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hteousness
for the sake of righteousness that He anoints.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows. Psa 45:7
The resolve for righteousness will be tested. The
person commi ed to righteousness will be faced
w...
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hteousness to gain comfort or relief from the
troubles. Remember that that is the aim of the test
anyway. Eventually, that trial shall pass.
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A Just Recompense
The last reason that I wish to explain concerning
why Christians have problems i...
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and Problems 43
Trial of Faith
Another reason why we may have problems as
Christians is the trial of our faith. In this case, we are
to endure until the trial passes.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter
various trials, knowing that the testing of yo...
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strength, no one can defeat you. In
that place, every setback is nothing but an
opportunity to recharge. Here, you are the
champion and no one else can be like you since you
are the best at being you.
A Shaking May Come
Many may suffer the loss of jobs soon. When it
happens to you, don't panic if yo...
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n to want to be
rich. Now, I will tackle that question by first
trying to understand what the enquirer may have
in mind. Words as simple as being rich may mean
different things to different persons.
For some, and I dare to say this is how most people
are, to be rich means to have a lot of money a...
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th of the adults
among the Israelites in the wilderness—they
rebelled against the Lord. As a result of that
rebellion, all of them died in the wilderness and
never got to enter into the Promised Land.
“I, the Lord, have spoken! I will certainly do these things
to every member of the community who h...
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not be full.
God is always looking for how to bless His
children, but the only blessing He can give to a
disobedient child is correction. Without accepting
to be corrected, there is no moving forward.
So, many problems we have are nothing but the
inevitable consequences of our ways. A person who
is...
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to God 155
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially
for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is
worse than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8
We all do these works as a natural outflow of the
faith in our hearts. We are not trying to a ain
r...
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ches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat
from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his
labor; this is the gift of God. Eccl 5:19
A Covenant of Service 77
I have seen people who will give anything to
anybody but will not buy themselves even good
clothes...
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hings control the physical; the treasure
one has in heaven is fundamental to sustaining the
treasure on the earth. Treasure in heaven causes
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more to be produced on the earth and it preserves
the life of the owner of the treasure.
As a tru...
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d that He will wipe out lack from
your life, and make you so abundant that you will
be helping others. You must accept that He is taking
you somewhere great. You must forsake the lies of
the ignorant.
Yes, we may have trying times as part of the trial of
our faith, but we must never think that pove...
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and
suffer many things, all as a true soldier of Christ. It
was not because he was under a curse.
We therefore see that problems are not necessarily
proof of the existence of a curse in the life of a
* 2 Cor 11:23-29
** Col 1:24
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believer...
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rom the
pulpit. The surest way to lose many during a
message is for the preacher to start talking about
money. They feel this way, not because they are
wicked, but because they think too much emphasis
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has been laid on the subject. This...
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When the Lord gave the Israelites the land He
promised to their ancestors, He told them to go in
and take possession of it. It was not going to fall into
their arms just because they came near there.
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you
cross over the Jordan into the land of Cana...
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to see that they are just
walking directly out of the will of God.
Do you want a rich husband? Love the Lord and
marry a man that loves Him too, and the Lord will
cause you both to prosper together.
Let me tell you something about wealth: it has
wings and it can fly! Make sure that God is causing
i...
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Power Belongs to God 61
…and He died for all, so that they who live might no
longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose
again on their behalf. 2 Cor 5:15
As we shall see in a short while, God's abundance
will be released only upon those who have go en
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t of a proportion of one's
income as a part of worship was only found as part
of the laws of Moses. It never occurred anywhere in
* Mal 3:10
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the scriptures before or after the Law. All who gave
gifts in those times outside the law were che...
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.
The earth is not cursed anymore for you.
In whatever you do, now you can prosper.
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CHAPTER 3
Christians And Problems
Problems Happen
M any people think they are cursed because
they have problems. Yes, curses are real ...
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een broken
by the shed blood of Christ Jesus. It is part of that
spiritual foundation of prosperity we mentioned in
the previous chapter. This is a fact, no ma er what
your experience might have been.
Curses are Real
Let me state that curses are real. It is not possible to
believe in spiritual thin...
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has
placed in you that He will use to bring you to that
The Vow of Prosperity 107
place of being a blessing; He wants you to take that
thing and begin to use it.
Some are gifted teachers and authors, but
something else has taken their focus because it is
giving...
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t the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of male goats? Psa 50:10-13
Any gift that will be pleasing to Him must be given
in accordance with His instructions. It is obedience
that actually pleases Him.
Please recall the case of Saul, how the Lord
instructed him to totally destroy the Amalekites
and ...
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arn from
him the path they should follow. Psa 25:12 GNT
A lot of people are living life using wrong principles.
It is called walking in darkness. But that is not to be
our portion as children of God.
The second advantage we have as believers is that
we have the grace to do what is right. Knowing
s...
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ore to your fathers, as
it is this day. Deut 8:18
What God gives is the power to make wealth. The
literal meaning of that word wealth is strength. It is
the material ability to get great things done.
Many Christians claim to believe in prosperity but
do not yet fully grasp that there is a realm in...
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ve been sent to the
business world. This is how the influence of
righteousness will spread. It is the leaven principle.
* Eph 4:12
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More Than Church Activities
We Christians often forget the job outside the
church which the Lord g...
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thing seems to go wrong in the life of the
person.
The existence of curses is a fact in life. It is a spiritual
force.
* 1 Kgs 12:13-15
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My message, however, is that Christ Jesus took care
of all of it for the believer. He took care of...
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hat
you have heard.* All knowledge does is to puff you
up and deceive you into thinking you believe what
you really don't. The only way by which you can
know what you really believe is by your actions.
* Jam 1:22
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CHAPTER 16
The Art Of
Giving To God ...
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as in them, and it grew wild
and out of control. That is why they wandered from
the faith. That is why they look like children of the
devil.
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It is important that we bear in mind that the seed of
the love of money is in many more people tha...
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witnessed the excesses of some preachers. We
should rather learn the balance of the word of God
on the subject. That is my aim in the following
chapters of this book.
Caution!
I understand that such a title as this book has will
a ract many covetous and worldly Christians, but
the work is not f...
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e ing to a place you are not supposed to get to.
The problem is that we like to think we can use
these things to control every detail of life when
actually God has not given us that privilege or
duty.
Women have been counselled not to marry a non-
tither, as they are thieves, that they will continu...
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offering the help that he can give. Jesus was such a
person; He often saw the needy and was moved by
compassion.
The labour of love, together with the work of faith,
is what the Lord rewards.
False Hope Corrupts Good Works
Just as faith is the confidence that stimulates giving,
a major reason w...
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these
resulted from his refusal of instruction and
correction. He added sin unto sin and he was
cursed as a result.
At a time, the people of Judah came under a curse
for neglecting the house of God.
