because these are the struggles of people who are filled with ignorance. Now, having exp...
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So now, please notice this. But whatever were gains to me, I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. Please, I want you to listen to this carefully. He...
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For it is we who are the circumcision. Please, I want to also note this. A lot of people get into arguments on these things. God's promise and not God's promise. Who's Israel, who's not Israel? If you believe the revelation of God to Paul, if you believe the revelation of God through the Lord Jesus ...
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willing to give up material things for eternal things. Now, there's a message I recommended here some time ago that was read by Derek Prince, titled Progressive Commitment. I recommend that we listen to it. If you can get that message, please listen to it. It's very important. Some things I'm saying...
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The camera went to John who was greeting our daddy Gio. That's what he said, our daddy Gio. Daddy Gio. All of us like, praise God, Reviver. One brother in UK said, maybe we should forget that nonsense. What kind of Reviver is that? Election is coming, you're talking about Reviver. Do you know how ma...
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who are the nations in an opera, and the peoples devising a vain thing. The kings of this earth take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Almighty, saying, Let us tear their fetters apart, and cast away their curse from us. He who sits in the heavens lau...
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perfect or mature, which verse is there, 15? He said, all of us then who are mature should take such a view of things or have this attitude. If in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you. What does that mean? Christians have a particular attitude. They are marked by ...
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We regularly, listen to this, we regularly sacrifice earthly things, temporal things for eternal things. You know, if you see what Paul's saying here, which is why I started from here, please, because this perseverance is what I'm preaching to us today as believers, this perseverance. First, let us ...
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And you get there, your name is Andrew, you are Philip, you are, give me a Greek name. Apollos, yes, Aquila, you understand, Demas. And then, you also come from Jerusalem, and your name is Peter. And they start serving food. And because you're Peter, they put your food on one side. Because your Paul...
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Those who have analyzed it, that great pyramid, that if you build that thing today, it will be a technological marvel, if you build it today. They're able to do these calculations. Now what I want to talk about is the fact that, yes, they've forgotten. The Bible says God can erase the very memories ...
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to Paul, get up and rebuke this. Because if you don't, this is why, see, when you're a leader, it's not everything you do, say, I don't want to cause trouble. There are times you must cause some trouble. I was in the church many years ago. Pastor was preaching powerfully. Without tithing, you cannot...
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Someone will tell you that you are here for 30 years. What legacy do you leave? Just ask them. Say, I didn't steal any money. I worked in righteousness and holiness. I did not sit on anybody's promotion. Those are the things you should check. God praise God. After working here for 35 years, I have t...
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And I want you to understand that God, what he's doing, once you have said it, yes, this is what I have done that is right, this is a defilement of my spirit, and that's it, it starts purging. It starts purging. If that never arises again, don't say, ah, I don't know what I'm gonna do. Confess it ag...
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you have not yet achieved proper fellowship with him. That's how light shines into the area of your life. But let's just go on. Verse seven says, but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin. ...
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Let's begin to pray. Each person, as I was speaking, you knew your area. That's how it is. I like when the direct prince said that God normally operates like a finger. That the Holy Spirit will put his finger right on the spot. Normally for most of us, it's not everything that's our problem. It's ju...
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He has the hyssop in his hand. That's what David was saying. He said, purify me with hyssop. Hyssop is a kind of like sponge, yes, made out of herbs. All right? Like, you know, the way you produce sponge locally. That they used to apply the blood those days. Used to sprinkle the blood. So David said...
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Let me come forth clean in the name of Jesus Christ. Father, we give you thanks. In Jesus' name we pray.
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Many of the scandals that men of God fall into, and Christians generally, that is why. God will have corrected them bit by bit. But instead of them to praise Psalm 51, they start justifying. When I hear somebody preach a wrong doctrine to them, they now start following that doctrine. Instead of them...
