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ital lessons by which you will survive when you reach that promised land. Even Jesus had to go through it.
“Although He was a son, yet He learned obedience from the things which He suffered." Heb 5:8
So you see that the fact that things are not going right for you does not mean God is not there. T...
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ise.
‘Let the weak say I AM STRONG.’
Remember this: in all the troubles of Job, the contest was whether or not he would sin with his mouth. Please “suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin.”
It is in these trials that “few are chosen.” O yes, many were also called but they failed. Have yo...
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his first year of working, yet you haven’t after eight years does not mean you are a failure. It just means a car is not part of your own first eight years.
“Do not fret, it leads only to evil doing”
The fact that our lives differ even though we may all be sons of God is the reason why He was call...
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a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of things that he possesses.” That is the very truth. Believe it. Your life consists of the amount of relationship you have with God.
“In Him was life.”
Let covetousness depart from your eyes. Why are you concerned about the opinion of those who only ...
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Again, I need just about one verse here, but because that area is very rich, I'll probably read a few more beyond the one that I need. Now, he said from verse 14, you, however, that is, let me back up a bit. From verse 10, he said, now you follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love,...
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So you find out, all right, that when you have learned something, especially when it is different from what everybody believes around, it will lead to persecution. And you'll be amazed at the kind of persecution I'm talking about. You are going to be at home one day. They're going to wake everybody ...
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Let's start from 2 Timothy chapter 3 or let's start from John chapter 8. We're also going to that 2 Timothy chapter 3. This is not part of our last series. Just want to wrap up many things we have been saying and bring some relevance to them all together. Now read from verse 31. So Jesus was saying ...
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Now, despite the persecution, despite the fact that the evil people, they will have a free reign and they will grow from bad to worse, despite all the challenges you may have, he said, you, however, anytime you say the word however, he's trying to bring out an issue. He said, you, however, continue ...
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The woman that is, you sit on that WF, you are still collecting bribe. You will go to hell, though. That woman will really go to hell. Well, I don't know about that. You know what I'm trying to say? With all the threats of hell, in fact, you are not a Christian. You're supposed to fear. How can you ...
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And the same thing when it comes to the word of God. Our reference is the Bible. Our reference is these scriptures. If you think you are right, bring it out. Nobody knows everything. Sit down with people and throw scriptures upon, not in an argumentative manner now, but in an attitude that you want ...
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they will go from bad to worse, and they'll be deceiving people. He said, however, verse 14, you continue in the things you have learned and have become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them. Now please, let me just tell you why I read this. I said earlier that you shall know the tru...
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But when the family of nine, eight people in it stand against only you, but you are with the things you had learned and have become convinced of, please, please don't go for temporary relief because you want to please people. It does not work. It only begets for you more hardship later in life. That...
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As I'm speaking, you may be remembering some things. What you do is that you go back to that point in your mind. You go and pray, ask God for forgiveness and start again. He will send another test too. Usually more difficult than that first one that you failed. Because that first one you failed has ...
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That's the way it works, all right? So each season of your life is a day. Each day of your life must be occupied. You must occupy it fully. It must be filled completely. Each season of your life is one day. So it's good to make your plans. It's good to enjoy it, all right? What I'm trying to explain...
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They download messages. But which one really is the one that is setting them free? That's what I wanted to explain at the beginning, but I've gotten to it now, and I think I will have to sit down the next few minutes, and then we'll close. Which one is really setting them free in all of these things...
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Because if it was just about, you need something, you can't get it. Doesn't fly, because there are many other florists in New Jersey. So I call it the new phase of persecution. It's all over the place in those countries. There are pastors that can't read certain scriptures. It's Bible, Romans chapte...
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That one is not. It defies a few things that you don't want to do in your life. It defies a few things that you don't believe is the right way by which God operates. And let me get back to something I was trying to explain, alright? So please bear that in mind. Your life is planned. What you are doi...
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Now really, now why did I say that? You know, Paul says something here. He said, you followed my teaching. The teachings resulted in persecutions. That's how I live my life, out of the things I have learned. That resulted in persecution. And listen, he said, you notice something, that God delivered ...
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Then you will see what they call persecution. I have seen young people suffer because their father said, this is the way to pray. I said, I'm sorry, I can't pray like that. I won't pay your fees. I'm still not going to pray like that. Are you being stubborn? No, these are things I have learned and h...
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Just make sure it is because of that which you have learned and you have become convinced of. Listen, if you listen to them, it's another warning from God. If you listen to them, in 30 years time, you will look back and regret it. Listen, listening to people who disagree with God gives you temporary...
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He now said that, verse 14, you however continue in those things, and verse 15, you know that from childhood you have known the holy scriptures or sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. What is that wisdom that leads to s...
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I started growling. At that point, I decided it was not wise. But the dog didn't understand anything beyond that. He said, this guy is an intruder, and he came after us. That is, he was rushing. Now, one of my sisters went one direction. Now, I'm going somewhere. As young as I was, my fear was for m...
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That is one way. Let them know early. I've told you, if you are somewhere, you are in class, everybody say, let's contribute money for so-and-so and so-and-so. Shout, say, if I contribute money for it, I will die and go to hell. So what do you mean? In our church, we were taught, say it loud. Let ev...
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I believe it was the Holy Spirit finally gave me wisdom. I did it in a question and answer way. I ask a question, I present my answer. I bring up another question, I present another answer. The only people that disagree with me, they won't know. Our church says like this, this man of God says this, ...
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if they bring you only one argument. Where is it from? Ah, you want to marry a woman from this area. You don't know how they are, and the whole family disagrees. In fact, to me, if you're a man, your problem is even easier. Let them all disagree. I like when I told one of my aunties once. She said, ...
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be waiting to push the walls of Jericho down. But if Joshua, all right, did not do what he was told, if he did not lead the armies of Israel around Jericho every day for seven days, on the seventh day, seven times, and raise his voice in shouting, those angels would have done nothing. So when that f...
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They are actually the power of God happening in your life. You think they are just simple and everyday things. Now why I went into all of that, maybe to bless somebody, but the point is that I wanted you to know that your lives and your life, individual now, your life as a Christian is not an accide...
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and your knowledge, self-control, and your self-control, perseverance, and your perseverance, godliness, and your godliness, brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness, love. And I said in verse 8, if these qualities are yours and are increasing, please notice the word increasing again. They re...
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Nicodemus came to him and explained that something must be going on that the rest of us don't understand. Are you getting my point? And so Peter was saying the same thing here. That there are things you put in place and the result of that would be the manifestation of the divine nature in your life....
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Take the back seat for now. And when your time comes, leave this seat and go for the front. And stop sitting down there as if I don't know how to make good things. And be lying to me that it's humility. It is not humility. It is the fact that you don't have vision. That's your problem. I'm not going...
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Eve would not have eaten. It was a mind thing. She first came and said, has God really said? Mm-hmm. They began to talk. Mm-hmm. It was changing her mind, changing her perspective, changing her viewpoint, until suddenly the fruits that she wouldn't go near suddenly looked desirable. Your perception,...
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I won't say more about it. When I saw it, I said, no, I'll share this with you. Because last time, I was saying things here. That scientist guy, they were talking, talking, talking. I said, listen, there's nothing they are saying that with the spirit of Christ, you can't discover from the scriptures...
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Look, anytime I say things, I quickly tell myself, you know, there are ways I behave. And I tell myself, why did you do that? Maybe I enter the place, I quickly straighten my shirt, wait, you want them to think that you came on time? You know you are late. So I'll definitely, I'll deliberately rumpl...
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There is no scheme to ensure he didn't answer Delilah. There's no scheme. All Delilah needed to do was to be slightly persistent and something would have fallen. Simple. Simply because he didn't have the energy. The little he had left, the woman just needed to grind him a bit. Just a little bit of a...