You have planted much but harvest li le. You eat but are
not satisfied… Your wages disappear as thou...
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r, I invested your
money and made ten times the original amount!' 'Well
done!' the king exclaimed. 'You are a good servant. You
have been faithful with the li le I entrusted to you…'
Luke 19:16-17 NLT
God is pleased when we have the desire to be
fruitful. He wants to make us fruitful. He wants us
t...
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of poverty.
I will love you to go to the Lord in prayer at this
time, armed with the knowledge of the facts in this
chapter, and pledge to live your life within the
boundaries of this vow of poverty.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.
* 1 Tim 6:10
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to marry and a comment that
* Prov 19:6
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slipped from the fiancée's mouth showed that he
had not changed. I wondered why she was
marrying him.
You may wonder what such people do with their
money, and I will tell you. They love to count their
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and material resources. For us, these things
do not validate us, they do not measure our worth,
and they do not determine if we are successful or
not. We see them as tools to serve the purpose of
God.
The purpose of wealth, as we have seen again and
again, is to be a blessing to others and to human...
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gineering, into
law, into medicine, and into the creation of wealth.
That is when we will see what is called the glory of
God.
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CHAPTER 10
The Vow of Poverty
M any years ago, as a young student of the
word under the Word of Faith movement, I
le...
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Prosper
Lord will not die young as a result of excessive
labour. You can easily see why he or she will
forever continue to excel because of this power
working on their behalf. It is the power of God.
All the things that other people try to achieve, using
their soul-life, are given to him as a gift...
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is preach the gospel
and the people that hear it are moved by the Spirit
to give generously to them. They do not cajole
anyone, neither do they have to use specially
designed fables to raise offerings.
You have to understand that the person that has the
power to get wealth sleeps well. This power is...
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e opportunities and righteously earn huge
sums of money. I saw people use information and
earn what I could only earn after some ten years of
working as a young doctor, and they did it in a few
weeks.
See, I did not get anything materially at that time; in
fact, it was a season in which I was on a ...
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s natural
background or environmental condition; it is an
endowment from God. Either He gives it, or He
does not. You cannot lay claim to it because you
think you are smart or you are strong. Only God
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decides who He will give it to. Ther...
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o make them materially
prosperous. We need to go beyond just telling
ourselves that we believe in prosperity; we need to
know that the power of God to make His children
abundant in goods is available.
Let us be clear that we are discussing the viewpoint
of the Lord and not that of the world. Wealth...
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clude giving; He condemned the practice of some
people who use the excuse of vowing what they
have to God to not give to their parents. He said
they were cancelling the word of God by those
practices.
You skillfully sidestep God's law in order to hold on to
your own tradition. For instance, Moses g...
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n
we refuse to follow when He calls. It limits Him.
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Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the
Holy One of Israel. Psa 78:41 KJV
God can only do very li le if we will not believe
Him. He has said He will make you great. You hav...
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It is a product of our love for and trust in God.
Anyone who does not love God cannot effectively
lay up treasure in heaven. It is that confidence in
God that makes the child of God easily generous.
Another point to remember is that faith must work
together with love.* If you do not love the plac...
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do not
understand think that it is because they have too
much money. The truth is that their faith is in God
and their main concern is to do the will of God; that
is why they give of their substance.
If you are one that is prone to doing such good,
please I implore you to continue and to disregard
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ual and physical exhaustion. He has
literally laid down his life for others, howbeit
unknowingly. The scripture is then fulfilled that
says, “He amasses riches and does not know who will
gather them.”*
Beware lest it be that you are burning up your soul-
life in exchange for material wealth. It may ...
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hem. He
understands the words of Paul,
For who regards you as superior? What do you have that
you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you
boast as if you had not received it? 1 Cor 4:7
You see, pride is a product of ignorance. I have seen
people talk as if the success they have came...
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otive behind what you do.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Ma 5:7
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…for those who honor Me I will honor. 1 Sam 2:30
It is a spiritual seed that counts. Honour and mercy
may manifest in different kinds of physical se...
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lar season of life. Faith
is not designed to accommodate the pride of life.
Ruth's faith was shown in how she, with Naomi,
accepted her humble state and followed God's
order for supernatural supplies.
Circumstances can happen to anyone, and indeed it
is how God sometimes humbles people. He wants
yo...
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ny tree in your father's compound. If
that tree is the problem, it will die from the roots on
its own because of the blessing of God in your life.
That blessing will kill it as it overcomes the curse.
Many times, I hear pastors say they want to deliver
someone from a curse of poverty and bad luck, ...
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because of his faith, which means that he has trust
that God is taking care of everything about his own
life. He is not afraid of tomorrow.
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Grace and Truth, the Basis of Cheerfulness
Being a cheerful giver is a result of the
transformatio...
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I believe this word; it gives me confidence for the
future; I am not afraid. He has said, “do not worry
about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each
day has enough trouble of its own.”*
This is the reason I can relax. Jesus is saying here
that the Father will take care of all that I ...
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ers mean nothing! All I do
at those times when I'm asked to do so in church
services is just to give Him thanks for the ability He
has given me to give and for the faith that does not
trust in riches.
People are often encouraged to give their offering a
name before they give it; this name is suppose...
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unnecessary. Wealth is an
endowment; it is not a product of struggles. You
can struggle for daily bread and a li le bit of extra,
but great wealth has to be given to you by a power
that is beyond you.
I want you to know at this time that God's covenant
with you is that kind that can take a person i...
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Chapter 11: Rich Toward God ..............................143
Chapter 12: Why We Give to God........................151
Chapter 13: How to Receive from God ...............165
Chapter 14: God’s Love and the Cheerful
Giver .......................................................
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o the word of
God. God rewards actions of faith.
Anytime God makes a demand on you by His word
and you obey, it is called the work of faith. This
widow believed the prophet of God and she
prospered.*
Labour of Love
We have already seen that love is a major valid
motivation for giving.
* Note also ...
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r li le, then they will
not give much out of their abundance. It is in the
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li le that you will demonstrate what you will do
with the abundance.
This is why those who are not givers may not
receive abundant blessings from the Lord. It is not
t...
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is
faithful to God. It is not Christian to give because
you are broke and want to get, but you can give
despite the fact that you are broke knowing that
God is faithful. It is all a ma er of a itude.
What a child of God must do in the ma er of good
works is to make giving a habit. It is the secret ...
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t will own one because of you. This
will be a working person who can maintain the car.
Someone will own a house because of your
generosity.
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The Spirit of Ruth
Now, if you are in the Ruth stage of life, please don't
be ashamed to partake o...
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others.
God's Order – Seed and Bread
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food
will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and
increase the harvest of your righteousness. 2 Cor 9:10
Usually, anything God sends you has two
parts—seed and bread. The bread is the portion you
consume ...
