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1:22:30
He said, whatever the Spirit is saying to the churches, all seven churches, every Christian must pay attention. Now what did he say to this church and we must pay attention? Number one, do not fear what you are about to suffer. Number two, he said, do not fear because you are going to prison. He sai...
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1:31:30
This flesh is still strong. That's what the problem is. The flesh is still strong. When you start hearing things like preachers telling somebody, oh, because the wife is sick, you should go and marry a second wife. Habba. I'm not saying it's easy. It is so that the man will not be tempted. Boy, he t...
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1:21:00
Let me just read to us what we used to pray, Revelation chapter 2 verse 9. It says, I know your tribulation and your poverty, but you are rich. Let me just back up so that we understand. And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, the first and the last who was dead, who has come to life, says t...
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1:25:30
For truth, let me be faithful, even when faced with death. If I'm tested, nobody should speak in this name again, let me be faithful, even when faced with death. Jesus said, he's the one that wants to preserve his life that will lose it. So Lord, please Lord, let me give that life to you again. Do w...
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1:19:30
The gospel is not going to advance. The gospel is not going to advance. The gospel is not going to advance. So you need to pray. Say, Lord, now this is my dedication. I will be faithful until death. Remember we said it's a dedication. That is, you are laying your life down in prayer. You are not say...
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1:33:00
The Paul not say to Timothy, endure hardness as a true soldier of Christ. Now, our prayer this evening, Lord, give me that spirit. It's that spirit I'm asking for. Look, I'm not saying I can do it by myself. After all, Peter ran at the time. But a few days later, he was there, boldly declaring the t...
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1:37:30
They have given their life totally. They have given their life totally. Just give the Lord thanks. Say, Father, we thank you. Say, Lord, we thank you. Give Him thanks. Say, Lord, we thank you. Thank the Lord. Open your mouth and say, Lord Jesus, I thank you. Open your mouth with thanksgiving. Thank ...
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43:30
Yes, a deep and serious work of it. Number two? Yeah, prayer with thanksgiving and what? Intercession. Number three? Yes, we generally fill our hearts constantly with the word of God. That is just constantly filling our hearts with God's word. Number four? To fellowship, all right. Number five? to t...
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1:30:00
the spirit that will be faithful even when faced with death now this even that's what we're asking God for Lord a fresh infinite of the Holy Spirit no we talked about the seven dedication of the thirsty soul say Lord I'm thirsty We need to pray that prayer, please, brethren. Say, Lord, I'm thirsty. ...
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1:24:00
Tell the man, go punish you and walk out on him. Normally we don't insult the others. But that's why I said, that one, insult him and walk out. So that he will know that you are not joking. You're not planning to beg. Don't even cry, cry. Remove your shoes and stone him in his face. And say, oh God,...
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45:00
For the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. Now how did they overcome? Verse 11. And they overcame him because of the blood of the lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and because they did not love their life even when faced wi...
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1:39:00
Say, Lord Jesus, I thank you that I am carrying through. I am carrying through in the name of Jesus. Say, the love of the world is dead in me. Say, Lord, I thank you because I do not love the world. No more. No more. Thank you, Jesus, that I do not love the world. I do not love the world. Father, I ...
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1:06:00
I was the best here, then you came. You don't look like the way you just did this thing. So the guy said, no problem. A few conditions. Number one, now everyone listen to this. Number one, now I can't remember all of it, but I'll just try and remember. The last one I remember it, I'll tell you. Numb...
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1:34:30
Isaiah chapter 11, and then we'll begin to give thanks. So then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The spirit of the Lord will rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and ...
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42:00
Where do they get this poison from? Work. They sit you down in the office, Nigeria is dead, and you open your ear. Give me another spoon. Ah, no picture for your children. And you are there feeding on spiritual nonsense. you'll start making wrong decisions. People will ask, is this one a Christian? ...
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1:13:30
That is how you reject. Next time they say, all right, go and preach the gospel. But there's no guarantee of resources. Stay. That's how you reject it. Because death is not only when they cut your neck. Death is not only when you die of malaria. There's death that has to do with your pocket. There's...
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1:40:30
Praise the Lord. You realize you are feeling tired, you are feeling faint. You realize that you have begun to love the things of the world. You see a decision, like Pastor said about Leah Shaibu, you see a decision on TV that somebody took for Christ, and you feel a slight disdain within you for tha...
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1:27:00
Say, Lord, I have come to pray so that I will be an overcomer. My prayer this evening is so that, that to the end that I will be an overcomer. The spirit of boldness. Now for a moment, let's meditate on, you know, Anaya, Azariah, Mishael, Those three men that were faced, if I may just mention some o...
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1:12:00
Come and meet me if they mention one thing that affects their worship. Let them come and talk to me. If there's one thing, you come and report. If they mention one thing that affects negatively their faith, they don't. What does that tell you? They don't care. They will complain about the price of f...
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Revelation chapter 12. Now let me just remind us of what we have been saying. The Bible says, that's Hebrews chapter 4. What is said there is that we should draw near to the eternal grace and obtain mercy. and grace to help in the time of need. Now I want to remind us that the Lord Jesus Christ said...
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1:18:00
She stood for Jesus Christ. Many of us may not have been able to do that. So why don't you give the Lord thanks for her this evening. So thank you for the example you set for the church in that young woman called Leah. You know, David said concerning Leah, sorry not David, Paul I wanted to say, Is t...
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46:30
I mean, you come and meet an Isaac, an Abraham, and say he sacrificed his only son, Isaac. Amen. You know, it's very easy for us to be, praise the Pope. The face of our father, Abraham, is in my heart right now. Abraham's blessings are mine, amen. Brethren, if you can't sacrifice Isaac, they ain't y...
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1:36:00
on the seventh dedication of the thirsty soul. Say, Lord, thank you. Begin to give the Lord thanks. Because it's a new level. It's a new level. It's a new level for me now. It's a new level. Say to the Lord, it's a new level for me. It's a new level. It's a new level. It's a new level for me now. A ...
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1:42:00
and we have passed into life. We have passed out of darkness into the light of Christ. We have passed out from motherly curse into the blessing. All things have passed away in our lives. We are now filled with the Spirit of Christ. We live above sin and walk above the devil because we are seated hig...
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37:30
So what controls you, I was saying, all right? It's not just what you want to do. It's those little things. Eve did not know. That position was deceived. Before she knew what was happening, she had taken all the fruits. This is something she did not want to eat before, but she had been, what? Deceiv...
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1:30
That is, when we are talking about these dedications, we are not saying these are things that we are determined to do. We are saying that these are things that we are dedicating ourselves to. And we are saying, Father, let your Spirit work this thing out in my life. That's what we are talking about....
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54:00
consistency. He said, find what you are supposed to do and do it. Now, this guy is not a poor, uneducated person. He's a Stanford Law graduate. He said, I have never changed my company's logo. He said, I've never changed the logo. He's a billionaire today. He said, I've never changed the colors. His...
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1:19:30
You know, this will pass away shortly. So you know what the Lord helped me with? I said, but what about those for whom it will not pass away shortly? And every time like that, I turned the intercession away from myself. I stopped the praying for myself. I will be on my knees and be praying for those...
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46:30
He said, are there apostles? I am much more. How? Exactly what he has suffered for the gospel. As far as Paul was concerned, you called really is how much suffering you are willing to take, not how much blessing you are able to show. No, Paul's own is, if you are called, let me see how much you have...
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1:18:00
I can have difficulty in life, it is not the wizards from my village. It's an insult for you to elevate them to that level and bring God down to the level where he will be discussing with you in your neighborhood. No. It's an insult. I say both, it's an insult. You bring God down to that level? Ther...