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All right, let's start from 2 Peter 1. We read that last time. And I'll read from verse 2. Having introduced himself in verse 1, Peter said, grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to lif...
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It's from the Thayer's Greek lexicon and Brown-Driver and Briggs Hebrew lexicon. All right? So these are deep stuff for theologians. All right? It's a Leviathan. This is how I define it. It's a dictionary. A sea monster, a dragon. Listen to this. It's A, a large aquatic animal. B, perhaps the extinc...
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The Laila is coming to tempt you whether you want to be tempted or not. Do you get my point? And God, so that he won't break his word, is pouring to you, into you, all the strength required to overcome the Laila. So if you still forfeit the Laila, it's your fault. One of the strength he's giving you...
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That's why Peter said, work carefully to make sure that your calling and your election is not in vain. That no matter how cold you are called, Philistines can put out your eyes if you are not careful. It's labor. It's work. He said, put all diligence. Peter said it. Applying all diligence. I use a n...
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You know, the last day of our meeting in Abuja, we went to go and eat somewhere. That was the last night of the meeting. That was the conference I went for. So we had dinner in a restaurant. So as I entered the place, man, it was the finest restaurant I've ever been in my life. This is Abuja here. A...
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He will do party. He can't. He could have used a nice place. No, he must close the streets so that his neighbor can't get home. And God is reading his heart. God calls everybody in heaven and says, how much did I give you? 200 million dollars. Now he has gone mental. He will tell the evil spirits an...
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Do you get my point? Our fight is to be able to carry that glory when it will come. It is not, listen, it is not that we are going out to struggle alone. In fact, let me not remove the word alone. We're not going out to struggle. We are going out to manifest the grace that God has poured into us. I ...
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You are getting my point? So what are you going to do? What are you going to do? But if you're already a giant killer inside, that helmet you wore covering your whole face becomes a disadvantage. Please, I hope you're following the point I'm making. Therefore, we said the first battle is where? Inwa...
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I've seen people that they will be anointing their promises, anointing for breakthrough in the name of Jesus Christ. Listen, go and read my book, Acquire Life. There are trials in heaven. Once you shout prosperity, trial begins in heaven. Your prosperity is on trial. There are accusers of the brethr...
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There are those who are false, they came out to collect your money. There are those who don't realize it, that they are walking in ignorance. So when I say false prophets, I don't mean wicked prophets. There are some who just don't know. Some, they just, they learn the culture of preaching. And they...
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Nobody comes to me and is helped. Look into the mirror and say to yourself, every time they are talking about giving, giving, giving, I have never given. Tell yourself the truth, I'm always looking for how to get. Because there's enough words you have heard to tell your true character. Listen, it's ...
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That is, what happened was that David was able to kill the giant. He was inside a giant killer. Like we explained before, David was not very strong outwardly. No, you must understand that. He wasn't. When the Bible described him as being ruddy and of a handsome countenance, there are two ways to loo...
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Delilah was going to come. And when Delilah came, Delilah killed him. And Delilah comes to everybody. Assuming there were 10,000 Samsons, there would have been 10,000 Delilahs. Or one Delilah going from one Samson to 10. So maybe 1,000 Delilahs. But each person would have had his day of the visitati...
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This is the point. The man was by that licking away the spiritual ability that God gave him. His ability to resist Delilah was what he was wasting. Because like I said in that message, listen. Delilah will come one day. Everybody has a Delilah coming. Even the women have Delilahs coming because Deli...
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Are you getting the point? He said in verse five, now for this very reason also, applying all diligence in your faith supply moral excellence, and your moral excellence knowledge, and your knowledge self-control, and your self-control perseverance, and all of that. Now this is the point he was makin...
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But now, I want to look for somebody that's better than you. Are you getting the point I'm making? Now, my emphasis is this. Everybody gets to that point, but this is the emphasis. When they get there, will they have strength to withstand? That's the issue. You see, I've said it again and again. Chr...
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So it waits till you have reached the peak of your career. I like the way my pastor said it then. He said, God doesn't judge things until they have reached the top. That before Nebuchadnezzar was judged, he had become a victory. So that's how it is. Satan knows when to put that thing in so that the ...
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hings around, but a kind of joy that comes from having the right spirit and contemplating the things that are real. We rejoice when we see things that have real eternal value.
Let us take an example.
Imagine you are in church, and during the time for testimonies, somebody comes up smiling and tell...
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arnt and learnt. I was studying the word of God every time and the Holy Spirit gave me insight; that season I will not exchange for millions of dollars, houses or aeroplanes. It was a glorious season.
Every true testimony, even of material blessings, must show the demonstration of faith and the fai...
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expressions from the KJV expression of Heb. 11:3.
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
The part or side seen is a result of the side that do not appear, and it is the latter that matters...
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hat she broke the sound-barrier. I challenge you too to break the sound-barrier of your giving. Not for personal gain of seed-sowing for an intended harvest, but just be able to rejoice in good works.
Really, think about it: If you called up a friend and informed him or her of an opportunity to mak...
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aving children, but he seemed to have overlooked to mention those things as the source of his joyful thanksgiving to God. The reason was that he knew how to rejoice in the things that really mattered.
See, those outward things are not the things that God is doing in your life. They are just the man...
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aise is due.” 1 Cor 4:5 NLT
So we see that there is a common perspective to things, and there is the one that is real. We must keep learning to see things from the real side – the divine perspective.
My focus at this time is concerning the sources of our joy. What are the things we rejoice in? Wha...
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thinking of how powerful and anointed as ministers they had become. The Lord however interrupted their rejoicing and explained to them they were rejoicing in what was not the main thing demonstrated.
“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your na...
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t the thing that gives you joy. So rejoice in the things that matter.
You can rejoice when you are broke!
You can rejoice when people are laughing at you.
It all depends on what you are looking at.
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eter...
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oned that the disciples must have remembered that the Lord described it as a blessed thing to be persecuted for His name’s sake. Now the word ‘blessed’ brings me to another example of a source of joy.
Once a young man came to me and wanted me to help him solve an issue he was having. He had noticed...
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forgone a business deal to attend a teaching meeting and you were so happy you did even though that did cost you a huge sum in lost opportunity? Don’t worry, you are not crazy; it is the will of God.
“I rejoice at Thy word, as one who finds great spoil.” Ps 119:162
A good word for ‘spoil’ is break...
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JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. Rejoicing In Real Things.
“…for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Rom 14:17 NASB
One of the things we have as our duty, we Children of God, is to learn to value things properly. We must look at things fro...
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d and
made up their minds from the beginning that they
would not defile themselves by anything going on in
the land of Babylon. The time they faced the fiery
furnace was not the day it started.
GRACE
Let me say something about grace again. They didn’t
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Lord Jesus Christ.
…the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from
temptation. 2 Peter 2:9 NASB
The Lord is good,
a stronghold in the day of trouble;
He knows those who take refuge in him. Nahum 1:7
While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your
name which You have given Me; and I guarded them...
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o problem on the day of adversity. He will give
us a quickening word and His Spirit will enter into us
and set us on our feet. God’s grace is available for
every true and committed believer in Christ.
I went to teach on a campus some years ago. I spoke
of how Samson lost his place because of Delila...
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in the day of trial.
Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will
keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on
all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth
Rev 3:10 BBE
Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were not saved by the
strength of their determination. They were sav...
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are lost. Instead,
we have faith and are saved. Heb 10:39 GNT
Those who decide to turn back from following Christ
have existed, and the consequence is clear (See also
Heb 6: 4 – 8; 2 Pet 2: 20 – 21).
Please this is the point I am making about the mark of
the beast: it is not a technology but a wor...
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even though it meant terrible suffering… and when all
you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with
joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you
that will last forever. Heb 10:32-34 NLT
In recent years we see how holding onto Christian
principles could cost one his or her job or busi...
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vil’s box.
I was amazed to find out that even trains, cars, and air
travel were accused of being tools for the anti-Christ.