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When I get to some verses, all of us will read it. Just open your Bibles there, Psalm 51. He said, Be gracious to me, O God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the greatness of your compassion, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. F...
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Are you getting my point? So I'm not talking about what Christianity is. So Christianity doesn't mean that we are perfect in everything we do right now. It just means that we are moving towards perfection and that is our direction. I said that's the difference between a believer and an unbeliever. A...
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Now, I was trying to say that, you know, nice guys, that's what I'm trying to say. That's why we as Christians, our problem is not, is the guy nice? No. No. Nice men are good, amen? All of you should be nice, amen? If I want you to get home, be nice to your wife today, amen? All those of you who are...
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What have I tried to explain today? In summary, that Psalm 51 is still relevant to the lives of believers today. Let's rise to our feet and just pray for a minute, and then we'll close. Everybody open your Bibles to that Psalm 51. What we are going to do is that we are going to read a few verses tog...
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If she knows you don't have, and two of you say, hey, how we going? I say, we take a taxi or bulldozer, it's fine. You understand my point? But pretend you come and go, and you're going to iron a shirt you have not ironed in a long time. Now straighten your neck. Start speaking the English that does...
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David, don't be angry at me. I'm just wondering. Just wondering. Because the man had been looking at Abigail while she was still married to Nabal. That's why the day Nabal died, the guy said, praise God. Ah! I was wondering, how long was this man going to live? This, no, it sounds funny. This thing ...
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This was not the first time, I'm sure, we don't have records of it in the scriptures, or if we look closer, we might find it. But that was not the first time that God was showing to David that you have to change your ways. That was not the first time. Alright? God would have used subtle methods to t...
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They wrote this book. Many people are already on it. So God is good. Don't think God is saying, hey, what will I do now? I committed the unpunishable sin. What did you do? I took that guy's money. And I died immediately after I took the money. When you go to heaven, they will collect the money from ...
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And I said, how much? He said, it's not too bad. It's $900,000. I said, $900,000. I should go and use. He said, you know, it fits your status. I look like this man. If I catch him. He actually meant that you go to The more, I'm going to pick one fat, you know, latest modern LED smart TV, complete wi...
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Because my experience with them is that you enter church. Pastor and that senior choir girl, they are doing something. That's my experience with them. I'm not saying that everybody is perfect. And that's not what I'm trying to talk about. But when you come around with bragging to me that righteousne...
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before he will bring Isaac into his life. So if Abraham is going to shorten that time of waiting, what he does, what he will do, is to think about what are the internal rearrangements that I need to do. And I start cooperating with God concerning them. And that's what prayer is about, you know? I'm ...
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My whole Jesus, nine-night drive, come out like this. He said, Master, do we call fire from heaven and burn them up? Jesus said, Peter, you don't get the point. If it was Peter, he said, 12 legions of angels. Peter would have called 30 legions of angels. They would have killed everybody, you know, f...
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and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain me with a willing heart. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will be converted to you. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. Then my tongue will joyfully sing...
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As well, if you focus on the new creation, reality of Jesus Christ, you know the righteousness of God will manifest in you. That's what we are saying. Focus on this so that it will manifest. Don't sit in iniquity and be deceiving me and yourself. If you tell a lie as a Christian, it is called Christ...
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You can't say everything that he does is right because he's a prince. We need to emphasize this. I heard somebody narrate that Prince Philips, that is the father of Prince Charles, husband of Queen Elizabeth, said when Prince Charles was a little boy, he had to flog him. That when he will misbehave,...
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The thing inside you that makes you do it again, all right, is called unrighteousness. That was why John emphasized that he that doeth righteously is righteous. That if somebody is doing what is unrighteous, it is because unrighteousness has not been totally purified from his heart. And God didn't s...
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because his purification comes from one thing, starts with one thing, admission, that they will accept that it is wrong. He's not saying try and change. Listen, there is no habit that Christians can't beat if they will just settle down and say, this is wrong, this is wrong. Are you getting my point?...
