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It means you have to learn how to, it's a measure of what you are doing. But you did not come there to make money. It's not to be able to amass wealth. We believers don't do things for that reason. Two things that we have mentioned so far is that one, we do them as a way to express righteousness. Fo...
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everything because there are different things that God speaks about. And it's the totality of everything that he speaks about that brings life into your system. And when we say life, I need to emphasize it again. Life is not just that you did not die yesterday, you are alive today. Life in this cont...
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Oh God, you sent for me and I heard. The Lord is good. The Lord is good. I finished my message. I'm watching my time. That story, I always like telling this story. I always like telling this story. That was the day he told me that they had to do something here and the man kept him waiting for two ho...
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Now, he is giving out free of charge, but it's not everybody that is in that line because there are different aspects of life. Grace is the same way he said, I've entered into rest. God may command you to go and make money. You also see me one day and say, Pastor, I've entered into rest. Say, what d...
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Are you getting my point? Some people are buying favor. Oh, this person is a political office. This person is very powerful in this business. This person is in this. So you are buying favor. So you are doing what a sensible person could have done for a right reason, but you are doing it for the wron...
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Ah, for all this work, what am I getting? It's the opposite of faithfulness. You're not being faithful. Faithful means to be dependable, to be trustworthy. Not to respect one person, you know, against another. We're talking about, you know, because I told you that my main thrust for this, beginning ...
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And this is the explanation of his wealth. He had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household. So much that his neighbors envied him. That is the Philistines. Now, we'll be reading that. Now, let's quickly go to another one today. The book of Genesis chapter 8. Sorry. Deuteronomy chapter 8...
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At that point, his former clinic had burnt down. Some people who heard of what he was doing, they built him another clinic and equipped him for a hundred million naira. One of the same people, another set of people, paid, they were paying salaries for ten doctors to work for him. And all kinds of th...
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There are five of them, remember. He said, get a good basic education. And I tried to emphasize and amplify many of them, though he didn't explain. I took those points because he tallied very well with some things I've been teaching here and there. He said, get a good basic education. Acquire skill....
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So when you have entered into a race, this is what I'm saying, the same effort you are putting in and yielding 10 units of results, you put in a similar amount of effort and you get 10,000 units of results. Why? Because grace has been poured upon you and is amplifying the effort that you are putting...
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What God is going to do in your life that is going to be great is pure grace. What did I call it? Grace. I need to hear that word again. Grace. That last word. Grace. No, the last word. Grace. One more time. Grace. Let me tell you what grace is. Grace is that which happens to you that surprises you....
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for the normal African man whose basic food is garlic with pounded yam. Listen, anyway, the Lord is good. And about what we're saying, hey, what is bread? Bread is when I have to watch my weight to be healthy. Bread is when I have to exercise to be healthy. Bread is when I have to watch my cholester...
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1:09:00
Because he was sickly as a little boy. The man didn't believe he would amount to anything in life. It's as an older man, that the father would now come, you know. He wants to move family meeting to his house. Why would he want to move family meeting to his house? If he's younger, why would he do fam...
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I have more than 20 definitions for grace and that has been conservative. Grace is very important, we understand it. And I want to break it again from an aspect today. We learn from that Luke chapter 19. I need to emphasize this issue on the duty of a believer. I said something earlier that we are d...
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It's just because you are going somewhere in life, you are blessed. You are above a loon, not beneath. That's the reason why you won't beg. Otherwise, in Nigeria, begging is good business. That woman has not gathered money one day to go and buy those leprosy drugs. They sell them, they are cheap. Th...
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There is nothing. Please hear me. There is nothing, let me say one more time, nothing that you want to achieve in life that if you was just sincerely, no fasting, you know this, let me go on 10 days fast before I say it. You know, no groaning, nothing. Just early one morning wake up, sit on your bed...
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They talk here, talk good there. The guy said, I don't care the amount of money that's involved. He said, I have something else I'm doing with my name. I can't allow you to mess it up because of money. So after a while, the people said, all right. They came back, rearranged that, all right. From now...