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Now, this morning I want to share something with us briefly. I don't know whether this is the title I'll give it, but I just want to share something with us briefly about endurance and then waiting. I don't know how we'll title it by the time we're done, but please listen to me. And then my plan is ...
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1:10:30
I am all for believing that indeed God disciplines. And you have to ask him. See, last time we talked about David. Bro, can I beg you, pray and say, God, whatever is hurtful in me, bring it out. Let's solve it. Do you know, because if I wrote a short teaching, I just sketched it down. Seven woes tha...
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1:21:00
In terms of disappointment, things are not working the way you expect them to work. You're not making the kind of progress you expect to make. Things are not working the way you wish they would. This is how you handle it. The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death. H...
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1:09:00
One of the problems we had then was that we felt that if you preach the way I'm preaching now, you are saying Christians should enjoy pain. You are saying Christians, we sit down in the midst of trouble and pain and say, God is blessing me. That's not what we mean. My kids are all grown now, but tho...
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1:30
What do I recall to mind? That the Lord's loving kindnesses indeed never cease. His compassions never fail. He said, they are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. And I said in verse 24, the Lord is my portion since my soul. Therefore, I have hope in him. He said, the Lord is good to those...
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57:00
Don't ever forget this. When satan came to Jesus Christ, what did he tell him? Bow to me and I will give you these kingdoms, they are mine. Brethren, satan is still giving people kingdoms till today. God gave that one to him. He's still giving people kingdoms till today. The other day, Thor and I we...
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1:06:00
Ever since I learned that the gospel was preached, Paul said the gospel was preached by the prophets. In Romans chapter one, he said that, I started reading, that was when I discovered Isaiah and Jeremiah, they are the scripture. Now why am I talking about it? Why we don't understand this? We don't ...
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1:07:30
But we spend too much time, like I keep on saying, Christians are busy rebuking when they should be repenting. You cannot rebuke a devil that God gave power. Okay, okay. Let us assume that Satan, Job, had your revelation, had everything you know. Could he have stopped that Satan? Let's be honest. Co...
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3:00
Now let me just stop reading here, verse 32. He said, if he causes grief, then he will have compassion. And that is according to his abundant loving kindness. Now there are many scriptures you will see that talks about the Lord, for us waiting for the Lord. If you read Psalm 27, in verse 14, it tell...
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That's temptation. How do you know it's a temptation? I'll tell you. Please go and listen to my series, Cooperating with the Seasons of Life's Adventures. If you remember, I taught that series that time and I explained that life has different seasons in anything you want to do in life. That the firs...
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1:01:30
So at this point, David said, I will not die, but live. What does that tell you, David? Here, there was sickness. There was trouble. Things were not going well at this particular point in time. That's why he said, I will not die, but live, and tell of the works of the Lord. Now, why am I in the situ...
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31:30
I'm talking about gifts. The fact that there's no method to these things in life. Just keep learning what is right to do. You know, that man I told you I was being interviewed, what he said, he said, what's the greatest lesson you learned in the last maybe few years? That's why he said it. I told my...
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58:30
Please, if you go to our website, just use the word wait to do search. Anything you see where I taught on how to wait for the Lord, even if it's a sermon, go to the sermon section, read it because it's very important. When Saul finally lost his throne, it was because he couldn't wait. Why couldn't h...
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1:00:00
The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. The right hand of the Lord is exalted. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. He said, I will not die, but live and tell of the works of the Lord. The Lord has disciplined me s...
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30:00
What are we talking about? Prophets. I said, what was it that burned in your heart when that man was preaching? Never anything. He's that man of God, he's washing, very humble, he's washing toilet. And then he films it. Until one of his workers said, Organa strategy, that the man films everything, t...
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1:16:30
If it's time to sleep, what do you do? Sleep. If you want to pray, pray. I woke up early this morning to pray. Do you know why? I'm coming to preach. I'm coming to preach. It's good to, you know, pray for the people that will listen to me, pray for myself, and all of that. Do you know I've never bou...
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43:30
He said, yeah, I just landed. That's when he sent him in. He said, Oga, I don't reach there. I have reached there. Fully funded. Responded to go and do his PhD. This was what his father was going to sell land for. But the Bible say, wait for the Lord. Wait for the Lord. I say, wait. In this life you...
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42:00
That's what he was. Anyway, so he said he had two jobs. He had that one, and he was also a worker in church. So he was a teacher and all of that. So he said what he did was that he decided to put his energy into those two areas. He would teach his students, do all the work he has to do, mentor them,...
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45:00
Let Him work that you have food. He can buy something for Himself and share with the person who is in need. In fact, He didn't say, so you have to eat too. He said, you have to share with those who are in need. That is get up in the morning and the primary thing in your life that you want to be a bl...
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0:00
Welcome to the Way of Success. Pastor Banki is teaching the principles of life established in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose kingdom indeed reigns over all. Relax and listen, and you will be blessed by this message. Now Solomon said that if you faint in the day of adversity, in the book o...
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4:30
That's what we are talking about foundation, that listen, God who made this life is giving us his word, has given us his word by which we run life and make success out of it. You follow what I'm trying to explain? And so that's what I've been reading. From that book of Luke chapter six, he said that...
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16:30
Do you follow what I'm explaining? That is the attitude we teach you first life must be different from those who are around you. If indeed your faith is different from their own. And it is that difference that God builds the security of your life upon. Don't forget what I said, that your actions are...
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15:00
He told the children of Israel that when he was taking them out of Egypt into the promised land, he said, I'm not taking you out. He said, I'm not bringing you into the land because of your righteousness, but rather I'm using you to replace a group of people in accordance with the promise I've made ...
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18:00
Listen, to get that spirit, you go to God and say, God, pour a new spirit into me. Do you follow my point? Now, as you are imbibing those new thoughts, that's when new actions that start coming out. Listen, if you don't have new actions coming out of your life, you really have not believed yet. List...
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13:30
Do you get my point? Now listen, my thoughts have now produced actions. This man's thoughts have produced actions. And these actions are the things that determine whether he will succeed ultimately in life or he will not succeed. Please listen to me. I am teaching how to build a solid foundation. A ...
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3:00
Because they know if they come out in the light, that men hated the light and loved darkness. Because if they came out into the light from their darkness, their deeds of darkness would be manifested. It would be shown. It would be exposed. So they claim to love darkness. Now, guess what I'm going to...
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6:00
Are you getting what I'm trying to say? So currently, there's a lot of economic downturn. The people like him, they are not moved. I watched him being interviewed once. He said, oh no, I understand that some of their companies will not do well for this season. He said, but it's just a matter of seas...
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9:00
And therefore he has built a wrong foundation, because the foundation of Jesus is that for this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife. If you go and read, and the two of them shall become one flesh. Now, if you and somebody have become one flesh, there should n...
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12:00
Because of that, I'm not interested in quick money. I'm not interested in duping people. Now, a man goes into business, if he believes this, then he can focus on the fact, listen, that I'm supposed to do business to be a blessing. Now, bring down something. He has a spirit. It has produced thoughts,...
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which typifies our lives, and then the house collapses, all our endeavors collapse, and it's not because of the storm, because the storms are part of life. Are you getting what I'm explaining? It is because of the lack of strength that is within us. He said, if you faint in the day of adversity, the...
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blessings by faith. If the cause of the gospel requires a life that
appears like a life of poverty, then we must take it as true soldiers
of Christ.
We all love to quote what Paul said, "I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me." In quoting it we must be careful to
note the...
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ng because of what we want to get, we are practising the
'labour of selfishness,' instead of the labour of love (1 Thess 1:3,
Heb 6:10). We are also by this practising ‘godliness without
contentment.’
When I say godliness without contentment, I am reversing what
Paul said in the first letter to Tim...