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that saved us, and that grace
does many things for us as part of the salvation
package. Salvation includes ending poverty and
lack, and bringing the abundance of divine
provision to us. It is wri en:
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that
always having all sufficiency in everything,...
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ood and faithful
servant. You have been faithful in handling this small
amount, so now I will give you many more
responsibilities.' Ma 25:23 NLT
This principle was demonstrated in the life of
Joseph.
Joseph was called of God to be a ruler, not to lord it
over people but to preserve lives. You see,...
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e is to be your security for tomorrow. Your sense
of self-worth must come from your relationship
with Him. Knowing Him is what you may boast
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about—that is to be your confidence.* You must
understand that there is nothing the future can
frig...
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erson that
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loves money is shown by the things that he would
do to get it. If necessary, he would pervert justice,
steal or even kill, to get it.
Just like a person who loves God lives in a manner
that draws him nearer to God and does things th...
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ng on the earth is temporal and
has uses determined by God.
But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus
Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to
return as our Savior. Phil 3:20 NLT
So, our hearts are on the things of heaven. We
know, however, that when Jesus comes, He will
check...
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ng. That strength is simply the power with which we hold unto
God; it manifests as faith and obedience to the word of God. That was what
Samson was donating to strange women through sexual encounters.
Beware
That is the problem with a lot of people today. As they engage in sexual
immorality, and ot...
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ver (Heb 12:1).
Flee from sexual immorality (2 Tim. 2:22).
Cultivate faithfulness. Seek it and practice it.
Learn diligence, integrity, good manners and every virtue just like every
Christians should.
Make sure you take your eyes away from your special call as if it is a guarantee
of success; it di...
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as to teach us
later.
Do not give your strength to women,
Or your ways to that which destroys kings. Prov 31:3
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Samson's strength was depleted in the houses of those women that he
wouldn't keep away from. I am ...
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o succeed in
the ministry.
Yes, every gift has its temptations.
When you work in a quarry, stones might fall and crush you. When you chop
wood, there is danger with each stroke of your ax. Eccl 10:9
What Solomon was writing here is that each profession has a danger, and
when John the Baptist call...
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ing all kinds of miracles
and having large crowds follow them, everything must be alright; but it is all
deception. I can just imagine the Lord sending a message to Samson and
persons like him saying:
“You say, 'I am strong, feared and have become influential,' yet you do not
know that you are weak...
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quired holiness for fulfilment and for sustaining
that fulfilment.
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FINAL WORDS
We must pursue personal godly character in all that we do. That is the
foundation for succeeding i...
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. No, learning
the subject of physics or mathematics may not have much to do with the
preaching anointing, but it has everything to do with succeeding in life and
surviving the glory of the anointing.
The good thing about having a calling or gift in an area of life is that the calling
comes with a ...
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it is not a guarantee of
success at all; it is more of a call to discipline. The Lord is calling you to realize
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that you have a great work ahead of you so that you can start exercising
yourself in every godly th...
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ze that if they must disobey God, it is better
to disobey him by honest labour rather than by begging or being dishonest.
Even if both of these constitute disobedience, one is definitely a lesser sin.
I am not at all saying that people should not pursue their missions of life; I am
just saying that...
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ult of a deliberate action by the Lord. The Lord refused
to lift them up because they failed in the small things.
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How you are doing right where you are as a student or as a worker in another
person's business is ...
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ecause of the pressure in itself.
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Prov 24:10 AMP
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One day, everyone's Delilah will come, but it is not always a woman. The spirit
of Delilah is in e...
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Chapter 1 4
Chapter 2 6
Chapter 3 8
Chapter 4 10
Chapter 5 13
Chapter 6 17
Chapter 7 22
Chapter 8 25
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amson. His parents of course knew he was special and they
treated him as such. I suppose that may have been the beginning of the
problems – they knew he was special and they inadvertently spoiled him.
Though I can't be dogmatic about it, reading the story in Judges Chapter 14
in which he insisted o...
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that reason they close doors against themselves
so often.
The second verse is this:
Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will stand before kings;
He will not stand before obscure men. Prov 22:29
What I want to bring out from this verse is the meaning or implication of the
word 'skill.' If you ...
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fail even though they have a special calling and are heavily
endowed with divine power.
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PS
Choosing To Follow Jesus
Jesus died to save us all from our sins and from everlasting damnation;
He came to make us children...
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her the character
and discipline that people develop into their lives. Gifts do not make a man,
character does.
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TWO IMPORTANT VERSES
Let us quickly examine the following two verses of sc...
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who are not worth their offices, just like there are elders who refuse
to show enough responsibility over time and therefore differ little from
juveniles, but they are the abnormal specimens of life.
As you grow up in anything, you become a worthy leader if you learn
diligence, discipline, patience...
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some income and to qualify for the continued support of the church. They
had rented a place for him to live in.
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I spoke with this man and gave him some counsel about life, but he seemed
determined to leave the ...
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s faithful as a civil servant that he
becomes a man of God. God doesn't primarily follow us to church to see how
diligent we are there; he checks our secular offices to see if we are truly
faithful.*1
Sometimes the Lord calls a student and he runs away from school to obey the
call; my understanding...
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st assumed that it would come
to pass whether they do anything or not, they became totally lax with the
result that the Lord left them long ago and they do not know it. I need to
emphasize this point.
When God shows us a vision or reveals the future to us, the reason He does
that is so that we can ...
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ve. They fret, and become tempted with wrongdoing. If they begin to get involved in the wrongdoing, they have lost out.
"…but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with him." Heb 10:38 TEV
We must be persistent and determined about our faith and the path with God we have chosen. One way...
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etend to be." Jer 17:10 THE MESSAGE
"Life is spiritual. Your physical existence doesn't contribute to that life. The words that I have spoken to you are spiritual." John 6:63 GOD'S WORD Translation
What the word of God is telling us is that it is the hidden part of our actions that really count....
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ves us an opportunity each time to practise diligence, righteousness and blessing someone else’s life with our abilities. Faithfulness is being dependable in what things God has given into your hands.
People oftentimes say there are no jobs; I always say there are always jobs. A job is the opportun...
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o evildoing.
9 For evildoers will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land." Ps 37:3-9 NASB
Let us bring out a few things from here.
1. Trust in the Lord and do good.
Trusting in the Lord, which is what we call faith, is a heart matter; it is an attitude with which...
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use me pain." And God gave him what he prayed for.' 1 Chron 4:10 TEV
How will you like your life to be a testimony that God answers prayers rather than a testimony of human striving, which is vanity?
Remember when you pray, you pray in the name of Jesus. To pray in the name of Jesus is beyond just...
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in the Lord outwardly is by delighting in walking according to His rules and principles of doing things. Here is how the Lord Jesus said it:
If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word… John 14:23 NASB
Delighting in the Lord is not the same as delighting to go to church, or dance in church or to ‘wo...