When internet began to grow, we did the same.
There are so many examples.
One of the things that have been consistent with our
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description in 2
Peter 2.
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Why would people worship the beast or his image?
The answer is simple: It is the love of this physical life.
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will
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th, work, power and livelihood. It also stands
to indicate who you are following in life. God takes a
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person by the right hand to lead him.
The forehead is used to denote the name one carries,
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body.
3. A righteous walk must be our focus.
This will come as we emphasize the right doctrines.
Like David said, the godly ones must be made our
heroes, not the rich and materially successful ones.
There is no righteousness apart from the one that
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THE MARK OF
THE BEAST
Pastor Bankie
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THE MARK OF THE BEAST
Copyright © 2020 Kingdom-Word Ministries
Bezalel Enlite (Publishers)
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THE AIM
I want to star...
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ing to lose the company rather than
compromise. It was a tough battle and they won only
narrowly at the Supreme Court (5-4). Imagine if the
court had had even the slightest majority of liberal
judges.
In March this year (2020), the European Court for
Human Right rejected the appeal of Swedish Chris...
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Never grumble. Never stand there and wonder. What do you do? Go home and double your faith. Don't take your account book to check how you will survive. Faith doesn't make natural sense. Go home and double your faith. See, every challenge, first day I spoke about this, I said it. Every challenge is G...
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For you, it's about faith. Because once faith is intact, like now there's water, there's nowhere to walk. Jesus said you will walk on the water. He didn't always walk on water himself. He used the boat a lot of times. But when there was no boat, you know what he did? He stepped on the water. He wasn...
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The bear number two, he drowned because he ran into the water. There was something I said some time ago when some people ran into the swamps in Ejibu. I said over 100 died. I have a habit of checking facts that I give here. Okay, it was over 1,000. Yeah, I went online to check whether I was right wh...
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Listen, listen, listen. I didn't say go and get bulletproof vehicle. I didn't say go and get armored police, armed guards. I didn't say so. What I said is just maintain what? Your confession. Maintain what he has said. They let him solve. You know what he said? He said, what do you see? He said, I s...
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of one of them, and then the natural disasters began. There was a storm, there was rain, there was wind, there was everything. The war came down and killed everybody. All his staff, all his children, minus one person that was to go and tell him what happened. Shortly after that, what's the next thin...
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stone to strike. Now my emphasis is the fact that it shall become a sanctuary. Now whether God will be your sanctuary or not depends on how you react to things. Faith can hinder the hand of God. It can release the power of God in your direction. Now let's read the next portion. Go to verse 16. Say, ...
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If you just curse God, you will die. And then you will have peace. She wasn't trying to deny God, she was trying to help him die. Do you get my point? Now, please, I'm not saying her faith did not fail, but her problem was, this torment is too much. If what they say is keeping you alive is your fait...
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Just think about Joseph waking up every day in the prison. Today I shall be delivered. Today I shall be delivered. Okay, bro, bro. That's how to get frustrated. We've always said today I shall be delivered for six months. Your faith is weakening every day because yesterday you were not delivered. Yo...
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What I'm going to emphasize by that is that faith matters. Let's read this portion again. It's a portion we all know. But please, I hope not to teach for too long today. I keep on saying I won't, you know? I'm going to teach chapter 14. Peter said, now, it's a story we all know, all right? But I wil...
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Most importantly, what did he say? Blessed be the name of the Lord. The Lord give, the Lord has taken. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Once he said that, and the Lord doesn't do this often, but he turned to the devil and said, you know what they call time? Is that an English word for time? It shoul...
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I have made the Lord my refuge. I have made the Most High my shelter. No evil will conquer me. He will order his angels to protect me wherever I go. They will hold me up with their hands so that I will not put my foot on a stone. I will trample upon lions and cobras. I will cross fierce lions and se...
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So somebody said, oh boy, why are you dressed like this? Do you know how hot the weather is? He said to the fellow, it's a comment, it's a joke, but it's very spiritual. He said, because we're in the same country, you think we're under the same climate? He said, my friend, hear that from there. We'v...
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Let's forget mistake. Just go back and say, Lord, it was wrong. You know, the beautiful thing about God is that when He takes a sin and forgives it, let's say forgive, but that's the proper word. When He takes a sin and forgives it, you will be thanking God you committed it. When you give birth to S...
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they go back to the other extreme. So please bear this in mind. Now what I want to say, we make it seem as if I'm criticizing, but I'm not. I believe in the word of faith. I hope you're getting my point. I believe in confessing the word of God. I believe in positive confessions of the word of God. N...
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Those guys, they had three words. Number one, we looked at it different ways. Number one, the Lord our God is able to deliver us. First confession is about God's what? Ability. Number two, he said, and he will deliver us. Second confession, about his intention in their lives. Number three, Even if H...
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I don't know your name, but you know when you said it. And even though you have forgotten, God is reminding you now. Because I need you to unwind it. Past mistakes, past errors, must be unwound. And listen, what he said in Jeremiah chapter 3, just acknowledge. Just say, I said what was wrong, this i...
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The staff is a pillar of support. The Word of God is a pillar of support for us. The Word of God helps us for reproof, for sound doctrine, for correction in righteousness. That is the Word of God. The Lord is our shepherd. Let's thank him for that. Let's say, you, oh Lord, you are my shepherd. You m...
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People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. Now what happens to those who contradict his word, verse 21? They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven and down at th...
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My mother, yes, she's 85. And anytime she comes to a new group, and she's not been there in some years, the only assignment house in the world is to walk around the parents' lot. I'm now in Benin, I'm 60. Don't warn yourself. Don't do that kind of joke. If you see one time, you say, ah, look, I'm 15...
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Somebody I know very well, she told my wife a few days before, Madam, I'll still come and see you. Next I got the call, she was dead. The other one was walking normally. A car jammed the keke, keke ran into her, hit her. She hit her head badly on the road, she was dead. I said, don't say, don't just...
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I said, that white was a towel, actually. I said, that big, brand new towel, you know, those white, fluffy, very big, enough to make a bed. Just lay down, roll me there. I said, I'll wake up, either on earth or in heaven. This flesh will not see corruption, so don't worry about that one. But you wak...
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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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forces
of the spirit, but we must be deliberate in invoking
the power of God into situations by faith. Our faith
is to ascribe greatness to our Lord. We must bear in
mind that indeed, God is working.
And we know that God causes all things to work together
for good to those who love God, to those wh...
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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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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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e where her faith
was. Pursuit is a sign of faith. Now, money was no
longer the need, but the new faith must still have its
expression, this time in a different type of pursuit.
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Ge ing close to this man was not going to be easy.
She came in from behind — in the press. There w...
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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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pecially pleased with Him. What impressed God
about Abraham's action was the faith that was
portrayed. Please note this rendering of verse 1:
Some time later, God tested Abraham's faith.
Gen 22:1 NLT
It is so appropriately rendered. It was not a test of
love but a test of faith. God was not checki...
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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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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
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fait...
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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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do not have a hand,
God was working. He chose your parents, even if
you now don't like them; He chose your country of
birth, even though you wish you were born in
America. He was working out His will.
There are no accidents in your life; Satan is not able
to control your circumstances. God may gran...
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a verse from the
book of Proverbs:
Like a madman who throws
Firebrands, arrows and death,
So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says," Was I not joking?"
Prov 26:18-19
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Oh! God had something to say about that tradition;
He said we were acting like dangerous mad men.
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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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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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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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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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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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knew many physicians and
spent all she had on them, but when she discovered
the Lord, she turned to Him and was healed. What I
want you to notice is the switch in the placement of
that woman's faith.
She started out thinking that the doctors could
help. It took her years, but she eventually
discove...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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r expectation of you
must never be the basis of your decisions in life.