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3 TEV
So Paul was not talking about the ability to get things at all; rather
he was teaching on the ability to endure both prosperity and
adversity. The key word here is 'endure.' He said to Timothy,
Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:3 NLT
So we see that e...
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o one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-
abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on
visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:18-19
It is our duty to pursue truth and to walk in it. This is why we
must pray all the time that God w...
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preaching of the word.
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CHAPTER TWELVE
THE WORK OF THE
MINISTRY
I need to emphasize something about the work of ministry.
We often speak about whether it is right or wrong for ministers to
work, and by this we mean doing ...
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by
her giving to him material things like food and shelter. We know
it was honour since she did it purely because he was a man of
God. When the Lord was going to pay her back, what did He
give? A son!
God did not decide to give her more rooms because that was what
she gave Elisha. If the law worked...
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Matt 9:38). Pray that God will bless them, keep them and make
them be of a willing heart. Pray for those who financially work
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with you so that they might prosper much more. That is part of
your duties. Just preach and pray; ...
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e in
any act of righteousness is what the Bible calls patience. You are
said to be walking in patience when you identify what is good and
you continue to do it whether you see a reward quickly or not.
that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through
faith and patience inherit the pr...
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ptable according to
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your current level. God will give you a place where your little
money will count. But you will increase.
A man who I read of and who I believe has this kind of grace is
Peter J. Daniels, the Australian C...
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ch man had enough
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for his household. Paul applied this when collecting relief money
for the trouble in Jerusalem as follows.
For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by
way of equality — at this p...
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ot holding unto what we have
but rather being ready to give up things for greater purposes. That
is the heart of Christianity; once we start drifting from it we start
drifting into error and apostasy.
Like I have pointed out here and there in this book and in others,
it is not right to use selfish ...
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brethren with the right spirit.
Among the first mails we got after going on radio was one which
had a cheque for 5000 naira included; it was from a student. May
God increase him and people like him.
Many times people have walked up to me and asked, 'how do you
pay for all these?' and they have don...
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give but their own remarkable degree of
commitment will be in other areas as their gifts indicate. We must
recognize this fact.
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Please don't get me wrong; I am not saying Christians should not
be very generous, but I am talkin...
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one
developed country to another, Seoul to Sydney, and check him
into a YMCA room? Something is wrong there. A friend of mine
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was actually checked by his hosts into something more like a
brothel – those low-level hotels that...
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their own needs. They have bought cars and built houses and
travelled all over the world. They are just having a good time.
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Meanwhile the work of God that should have prospered by their
hands is suffering. They are being ve...
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e mouth of Paul that God gives
us richly everything to enjoy. I believe that poverty is not the plan
of God. I believe that God still materially blesses those who obey
Him.
I hope you believe it too.
However to speak as if that is all the Lord is doing makes such a
beautiful truth become error. Hi...
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different from theirs, and since He is the law-giver, they
must learn his ways, one way or another. I chose the easier way; I
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dropped pride and started accepting offerings early. And God has
been merciful.* [*Please note that...
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Let me develop further something I briefly discussed earlier on
giving to the preacher because he has blessed you with the word.
Let us see that portion of Paul's letter to the Corinthians again.
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle the ox
while he is threshing." God is...
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be in vain.
I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear
that I might be running, or had run, in vain. Gal 2:2-3
I encourage you to open your heart to correction so that your
labour for the Lord will not be in v...
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he plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh
in hope of sharing the crops. If we sowed spiritual things in you,
is it too much if we should reap material things from you? 1 Cor
9:10-12
If a teacher of the word has touched you with God's word, then
you must reciprocate with material ...
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don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by
being at the right place at the right time. Eccl 9:11
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We definitely have different graces and abilities when it comes to
financial matters, just like we...
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gain will get
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nothing. The sincere ones will get correction as a reward. The
Lord will not encourage the perpetuation of errors.
The main issue is that we have forsaken the doctrine of sacrifice
in the following of Christ. We a...
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kindness is a spiritual seed. The
Lord Jesus gave a long list of spiritual seeds in the Sermon on the
Mount in Matthew 5. It is important I point out that negative
attributes are also spiritual seeds.
Having said this however, I must also point out the fact that
though spiritual seeds are spiritual...
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nd self-righteousness before God in
prayer is the way by which you exalt yourself, and the Lord Jesus
said you will be frustrated and disappointed. That is what it means
to be humbled in this context.
See, good works have their reward, but we are not to look to the
reward or plead the good works wi...
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s very
sick." John 11:1-3 NLT
This Lazarus became the man that Jesus raised from the dead as a
sign of His Sonship!
Selfless giving is a sign of true love and devotion; it is indeed a
sign of faith.
Abraham's gift of Isaac was a sign of his faith, and it caused God
to pronounce huge blessings on ...
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ltiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest
of your righteousness. 2 Cor 9:10
Please notice that Paul was teaching that in every material thing
of your life there is seed and there is bread.
Seed, in the context of the subject of this book, is that which you
give to support the work of Go...
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the Philippians.
And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19
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Note that he said, 'my God.' Is it not the same God he had
preached to the Philippians, and indeed ...
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10.
Paying Your Preacher
1. Have A Right Motive
11. Pride, Humility and Responsibility
2. How To Receive From God
3. The Spiritual Seed
12. The Work of Ministry
4. Walking in the Light
13. Shine Your Eyes
5. We Have A Dut...
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ndously with the
ministrations of the word of God.
What was the reward this man felt was perfect for me? He wanted
me to give him at least two tapes! Why? Because those tapes
would further bless him.
I felt sorry for him, deeply sorry. I had no tapes with me there and
then to give to anybody, but ...
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orget that there is beauty in consistency. Try to be
consistent in your giving life.
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
THE MINISTRY OF GIVING
This book is to every Christian and describes an area of the
operation of the spirit of Christ – t...
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Herod's steward, and
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Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support
out of their private means. Luke 8:1-3
The ministry of Jesus did not depend on begging those he was
reaching out to for offerings. He had...
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Therefore I follow the injunction of Solomon which says,
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not be idle in the evening,
for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will
succeed… Eccl 11:6
I follow that and I say to you that,
The key to the release of God's favour is the continual doing...
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d it like a servant of God. God will
bless her and multiply her. It was not about my need at all.
Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which
increases to your account. Phil 4:17
Whichever way she learnt it, she did what was right.
Most other people I meet love to tell me all ...
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done, but that we have come trusting that our sins are forgiven
and that Jesus has enough credit with the Father that we can draw
on.
So, we do not do things for the reward.
Now please note this: Even though we do not give so that it will
be given to us, the Lord however ...
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acquiring material things so as to enjoy life and we have in the
process forsaken the kingdom of God and the spread of it. We
have not been careful to help spread the word of God as a priority.
Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'This people says, "The time has not
come, even the time for the hous...
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Philippians saying,
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And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19-20
The manifestation of the fruit is determined by the need and not
the seed. Their needs could be an...
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rship of the gospel!
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall
yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and
shall yet choose Jerusalem. Zech 1:17 KJV
SUMMARY
There are a number of things I want to point out from these last
things I discussed.
1. If yo...
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ve in prosperity… Not
that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases
to your account. Phil 4:11,12,17
I am not saying this for any other reason other than because it is
right.
See, there was a time I went to preach for a fellow minister who
was doing a lot of work among you...
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s that
may have come because they heard that testimony would most
likely have not received anything. It was not the offering; it was
the faith. The testimony should teach them about the God of
Elijah.
Copying acts of giving because you want to receive the same
blessing someone else got is a waste o...
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Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double
honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and
teaching. 1 Tim 5:17
I think this one makes it even clearer. Preaching and teaching is
really hard work, when done properly. Ministering to people the
power of God is hard ...