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Next time I'll continue to develop this thing. I think I've connected it again. I've brought out the things that the Holy Spirit wants us to learn today. Then we'll go back to talk about the purification of the spirit. And that is what we Christians must be careful about. Remember, let's just clear ...
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It doesn't mean you don't deal with unbelievers at all. Like Paul said in another portion, that that means you have to leave the world. But we want to do a joint venture. Be careful. Do you understand my point? You want to plan your birthday party. We used to do things like that when we were in scho...
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One would just bend over you. His back is super-reinforced concrete. He would do his hand like this. He creates a tunnel for you. Every day we tumble down. If you are sitting there, you just walk out, crawl out, shake your clothes, say, ah, this dry-clean only suit, oh, now what? That would be your ...
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and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty. Paul said, for this reason, verse 1, chapter 7, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. please bear this in mind. All right? So what we...
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Now let's start from here, Psalm 114. What I'm going to do is to read a number of scriptures and as I go on I will pass some comments on them and see what the Lord will want us to develop. What we are talking about is the habitation of God and we are going to speak about the purification of the fles...
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Jordan turned back. All the obstructions between them and their promised land moved back. And when the people asked, what ails you? That is, what is the trouble with you? See, that you ran away. And the hills, why are you jumping up and down? He said, this is the commandment, verse seven, tremble, O...
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He said to me, if I didn't hear this word, I wonder what my life would have been like. That I would have just been living anyhow because I wouldn't know what is right and what is wrong. Please, I hope you are getting my point. That is, what is that marriage? That marriage is being lived by the princ...
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So next time the devils will meet, he'll say, okay, I know brother Chris, yes, no, you're not a brother to them. You know enemy Chris? He'll say, yes, we know him. Who's going to put something around his neck? That demon will say, I know where to go. I'm busy. They will say, that is frustration. Aft...
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He said in verse 12, if your sons will keep my covenant and my testimony which I will teach them, their sons also shall sit on your throne forever. For the Lord has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. He said, this is my resting place forever. Here I will dwell, for I have desired it....
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Oh, no, no, I'm not the minister, I mean the dominating kingdom. I'm a member of the redeemed Christian Church of God. No, no, our own is the hyper-redeemed Church of Christ. It's not the church with name. So people now say, ah, all these new generation churches. We are members of orthodox churches....
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There are things that I can't say. If I say it, people will misunderstand. Let me just summarize it like this. The risks of you, you looking at me, of going to hell, is next to zero. Yes. I have my reasons for saying what I'm saying. Let me tell you the truth. I'll pray one prayer for you. It's not ...
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You are the place. Yeah, that's the word. You are his place of residence on the earth. God has never desired to be in a building. Listen to me. God, you know that act of covenant that Israel used to carry up and down, feel very happy. They didn't realize that the truth is that God was not able to st...
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19:30
That's why he said concerning God, he called him the fear of Isaac. When Jacob was talking to Laban, he said, wait not that the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaac had been with me. That is everything Isaac did, he did because this God told him how to do it and he was careful not to offen...
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48:00
So the man will literally walk through the battlefield, and bullets will be zipping past him, and he won't duck. What is logic? He said, listen, none of those bullets are meant to kill me. And they said, literally, there are records that they will check his clothes, and they will find bullet holes i...
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25:30
I said, ah, so you have this book. He said, yes. He said, it's a good book. He said, once in a while, I have to read books like this to remind, to check myself whether I'm still serving God or have begun to serve myself. Those were his words. He said, I have to read things like this once in a while ...
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1:13:30
That is what you teach them they will keep. He said, if they will keep my covenant and the testimonies that I will teach them, their sons shall sit on your throne forever. That is those children you are going to have them, by the time they are being born on a throne, they will never leave that thron...
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And you hear things like, I hope they are paid. Let me quickly go and collect all the money I can from my husband. I don't know what I said. Women are conspiring against their husbands. I said, the way they will talk and talk after a while, you know? It's like one of those days, his own wife got ups...