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loved righteousness, and hated wickedness;
"Therefore God, Thy God, has anointed Thee
"With the oil of joy above Thy fellows." Ps 45:7 NASB
When you love righteousness, patience is easy.
CONCLUSION
Having said all these things, remember, there is a season that is due. God will cause events to ar...
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principle of sin. There was something I said last week. I was referring to Charles Finney and some things he said that I didn't finish explaining all the things I wanted to say about it because of course we're going to get back to it today. So let me just go into it now. First, I need to define sin....
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I went to my box today. So I saw an article there written by one of my friends, one of my young friends. And he said that one of the things that Pastor Bankia has helped me to learn, he was writing an article, was never to accept the word common man. I felt good, you know what I'm saying? For me, th...
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marvel not that I say unto you, you must be born again. It's not like it is good. God does not ever give counsel. Now listen to what I'm saying. He doesn't give you advice. Like as a friend, let me tell you the truth. What I really think, no. Every time he tells you something, it is a commandment. W...
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In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Actually what I want to talk about today is the doctrine of sin. It's interesting because last time we talked about Jesus being the way into the presence of God and that what prevents us from going into God's presence is because of sin and iniquity and that ...
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that sin is a transgression of the law. And I went to study it and I found out that that's just an expression in the King James Bible. Every other Bible you use, I have checked more than 10, and they all say the same thing. Sin is lawlessness. Sin is beyond the transgression of the law. Because the ...
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But you read in your Bible, you mount up with the wings like an eagle. Every pastor that comes to us talking about eagle. The eagle can fly so and so feet, can carry things at four times his weight. No, these are facts, these are facts. The eagle, it's very strong. He has a span, a wingspan of this ...
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At a point in time, this man, the founder of the redeemed, the man just got up and got angry and walked away and said, except I'm not a man of God, that's why this guy won't see God's judgment. He just walked away. So as they escorted him away, they prayed, oh God, please don't go now. They turned b...
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And that is one of the lessons you learn in life. He said, he told him, let him go. That you cannot touch the laws anointed and be guiltless. It's your problem that is a crook. Touch him, you'll be sober, you're going home, a car hits you, you're dead. I have seen these things happen again and again...
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and was reading it and saw that, that was her first encounter with what they call secondhand smoke. That is, if you live with a man that smokes, you're actually smoking indirectly. You understand? And that, so she now found out that her husband's cigarette smoke was not only dangerous to him, it was...
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Now before I go on to the media, I want to say, when I was reading this, there was something that I noticed I just want to share with you briefly. And it will help you in your general work with God. It's not part of what we are discussing. Now you notice there's a progression here. I call it the pro...
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What we enjoy, believe me, is the mercy of God. Listen, the sacrifice of Jesus is the most important thing that God ever did for mankind. I was saying some things last week. That is why, especially Christians, they will get away with a lot of sins of, I don't know, I didn't know, I was not deliberat...
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You know, because you see, in our place, what they say is that, and I've just, in scripture I just told you, you know, you are, I'm helping you to commit iniquity, so I won't even give you the opportunity. So when they say, so one of them recently, my wife said, you didn't say anything. I said, no, ...
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That's why I'm calling it transgression. They say, by tomorrow, this economy will boil. This man laughed and said, even if God, wait. The prophet looked at him. That's why I told you that if I'm speaking and somebody disdains the words, when I'm talking, I'm preaching. Eh? I feel sorry for the perso...
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that we believe in the name of his son Jesus Christ and love one another just as he commanded us. The one who keeps his commandments abides in him and he in him. We know by this that he abides in us by the spirit whom he has given us. Let's now quickly go to Genesis chapter 3. Now what I want to tal...
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No, are you getting my point? I may not get all the details right, but that God protected something as fragile as egg in the boot, it really happened. While four or five adults were crushed to death in the car. The law of sin and death. Two weeks ago, we said that the central path of Christianity is...
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This man was, there was nothing wrong with him, but he had certain signs and symptoms. And when they did some tests, they interpreted it as if he had a terminal disease. And they told him, and he believed it, and he died. It was to him, according to his face. As I always warn you about the kind of t...
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Now, let's now go down to verse 1 of chapter 3. Now I jump down because we all know the story of the creation of the woman and all that. He said, Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord had made. And he said to the woman, Indeed, has God said, You shall not eat of ...
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Wake Abdur Rahim from his grave and show him the folly of his statement. That the problem with human beings now is to prevent the scientists from cloning human beings. That's the moral question right now in the scientific field. That should we allow people to clone people? That is ordinary science h...
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that you hear one more. Are you following my point? That if everybody is talking, go to where God is talking and keep on hearing, if you eat this, you shall surely die. So that Satan will not even have the opportunity. Are you following my point? And that's the way it is in life. Every day you go ou...
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I found out later from reading Eric Joyner that the epicenter of that earthquake was under a pornography studio. If you see a land that legalizes homosexuality, don't plan to raise your children there. How much more take visa to run there? No, honestly, once you see it, Jesus said, can't you discern...
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The husband of one wife was not the discussion. The issue was, is he a man of one woman? Are you getting my point? Now I see a lot of men, once money enters their pocket, they become men of multiple women. They have one wife, but they don't have women. I said, poor guy, he doesn't understand that wh...
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He says, see how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we will be called children of God and such we are. For this reason, the world does not know us because it did not know Him. Beloved, now are we children of God. It has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, ...
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That is why we read last week, he said it's after all of this, we still continue to practice and say after that there is no more sacrifice for such sins. Because what the man is doing is that he has sinned right. God has empowered him to do right. Yet he decides to do wrong. God said, well, I don't ...
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The Bible uses the word who doeth, if you use the Greek in James. A lot of times people say that they misunderstand what John is saying. That because you are a child of God, you do not sin. They think John is saying that the man never makes a mistake or never does anything wrong. That's why I'm emph...
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No, by that day, as soon as he took Sarah, he just said, bring that woman. Instantly, all his wives became barren. It's called the law of sin and death. Ignorance is a small excuse. It's not a good excuse. It doesn't save you in the day of adversity. It only works when you talk to God and say, God, ...
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Why am I telling you this? See, that is called sin, sin, iniquity. We should gather and say, please, who understands what God has said is the kind of fuel that's supposed to run this engine? What is the kind of voltage we plug our marriages and our relationships into? Who has the manual from the man...
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and cultivate it. Don't think Adam was going to just cross his leg and say, Eve, why don't you go and harvest some apples for us? Let's eat for dinner. No, no. One day I read one of our pharmacology textbooks when I was in school, Lawrence and Bennett. So they're talking about anesthesia. And they s...
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Now you have to get a point. He wanted to introduce a particular matter. So he was giving a background to what he wanted to discuss. Are you getting the point I'm trying to make here? He wanted to talk about love. So everything he's been discussing from when was I reading verse 1 was a prelude to wh...