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ding for their children. They do not do it because of what
they will get but simple because it is their duty; if they do not do
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it nobody will do it for them. Paul said everyone should bear his
own load (Gal 6:5). The preachin...
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Giving is the life of a believer. The main reason why God gave
you resources is so that you can be a blessing to others. Giving to
the work of the ministry is a crucial part of your giving life. You
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cannot afford to make th...
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never see yourself as deserving of any praise for it. You
were blessed for a certain reason. You have no right to
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live large and expect the responsibilities to be shared
equally, either in your natural family ...
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teach
us its own ideas – ideas that may not be in agreement with God's
order. I say this because the wages of a preacher have generated a
lot of controversy.
Let me first say something about myself.
I am a specialist doctor; I work in the university as a lecturer and
in the hospital as a consultan...
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appropriate field. The law of sowing and reaping as it applies to
giving is an operation of the spiritual field. When applying this
law to the spiritual field, the seeds must necessarily be spiritual.
To illustrate, physical corn can only be planted into a physical
soil. You cannot sow corn into th...
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…Am I not an apostle?...2 Even if others think I am not an
apostle, I certainly am to you, for you are living proof that I am
the Lord's apostle.
This is my answer to those who question my authority as an
apostle. 4 Don't we have the right to live in your homes and share
your meals? 5 D...
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s, preachers
are forbidden from charging for their services, but I do expect
those who use their services to be reasonable.)
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For anyone to speak disparagingly of the work of the ministry is
to come close to blaspheming the ...
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he will of God in using His word to manipulate
people. This last option is what many preachers chose to do, but
that is the very thing not to do as God never accepts excuses for
adulterating His word.
"Behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who
use their tongues and declare, 'The L...
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ved Son, in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col 1:13-14
In praying in the name of Jesus, we are again saying that the
Father loves us because we believe in Jesus, and even before we
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believed. We are ascri...
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ey.
And when they had assembled with the elders and counseled
together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, and
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said, "You are to say, 'His disciples came by night and stole Him
away while we were asleep.' "And...
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ures and one of these
is the use as describing the drive or motivation for
what one is doing in life.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a
wounded spirit who can bear? Prov 18:14 KJV
In this verse of scripture above, what Solomon was
teaching is that a person's drive determines wh...
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repentance and prayer when
possible. Our duty is to tackle the future through our
faith in Him and not through peeping into it. We are
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to know that our lives are in His hands and that He is
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is saying.
Be strong, and let us show ourselves 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. 1 Chr 19:13
God does Block the Way
In the face of circumstances, do everything that you
know is right, then let the will of God be do...
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cration for this young lady?
It is to accept correction. It is to confess her sin of
having a wrong expectation for solving the poverty
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problem. She should look back in her mind at the
suitors who she had despised in her heart because...
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d of time not to worry about how
you will defend yourselves, because I will give you such
words and wisdom that none of your enemies will be able to
refute or contradict what you say. Luk 21:14-16 GNT
This is the power of faith we are talking about. Poking
around into the future, even with what see...
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all or it has the authority of Jesus
Himself to stay where he is. If things do not yield to
you within the ambit of practising the precepts of
God and with prayer, then it is not the devil, itis God.
Sometimes I think of a man like Paul, I think of how
he handled things that he wanted to do in his ...
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y this
know His pattern. We use also the experiences of
those who have walked with Him to understand the
way He thinks, and the result is that we understand the
will of God.
Itis a Result of Training
Walking in the will of God is therefore a result of
learning. It is as you are trained with the wo...
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l guide you along the best pathway for
your life.
Iwill advise you and watch over you.
Do not be like a senseless horse or mule
that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control.”
Ps 32:8-9 NLT
I remember a brother who came to me once for
counsel. He was a professional who was determined
to ...
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ple up.* He can doit anywhere as long as
they are where He ordained for them to be. The child
of God learns that people are not blessed because of
places but that places are blessed because of people.
By imbibing the word of God, he learns how to wait
on God, practice faithfulness and walk in faith...
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well-
known portion of Proverbs.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And do not lean on your own understanding.
Inall your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight. Prov 3:5-6
Because the KJV uses the expression 'He will direct
your paths,’ many miss the point in what Solomo...
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try that
way; it wasn't because we heard a voice or had a
dream or vision. The Lord kept opening doors and
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we kept stepping into them.
We must have our hearts open to recognize doors that
the Lord opens. The doors He opens are doors ...
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SPIRIT
things. That operating system of the mind prescribed
by the Lord is what is called the will of God. It is
something we are supposed to learn. It is something
we get accustomed to by training.
So we see that it is not the person who knows how to
‘hear God' that knows the will of God but the ...
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r
deliverance while their wives are at home. In
summary, the ‘witch’ and the channel through which
the evil spirits come into his life is the person who
escorts him to prayer, how can he be delivered?
Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not
affect his body; but the man who is guilty ...
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ded to know the hearts of these men,
but only the Lord has such knowledge, just as Peter
acknowledged in his prayer. They came to the point
of lacking wisdom, at which point James said we are
to pray.
Another point is that there will be some things the
Lord may want us to do but which may not be on...
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usion: Fear God and obey his
commands, for this is everyone's duty. Eccl 12:13-14 NLT
Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether
my teaching is from God or is merely my own. Jn 7:17 NLT
If we truly fear God, and we are obeying His known
commandments; if we really want to do His will ...
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afterwards; at least that was
what I used to think. But that couldn't possibly be.
Paul had explained to us that He already existed in
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the form of God, therefore this elevation could not be
something worth looking forward to. His joy ...
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. Those personal preferences may be expressed to
the Lord in prayer to see whether He will make
anything of them, but focus must be on things
derived from the Word.
Point 3. They Applied the Criteria
Armed with a knowledge of the kind of person they
wanted, Peter and the rest of the disciples went...
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n through
struggling, but through constant learning and
confessing.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. 1 Jn 1:9-10
We must consecrate every part of our lives. I have
used the two examples above to show how
consecr...
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rit of God, these
are sons of God.’
In the Life of Jesus
Let us see how the presence of this spirit that came
out of God manifested in the life of Jesus Christ. Paul
described it to the Philippians.
Let this same attitude and purpose and humble mind be in
you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, ...
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his mind up for him.
I shall come to you after I have gone through Macedonia... I
shall probably spend some time with you, perhaps the
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whole winter, and then you can help me to continue my
trip... Ihope to spend quite along time with...
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the prophetic unction must strive more
than anyone else to keep a clear head in the midst of
the noise. The church as a whole is supposed to be a
prophetic people. We all need to be careful therefore.
Many times Christians are so occupied with the
media reports of what is going on in the world. The...
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questions about the
situation so that we might judge them with the Word.
All we want is to pray and let God speak, and we
*Prov 3:5,6
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think it is spirituality. But it is not spirituality at all; it
is spiritual laziness, and is not t...
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eplacement for Judas. Again we
are not told He inquired of the Lord. He just set out
the criteria using his own sense, a sense that was
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trained by over three years of walking daily with the
Lord Jesus. Looking closely at the criteria ...
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erest
inher on the Holy Spirit, by that putting the poor lady
into distress for the fear of disobeying God. We must
renounce all these things so that we can really hear
what the Spiritis saying to us.
The businessman must not lie with his adverts if he's
walking by grace. Forget what the world call...
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to get him off the chair. He'll thank me later. See, if
you have indeed yielded your life to the Lord and are
following Him habitually, He has the right to
forcefully move you.
That day as I laid on that bed, I suddenly woke up
with a sharp colicky pain in my belly. I decide...
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m the
scriptures and observing life's experiences, I can only
say I do not understand it to be so. Of course we do
*Dt 29:29; Acts 1:7
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not have the Urim and Thummim or the Ephod,*
which were parts of the instruments of worship in
Isr...