*Num 14:8, Gen 39:10, Est 4:16, Luk 12:33, Gen 14:22, 23
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here was a time God tested Abraham, and
Abraham passed the test so well that the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Joseph’s brothers thought it was
his respect for their father that kept them safe. So,
after their father died, they sent a delegation to
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Joseph to tell him that their father had specifically
requested that he took no vengeance against t...
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s Jesus went on from there,
two blind men followed
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ver the physical in the area of finances
will fill your heart; it will do so in such a measure
that you will be convinced of the power of God to
control these things. That is when you can pray in
faith.
Story, Story
How is faith developed? It is to fill our heads and
thoughts with reports concerning t...
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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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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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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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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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aith, as life is not
possible otherwise. The Bible calls their kind of
faith unbelief. Like I explained above, unbelief is
when you put your trust or faith in other things
apart from God and His word.
Let us take an example: There are all kinds of
illnesses and diseases out there. Let us consider a...
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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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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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“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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do not fear them. Num 14:7-9
I have highlighted some words with bold
characters. They are important words. “If the Lord is
pleased with us.” “…do not rebel against the Lord.”
“…the Lord is with us.”
These two men, Joshua and Caleb, saw everything
the other ten men saw, but they came to a totally
d...
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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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.
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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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ee, and then
proceeded to curse it.
He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!"
Mark 11:14
As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig
tree withered from the roots up. v20
He had spoken against the tree the previous day—I
assume that was in the afternoon. The next
morni...
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nowledge that with this God,
nothing is impossible? Are you here only because
you heard stories and are grasping at just about
anything?”
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Many times, people come to the Lord in prayer
because they are desperate, but they actually have
n...
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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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ow common to most people, even the
minds of Christians have been shaped into thinking
everything about diseases is natural. This vast
amount of knowledge has greatly increased our
faith in physicians.
I have read people explain that in the days of old,
before the advancement of scientific knowledge,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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be.
While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease. Gen 8:22
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The earth will not remain forever, but while it
remains, everything is in a perfect cycle. There a...
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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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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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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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Him. For example, at a time when some Pharisees
advised Him to run away because Herod wanted to
kill Him, His response was:
*Ps 139:16
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“Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and
perform cures today and tomorrow, and the thi...
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of it. Many persons
needed to get Jesus’ a ention, but she didn’t need
to; her conviction was intense as a result of what she
had contemplated.
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Attend to His Stories
Many of us do not realize that the information we
pay a ention to is what det...
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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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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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d on His promises. Abraham is our
father in the faith; we read of the Lord coming to
him again and again to give him promises: “I will
make your name great.” “Your descendants will
inherit this land.”
Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you
are, northward and southward and eastward ...
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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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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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the term by following the way it is
used. The Bible teaches us however concerning
what type of faith we are to have, and where to
place our faith.
Now, let us try and describe what faith actually is.
Faith Everywhere
Faith is part of the structure of life. Faith is not a
special principle which is...
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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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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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wants it. He desires it. He is in
need of someone who will trust Him absolutely.
Many of us are so concerned about “what can I do
for God?” when God is concerned about “who is
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there that trusts me so much that my word is final
with them?” He is not so concerned about our
offer...
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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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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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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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hing to the hospital will
save your life. Sometimes it appears so, but so also
it is that at other times that is the very thing that
kills. Life is supernaturally preserved. Spiritual
things are real.
I remember a dear brother being suddenly afflicted
in his bones, in the foot. The doctors wanted to
...
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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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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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e promises of God in our lives.
The interesting thing is that there is no part of our
lives that He didn't think of ahead. David was
amazed when God helped him to understand this
mystery just a li le.
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.
They cannot be numbered!
I can't even count them;
...
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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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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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be numbered; they
outnumber the grains of sand.* Every detail is
planned by Him. Blessings are not random for the
child of God; they are commanded.
For there the Lord commanded the blessing… Ps 133:3
You are not alive by accident. That accident did not
happen by accident. You were not delivered fr...
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did not accept this as the son through whom
He would fulfil His word to Abraham. Abraham
was later to send Hagar and Ishmael away from
him.
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Then, at the age of 100, 25 years after the call, Isaac
was born to the old woman Sarah, the wife ...
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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
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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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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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f God lets me know that the
treatment is in feeding on the word of God. I just
feed on the word of God until I fully recover.
*Is 38:21 NLT
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Some of those times people have asked, “why don't
you take medicine?” I tell them I am taking
medi...
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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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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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ad brought Joseph
out of the pit and sold him to slave traders. The
traders took Joseph to Egypt where he was resold.
That was how the young man became a domestic
slave to a high-ranking man in Egypt.
This narrative about Joseph is when we look from
the physical level. Our view from below shows
onl...
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sin in the eyes of the Lord. We tend to think
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that because we have justification for complaining,
it makes it alright, but this is not so.
One day I meditated on the experiences of the
people of Israel in the wilderness after they left
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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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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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ut having the same spirit of faith, according to
what is wri en, "I believed, therefore I spoke,"
we also believe, therefore we also speak.
2 Cor 4:13
Monkeys are very smart animals, but no ma er
how much you teach a monkey to talk, it can never
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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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follows that since she was close enough, she could
take from the crumbs. Many of us overlook anoth...
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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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So Moses did just as the Lord
had commanded… After Moses had stripped Aaron of
his garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron
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died there on the mountain top. Num 20:23-28
The Wrath of God
Death is not an accident; it is always an
appointment. People die in different way...
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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,
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an assassin kills. The fact
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that you discovered bullets or pellets in a dead
body does not mean there was no human who fired
the fatal shot.
Death and diseases are spirits. When the spirit of a
disease is withdrawn, the bacteria in the per...
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he smart fellow of a builder who decides that the
rooms are not the right size, he has a be er shape
for the windows, or a door is too wide.
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There was this carpenter who once did a
partitioning job for me. The fellow decided and
overruled ...
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are you letting this happen to me?” There was
confusion in my soul as a result of all the things happening. I
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am a doctor and so was supposed to understand (and mentally
I did), but when it is your wife, your ...
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ive mercy and find grace to help in time
of need.
Heb 4:16
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20. Why?
We may wonder why these bad things have to happen. I don’t
fully understand too but let m...
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nted to those
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who made the right choices for God when their little faith was
enough to handle the challenge.
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8. Faith ...
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eet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;
Until the time that his word came to pass.
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Ps 105:18-19
It is not right to go out to look for pain and suffering just for
the sake of pain an...
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y cannot say this was what was wrong. By my walk
with God I would have learnt a lesson from it if it was from
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misdoing. I never spoke wrongly or thought wrongly.
There was an experience one day that is quite ...
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will testify against you;
I am God, your God.
"I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,
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And your burnt offerings are continually
before Me.
"I shall take no young bull...
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n
the teachings to his descendants. I believe this is a very crucial
thing in God’s decision to call Abram.
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His desire
Have you noticed that God called Abraham using a promise as
bait?
Now the LOR...
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith…
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Gal 5 22 KJV
The word ‘faith’ here is often translated as ‘faithfulness’ by
some translations but the li...
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eved,
even God, who gives life to the dead and
calls into being that which does not exist.
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Rom 4:17
The birth of Ishmael was a product of a mistake, granted; but
it was good he made it for ...
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ctual fervent
pray of the righteous avails much. The Amplified Bible adds
the word heartfelt to the fervent.
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Many times, I see people run up and down complaining about
how their country is bad, how they must...
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o the mother’s health and the babies’. The word
of God that was poured upon that pregnancy did not return
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void, it waited until it had accomplished. You can preserve
your spiritual seed and multiply it, e...
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ster told me a story that just illustrates this thing
so well. She took a qualifying examination and was not
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successful. When the second time came, she put in a lot of
spiritual effort, together with her hus...
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n all respects,
bearing fruit in every good work and
increasing in the knowledge of God.