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Are you getting the point? That is the meaning of the word unbelief. They could not be persuaded. Unbelief simply means that you are not persuaded that this thing they are saying is really like that. Which was what Satan did to Eve. First thing he did to Eve was to take her eyes away from the persua...
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One day, one preacher, but this guy said he was a crook, Demo Shakaran, said the guy was a crook. That this crook came to preach for them, powerful and anointed. See blind people, they could just open like this, cripple, throw out of your wheelchair, you start walking. Bring dead man, see if that gu...
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I hope you are getting what I'm making here. So please, our time has gone. I really have to end. I really have to end. Our time has really gone. But the point I'm just making is that sin is not a moral question. Sin is a matter of set laws and standards in the realm of the spirit. You cross them, yo...
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He hasn't told you the truth. Go home, kneel down and beg your wife, I'm sorry. I will never do it again. Listen to me, instantly that power of that Satan is broken. I tell you, people exercise themselves in things that are not important. Do you understand my point? The things that don't work. Such ...
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And the little boy said, you can't do anything to me. I remember that Sazu turned to the little boy and said, technically, they can. We are on their land. Now that's ritual truth. That is yes, I am a child of God. Satan is beneath me. But one thing I don't do is go out of the territory that God has ...
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The scripture said that you will not let your foes dash against the stone. It said, dash and not tempt the Lord thy God. He said, now bow before me and I will give you all these kingdoms. Now, I'm bringing out an issue here. What happens is Satan was trying to bait him. This was somebody he didn't h...
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Interestingly enough, after the woman obeyed him, he wasn't satisfied. That's not where he was going, that's not the head of the home. Listen, sometimes you look at people, people think that in life you just wake up and make up your mind, this is what I want to do, this is what I will not do. Listen...
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to some degree. I said, that man has been bewitched. If you read the scriptures, you'll see Paul said to the Galatians, he said, oh foolish Galatians, who bewitched you? Now, people can be bewitched. You cast a spell upon somebody, they'll start doing things that they don't even understand why they ...
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A lot of men think it's a bad enjoyment. Listen to me, that is why it's called temptation. If it doesn't sound like enjoyment, it shouldn't be temptation. But when people have understanding... Satan came to Jesus Christ and said, bow to me, I'll give you anything. Jesus looked at him and said, do I ...
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before him. What am I explaining? That now we understand the baseline. We are not inferior to the devil. It doesn't have power over us as children of God. But there is something that we must know. We must not play into his hands. Do you understand the point I'm making? And that's why I said you don'...
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It was when you started hanging out with certain friends and they introduced you to certain women. That was where your problems began. People talk about witches, witches, witches. I said most witches don't go to covens. They go to fine hotels. They drive flashy cars. They are very beautiful women. A...
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Even if I want to keep up at night, Satan shouldn't be what I will be doing. Are you getting my point? What should I be doing? I should spend the time meditating on the word of God and giving thanks and asking God to reveal. Now listen, God will reveal to you that which is inferior to his standards ...
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Are you following the point I'm making? I have seen people who have insisted that this is the kind of person I want to marry, must be from this area, must look like this, and they got it, and accept that that person never blessed them, and at the end of the day, they regretted it. I'm going to bring...
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Any guy who does not make up his mind to be a serving son is a prodigal son. If you are not serving God's agenda, you are serving the devil's agenda. And that's what Paul wrote to Timothy. He said, listen, It's not a man just wake up in his mind, I'm going to be a great man for God. He said, if any ...
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If you read some other translations, he would say something like, I was beholding, alright? Satan fall from heaven. I'll use the new American standard. He said, I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. I'm bringing up an issue here. He said, because of that, let me paraphrase, I was abl...
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Now the Bible says that then the 70 returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name. And it said in verse 18, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and no...
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Please notice this. What did Jesus do through His death, through the power of His cross? The Bible said He destroyed him who had the power of death, that is, the devil. Please, get the point. This is my assignment. If somebody is a minister of the word of God, he said, say to the cities of Zion, beh...
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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'd like us to read from the book of Luke chapter 10. Now, what I want...
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I always say something that people, you see, that's why we need to shout loud for people to understand. Everything you commit is not about that moment. It's about the hold that Satan gets upon your life. Several times, people, now, what I'm saying is absolutely correct. I've seen things like that a ...
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Are you getting my point? Now this is the baseline for every believer. This is what we are supposed to understand. But what is the power of death? I need to now go into that and explain it. Now I'm going to focus on something first of all in our minds. That as believers in Christ Jesus we are not at...
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So Jesus said here, you saw a lot of manifestations. It's because I, your Lord and Master, who sent you out, had an understanding. I saw into the realm of the Spirit. And what did I see? I beheld Satan. I was watching and he was falling. Therefore, I give you power. Do you understand my point? Over ...
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ligion but to deliver you from your destructions by the forgiveness of sin. All you need to do to partake of this is just to believe it and to say in prayer that ‘Jesus, I accept it as so. Thank you’.
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what are causing your problems, remember they would not have been able to assail you if your relationship with God was in order. Your enemies are only as strong as your relationship with God is weak.
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sit you; He is saying ‘I have heard but I need my way prepared so I can come’. This was the message that John came preaching.
The preparation of the way of the Lord involves the leveling of the road.
‘Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked sha...
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immediately something will happen. A child will fall sick, you go to hospital, the doctor says admission fee is half of a month's salary. Or you are going, one mechanic forgot to tighten one knot under your engine, and you say you are not very careful. You oil drain, then your car stops somewhere. T...
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like God. Now, please notice this. I said to you before, when man was made and God said the image of God created him, God speaks as if the final thing has been done. And that's one of the reasons you will know that that final thing had not been accomplished. Because it had been accomplished, it woul...
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You've confessed all the faithful for the day. Then what did you get? Trouble, trouble, trouble. Listen to me, what has been tested is that determination. So this is how you handle it, and heaven will be pleased. First thing you do, you kneel down and say, Lord, I want to tell you that I have laid m...
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, even when he is a stupid man. So it's true. I mean, when a man is in love, he's in love. It doesn't matter whether the woman is married to somebody else or not. It's true. Do whatever makes you happy. You know, that's what they preach abroad. Love those count...
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A man came out at the age of 62 and said, I'm a woman. And the president said, it takes courage to recognize yourself. And like I always say, it takes courage to walk around naked and eat from dustbin. You don't think it takes courage? Go and do it. You don't have the courage. I dare you. I double d...
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Just conquer the continent and collect coal and iron and all of that. So everybody was busy in Germany. Everybody. So that was prosperity. But he had his ultimate plan. He had his ultimate plan. Next thing, he started invading one country after another. By the time Europe woke up, they had collected...
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Do you get my point? Your need for God is shown, alright? Individual, different people have different experience, I will push that into them. So God takes us through different pathways in life, but he has just one purpose in mind, the building up of what? Christ in us. So whatever you are going thro...