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hast ordained Thy precepts, that we should keep them
diligently.
Oh that my ways may be established to keep Thy statutes!
Then I shall not be ashamed when I look upon all Thy
commandments. Ps 119:4-6
The principle is this: if I observe the precepts and
statutes, applying them diligently, then the ...
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edience was at
work in his flesh (Rom 7:21-23). In summary, it is
possible to be clear as to what God wants us to do and
still not doit.
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So, doing the will of God entails much more than ‘has
He spoken?’ We are often so taken by this 'h...
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ounsel.
When you approach God in prayer for direction, your
first set of words must be words that examine your
heart to be sure you are actually idol-free and free of
the stumbling block of iniquity.
I remember how the Holy Spirit guided me in how to
pray. When the time for asking for direction co...
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Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied
with what you have. For God has said, "I will never leave
you; Iwill never abandon you.” Heb 13:5 GNT
Contentment and generosity are two major things
that show that a believer has a right spirit in th...
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profess to be
believers.
Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us
be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy
fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire. Heb 12:28-29
*Ez 14:4,5
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We know that if peopl...
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nst good sense and the written Word.
What exactly is the will of God? There are many
aspects to that expression as we will see from the
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scriptures. What is most important to note in all is
that it does not describe what our personal
p...
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with the will of God, as it is
written,
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference
to one another in honor. Rom 12:10
There is something we can easily notice about the life
of this man Abram. He was relaxed about the...
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individual should
move on to things of maturity. Itis just like a baby that
is growing; the communication method between the
child and the mother keeps evolving.
Qualifying for Special Communications
We need to bear this in mind: For us to expect any
special communications in knowing God's will, w...
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d the consecrated spirit ready to
walk with Him.
You are not your own. Your own personal ambitions
belong to the dunghill. You must determine that
whatever He created you to be is what you want tobe.
Eve is a perfect example here. Why was she created? It
was to correct something that was not good ...
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om God will get
stronger, while the ones from our own 'pollutions'
will gently wane. That seems very correct to me.
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Constant Cleansing
What we need as believers is the constant purging of
our spirits from contaminants, using the word...
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houghts. She knew it had to
be the Spirit of God. When she was called up to speak,
after going here and there with her speech, she finally
made the offer as instructed and the result was
overwhelming.
Previously, on good days, they would collect about
500 dollars after much motivation, so no one ex...
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which we navigate in that realm. The physical five
other senses, when they are too active, tend to reduce
perception with our spirits.
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Many times people are taught to develop their spirits
so they can perceive things more, but caution...
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great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship,
but also of our lives.” But the centurion was more
persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship, than by
what was being said by Paul. Acts 27:9-12
Paul was observant of the situation and his spirit was
troubled. He had a strong impression that t...
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he Army
15. The Righteousness of God
16. Prophesy!
17. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
18. Whatis God's Will Here?
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Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called Pastor Bankie, is a teacher
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y, and began to weep. The lady was in
dire need and the money was an answer to prayer.
The Lord actually impressed that upon his heart.
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Now, that was easy to 'risk' obeying because giving is
basically good. Would that response have be...
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specific word of the
Lord to people.* As we mature as believers we are
able more and more to know the will and mind of
God without special communications. That is the
desire and the plan of the Lord.
For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed
to the word of righteousness, for he is a ...
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said it this way:
Open to me the gates of righteousness;
Ishall enter through them, I shall give thanks to the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord;
The righteous will enter through it. Ps 118:19-20
Even if what we are seeking to enter is a good thing,
we still must enter through the gates of God....
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old dew
from as a sign that He was sending him. But now we generally use
the term ‘fleece’ to refer to any sign that someone requests from the
Lord to confirm something.
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presence of the Holy Spirit does not at all imply that
He has done away with physical signs. The p...
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ason. I took that as the confirmation
Ineeded from the Lord.
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Beware of Divination
I want to conclude this book by warning about
divination.
When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives
you, you shall not learn to imitate the dete...
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reach for special communications when the general
rules are not clear to us. We are not to use special
revelations to subvert the general rule.
Notice what He said through David to us in Ps 119v4
which was quoted earlier. He said we are to kee...
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ip, and everybody respects her
spirituality. But deep inside is a contaminated spirit
which is the reason she won't discern the choice of
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God for her in marriage. But the Father loves her and
doesn't want her to perish, so to speak. So ...
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ible, especially the New Testament, indicate it. I
believe that God speaks in such manners far less often
than itis often made to seem.
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Actually, the plan of the Father is to make us into His
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Special Manifestations
God works in different ways, but it is the same God who
does the work in all of us. 1 Cor 12:6 NLT
It is now time to look at the special ways that the Lord
communicates His will and directions to u...
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red the fate of evil men.
He took the place of many sinners
and prayed that they might be forgiven.”
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Isa53:10-12 (NLT, GNT combined)
Reading through this portion of the prophecies of
Isaiah shows clearly what the joy was which was ...
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him to ask a young woman's hand in marriage and
she turns him down, he may go back and pray. After
praying and after he might have done what is
reasonable in trying to woo the woman, and has
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exercised some reasonable amount of patienc...
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sound spiritual principles, he was walking
automatically in the will of God. It is walking by those
spiritual principles that is the will of God; it is not
about any special communication from heaven.
Like I explained at the beginning, it is this operating
system that God is working into our lives,...
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eople have failed, even though they thought
they had a revelation concerning what they are
doing. But the hand of the Lord was against them.
They came to prayer with idols and iniquity in their
lives.
Idols are preconceived ideas in people's hearts. We
looked at that matter when we were examining t...
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he
statutes and the precepts. So they went to pray,
apparently for the first time. The prayer shows that
Peter and co realized that what was left could only be
seen by the Lord. It was a heart matter.
Then they all prayed, “O Lord, you know every heart. Show
us which of these men you have chosen a...
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without regard for the precepts of God were
spending all night asking the Lord to solve their
problems. That was the situation the Lord was
speaking to. Such behaviours kindle the anger of the
Lord.
The summary of what the Lord was saying through
Ezekiel is that we must satisfy the basics before ...
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eir hope on the uncertainty of riches,
but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be
generous and ready to share. 1 Tim 6:17-19
The major manifestations of the right spirit toward
money and material things are contentment and
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er 12
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Before You Pray, Beware
There is a way someone might pray for guidance and
the Lord would be offended. We need to understand
it so as to beware. Ezekiel's prophecy is where the
caution is.
For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who
stay in Israel who separates himself fr...
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ible brilliantly
shows us what to do so as to have a pure spirit. It says
it is a matter of full consecration to God. Until we are
properly consecrated we cannot discern the will of
God for our lives.
When we talk about consecration, it means to
examine our lives and ensure that we are living solel...
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ourself
up in the knowledge of His word. Walking in God's
will is a consequence of renewing our minds with
heavenly wisdom and understanding. Paul made
this very clear as he prayed for the Colossians.
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will in all spiritual wisdom and unde...
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Once we are determined to do something, except we
come to God with a prayer of consecration, then
whatever we hear is just our polluted spirits
beclouding the true will of God.
Beyond just assuming that what their spirits say is the
will of God, many people have even gone fu...
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s thoughts. When it does this,
what we are to do is to confess them as sin and ask the
Lord for forgiveness and cleansing. This is so crucial.
There is no other way to free our spirits from
pollution.
After reasoning about it, | summarized the different
parts of our lives that we need to deliberate...
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Let the wicked leave their way of life, and change their way
of thinking... "My thoughts,” says the Lord, “are not like
yours, and my ways are different from yours. Isa 55:7-8
GNT
When we give our lives to Christ and begin to live as
believers, it is demanded that we shave off ...