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Col 1:10
Now, that is the main importance of faith—it is the way of
walking which pleases the Lord...
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close walk. The good God used all his experiences:
deliverance, wealth from favour, increased productivity,
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visions etc, to increase his faith.
When Sarah was rescued from Pharaoh supernaturally after
Abram...
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years. Why did it take so long? The reason is
that God was building the faith of Abraham to the place where
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he could receive Isaac and keep him. We have seen in
previous chapters how it was God that built t...
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r happens your heart comes out stronger in God and
your dependence upon Him never wavers. When Job said,
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“the Lord gave and the Lord has taken, blessed be the name of
the Lord,” it was not a sound of unb...
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er Israel
and the journey to the Promised Land. All those who
mumbled and grumbled perished in the wilderness.
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Instead of “God, why me?” say, “Dear Father, I thank you.”
As you do that, your faith will be buil...
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with God; and he was not, for
God took him.
Gen 5:24
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…for he obtained the witness that before his
being taken up he was pleasing to God. And
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ke them withstand the king and refuse to give
in, even in the face of the fire. There was a manifestation of
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the Spirit of faith to help them in the time of trouble.
Sometimes when we read stories of what Ch...
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to
deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire;
and He will deliver us out of your hand, O
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king. 18 "But even if He does not, let it be
known to you, O king, that we are not going...
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spoken…
If this attitude is in your heart, then you are ready to embark
on a great journey of faith with God.
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6. The story of the widow
In going on concerning the matter of how to increase your
faith I want to...
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hen the Bible says that the real thing that God is
doing can only be seen when we look at the whole picture.
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And we know that God causes all things to
work together for good to those who love
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of people so that even though they are seeing yet they do not
understand. A hard heart is impossible to persuade.
The spirit of faith
Having made some points about the hard heart let me now
talk about the diametric opposite. There is what the Bible calls
the spirit of...
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ou do when you have believed God for your health
and rejoiced and praised, yet when you see the doctors report
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you have only gotten worse?
What do you do when you fast and pray, intercede for people
and declar...
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ildhood,
and let your heart be pleasant during the
days of young manhood. And follow the
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impulses of your heart and the desires of
your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you
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m it, it will acquire a better one and be
back.
For that failed business, a better one is about to be born.
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For that disappointment in the matter of marriage, a better
wife, better than you ever imagined, i...
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boring, but that cannot be a problem since most things are
boring until you make up your mind to enjoy it.
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You see, for a long time, and to a large extent till now, I could
not understand the craze about g...
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ite, read the books; their great spirits drop
into your life. When you can get hold of their audio, don’t let
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it pass you by. There is a connection to a spiritual gift as those
words flow through you.
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with our lives so that the spirit of faith will be imparted to us.
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5. The double hearing
However, they did not all heed the glad
tidings; for Isaiah says, "Lord, wh...
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Until the time that his word came to pass.
Ps 105:18-19
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18. Due season and faith
If the clouds are full, they pour out rain
upon the earth.
...
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ack of ability, but at least I am ready.
Paul said once the readiness is there, it is acceptable according
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to what one can perform.
In support of this doctrine, we need to note this interesting
fact about ...
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their training in faith. There are steps you
take in desperation which are serving to help you discover the
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power of God, and so strengthen your faith. After that, you
will build an altar like Abraham and ca...
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but their spirit of righteousness.
I admire men who have made great sacrifices for their God
and their faith.
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I admire men who remained faithful all their lives to the wife
of their youth, even when there wer...
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es necessary available. It is not power or ability; it is
just your faith in action.
That is how grace works.
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16. Back to Abraham
In the last chapter we began to see why God called Abram and
how his desires w...
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his out because many of us have the erroneous
belief that Jesus was never afraid of anything and as a person
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of faith you must stand boldly at all times. When the times
that we were unable to stand boldly, w...
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that it would not
rain, and it did not rain on the earth for
three years and six month.
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James 5:17
The life of Abraham shows the progress of faith in the life of
one walking with God.
The...
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ts; offerings being given when the fire of lack is
burning. God does not act impulsively; you must maintain a
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lifestyle before Him before you will get the fruit of it. You
cannot just give once and then expec...
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r the alien by
giving him food and clothing.
Deut 10:18
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In the same manner, defining the love of man for God will be
by practical things.
“If an...
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ld have succeeded. Jesus had to
pray specifically for Peter so that he might champion the
recovery of faith.
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David said it thus,
…when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to
the rock that is...
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finally culminated in the
sacrifice of Isaac.
The school of faith is really a school; in it you have classes
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and levels. As you succeed in one level you move on to
another. There are many who have never walke...
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aved.
My summary from Cornelius? His good works worked with
his prayers to produce the fruit of faith for him.
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9. The force of love
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three;
but the gre...
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t something, we
begin to like the thing. Whatever you pay attention to is the
direction your desires take.
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Now, after making your choice to like something, you
naturally begin to practice or use it and the...
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support those whose heart is completely His.
2 Chron 16:9
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Elijah was sent to the house in which God knew he would be
welcome because other hungry people had been welco...
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ings in life
despite what circumstances may try to say.
He made my wife conceive and bear children. He gave me
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money to be generous even when people are full of
grumbling. He keeps me confident even when many ...
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rs
heart.
Most of all let us admire the greatest love of all.
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and
perfecter of faith…
Heb 12:2
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it was not united by faith in those who heard.
Heb 4:2
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We have laid much emphasis on ‘get into the word,’ ‘read the
word,’ ‘get to know the word’ as what to do t...
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eath spread to all men, because
all sinned.
Rom 5:12
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Every time we hold on to God by faith, Satan is always
pushed back. It is not just enough to call ...
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the widow of Zarephath did, but I doubt whether the widow
had as much trouble obeying a stranger as she did.
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Now here is my simple and direct answer to the puzzle: the
widow of Zarephath most likely had no wa...
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, and he who had received
the promises was offering up his only
begotten son. Heb 11:17
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This is the place of works my brethren. It is only acceptable to
God as a demonstration of your fa...
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s is
righteous, just as He is righteous.
1 John 3:7
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11. What do you love? (The
power of passion)
This time I am not referring to love for someone or G...
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et us do good to all men,
and especially to those who are of the
household of the faith.
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Gal 6:6-10
Please don’t forget that your little faith is a seed while the
great faith you are desi...
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God. He never cried against God, he cried
to Him. That preacher taught me that day that it is okay to cry.
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(Jesus) in the days of his flesh… offered up
prayers and supplications with strong crying...
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the
one we have; at such times there is a manifestation of the
Spirit if we are worthy of it at that time.
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7. The manifestation of faith
I have explained that faith is often a manifestation of the
Spirit. W...
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can
believe them, then you are walking in the faith of God and
walking pleasing to Him.
If you can believe!
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4. The ability to believe
In this chapter I want to begin to get into the main purpose of
this book...
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of faith—great faith.
If you will walk with Him, He will teach you too. And that is
the reason for this book.
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17. A personal walk with God
The whole aim of the exposition in this book, as the title
implies, i...
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God are not hard; all God wants is for
you to take delight in them and He will make everything easy
for you.
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I rejoice at Your word, as one who finds
great spoil.
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• And how you too can achieve faith of a like
magnitude as this Roman.
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1. Faith is the central matter
In these modern days, I have noticed that a lot of the things
being emphasized in the teachings that co...
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:16). The manifestation of
faith oftentimes comes to assist us because without faith
God’s power cannot come.
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Please note that God does not just sporadically manifest these
things; rather He has reasons and t...
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to the lives of people was born. After that he
went everywhere healing people that were oppressed by the
devil
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Since then many who have read his story have tried at great
lengths to get into that level of anoi...
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it, nor can you speak in
tongues and confess it into existence. You must wait, and in
its season, it will come.
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19. Praying and faith
Can one pray to have faith? Can you ask God to increase your
faith and your ...