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ll wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good. Titus 2:11-14 GNT
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up caus...
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isobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 1 Thess 4:3-8 NLT
So then, get rid of lies. Speak the truth to each other, because we are all members of the same body. Be angry without sinning. Don't go to bed angry. Don't give the devil any opportunity to work. Thie...
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s already available on missions, and the collection would be pittance. So James explained the mind of God – all the prayers were not backed by faith. The people did not believe! How did he know? If they did, they should have put their money where their mouth was. Now you see why many prayers a...
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ing you are perfect but definitely you will be moving forward. You will be departing from sin and using the power of grace to remove it from your life. God loves us, and that is why Jesus died for us. He died to deliver us from sin. If we are not willing to depart from sin, it is not grace we believ...
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h alone is very attractive to those who desire to have eternity secure while ‘enjoying’ the pleasures of the flesh in the now, but they are walking by a twisted version of the true gospel. It is like the doctrine of prosperity; in the twisted form it allows many to live worldly and in co...
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dried on the cob without any manipulation. Both of them will look exactly alike, but one is biologically dead, while one still has life in it. There is no way to tell them apart unless you plant them. The boiled one is dead, yet looks almost exactly like the living one, until it is demanded of them ...
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tually cried out, “Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?” It is a doctrine that is so easy to twist to one’s destruction. Peter warned about this twisting even those days. … just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as...
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does not recognize these people. They were also plenty those days, and James was warning them. True faith is only demonstrated as being different from dead and useless faith by the works it produces. I will show you my faith by my works… for just as the body without the spirit is dead, so als...
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gh I disobey the Lord I’ll still be blessed even while living in disobedience. If a Christian is living in sin and disobedience, it is an indication that grace is not working in his or her life. It means that the grace the person claims to have is doubtful. Grace is tied to the faith that we h...
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1:18:00
for their sakes, I sanctify myself. That is, if I want them to be sanctified eventually, I first of all must be sanctified. If I want my children, both naturally and spiritually, to obey the truth of God, I must first obey the truth of God. Please, we must understand the power of the Spirit, that is...
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1:45:00
He suffered. He was tempted to sin. That's why I want to end it. But he did not. Why did he not? He said, because I sanctify myself for their sakes. How did he sanctify himself? He said, he cried. Oh, I need to read that one from King James. It's so beautiful there. He said, in the days of his flesh...
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3:00
Verse 13 says, But now I come to you, and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have my joy made full in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Number 17 says, sanctify them in the truth. ...
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1:31:30
See, if we want God to move in many areas of our lives, what did he say? Sanctify yourself. That's the point. So let's end it here. Just give me a few more minutes, okay? So how do we sanctify ourselves? Again, let's just read this one. He said, in the days of his flesh, what did he do? He cried out...
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1:30:00
So you need to first get yourself ready, so that the fire, the power I will send, will not consume you. I hope I get my point. You know, we look at it all the time as if anytime the power of God comes, it's always a blessing. But it's not so. It's a double-edged sword. Go and read your scriptures. I...
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1:27:00
Do you get my point? OK, you're at home, so fine. I can understand that one. But actually, even that one, I don't fully understand. You should fetch the water before going to the farm. But OK, let's just allow that. Maybe you are very busy. But if you're at home, please, go and fetch the water. I ho...
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1:13:30
Don't ever forget that. Look, you must be deliberately, actively contributing to the advancement of the gospel. That is how we Christians give. Now having explained that, let me get back to what I was saying. So we are not centered around ourselves like people want us to be centered. Even in our pra...
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1:16:30
So let me just take a few minutes and explain it. If you go and read Revelation chapter 17, it said the beast had ten kings that were with him. And they would give him their power and their authority. And on the basis of that, he is going to wage war against the lamb. But it said the lamb will overc...