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t Jesus be in you.’ When that
same attitude is in you, then you are releasing the
pure spirit so as to know the will of God.
But what might be pollution of spirit in this area for
the believer today?
Many have their own ambitions. They want to make
money. They want to be important. Many pastors ar...
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better method as it couldn't be polluted by our
personal thoughts. The word of God is still true that
says, 'We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how
they fall.’
Casting Lots, Not Everyday
Casting of lots is not a usual way for doing things ona
regular basis, not because it is unspiritua...
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that indeed
the Lord wants to lead us by the inward witness and
by our spirits, as itis written,
The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching all the innermost parts of his being. Prov 20:27
He is transforming us to become exactly like Him. His
plan is that we will want what he wants, love...
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iver.’ He recognized it as the
voice of Satan trying to appear like the voice of the
Holy Spirit. He rejected the voice, went on with the
evangelistic meetings, and the Lord reversed all his
troubles.
Kenneth Hagin also told of how he spent days
waiting to die because he heard a voice quote a verse...
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use the word of God says it
works.
The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly of the
Lord... Prov 16:33 AMP
We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they
fall. Prov 16:33 NLT
The Lord spoke in the lots cast. Let us bear in mind
however that they didn't start with casting l...
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for
temptation. It is not his nature.
Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for
God's very nature is in them; and because God is their
Father, they cannot continue to sin. 1 Jn3:9 GNT
It is only when the spirit has been defiled that
children of God start walking in sin and away fro...
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These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of
wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and
severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against
fleshly indulgence. Col 2:23
Once you are following anyone for signs and not for
the love of righteousness, then you are likely t...
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This may
be okay when we are baby Christians but every true
minister of the gospel should be preaching and
teaching their followers so that they will not need to
come ask those questions after a time.
In the wilderness, Moses was making that mistake
when it came to leading the people of Israel. He ...
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supernaturally.
First, let us see how the early church followed this
principle of diligently applying the precepts.
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Time to Make a Choice
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tion of the spirit too. Many men are like that in
their hearts and so they love materially successful
women ina special but ungodly way.
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In this area of marriage, some men are fixed on
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as God sees and who constantly does what
is pleasing to the Lord. He will become one whose
spirit can be trusted every single time it leads. He
would have become an exact representation of the
Father.
But there is a problem. First, the presence of light does
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Psalms,
where it says, ‘Let his home become desolate, with no one
living in it.’ It also says, ‘Let someone else take his
position.’ So now we must choose a replacement for
Judas...” Acts 1:20-21 NLT
He acted purely on the word of God as recorded in
Scripture. He understood the precepts of God.
Nob...
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s of this world,
but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change
of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God
— what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.
Rom 12:2 GNT
The number one way by which God leads His
children is by giving them the understanding of what
is ...
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udge all your major decisions for you. If
the Lord has a warning or encouragement for you,
then He will send it through different ways, and if He
wishes He may use that preacher.
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he story gets really crazy. The man set on his
way according to the word of God and yet trouble
met him on the way. A modern Christian would have
said it was the devil blocking his way. But it wasn't.
But God was angry that Balaam was going, so he sent the
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why I say this is because these
impressions of the heart can be closely mimicked by
very many other things so that many times they may
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money at all. Without the knowledge of this, every
other thing someone is supposedly hearing is not the
will of God, even if an angel were to appear and
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inside us. John said, ‘you are from God, little children, and
have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you
than he who is in the world’ (1 Jn 4:4). The greater one
lives in every believer.
This is what is called the helmet of salvation. It means
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one is 'seeing visions’
and revealing secrets, turn in the other direction; a
spirit is ensnaring them. I have seen people enslaved
by these spirits. It is a horrible life.
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s;
these came upon her because she had just seen the
demonstration of God's power to bless. She
explained, in effect, that success is a gift of God and
that was why she said, 'You can't out-give God.’
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how the two men parted. Abram stayed in
the land of Canaan, and Lot settled among the cities in the
valley and camped near Sodom, whose people were wicked
and sinned against the Lord. Gen 13:10-13 GNT
Lot operated simply by the sight of his eyes. He
looked only at external things. He looked at wher...
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Welcome to The Way of Success. Pastor Banki has been teaching the principles of life established in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Patience is what you do between the seed time and the harvest. Patience is not passive. The things of God usually are not passive. That is when the Bible says, wait...
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And another thing I noticed, sometimes it seems to cross. What I mean is that the man succeeds a little and then he fails. Then inside his failure, he goes back to God, just like Israel used to do. When they are in captivity, they return back to God. And then God delivers them from captivity. Then w...
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That is, when he was going out to take cities, he said, who will I put in charge of these my cities? Remember, we said that the kingdoms of men belong to God. He gives them to whomsoever he wishes. You understand that point? Now, he now said, who will I put in charge? The way by which I will know th...
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At the end of the day, you made money. You became, in the eyes of many people, successful, though in your own heart, you will know you were not. The Bible said that this is judgment. God will not say, how many people did you dash money? He will say, I created you to train young men and young women i...
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Listen, if you recognize this thing I'm saying, you will walk in life with a different attitude. That you recognize that God has prepared my body for a particular purpose. Jesus said, sacrifice an offering you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me. That is, there is something you hav...
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that if you read from verse 11, it said, Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, verse 12, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened, And another book ...
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You're following the point I'm making here? And that is the way life is. So what I'm saying is that God brings the opportunity your way every day for you to see the place that he has called you to be. The place of your destiny. For you to qualify yourself for it, he brings the opportunities every da...
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Do you understand my point? Because sin is what makes people fall short of God's glory. And while he's doing that, God's purpose is to train you so that you can qualify to step into that place. In the days of young manhood, God is giving you experiences. God is giving you instructions. Then he gives...
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Not just because he was studying, but because inside him, like Bezalel in the Bible, God said, I have put the spirit of the craftsman. Then as soon as he leaves school, they tell him that, ah, jobs are hard for architects, oh. He said, ah, you want to be designing what? Let me tell you, you will jus...
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Now flies go after any kind of smell, whether it's good or bad in human nose, it's not the issue. Flies go after any kind of smell. So as soon as he sprayed the perfume and stepped out again, then the flies came after him. Now what I'm trying to illustrate here, he sprayed perfume and he was trying ...
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And last time we examined that with patience extensively, realizing that patience before God is an active process, not a passive process. There is something that you are doing that the Bible calls patience. If you're walking and you continue walking righteously while waiting for the manifestation of...
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you came into existence. Are you getting my point? That is, your life, your very existence right now is a manifestation of the word that God spoke before you were born. That is, you have been born to fulfill a purpose for God in life. And please get this point I'm trying to make. Concerning Joseph, ...
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He said, in the same manner, a time will come that the torrents will burst. He said, the man who did this, the torrent burst against his house, and immediately it collapsed, and the ring of that house was great. Now, we have read this sutra and explained a few principles in the last few episodes of ...
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What you need is daily strength to handle the challenges of this day. Because what God wants to do will come out if you don't die before that day. They say God has an appointed time for your life. What he is saying is that though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death before that appoint...
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Welcome to the Way of Success. Pastor Banki is teaching the principles of life established in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose kingdom indeed reigns over all. Relax and listen, and you will be blessed by this message. Now I want to continue what we have been discussing again by reading from...
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Listen, when your life will become fully manifested, when the blessings and prosperity and the visions that you have will be fully developed, has been ordained by God, God has set a time for it. No matter how hard you struggle, you cannot make it come quicker. than that time. In fact, the more you s...
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He spoke and spoke, nobody believed him, it appeared like. Some probably would have called him a false prophet because the things that he was promising seemed like they were not going to happen. Are you getting what I'm trying to explain? I'm bringing out an issue here. That's how life might be some...