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When he finished tempting Abraham, you know what he did? He jumped up. He said, by myself, he wanted to say, I swear by almighty God. They quickly reminded himself that I'm the almighty God. So he said, in blessing, I will bless you. Yeah, he likes to brag. So one thing that that happened, and pleas...
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Are you getting my point? Now, I'm not saying... I mean, you get what I'm saying. Don't expect a snake to come. When you see a snake in your house, kill him. Nah, normal snake. Say, the devil came to talk to me. Look. Now, don't worry about what's happened, okay? Let's just leave it. But I'm going t...
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However, one thing I say about her all the time, if I go to a point in the house, those early days, I was careful not to quote scripture if we were having maybe a disagreement or something, because I felt it was oppression. Not because of my knowledge. No, that's not it. Well, that's part of it. But...
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When there's a program or another church nearby, they start their own program. That's how your church will close. Just mark my words. The one that you're afraid that they can't go anywhere else, that is how to close your church in a hurry. And I say, what's happening here? Look at who they are bring...
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Jesus says, the reason why we will lose it. I hope you're getting my point. So Satan, that's all he... I want to just drop that. That's all he has, okay? To talk to people, to tempt them. He doesn't have the kind of power people... You know I say that all the time. So what does God do to solve our p...
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Because just as God can give you a car to take you there on time, so can he stop your car from going there because he does not want you to go? People have the impression that God only gives, he also takes. He has taken things from me before, I'll just laugh. I'll just say, Lord, one day, the Lord to...
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It takes time of sitting with Christ every cool evening. You know, we were talking about that before. When he will come, you sit with him, you hear his words, he transmits his spirit into you. I don't know how long it was going to take, but eventually he will have been transformed into the image of ...
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People want to hear from God. God says, I can talk to people, not the problem. But that's not really my primary aim. My primary aim is that you start thinking like me, so that you can make decisions for me, and it will be the right decision. That's what it means to be like God. But what did Satan gi...
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You are giving Satan a place to live, which was what he was looking for. Once you cut off the flow of light, or the life of God, naturally Satan begins to thrive. I hope you got my point. What we are doing this is, I just want to explain to us how life runs. You see what redemption means. I will get...
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is that as you collected the five million, the first evil spirit entered the house, sat on your right shoulder, and is talking to you, my brother. See how this five million has helped your life and your ministry. Just go for the meeting. There's nothing they're going to kill you. Just go. They give ...
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Paul explained that there's a special kind of sin that Adam committed. It was deliberate disobedience to a clear instruction which he had the power to resist. That is temptation. He had the power to resist it. The instruction was clear. He did not forget it. He knew the consequence, yet he did it. B...
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You know, on this earth, he has a lot of wisdom, he has a lot of power, and you must not think that God has granted him. He can network and create systems that once you enter, you are rich automatically. And God knows. Satan does not only take money, he gives it. In fact, I think he does more of giv...
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That is what Satan does. He comes, tries to break that communication between us and God. So what did he do? In the beginning, he went to the garden. For times sake, we will not bother opening to read, but we all know it. He went to Eve and said, has God said? Now, I said it last time. I need to say ...
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whether old man, whether sanguine, choleric, you know, generic, whatever it is. It must pass away. And everything must become new. It is the focus that matters, not where you are coming from. It's where you are focused. You will get there eventually. Which is why I tell Christians, in fact, somethin...
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Adultery is all right. Yeah, the world bought it. He did another survey. That men like to sleep with other men. Conclusion? Homosexuality is normal. He laid the foundation for what they call the sexual revolution on research that he did on the sexuality of human beings. So they sat down, made decisi...
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If I say this, you'll surprise some people. I almost started manufacturing since I did not commit. It's not a sane consciousness. I want to be sure. Are we being corrected? Because you see, most times for believers, it's that correction God is going after. Are we meditating? In fact, I had to pray a...
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Sorry, I don't mean to be critical. See that groaning you are putting on. Let's begin to groan. You never see trouble. I'm telling you. You can't practice groaning. You can't practice groaning. Groaning groans you. When matter comes, you will first speak your English, finish the English. They speak ...
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So he dashed the guy six slaps, God maxed against the oppressor. He dashed the guy seven slaps, God maxed again. By the time he gives the fellow the eighth slap, God said, three slaps, too many. Killed the oppressor, killed his family, killed his friends, killed everybody. He said, why Lord? He said...
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into every corner of the earth. So that the whole earth will be, what you find, you know, like, now I want to just say this, I want to illustrate. We now call that paradise. So when you have heaven on the earth, do you get my point? The place is now like paradise. How was he going to create that? By...
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Many would like to obey God, you know, like, He will come through, He will come through. Maybe you're in an office. He said, no, if you do what is right, you won't be sacked. Please, before you make up your mind to do what is right, just go home, tell your family, there's a high chance today's my la...
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He had never seen me. I don't think he had seen me that time on TV or anything. He just used to listen to me. And by listening, he drank of a particular spirit. He entered into the hall. He saw what happened. He said, that man won't like it. The man I've been listening to, who has been transmitting ...
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the eventual outcome.
We must learn to look beyond immediate gratification.
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CHAPTER 10
TWO DANGEROUS DEVILS
In closing this exposition, I will like to show us two things that compete with
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became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly,
and he was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the
LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. (2 Chron 26:16)
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cipleship. Remember that it is the lusts of men
versus the will of God.
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CHAPTER 11
THE GOD CALLED MAMMON And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are
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o be my follower you must love me more than your own father
and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, more than your own
life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26-27 NLT)
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ORD; Those who hopefully wait for Me will
not be put to shame. (Isa 49:23)
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CHAPTER 12
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS
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hat are chosen x
8. Time for your decision x
9. Temporal light afflictions x
10. Two dangerous devils x
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of visitation. After that day, should
she continue in adultery, she would be an adulteress by choice. Now, this is where most people blow it. Many will rather continue in the
passing pleasures of sin. The time of ignorance that the Lord overlooked has
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h, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may
live, you and your descendants. (Deut 30:19)
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CHAPTER 9
TEMPORAL LIGHT AFFLICTIONS
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lf have done it; all I could do was place my feet
on the path that led to that end.
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CHAPTER 5
THE LORD TEACHES
Please notice that when charting my course for the desired end, my guide was
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on; not of struggles or of desires. It is where you walk that determines what
you get.
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CHAPTER 4
CHOICES
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re of what I had and made no apologies. I used to feel
sorry for anyone who either tried to look down on me or feel sorry for me. I
was a man that had real substance, and I still am. The lusts of men! This is what kills a lot of believers. They know the plan of God
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of the things of God. I recollect how one
day I sat and watched a TV programme in which a young woman was teaching
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ou hear things like “choose you this day who you will
serve. You hear it said, “choose life that you may live”.