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1:15:00
When he said, get behind me Satan, who was he talking to? So Peter can be revelation of the Father. Peter can be Satan. How do you tell the difference? Jesus said, whose interests are you serving? Say, you do not understand. You do not set your mind on the interest of God, but the interest of man. S...
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4:30
so that the world may believe that you sent me." Again, I go back to verse 19. For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. Three key words. That short phrase, I sanctify... Is that a phrase or a clause? Those of you who do English. Clause. Okay, good. I s...
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1:30
What we are looking at there is just one statement that the Lord Jesus Christ made. I want to use that as a launch pad for what I want to share with us this afternoon. And then we will continue to pray with that. John chapter 17. Let me look for the verse I'll start. It's a very long... Jesus was pr...
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1:48:00
when you're already living in hellfire on the earth. I mean, why do you need to go there? You are getting my shift? My drift? So, see, I don't want this from you. The arguments will come and give me. You know, there's one man, Natose Sipojo. He used to smoke. All right? Meanwhile, his occupation is ...
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1:28:30
You know, the only thing about scripture, that the scriptures, is that they contain the testimony of Jesus. We activate those testimonies. We activate the promises through faith and prayer. I hope you're getting my points. What am I saying here? Those traits that we must activate in our lives, that ...
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1:19:30
is the reason why Jesus said, for their sakes, I sanctify myself. For their sakes, I sanctify myself. Do you know what? One of the easiest, maybe not the easiest, one of the easiest ways to prosper in life in different areas is to stop thinking of yourself. Once you find a reason bigger than yoursel...
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1:25:30
She knows that I know the understanding. Look, if it's now, these boys will fetch the water now. Thank God for their lives. But those days, if not me and her at their house, I'm going to get that water. It's not disclosed, so she will even wait. I say, where are you coming? I say, what is the proble...
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1:33:00
This is why Jesus did not honor himself by assuming he could become high priest. No, he was chosen by God who said to him, you are my son, today I have become your father. And in another passage, God said to him, you are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. Now please notice verse seven. Li...
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7:30
They're not important. Everything is there anyway. That's important. But of the 1,600 that we have on the website, if you just pick like 250, probably I've hit everything I have to say. The rest, now what? Repetition. It's not my fault though. I've noticed that every time I go on about, that's for S...
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1:34:30
He said, although he was a son, verse 8, even though Jesus was God's son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. In this way, God qualified him as a perfect high priest, and he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obeyed him. I'm going to stop reading here. What did he...
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1:46:30
You know, the Bible commands you to deliver yourself. Sanctify yourself. You deliver yourself from... Listen, it's not sanctify yourself. What does sanctify mean? There are two words. One, to cleanse. Two, to set apart for a divine purpose. To set apart only for worship. To set apart only to serve t...
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1:43:30
She had never understood why there would be no food. So when they said there's no bread, she said, okay, they don't like bread, let them eat cake now. Because she thought the bread was bread. She didn't get the point that there was no food. Listen, Jesus became flesh that he might be touched with th...
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1:12:00
Just to let you know that the spirit within each person is contributing, affects something. So if you want your congregation to be blessed, please be careful. We will pour spirit inside it, especially with your consent. Be very, very careful. The Lord is good. All of that just to emphasize something...
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6:00
And I say that again, a major problem in the body of Christ is this issue of us praying like the Gentiles. And Jesus specifically warned about it. Don't pray as the Gentiles pray. It's a problem in life. We pray like Gentiles. How do we pray like Gentiles? A number of ways. But the most important th...
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52:30
Yeah, they cut it in their Hindu temples. They shaved the hair. They treat it very well. Some of you are buying it in market and you have Hindu hair. Giving it as offering to the Hindu gods. But where I'm going is that that woman poured the spirit inside. Instantly, that spirit turned to $10,000. Pe...