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f us have had nothing but little faith in life and we
have been wondering why. Let me at this time suggest an
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explanation to you: your selfishness has been the problem. All
the times you have gone to try to r...
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ord of God. The key expression there is actually
‘hearing and hearing’. It is a clear case of double emphasis
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which was used a lot in those days. To lay emphasis on an
important subject, the speaker would oft...
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answers; one theoretical, the other practical.
The theoretical answer is this: If she has refused, it would
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have been a sign that she did not believe him as he said, ‘for
thus says the Lord.’ Please note th...
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opportunity has come on this particular day,
and because faith is now in your heart you will step into it.
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14. Getting the Spirits of men
There is a little point I will like to add here on the
transmission ...
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tor under such circumstances, on the
natural plain, is either gullible or knows something we are not
aware of.
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Look at the story again. It is actually my modernized version
of the story of the widow of Zarepha...
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rit of faith is the portion of
those who delight in the law of the Lord and so meditates in it
day and night.
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Let me explain what it means to meditate.
It means more than just to think, though that is a cruci...
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He does as miracles, Pharaoh would not obey the instruction
of God because the Lord would hardened his heart
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The LORD said to Moses, "When you go
back to Egypt see that you perform before
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the God that we
cannot see when we have not demonstrated that love to the
people that we can see (1 John 4:20).
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Love is the power.
Let me get back to something that I said earlier about the faith
of the widow of...
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the only examples in scripture that I
know that was used to teach real marriage. There is a reason
for that.
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I feel deeply sorry for those who treat their wives like rags;
the Bible says that God does not gi...
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would say!
The fear of man brings a snare, but he who
trusts in the LORD will be exalted.
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God leads everyone to a point of decision; He gives us all an
opportunity. Unbelief and hardness of...
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abour in faith. It was unbelief that prevented those that were
given the opportunity before from entering.
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3. What is faith?
Faith is the ability to accept the reality of the unseen and
consider them as re...
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elieving the promises that God sent through his
prophets for us and trusting those words so much we totally
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rely on them, considering them as real, and indeed more real
than the physical things of life. Tha...
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t a lot of Christians think, God did not walk only
among the Israelites in those days, but His walk with them
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was peculiar in that it was with them that God planned the
redemption of mankind and He gave them ...
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Israel and commanding the movement of the ark.
The God who did that for him is indeed worthy of all worship.
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The dance came out of him spontaneously. I know this
because that was the answer he gave to Michal...
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ied? How do you know the will of God? To select the
right spouse and marry him or her takes faith. The truth
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however is that the faith to do it is determined by how you
have been living before God in smaller...
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to the
spirit. Well, we have also established that acts of love are the
seeds that we sow into the spirit.
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10. The power of righteousness
In the last chapter I expounded about love and how acts of
love are ...
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d the idea, is often never known.
We only learn the name of the fellow who took the glory.
What am I saying?
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You may live in a bad community; underdeveloped, poor and
rough; yet God has a plan for beauty, fo...
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Luke 7:7-8
This really was impressive in the ears of the Lord. Please
notice what He said in response.
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Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled at
him, and turned and said to the crowd that
wa...
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Now get this; that was the name of God to him. The name of
God is not just what He is, but what He is to you.
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But you have not allowed Him help you in the time of trouble.
In the time of need you have run to ...
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always lives to make intercession for
them.
Heb 7:25
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I discovered this from the prophets’ writings. They are the
authentic word of God. I know this bec...
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ear this point.
Dear Cornelius
The story this time is that of Cornelius and is found in Acts
chapter 10.
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Before relating the story we must bear in mind a few points.
One is that salvation is never by wor...
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rea
named Cornelius, a centurion of what was
called the Italian cohort, a devout man, and
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one who feared God with all his household,
and gave many alms to the Jewish people,
...
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understand what the spirit of faith is. The
spirit of faith is the spiritual force and attribute within a
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person that makes them quick to accept the word of God. The
spirit of faith causes you to believe w...
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en Christianity and other
religions, and is why we say truthfully again and again that it
is not a religion.
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Religion emphasizes what you do. It emphasizes how you pay
your tithes and offer your sacrifices. ...
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eement between God and man that produces effect on
the earth. God has many beautiful plans for this earth, but
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each plan can only come into existence as it is activated by
someone’s faith. The ones that have b...
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king, he is not trying to describe situations, he is
creating them. The person who hears it twice, that is with
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hearing and hearing, responds like Mary:
Be it unto me according to your word.
Once you speak like...
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ministrations in my heart. Oh, it is so great.
If you are in need of healing or the fruit of the womb or any
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such thing, it is not methods that you need, you need to be in
the presence of the word, even when...
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o tell you. I went on to commence the negotiations
with the station and God showed me by what happened that
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He had prepared the way. The broadcasts have been a
tremendous blessing to people and have been on...
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n spreads unto your children’s children.
Pray that God will deliver you from this snare of the fear of
man.
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13. The foolishness of
preaching
The walk of the Christian is spiritual. By this I mean that we
ar...
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Understanding how to receive the spirit of faith
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Bible quotations marked KJV are from the King James’
Version
Bible quotations marked AMP are from the Amplified Bible
© The Lockman Foundation Used by permission
All other quotes are from the New America...
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eakage of spiritual power from
desire for women.
I will teach more on this in the next chapter when we get to
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the power of passion.
What I am trying to bring out in this chapter is the power of
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at one point or
another to sacrifice an Isaac, but unlike Abraham, our Isaacs
may actually die physically.
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What do I mean by Isaac?
Isaac is that dream that you have believed God for. It is that
goal and vi...
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eaching that I explained
in the previous chapter.
You tap into someone’s spirit if you are always in their
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presence, hearing their words. The interesting part is that even
if you are unable to be in their ...
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e families of the earth will be
blessed.
Gen 12:3
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One of the major reasons why the faiths of people have not
risen to great levels is that God reall...
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ose advanced
countries can be created anywhere.
I believe that all God needs are people who can believe it.
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I believe that God has been working over the years to create
faith in the hearts of the Josephs th...
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courageous for the sake of our people and
for the cities of our God; and may the LORD
do what is good in His sight.”
2 Sam 10:12
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rd has allowed them to die because of ‘what will people
think?’ It was also like that in the days of Jesus.
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Nevertheless many even of the rulers
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no preacher can describe will open doors for you.
That way, no preacher can take the glory. Please read these
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words from Paul again.
I was with you in weakness and in fear and
in much tremb...
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that as that brook was drying, that widow’s food was
running out. God was not sending Elijah to the widow for
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Elijah’s sake but for the widow’s sake. By the time Elijah left
that brook, the widow’s miracle ha...
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o
speak more about it; well that is what I am on to now.
Let me state again that how you eat, what you wear, the
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parties you attend, the use of chemical stimulants and such
things all can affect the state of you...
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on in life by leaving a particular group of people they
have been associating with (may be a church or a social
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group); they know the truth and in private will tell you this,
but they are so concerned about wha...
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, including the 10 spies who saw the giants, were the
same people who had desired meat and the delicacies of
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Egypt, and this is the reason why when they saw giants, the
return-to-Egypt option was open and th...
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ple
draw near with their words And honor Me
with their lip service, But they remove their
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hearts far from Me, And their reverence for
Me consists of tradition learned by rote
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to everybody in their hearts, and it is the
call for righteous living and acknowledging God. It is a call to
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live above the moral standards of the society. If you have no
regard for that, there will not be a...
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d that what he was
describing was reality and not preaching. He felt that real life
often does not reflect what is preached. I looked at him and
told him in many words, ‘the word of God is not here to
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desire for a name in
posterity and a country of his own would be fulfilled if he
walked faithfully with God.
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There is a very powerful spiritual principle I want you to
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arly expressed in the Bible that they read daily but
they never try to amend their ways to fit what it says.
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It is very common to find Christians who listen to the word of
God with an attitude like they are ...