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life in order that you may
live, you and your descendants. (Deut 30:19)
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CHAPTER 9
TEMPORAL LIGHT AFFLICTIONS
There is one more thing I will like us to notice from the account of Moses.
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on. You cannot by yourself
make the right choice; you MUST be taught. God's word must teach you. He
said,
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my
mouth. (Prov 7: 24)
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ed to make my boast loudly in
the Lord concerning marriage, that I can never marry the wrong woman. I
proclaimed again and again that I shall marry the best wife possible for me to
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ould therefore be nothing but a
seed of evil in the land and would have to be removed by a capital
punishment.
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teach you. He
said,
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my
mouth. (Prov 7: 24)
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n to have confidence; to look up with boldness in the face of situations;
to see all and yet say, “my salvation is near”. That reason is that your heavenly
Father knows that you need all these things. You have a heavenly Father who is actively planning and taking charge of your
life to bring you to ...
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ave come to realize is
that if any person is in Christ, he or she is a new creature, born in Christ Jesus
who has made all things new” (2 Cor 5:16,17). That was why I asked whether
he was backslidden.
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sions for him and he was
overwhelmed by the influence of his surroundings.
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CHAPTER 8
TIME FOR YOUR DECISION I mentioned that it was when Moses had grown up that he made his decision
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e; we all can understand the mechanism and
so can easily trace the 'cause-and-effect' of it. Unfortunately, most things in
life, though having similar cause-and-effect relationships, are not always so
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sness x
13. Let’s summarize x
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
What comes to you in life is not a function primarily of your dreams,
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g wisdom is the most
important thing you can do! And whatever else you do, get good judgment.
(Prov 4:4,7 NLT)
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, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not hear and you
did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight." (Isa 65:12)
The choices you are making today are shaping your tomorrow. The only control
that God has given you over your destiny is the ability to make choices; you
canno...
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is is what God rewards - the choice you make.
And God said to Solomon, "Because you had this in mind, and did not ask for
riches, wealth, or honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor have you even
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t he had been given by his father David.
My father told me, "Take my words to heart…Getting wisdom is the most
important thing you can do! And whatever else you do, get good judgment.
(Prov 4:4,7 NLT)
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the same manner, the love of money is shown by your
considerations for it when you have to make choices in life.
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t to throw a stone at her.”
(John 8:7)
See, the Lord of the Law expected that the whole nation would be a holy
nation so that the influence of evil from the community and the families would
not exist. If this situation subsisted, then an adulterer would be one by choice
and would have no excuse; suc...
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and use God's criteria alone to
make choices, then good will come to you.
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CHAPTER 7
THE FEW THAT ARE CHOSEN
You have heard it said that many are called but few are chosen. Have you ever
wondered why it is o...
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when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His
commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every
act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.
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Prophesy!
3. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
4. What is God's Will Here?
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2. Here on Purpose
3. The Law of life
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it. When
the Lord called Abram, He called Him alone and was not trying to measure him
up with his mates (Is 51).
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Men are about the greatest hindrance to the fulfilment of God's plan in many
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of your
desire primarily, but a product of the path you are walking on.
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CHAPTER 6
WHOSE CRITERIA ARE THESE?
When making decisions, we have in our minds things that are guiding us. These
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this in mind, and did not ask for
riches, wealth, or honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor have you even
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” (1 Sam 13:13-14)
One of my pastors used to say that it is the decisions that you make for God in
the furnace of affliction that will decide whether you will remain just called or
will become chosen.
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This is ho...
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o what is called 'the
cares (or worries) of this world'. The cares of this world refer to the very
legitimate things such as what we shall eat, what we shall drink, and from
where we shall be clothed. “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the
other, or he will hold ...
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question a business executive asked
R. W. Shambach when he confronted him with the choice of accepting Jesus as
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n, and you can only choose your destination
by choosing the road you will travel on.
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CHAPTER 3
LIMITED HORIZON
Choices in life are made based on knowledge and understanding. By this I
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me to understand that may
answer our question is what I am sharing in this book.
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CHAPTER 2
THE PATHS OF LIFE
I have come to understand that life is in paths, and that all you can do is to
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bout mammon, and in the next verse he
said, “for this reason I say to you.” What He was saying in effect is that
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my business early
in the morning, but nothing seems to come out of it. I don't know what the
problem is.”
He looked for much, but was only able to gather little.
The question one needs to ask is, why?
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sen. God is not impulsive; He has ways and patterns by which He does things. He
does not choose people by throwing dice; He has reasons every time. Let us see the case of Saul and David to illustrate. Saul was rejected because of his repeated disobedience to the instructions of
the Lord. You remembe...
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they are concerned about the opinion of their friends and peers
whereas it is only the word of God that can tell anyone what is right and each
has the responsibility to seek to hear what it is saying. Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. (Ps
34:11)
What the Psalmi...
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but which you do not realize God wanted to give you anyway. The way by which you enter into something in life is very important. So that's why David wonders in Psalm 118, enter through the gates of God. It isn't don't enter or enter something. It's which gate. Enter by the narrow gate. Why? There is...
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Lord, this year I will dwell in the land, I will cultivate faithfulness. I will dwell in the land, I will cultivate righteousness. Please read those scriptures. That's Psalm 15 over your head, over your life. Meditate on it. Speak to yourself. Correct yourself with them. Correct your ways. If you ha...
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to steal his destiny? What opportunities will we give to steal her destiny? Listen, in this life, let me just say it again. One day I said it to my brethren, they had a lot of argument. I said, God did not call us to succeed. He called us to obey. Success, what we call success, is a gift of God. So ...
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and sent them to Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, let there be a treaty between you and me, as between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Bashar, king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me. Verse 4, so Ben-Hadad...
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Syria into his hands. Bashar, king of Israel, was not the problem. The main enemy, the main strong power around that area at that time was Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, or Syria, the same, the version you are using. And that was the person God, because every temptation leads to a lifting, even if you are...
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I will follow only righteous people. People that have a true testimony. Not admiring a drug dealer because he has big motor cars. People who are questionable sources of wealth because they are rich. I admire them, say not anymore. I set the Lord alone, endlessly before me. Pray, free yourself from t...
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You now start saying, we didn't pray to God before we took the invitation. We should have prayed. The Holy Spirit would have let us know. We should have taken it. So let's repent of not praying. You start rationalizing it anyway. No, the Holy Spirit is new. He sets it up. It's supposed to be a tempt...
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They keep their promises, even when it hurts. Please leave these words over your own life. You have a minute or two to do that. Just read them out to yourself. Begin to read them out. I will abide in the tent of the Lord. I will dwell on his holy hill. I will walk with integrity. Read it over your l...
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He will sell his integrity. He will sell his faithfulness. He will sell his word. It's the amount of money that you are offering that matters. That is what the discussion is about. People think it's money. Those people that said, door of opportunity open, the breakthrough we have been praying for, t...