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The trial of your faith. And I talked about the season of fruitfulness. And then we talked about the season of multiplication and dominion. I think there are four. Alright, first one was sit down and count. Then the second one is the trial of your faith. Okay, the other one was I think season of res...
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For those of you who don't understand, I'll say this to you. The dreams and ideas I have about ministry, I have not accomplished a tenth of it yet. What am I saying? It has not begun. Do you understand my point? Yet, last year made it 10 years that I've been teaching every Saturday apart from weeken...
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For that reason, you cannot plan your life to that level. So you say, but meanwhile, what is it? I have given you a small business. Do this business. Apply all the principles of vision. When you want to paint a picture, paint a picture. You know, I told people, you know, you are walking in a place, ...
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But I am going to judge you by how much you, Jacob, is making Lebanon rich. For your information, Lebanon defrauded Jacob 10 times. We promised Jacob one thing today. He will give Jacob another thing tomorrow. But even he testified that the only reason why I'm rich is that Jacob is working for me. I...
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Yet a little while, and the wicked man will be no more. And you will look carefully for his place, and will not be there. But you humble will inherit the land, and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity." Let me stop here, please, so that we can save the time and begin to teach. Now, I think...
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He said, dwell in the land. Remember, we said that God said to Isaac, dwell in this land. He did not command Isaac to sow in that land that he were assured him of a hundredfold blessing. He didn't do that. He just said, dwell in this land. And the same thing, we have this commandment here from the m...
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Find him money. You know? Package something. If you are somewhere far away. Western Union it to him. Whatever it is. Give it to him and just leave it like that. And I don't mean want to. Not I have paid you off now. Pass the bag. He won't complain again. That's not what I mean. I mean periodically, ...
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is pure ungodliness. The success of a company is simply how much money it is making. How many people it is employing is irrelevant to them. That is, once profit is dropping, they start cutting off people who are employed. They are always shedding staff. Always shedding staff. Always shedding staff. ...
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Very important, all right? We're not saying get a certificate. He just said, get a good basic education. He said, acquire skill in one particular thing. I'm going to sit on that again today. Number two and three are important, that they are linked. Number three says, work hard with the skill acquire...
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They do work. They do work. But it's called bread. So man often lives by bread. The normal way by which normal people live is called what? Bread. But the people of God must understand that bread is not the only way by which people live. And they are not supposed to live primarily by bread. Do you un...
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for that. I know your friend's brother, your friend's father gave him everything. Helped him to go to the highest universities. Look at the boy now. If only your father had been different. Listen to me. It doesn't matter. The thing you need in life, this heart that is beating in your chest is enough...
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I am a king in the media. I am a lord in education. But now I am small. So I say, Lord, make me that I might reflect your glory in this area that I believe my lordship and my kingship is over. Do it in the name of Jesus. I am saying to you again, according to the word of God, if you will trust him, ...
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Again, that's our main message. We just digress here and there. Alright? That's what it means by bread. I just need to emphasize that. For the believer in Christ Jesus, you can have everything naturally speaking working against you. Alright? But it does not stop where the Word of God will take you t...
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ur time; abide within the realm of
your calling.
IT's A MATTER OF LONG LIFE
When I say ‘don't die before your time’ I mean it literally.
One of the greatest teachers in my life in the matters of
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t must be in the heart of every
child of God as they seek to do any business in this life.
We must forsake the doctrine of I-don't-want-much
which we had held on to supposedly as a matter of
humility.
In my book, Grace to Prosper, [explained that wealth and
prosperity are not about self-pleasure bu...
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o not
come only to those who want to do them but also to
anyone engaged in things which constitute their roots.
This is what Paul was explaining to Timothy when he
was warning concerning covetousness.
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by
longing for it have wandered awa...
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is my point: root, or seed, is easy to tackle, but fruit
is outside our control. Whatever we desire, we must
observe to tackle it from the root. So it is with working
for God.
THE ROOT OF GOOD WORKS
In all endeavours of life, Jesus declared, only one thing
is needful. It was that thing that Mary c...
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ave recommended here, he is automatically promoted
to ranks outside his calling. There are many 'pastors' I
have met who are such only by promotion, and this was
given asa reward for diligent service.