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And bring on the principle to you that there is a time of the manifestation for your own life also. And what you need to do is to endure the time of trials. There's an African proverb from Western Nigeria that goes like this, that is, child that does not die must become an adult. And I'm explaining ...
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Maybe you are in the poultry business, one day, bird flu will appear. And if you afflict everybody and the rumour will be out there, we can't eat chicken, we can't eat egg and all of that. Don't worry about those things. If your business was built upon the word of God, you will survive that situatio...
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There's one woman, Mrs. XYZ, when she did this, her husband gave her a trip abroad. There's one woman, Mrs. ZZ, and then when she did this, the husband stopped going out in the evenings. You see all of those things as if those methods were made for manipulating the husbands. Are you getting my point...
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and your name is Joseph. I know how to send Pharaoh into the dungeons to come and dig you out and make you Prime Minister. What I want you to do all that time is to dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. That is what will bring breakthrough into your life. Please get what I'm trying to explai...
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deep don't forget what does it mean to dig deep it means to remove every sandy thing on the surface what everybody has been using I don't want to go over that again explaining that principle but I just want to talk about how to dig deep today every remember what I said that so everybody has a method...
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But that when you don't have any strength in yourself, when you went into the stock market just to go and make quick money, you were not acting upon principles, nothing. Then when the thing collapses, you collapse also with it. Because the time of distress will always come upon this earth. Please do...
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Then you'll discover that my glory will be automatically poured. Listen, I'll develop this next time. One thing you must learn is how to wait for God. Christians that are waiting for God are not people who are sleeping. They are people who are actively using the word of God to transform their lives ...
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God is watching how you treat that person. Now, a lot of people, you know one day I wanted to buy something. I traveled on that period, okay? So, I wanted to change the oil of my car. So, I drove to the parts market. I wanted to buy the filter. But not the kind of filter I wanted. Very good one. So,...
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The Word of God does that. So you go to God and say, God, pour the right spirit into me. That's what I'm going to explain. Now from that spirit, thoughts will begin to come to your heart. And listen, it is possible to quench the spirit. Paul explained to the Thessalonians, he said, do not quench the...
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He said, I will write my laws upon their hearts and put my spirit inside them. It is God that puts his spirit inside people. If you want to build on a solid foundation and dig deep until you read the bedrock, the solid word of God upon which your life will be built, then you must start listening to ...
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The things that are not the word of God are being removed by those things. That is the sand you are digging deep. That's what we are saying. You are seeing what God is saying as opposed to what everybody practices. Are you getting my point? And those thoughts begin to fill your soul. Let me explain ...
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He said, once everybody starts thinking it's good and the thing starts climbing and climbing, he said, it has already gone beyond his point. He doesn't buy that particular point in time. He's not saying you must do that, but he said, that is a principle that I use. And listen, anything you want to d...
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Please don't forget that too. He makes a lot of money. But we are talking about enduring success. The Bible says that there is a promise over your life if you are a child of God. You will not get that promise until you have endured. And the word endurance is never used except there are going to be t...
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Now we are explaining, let me just take a few moments to review the general framework of what we have been saying. And that is the fact that life is in parts. Life has parts. That is God set rules into life. And where you are going to get to in life is not determined by your desire. It's not determi...
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You must have those things. That is what I want to do. This is what I do not want to do. I do not want to become this kind of person, an unrighteous person in government office, an unrighteous person in doing politics, an unrighteous person in doing my business. I don't want to become that. You make...
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Anything you want to do in life there are costs and before you start the thing you want to do Is that you must first sit down and count the cost if you remember when I talked about cooperating with the seasons of life's adventures I said in any adventure in life The first stage is a stage of sitting...
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that people don't understand. A lot of us who are doing warfare, we are fighting the devil for our goods, we are fighting the devil for our money. Devil, everything you stole last year, this year I will recover it from you. Oh well, if you like that kind of prayer, it's good. But what you don't unde...
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Welcome to the Way of Success. Pastor Banki is teaching the principles of life established in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose kingdom indeed reigns over all. Relax and listen and you will be blessed by this message. To open our discussion today, let us read from the book of Luke chapter 14...
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Listen my friends, listen children of God, we must have principles. The man without them is a man who's planning to fail in life. The man without them is a man who will never do one of the things that he's doing. Listen, like I said before, it's the immediate result that Satan tries to use to persua...
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and count the cost. He said, nobody wants to succeed in doing anything in life. We not count what if we cost him. That is, he will come out knowing that this is what I'm going to have to put in. These are the things I'll have to do before he has any chance of succeeding. Now, please, there's an appl...
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This is what he has founded his company upon. And there are times people will come to him and say, sir, you know, he's a workers, co-workers. And no, look, let's just do this. We'll make a lot of money. He said, no, this is my own principle. And listen to this clearly. When you do those things, all ...
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Let's make a long story short, the girl thought and thought, and finally after much consideration, I said, ah God, you will understand now. Look, I need this money. It's not as if I'm a bad girl. I'm not a loose person. I've been looking for a job since this is an opening. This is all this man is as...
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to delay a bit. It's not as if he really delays. It's just that the Bible says that God is not slow as some count slowness. That is, the way we count slowness, God appears to be slow. But actually, God is not slow. He knows what he's doing, and he always comes through at the correct time. But this i...
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You know, one of the things I've learned these days is not to assume that it will have happened anyway, that the good will have happened. No. If they had worn out his faith, you and I would never have heard of him today. And it scares me to realize that there were people like that, that somebody too...
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so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises." There's a reason why I read it again. To point out something. That these people, which was why some of us were confused earlier. These people inherit the promises through faith and what? Pa...
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so as to realize the full assurance. What is that diligence he was telling them? The ministering to the saints. True or false? It's there. He said, when you do that, you are an imitator of those who... This is the interesting part. There's a small twist there. By doing that, you are imitating those ...
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They are busy doing good. The inheritance is not because of the good they are doing. The inheritance is because of faith and patience. But the patience is manifested. The fact that the faith is working and they are waiting in patience is manifested in the fact that they are busy being a blessing. I ...
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I hope you get my point. Those who are really waiting for God are busy being a blessing. That's what Paul said to us there. I believe it was Paul that wrote that in Hebrews chapter 6. They inherit because of their faith and their patience, but a sign that they are truly in faith and they are truly w...
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It's our school of prayer again, so we'll continue learning. And the issue of patience is what I want to continue to look at today. Last time I began to speak about not turning the switch of faith off, to be sure that the switch of faith is constantly turned on. We said that is very important. And I...
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I said they inherited the promises because of their works, true or false? So why did you say true in the first place? You see, it's not your fault. You've been sowing seeds, that's why. That is what the problem is. When Christians, one day I told one of my friends, I said, the seed is the word of Go...
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Wait while your transaction is what? Processing. What's my emphasis there? My emphasis is that people who are waiting, they are busy. And that is the significance of the doing of good works in the life of Christians. And that is why our testimonies get confused sometimes. All right? People say that,...
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Because that's what the Bible tells us here. It says it is those who with faith. Oh, I forgot to mention, the card is faith. Your ATM card is faith. That is what you slot into that machine. It is faith. You put in your secret number, your PIN, your secret password, and that is the name of Jesus Chri...
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I mean, you can Google up the story. I didn't know I was going to tell the story, so I didn't memorize the guy's name. It's a particular kind of fingerprint technology that he developed and sold to Microsoft. And they said, don't disclose how much we are paying. But I'm certain it's nothing less tha...
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Faith must be present until the end. Except faith is present until the end, we lose out entirely. Except faith is present until the end, we lose out entirely. Don't forget what we said last time, that Peter, if he had stayed in the boat, he would have been safer. But once he stepped out of the boat,...