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1:10:30
So what do you mean, did I eat? Did I used to eat in the morning before? Say, no, no, you know, maybe if you don't eat, okay, but you didn't eat last night, too. Look, Silas, this thing you are saying, you don't have spiritual understanding. I felt it. The place just went, bam, against me. After the...
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e also told you before and solemnly warned
you.
7 For God has not called us for the purpose of
impurity, but in sanctification.
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What is God’s Will Here?
This sanctification represents the general will of God
for everybody. No one is exempted from it. ...
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d’s mind. It also means that you are freed from the power of
the devil and death. You received this grace when you received
Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. It was an exchange of your
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life for the life of Christ. From that time you are no longer your
own but God’s property. You rec...
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r life to Christ, God
does not have any other will for you at this point more than for
you to do so now. It is only after this that the specific will of
God will be relevant to you.
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4. A LIFESTYLE
See, the will of God is not a decision making tool. You
have to first give y...
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und
principles of life are in keeping with their staying there, but
there is this bigger cash that has prevailed over the will of God.
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What is God’s Will Here?
Idols in the heart and stumbling blocks of iniquities
actually grow out of a life that is separate...
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eave once again to the word of
God; let that word cleanse you of all idols. Repent of your
iniquities and you will find out that the will of God is natural,
as natural as breathing.
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5. THE RENEWED HEART
Yes, the will of God is actually to be as natural as
breathing. As we ...
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this kind of background, they will definitely
miss her.
The truth is that the word of God says “henceforth
know no one after the flesh; if anyone is in Christ, she is a new
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creation and old things have passed way.” We are only what
God has created us to be in Christ Jesu...
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ese are
the things that Ezekiel called the stumbling block of iniquity.
They always cause the child of God to fall away from the will
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of God. Every child of God must repent of walking and talking
like the world before the will of Go...
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For anyone … who separates himself from Me, sets up
his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling
block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire
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of Me for himself, I the LORD will be brought to answer him in
My own person.
I will set My...
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truth is that many of us just love spiritually romantic stories.
God did not make us to live by goose pimples and unusual
manifestations; He wants us to live a normal life. What He
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wants is for that normal life to be united with Him and to be
constantly improved by increasing kno...
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ant in
Christ Jesus.
The Old Covenant told men what to do; they had
commandments. Under the New, the hearts of people are being
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What is God’s Will Here?
transformed so that their natural desires will be in agreement
with God’s own desires. It will no ...
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it of Christ means that the force of the
will of God controls even your appetite, your values, and what
you consider beautiful.
Your life is the expression of the will of God.
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3. THE WILL OF GOD
Remember that I said also that sin alienated you from
the plan of God fo...
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had wired
your inside to make you fit into certain places. Some are gifted
to sing, some to teach, some to write, some to buy and sell.
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What is God’s Will Here?
Some are astute administrators. And some are just excellent
taking care of and teaching children. ...
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fe are being
orchestrated to bring you to that place of the expression of
God’s eternal plan for you. It was sin that made you go away
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from this plan, and the righteousness that is in Jesus is bringing
you back to the centre of it.
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pid a person can be; if you claim to be praying to God
for blessing, the least you should do is to walk pleasing to Him
in small things. By the time you lie and change your identity
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just to get to America, the angels of blessings may just not
recognize you there.
God ope...
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is to supply you information that you
were not aware of. The advice of godly people who have
understanding is also often so precious.
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6. DREAMS, VISIONS AND
SUCH
The last thing that we should examine is the issue of
supern...
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. They looked, in effect, not to
God but to material things for supplies. I also believed it then
but the Lord has since corrected me.
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What is God’s Will Here?
I have discovered that such doctrines are often born out
of pride in the heart of the people. They...
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not the will of God. As for me,
there is a way a thought will come to me that I will know it is
the plan of God; it is difficult for me to teach you that. Just
relax in God’s hands.
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7. CONCLUSION
Having said all we have thus far, let us summarise
everything.
It is p...
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