Many have been encouraged to forsake their businesses
and professions to head church branches just...
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ssure from a
preacher who wants him to quickly make a
commitment. If what you will receive is what is in your
mind as you are giving, you are not giving to God but
are essentially throwing away money.
ACHANNEL OF BLESSING
The basic understanding that every believer must have
is that God has appoin...
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d we get
spent right out. If we are doing things inside God's
arrangement for us, the natural exhaustion is so quickly
recuperated by the resurrection life of Jesus that we do not feel
the exhaustion.
There is a joy and drive that keeps a person that is in the
centre of the call of God for his life...
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ptance. They are done as a natural manifestation of
the new life in Christ. You are doing works you were
created to do; they are not done to gain acceptance. Let
me use the following story to explain.
Many years ago my friend and I attended the same
church (that was the church I mentioned that the ...
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ted through us.
It is the work of God and the work of ministry to put
excellence into all that we do.
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SOUL-WINNING TOOLS
Aman came to see me once and he told me that until he
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We all need this because
there must be no end to the increase of the government
of Christ; that is the only way by which peace, real and
enduring peace, will come to the earth.
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
The hope that the world has is for the sons of God to
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n his serving; or he who
teaches, in his teaching; or he who exhorts, in his exhortation;
he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he
who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Rom 12:6-8
In the previous section, my emphasis was to help us
understand that secular work is part of God's ...
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before which we must all
appear, you will be judged a failure. In all the parables
of Jesus about talents and minas, the Lord always asked
the servants to show what they did with what He gave
to them.
In the New American Standard Bible rendering of Luke
19:13, the thought is so beautifully expresse...
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people or a place. It may
also be an assignment that is imposed upon you as you
prove faithful in your all-round walk with God.
He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's
sake. Ps 23:3
What the Lord does is to lead us in our everyday life
until we find ourselves in our calling. That...
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today were written in those days, and
as at the time of writing this I still have so many
unpublished materials from the same period.
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The point I am making is that the main work of God is
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ugh them in the Church, and number
three, what He wants to do through them in the world.
The way by which we do outward work for God is to
use the gifts that He placed inside us so as to bless
people.
There is something that other people need that is found
in you alone and you owe it to them to use...
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in his life, but more importantly it was to keep him
talking while I connected in my spirit with the word of
the Lord for him.
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As he spoke I realized he loved his profession, he was
financially alright and showed no signs of ...
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t is by the Spirit of God.
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Opportunity to minister the word was produced as a
result of teaching a medical subject.
ALIGHT SHINING
You see why it is ministry to live an honest and decent
life, to abhor what is evil and to succeed...
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allowed people to ask
questions and raise issues so I could help answer them.
As one person after another spoke, I noticed that the
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greater number of the people claimed they had a gift of
acting or of singing. For a while I was won...
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fulfilment.
Give Him no rest until He establishes...
Pray for your nation.
Pray for your local church.
Pray for your friend.
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Pray for your husband or wife.
Pray for your fiancée.
Pray for those that you love.
It is difficu...
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God in a manner
pleasing to Him. Among the things explained are:
* Transformation into the image of Christ as the first work of
God for everyone.
* How our secular jobs relate to the service of God.
* Howto pray as a service to God.
* The true role of giving in serving God.
* The place of resti...
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t was always with him. The zeal was consuming
him. He initially tried by his own hands and failed;
afterwards the Lord sent him with His mighty hand.
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Please note that the identification of a need and the
passion that wan...
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es of the ministry
include weekly Bible classes at the ministry
office, publication of free teaching tracts
and books, radio/TV broadcasts and
organizing teaching seminars in various
towns and cities.
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messages includes hundreds of messages
which are available on C...
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outward
work that we might ever do. Once it is being well done,
then outward works will come out without much effort
and without the risk of running contrary to the order of
God.
DOING THE MAIN WORK
To be transformed into the image of Christ is the main work
which we have to do as believers. When ...
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ification of our beings from all defilement
of flesh and spirit. It is done with the instrument of the
word of God which we pay the greatest attention to.
That is the first and primary work.
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doing much. Why not?