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no lying, no cheating, no dishonesty. Lord, let me not, oh God, let me not profane your name. Let me not cause your name to be blasphemed amongst the Gentiles. In the name of Jesus, no sexual immorality. In the name of Jesus, no uncleanness. In the name of Jesus, no filthy words, no anger towards th...
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I'm asking you, Lord, for grace. I'm asking you, Lord, for grace. I'm asking you, Lord, for grace. Quickly, open to the book of Daniel. No, first, Psalm 37. We're going to prove our lives again from Psalm 37 before we go to the testimony of Daniel. Now, we're all going to read together from verse 1....
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Say, Lord, let somebody's money not stay with me. They worked for me. I have money to pay them. Let me pay them. I don't know why people just... I mean, somebody will work for you. Pay now. You can afford it. You want that is to make me laugh? People will be building their own house. They won't pay ...
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Marcos Lam, yes, that he had passed on. I was the one that told him. I was shocked. I thought he knew all the news in Nigeria and the world, OK? Anyway, he's the one that knows all these things. So I was hearing the thing just as you were hearing it, so I'm just making light of that. Now, the point ...
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That is the gist. What do you take me for? We have established it. There's no question on that anymore. The issue now is that, how much? You're asking for a million dollars. Where will you get that? And I want believers to know that is what is at stake. It's not money. In heaven, they are discussing...
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Something you swore to, don't stand by it. That is a cost of your breakthrough. You have entered by a wrong door. My initial plan was that we are going to prophesy over the year, but I've not been able to do that much. This year shall be well with me. Listen to me, it's already guaranteed shall be w...
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a spirit that is holy, a spirit that is pure. That's what we're asking for. Lord, cleanse my mouth. The angel flew and took it with a tongue too cold from the altar and touched Isaiah's mouth. He said, this has touched your mouth and your iniquity has been removed. The nonsense talk has gone away. T...
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Psalm 15, I want us to read it together, Psalm 15. You know what Jesus said? Like what Paul said? He said, seeing that we have these promises, beloved, what do we do? Let's cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and of spirit. What do we do? We perfect holiness in the fear of God. We perfect...
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That thing is hanging over your head. It's hanging. God is just saying, please, every obstruction, every obstruction, every obstruction, remove it. Begin to remove it in prayer. Say, Lord, if I say things that are not true, this year, let lies not come from my mouth again, ever. There are different ...
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20% is heavy on such a victim. It must be a government contract. If you are doing 20%, okay, that's a government contract. Normally on such, I mean, what you are making is not, okay, let's even say 20%. So we're not even talking about anything more than 70 million here. So 70 million, that's, you kn...
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I think I've drawn some red lines ahead of time. That this one, I'm not going there. That kind of thing. You get that board and say, what are you saying? Say, sir, let's not just worry about this. No need to negotiate. Sir, if your life depended on it, I wouldn't give you. If the destiny of Nigeria ...
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It will come to pass. Let's read this together. Psalm what? Psalm 15. Are you there? Now you are prophesying this over your own life. I'm prophesying this over my life. Want to let's go? Oh Lord, who may abide in your tent, who may dwell on your holy hill, who works with integrity and works righteou...
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to collect money from us. Tell us the truth. We are good people. We are God's people. If you say, brethren, they want to eject us from this building, we will not be able to hold church next Sunday. Please, brethren, God has blessed you. Come, bring money. If you're a pastor, say it like that. And te...
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even though he did not intend that. He said it was witnessed by a doctor. If he was not in the right mental health, he would have known. So that article said, guys, don't witness important documents if you're a medical doctor. Signatures are important. That's the story I'm telling with all of these ...
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Cease from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret, it leads only to evildoing, for evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land. Yet a little while, and the wicked man will be no more, and you will look carefully for his place, and he will not be there. But hu...
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He said to him, because you have relied on that king and not on the Lord, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim, that's the Libyans, what you call Libyans now, an immense army with very many chariots and horsemen, yet because you relied on the...
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Lord, deliver me from lying. Deliver me from being unfaithful. Deliver me from not fulfilling my promises. Deliver me from saying one thing and meaning another. Let me not be double-minded, double-tongued. I say one thing, but what I really mean in my heart is something else. I tell one person one t...
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I will dwell in the land and I will cultivate faithfulness. I will make it a deliberate practice. I will write down my business transactions. I will write down the promises I have made. And I will be faithful in doing my portion. I will be faithful in fulfilling my promise. I will delight myself in ...
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Let me say what I said before, let me say it again. Temptations are called temptations because they are tempting. So, remember that story about, come and take a contract, and they give you a week to your wedding, that has to be on your wedding day? So that day they were discussing, I said, what kind...
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Everything you want to enter in life, there are doors. And one of the things they will show you first in life is the wrong door. Yes. When God wants to bless you, let's use material things as an example. Financially, the first opportunity you'll be given will be a wrong one. If God wants to bless yo...
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o problem on the day of adversity. He will give
us a quickening word and His Spirit will enter into us
and set us on our feet. God’s grace is available for
every true and committed believer in Christ.
I went to teach on a campus some years ago. I spoke
of how Samson lost his place because of Delila...
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d and
made up their minds from the beginning that they
would not defile themselves by anything going on in
the land of Babylon. The time they faced the fiery
furnace was not the day it started.
GRACE
Let me say something about grace again. They didn’t
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Lord Jesus Christ.
…the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from
temptation. 2 Peter 2:9 NASB
The Lord is good,
a stronghold in the day of trouble;
He knows those who take refuge in him. Nahum 1:7
While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your
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on the hand is to appear like a
Christian but to do everything the structure of the
anti-Christ would dictate. And it is going now currently
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in many parts of the world, and may be coming to your
country.
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description in 2
Peter 2.
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Why would people worship the beast or his image?
The answer is simple: It is the love of this physical life.
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will
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are lost. Instead,
we have faith and are saved. Heb 10:39 GNT
Those who decide to turn back from following Christ
have existed, and the consequence is clear (See also
Heb 6: 4 – 8; 2 Pet 2: 20 – 21).
Please this is the point I am making about the mark of
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th, work, power and livelihood. It also stands
to indicate who you are following in life. God takes a
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person by the right hand to lead him.
The forehead is used to denote the name one carries,
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body.
3. A righteous walk must be our focus.
This will come as we emphasize the right doctrines.
Like David said, the godly ones must be made our
heroes, not the rich and materially successful ones.
There is no righteousness apart from the one that
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in the day of trial.
Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will
keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on
all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth
Rev 3:10 BBE
Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were not saved by the
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THE MARK OF
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THE AIM
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d night. Ps 1:1-2
NASB
"Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!
"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deut 6:4-5 NASB
"Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription
does it have?" And they said, "Caesar's." And ...
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