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tailed description of how to
find his destination.
‘Thank you so much ma’am. But please could I get a little
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money from you to ride a bus with; as you can see I am really
worn out and have no money.’
‘I’m so...
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th is that most times the whole
story is not told.
Am I saying that God does not reward such seed sowing with
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such harvests?
Precisely! He usually does not!
What about the widow of Zarephath?
To answer that I...
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ions like Nigeria has come; we need
Josephs.
Respect your desires; don’t sell them quickly on the altar of
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comfort and a good job. God needs those desires to work for
the rest of the people. Start thinking...
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ard?” “Heard
what?” “The boss died last night!”
He died fighting the call of the Spirit of God because of what
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his friends would say!
How can you believe, when you receive
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speaking, that could kill that quick, but the power in it was
toxic to hearts of iniquity.
Relevance today
A lot of times we have emphasized on methods rather than the
crude preaching of th...
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ver (Heb 12:1).
Flee from sexual immorality (2 Tim. 2:22).
Cultivate faithfulness. Seek it and practice it.
Learn diligence, integrity, good manners and every virtue just like every
Christians should.
Make sure you take your eyes away from your special call as if it is a guarantee
of success; it di...
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. No, learning
the subject of physics or mathematics may not have much to do with the
preaching anointing, but it has everything to do with succeeding in life and
surviving the glory of the anointing.
The good thing about having a calling or gift in an area of life is that the calling
comes with a ...
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ed your gift alone; there must be success
in many supporting areas of life for you to stand. This is why I believe that the
Lord doesn't often send people for training in the area of their gifts only.
Let me explain.
David loved to read, write poetry and play the harp. He was gifted and
became so s...
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quired holiness for fulfilment and for sustaining
that fulfilment.
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FINAL WORDS
We must pursue personal godly character in all that we do. That is the
foundation for succeeding i...
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as to teach us
later.
Do not give your strength to women,
Or your ways to that which destroys kings. Prov 31:3
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Samson's strength was depleted in the houses of those women that he
wouldn't keep away from. I am ...
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o succeed in
the ministry.
Yes, every gift has its temptations.
When you work in a quarry, stones might fall and crush you. When you chop
wood, there is danger with each stroke of your ax. Eccl 10:9
What Solomon was writing here is that each profession has a danger, and
when John the Baptist call...
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ze that if they must disobey God, it is better
to disobey him by honest labour rather than by begging or being dishonest.
Even if both of these constitute disobedience, one is definitely a lesser sin.
I am not at all saying that people should not pursue their missions of life; I am
just saying that...
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ult of a deliberate action by the Lord. The Lord refused
to lift them up because they failed in the small things.
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How you are doing right where you are as a student or as a worker in another
person's business is ...
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that reason they close doors against themselves
so often.
The second verse is this:
Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will stand before kings;
He will not stand before obscure men. Prov 22:29
What I want to bring out from this verse is the meaning or implication of the
word 'skill.' If you ...
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Chapter 1 4
Chapter 2 6
Chapter 3 8
Chapter 4 10
Chapter 5 13
Chapter 6 17
Chapter 7 22
Chapter 8 25
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ng. That strength is simply the power with which we hold unto
God; it manifests as faith and obedience to the word of God. That was what
Samson was donating to strange women through sexual encounters.
Beware
That is the problem with a lot of people today. As they engage in sexual
immorality, and ot...
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fail even though they have a special calling and are heavily
endowed with divine power.
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Choosing To Follow Jesus
Jesus died to save us all from our sins and from everlasting damnation;
He came to make us children...
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ecause of the pressure in itself.
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Prov 24:10 AMP
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One day, everyone's Delilah will come, but it is not always a woman. The spirit
of Delilah is in e...
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d to show that these are
wrong concepts.
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ALL-
ALL-ROUND LEARNING
Like I was saying earlier when talking about leadership, what actually makes
someone succeed in li...
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who are not worth their offices, just like there are elders who refuse
to show enough responsibility over time and therefore differ little from
juveniles, but they are the abnormal specimens of life.
As you grow up in anything, you become a worthy leader if you learn
diligence, discipline, patience...
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her the character
and discipline that people develop into their lives. Gifts do not make a man,
character does.
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Let us quickly examine the following two verses of sc...
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type that Paul commanded that whosoever would not work should not
eat. He became unhappy when someone tried to make him responsible. The
problem was not at all his calling or passion; it was laziness.
The passion for every idle man especially when he is hungry must be for
labour. If he is indeed no...
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it is not a guarantee of
success at all; it is more of a call to discipline. The Lord is calling you to realize
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that you have a great work ahead of you so that you can start exercising
yourself in every godly th...
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kie
There he met a Jew named Aquila… with his wife Priscilla... Paul went to see
them, and stayed and worked with them, because he earned his living by
making tents, just as they did. Acts 18:2-4 GNT
There is no indication that making tents was apostle Paul's calling or that he
had a passion for t...
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s faithful as a civil servant that he
becomes a man of God. God doesn't primarily follow us to church to see how
diligent we are there; he checks our secular offices to see if we are truly
faithful.*1
Sometimes the Lord calls a student and he runs away from school to obey the
call; my understanding...
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eared, saying, 'Master, your mina has made ten minas more.'
And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in
a very little thing, be in authority over ten cities.' vs16-18
The better any of these men did in what could have been considered
mundane, the greater the place ...
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ing all kinds of miracles
and having large crowds follow them, everything must be alright; but it is all
deception. I can just imagine the Lord sending a message to Samson and
persons like him saying:
“You say, 'I am strong, feared and have become influential,' yet you do not
know that you are weak...
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It is often quoted, even though
wrongly applied most of the
times, that a man’s gift will make
room for him. Many suppose that
being gifted means that success
and great accomplishments in
life are almost certain. But this is
not the way things turn out most
times. The fact is that majority of
gifted...
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to note that the Hebrew word for
glory (kabhod) has the root meaning of weight. It means 'to be heavy'. No
wonder Paul described the “weight of glory” in 2 Cor 4:17. The fact is that
glory is weighty.
It happened that the young man could not withstand the weight of the glory
which the apparent succ...
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some income and to qualify for the continued support of the church. They
had rented a place for him to live in.
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I spoke with this man and gave him some counsel about life, but he seemed
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er manifestations. It is not required of you that you
immediately run in another direction. Failing in school does not mean you
have not been called to study; it just means you are not being diligent.
When David was anointed as king by Samuel (1 Sam 16:13) he didn't head for
the palace or create hi...
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st assumed that it would come
to pass whether they do anything or not, they became totally lax with the
result that the Lord left them long ago and they do not know it. I need to
emphasize this point.
When God shows us a vision or reveals the future to us, the reason He does
that is so that we can ...
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He said, we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Now notice this, it said, Be imitators of those who through faith a...
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What is patience? It's just locating what is right to do, and doing it all the time, and recognizing that some of the things you are doing will not fully manifest in your generation. It does not mean you should be discouraged. That's what I'm making. That God, now let me go back to this and I'll clo...
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Just know that you are a solution provider. You know, personally, you know, it annoys when Christians want to make these decisions. Let me tell you something about faith. Faith is a risk. Did you hear what I said? Yes, sir. Faith means if I perish, let me perish. Faith is not that, oh, amen, praise ...
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As a kind of healing, we are going to start hearing the testimonies. People will not even know when they got healed. They just remember they were sick. You see what I said? They will not even know when they got healed. They just remember that they were sick. Ah, I was sick until last week. You now s...
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then they took risks with their lives. They did die. The Bible said without receiving promises, but listen to me, without their sacrifices, the promises would not have come to reality. Would that Abraham, would that Isaac, without Jacob, the nation of Israel would never have been born and Jesus Chri...
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So a lot of younger ministers were there. They were there. Wow, they were so impressed. They asked one of them, he said, what do you think? He was looking. He said, what do you think? You know what he said? This is what happens when a man has lost direction in life. He said, this is what happens whe...