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All right? It doesn't. But even those who are calling those abroad, they don't call them that. Oh, boy, thank God, though. Power is very constant. I've not used my generator in the last, you know. They don't say things like that. But have you heard every bad news they report? Those things wear out f...
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Waiting in faith. Waiting in patience. Busy. Say, I'm busy. Blessing somebody. I am busy ministering the blessing of God in the life of somebody else. I am waiting while my miracle is processing. Let me just say something quickly. Say, in this country, good is processing. Somebody say amen. I want t...
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changing phone, changing resource, and he just believes that one day. Tell the fellow, that day is not coming. Why? You are not working in faith and patience. You are lying. For you to say somebody is patient, It has tangible manifestations. And those things are the outward works. And that's why he ...
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And then, of course, you know, if you want to be deceived in life, you will be deceived. If you don't want to be deceived, there's abundance of truth for you to use for deliverance. Just by the way, because I keep on teaching like this, people will listen to this, so that I can get the understanding...
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He was telling me the story. He said, he said, oh boy, it won't be legal. He said, this man not give me anything though. He had to go to sister and say, I beg. Go and borrow, because I need to transport myself back to where I came from. His sisters had to be looking for money they saved somewhere. Y...
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It's like if I don't prepare you, you can't receive it. Every affliction, every trouble, every challenge, every trial in the life of a Christian is not ancestral curse, is not a witch, is not any occultist that's afflicting you. It's God is saying, while you are waiting, I have to train you so you'l...
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why you should get that money dispensed to you is going to tell you incorrect pin. Because if you go in there and press, I give a tithe, I must prosper. God will say, you smoke something, you are not going to prosper. You understand what I'm going to say? That's what he's going to tell you. He will ...
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That is when our ability to do good works is manifested. This is the problem. This is where Christians make the mistake. They think I am inheriting because of my works. No, I am not inheriting because of my works. I am inheriting because of my faith. Because of my faith and my patience. But listen, ...
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Because even if you don't want to talk to anybody, Calamity's news network will talk to you. They will talk to you. You know Calamity's CNN? They will talk to you. They will show all the bad things happening in the world. But then they finish describing your environment. You won't know. In fact, if ...
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Jesus said, be faithful unto death. Those who die in the process, don't feel sorry for them. They have gained glory faster than you. Then those who come out at the other end, Jesus can now do whatever he wants to do with their lives. Because he said, this one has overcome. Remember, we began from ov...
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When God wants to take you from one level to another, there has to be a new challenge that will cause you to overcome. I hope you're getting my point here. But our message is about overcomers. I want us to understand something here. Jesus said, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. Why I read...
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First, first of all, it was supposed to steer his faith back because the faith had gone down after 35 years of peace. There was no trouble. That was supposed to, first of all, bring his faith back up. Secondly, it was to eliminate the enemy that was lurking around that he was not really picking a fi...
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A lot of people know what they just do. We give God a small portion of money, what we call giving God, so that he can protect us while we spend the rest. We're not like that. We have tithing. That's why I have never seen the righteousness in this doctrine of tithing. I have not seen it. It doesn't e...
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We don't have all this pressure, no, I'm bad. No, you came for a drama program. We start by five, we say opening prayer, sing one or two songs, quarter past, drama has begun. That program was 7 p.m. at night. We look for Michael, look for Mike. It was seven o'clock, finally we had a quick meeting. W...
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These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. Now please follow verse 33. I told you that's where I was going. I just decided to take it in context. That's why we began from that verse 25. Said these things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you hav...
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But the challenge came upon Asa. Asa, instead of following, now follow this. This was the method you used before that worked. You prayed. Be careful that your heart does not backslide. It's a major problem in life. Over time, we have this tendency to backslide, especially when we have been at peace ...
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in a long time. So they think that we can't do anything. They think we can't, there's nothing we want to do we cannot achieve. God said, hmm, your father didn't tell me this because he saw things. When they see trouble, you understand. So what trouble does sometimes is just to help you know your own...
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He says the same thing. He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with me. Now that's what we analyzed some time ago. I will grant to sit down with me on my throne as I also overcame and I sat down with my father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the chur...
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Ask yourself, what is the overcoming path? It's not a path of prosperity. It's what is the overcoming what? Path. Sometimes when you take the path of the overcomer, physically speaking, you go down. Uh-oh. That's a matter of fact. I like the testimony of our brother all the time. He got a job. A ban...
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How will he make money? How will she make money? How will the person's destiny be established, humanly speaking? What kind of job should he get or she get so that the career will be established from the beginning? Very few people, listen, very few Christians actually kneel down and say, God, whateve...
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We are doing a particular series now. I'm still explaining some things. I'm not connected with the series, but listen to this. The people that God wants to use, he prepares them to get to every place he needs them to be through the narrow gate. You see, many people that you know who have arranged mi...
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What saved his life was that his wife quickly circumcised the boy. And when I read that, I realized that God said, when you make dedications and you do the right things concerning your life, I am pleased. But next line, I want you to make the same dedication and things that are pleasing to me concer...
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You go to verse 17, he says the same thing, to him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone and a new name written on the stone, which no one knows but he who receives it. In like manner, you go to verse 26, the same thing is there, and he who kee...
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He judges attitudes. He wants to cure us of certain wrong attitudes that we have in our hearts. That's what he's trying to do. That is why people must never be careful. Be very, as a Christian, hold on to your faith. And if anything ever threatens your faith, just know that it's another challenge yo...
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Are you getting my point? Of course, what we mean by overcoming is that you are failing. What it means is that you are disappointing the purpose of God. That's what we mean by not overcoming. That is the opposite of overcoming. What God wants is for us to overcome. You know, because my children and ...
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through the broad gate, that ministry will produce death for me. It can first produce for me a big Churchill. It can first produce for me international fame. It can first produce for me papa, papa, you know what I mean, papa. Everywhere I go, papa, papa. Everybody's worshiping at my feet. Everywhere...
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talking about strategies for keys to investment. My money came free of charge. So I tell you, money gives you the right to talk nonsense. If any rich man is talking, be very careful. Look at him carefully. He may have bought the right to talk by being rich. That is what happens when you enter into t...
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You know why? Why I say join me? I don't chase the devil. I don't have time for the devil. I don't know when last I reviewed the devil in my life. I don't know when last. Maybe I do once in a while out of the force of habit, but I'm not sure. If things go wrong with me, I face my God. I say, God, wh...
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There's the human way, and there's the godly way. Let me say that again. There are two ways peace can come into your life. There's the way of man, and there's what? The way of God. There's the way of man, and there's the way of God. And Jesus says something to us. Quickly, let's open this portion of...
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Angel, 10 million dollars. Having a bank, how much do you want? Angel is smiling. And then the angel will carry his sword, put it in his chest. You go into eternal damnation with all this money on the earth. And you now realize that all flesh is what? Grass. People are realizing it every day. And Go...
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The discipline of Christianity is for you to know what God is looking for and go for that. Let me explain further. We've talked about temptations before. As Christians, we can have temptations in life, as a matter of fact. We can have temptations. Jesus came, he had his temptations. At a point in ti...
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All right, let's begin again from the book of John chapter 16. Let's just start from verse 25 so that we can go on to verse 33, which is where what I really want to bring out for us today is taken from. The Lord Jesus was speaking. He said, these things I have spoken to you in figurative language. A...
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They can't take any beating. They can't take hardship. One brother in school does this. Anything you tell him to do, he can leave. If Jesus said, I'm coming tomorrow, keep the door open for me. If he's hungry, who's going to eat? I don't know whether you're getting my point. If they want to give bir...
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