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And they were like, what? He said, no. OK, if you don't have, do you know where I can get this? They were confused. He said, OK, oh, so you're upset, eh? Why you be calling my number? You'll be offering me all kinds of promos. The Lord is good. It was a big joke that time. And the young man saw me i...
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patience, when it's looked at at an instant, it is called what? Faith. That is, faith that is held on tightly to, is what is called patience. So, when the Bible talks about faith and patience, He was saying that faith and continuous faith, that's the way I understand it. That is not just about, you ...
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Because sitting around him, that was what he meant. He said, if you sit around me, you have to drink of my cup. The only fellow that didn't die that way, somebody said he hasn't died till now. That's John. Apostles of the Lamb? It wasn't that their God couldn't defend them. Peter was there, God remo...
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is part of charging the atmosphere for the fulfillment of the promise of God. Oh yes, very important. Let me take a side trip. That's why don't let answers discourage you. Don't let anything that's happened in this nation discourage you. Don't let the fact that police people ran away into it and ref...
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Some of these are not necessary. We just create unnecessary signs of position for ourselves. That's not what it is. That's not what it is. It's not a sign of spiritual authority at all. The most important thing is self-denial. Are we willing to deny ourselves for the sake of what God wants to do in ...
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Jacob, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, all died in faith. They had not handled, physically speaking, the promise, even though they lived with that in their hearts all the days of their lives. All these died in faith. without receiving the promises, but having seen them, and having welcomed them from a distance...
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You can be any 10,000 today. In a year, God makes it a million. Okay, let me pray a prayer for you, then we'll go home. I need to pray this prayer for you. Father God, for everyone listening to me, do something in their lives or around them that will let them know how great your work can be. Amen. I...
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Let them understand sacrifice of faith. People have to make those sacrifices. They will make it in different paths. You see, because many of us think it's just about preaching. It's not about preaching. They will go into business, they will make the sacrifice there. They will go into academies, they...
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but I'm going to take it from the beginning just to enjoy the reading and then I will jump here and there to save time until we get to where I really want us to get to. He said from verse one, now faith is the assurance of things hoped for. You know I'm using the New American Standard Bible. The con...
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Please bear these things I'm saying in mind. So what is patience there for? It is not as if, you know, I'm looking for, I keep on giving, I use that money as an example. I give, give, it goes. No. Like I said the other day, okay, I was teaching in Benin, that we don't give because we don't want to g...
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And that the Pope or one big cardinal said, hmm, gone are the days when the apostles will say, silver and gold we do not have. Then one priest said, and gone are the days when they could say, take up your bed and walk. I hope you're getting my point. The priest answered, Oga, we lost both of them. W...
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By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. Now this is where I wanted to get to, verse 8. By faith Abraham, when he...
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I said, when the law says strike, continue striking if it says stop. That's it. It says strike. Just did it. Are you mad? It says strike. Are you normal? It doesn't matter. I'm just striking. If he doesn't say stop, I will not stop. If my left hand is tired, I will put my right hand. If my right han...
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Your wife has done the longer truth. Your wife's truth has done the long. You now hear that one particular area, the word is not moving there again, there's no money. Then you now say, how can I dwell in my paneled holiday when the house of God is lying desolate? Tell your wife, heaven is better tha...
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Patience. I give, and give, and give, and it starts raining. Let me tell you what real giving is. I give, and give, and give. If I lie, let me die in the process. If God doesn't give me anything back, it's his personal problem, not mine. What he gave to me that I'm giving is his money, is his materi...
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you don't stop praying it because it's been weighed. Do you hear my point? Yes. It's been weighed. There's a crucible. They are weighing it. They are checking it. And the prayer, you must understand, I just have a perception that if anybody draws back, my soul, it says what? We have no pleasure in h...
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Elijah put the hand on the bull and he put his hand on it. Then Elijah laid his hand on the king's hands and he said, open the window towards the east. And he opened, Elijah said, shoot. And he shot. And he said, the Lord's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Arab, that is Syria, for yo...
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Let me tell you what patience is. Real Christian patience. I wait, I don't care what's coming. Did you hear what I said? I wait, I don't care what is coming. If I die in the waiting place, I will have left a spirit behind that the next generation will run with. You know what, when we misunderstand p...
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Anytime you are whining, and complaining, and grumbling, and afraid for your future, you're making him sad. When you realize that you're no longer a slave, and you cannot run up and down looking for prosperity, that God has freed you in Christ Jesus. When you start living your life like somebody you...
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When in there to bury his wife, he had to buy a piece of property in the land that he was promised by God. He had to talk to the people, you know? He had to have allegiances with people around. He was living as if he was in a foreign land. You see what patience does for us. It said, he was dwelling ...
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He will still be toying with his grief. I hope you are getting my point. We began to live a false gospel. That if I give you a thousand naira, it must produce a harvest for me in my, not in my lifetime, now. A man was preaching somewhere, he gave an offering to a church, maybe I think by a million n...
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Let's give the Lord thanks and say, Father, thank you for your word that you have sent to us this evening. Thank you, Lord, for that spirit of patience again. Thank him. Thank him. For grace that has been released for you to stay in your place of assignments, the place that the Lord has planted you,...
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The unemployment is 25% amongst the youth. The woman said that the government should know that the youth are still there. They don't have jobs, so the census has not ended. You have to end poverty. You see all kinds of threats. Is it the news? Engineer to discourage you. Engineer to make you stop pr...
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He saw those things. For him, it was satisfying that I would be the one to bring these things forth onto this earth. Those people understood how to live, how to enjoy life. You know how children enjoy life? What you give to them. Many of us, our Christianity is baby Christianity. I didn't say childh...
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It's so important to God, though. He said, what's the problem? If the Son of Man returns, what will He do? He said, will He find what? Faith on the earth. Or everybody will have disappeared from faithless place to different parts of the world. Be it in mind. What is patience? That's what I'm discuss...
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and you will see how we share the grace. Page 11, you see a black box at the bottom of that page. Shall we share the grace in unison? One, two, three, let's go. Because of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, surely we have passed out of death and we have passed into life. We have passed out of darkn...
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is a conservative estimate. Right now, this moment, if we're talking about in 24 hours, I'm talking about churches, I'm not talking about Christians who are reading, no. I'm talking about churches who are discussing, people are gathered, who are reading from Paul and discussing what he's saying. Rig...
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And I stood, if I think that was, that was one of the days when I realized what Abraham saw. One of his, one of our brothers, so, at night we drove out, went towards their plant. And I stood, looked at the plant from a distance. And I said, this was what Abraham saw. When you see what looked like he...
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First, I've established what real faith is, how we live life beyond our little 70 years, 80 years, 120, 150, even 180. That's how long we are going to live. We're living beyond that. We are living knowing that we have deposited something important as a building block in what God is doing on the eart...
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They say, when Halley's Comet was passing, he dropped me on the moon. Then I joined Apollo mission. I came back to the Earth. Why not? The smallest deal is for you to tell me that you are the son of God. Bros, you are the son of God. You are the son of God. There are things you experience in life. I...
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a lot. I'm trying to bring out something here. It was not exactly an extremely comfortable life that he stepped into. But what he did was that the Bible says that he was looking forward to something. Now, we read that he did not even achieve those things. The promise he received was Isaac. That was ...
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I hope you're getting my point. You know what the Bible says? Do you want your nation redeemed? You will say yes. It says keep on doing it. Don't let there be any interruption. If you pump that word out like that for 10 years, in the 11th year you get tired. You won't see anything. So it will say to...
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And he said to him, and that one now said, what if the woman does not agree to come with me? He said categorically, under no circumstances, all right, nothing will make you take my son back that way. We have left that place, we have left permanently. Anybody that wants to come with us, or who wants ...
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