My answer was simple; I explained that everything has
it’s time and that God has made everything perfect in
it’s own time. As far as I felt then, it was not the time for
activity.
Then I got one of the greatest insults of my life. She
accused me of justifying my inactivity with...
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s
purposes. You will deny yourself certain pleasures and
human promotions so that you can take hold of the
Spirit. It is those things that are the real tests of your
seriousness.
FAKE CONSCIENCE BALM
I have found out that many people use this working-
for-God thing as a form of atonement for their...
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rking For God ¢
of Luke; you will see that what the Lord said is “Give
and it will be given...” and not “Give, so that it will be
given...” There is a world of difference between the two
expressions.
“Give and it will be given...” is describing a law of life
while “Give, so that it will be given.....
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matters of the
Law. In all of this he attained many natural advantages
which unfortunately turned out to constitute stumbling
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blocks to his becoming anything in Christ Jesus. There
is a goal that God has set for every single ...
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ough our outer man is
decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For
momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal
weight of glory far beyond all comparison... 2 Cor 4:16-17
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CHAPTER 14
WHAT A CALLING IS
trictly speaking, the word 'calling' is used in the
New Testament to reflect the life and purpose
which the Lord brought us all into according to
His plan. For example, all believers are said to b...
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e by the teaching of the word.
Believe me, it worked.
The word of God is interesting; it first shows us our
shortcomings, where we are living below the glory of
God, before it begins to transform us.
For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than
the sharpest knife, cutting deep i...
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is a holy man of God. Let's build a small
room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, a table, a
chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever
he comes by.” 2 Kings 4:9-10 NLT
She was not trying to get anything from the prophet; in
fact when he called her to ask what she wou...
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listened to
The Gospel of Abundance by David Oyedepo more than
70 times before I lost the tape. Yet at this time I was
having a craving for something more. I did not even
know what this something was.
It was about this time I told myself that I had to get
involved in ministry work. I must have thou...
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ritance, where to thread and where not to thread (Dt
11:24). There were places He specifically warned them
not to provoke the inhabitants thereof because if they did
they were on their own (Dt 2:4-9).
People often do not know that God has a predetermined
will for their lives or that it is important...
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res, both in your mind and brain, which
you have and others don't. This gift, though spiritual in
foundation, affects your physical body. David
explained it thus:
For Thou didst form my inward parts;
Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonde...
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nds of copies in the initial period of some
months. The tracts were distributed free. The summary
is that my guiding attitude was to exercise my gift as I
am given the opportunity.
EXERCISE YOUR GIFT
This is the point where many people miss it, especially
when their gifts are more secular than spi...
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e ability to teach (a gift) may be
called to teach secular academic work, or to teach the
word of God. The ability to teach is one thing; the field
in which to use it is another.
ITUs NOT IN THE NAME
From what we have seen here, it is obvious that it is
easier to identify a gift than to locate a c...
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hoice
making process, then God is second or maybe even last,
and once God is not first, consider Him totally absent. In
the words of Oswald J. Smith, “He is either Lord of all or
Heisnot Lord at all.”
Callings demand sacrifice, and if you are not willing to
make the necessary sacrifices you will mi...
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blood of Jesus. I
do good works because it is my nature to do them. It is
very much like a mother nursing her child; it is the
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nature of the mother, not because she is trying to get
something from the child or the child's fat...
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n. The Lord is
watching and is judging us in how we are handling our
secular duties.
And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is
another's, who will give you that which is your own?
True riches is given to those who have proved faithful in
what belongs to another person. In this ...
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r ministers for ministers;
they minister to prepare ministers. Every believer is a
minister, either in service or in training.
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CHAPTER 1
A PERSONAL HISTORY
hile I was a student in the university, I was
very active as a Chr...
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people
obviously expected to hear what they were supposed to
do as outward works, but the Lord turned their
attention to the place that the work of God really starts
from — inside.
THE WORKIS BELIEVE
Jesus said that the work of God is to believe. Believing is
something that has to do with the stat...
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e people to go
visit other churches may mean the membership will
reduce. But they are wrong; a man can receive nothing
except it is given to him from above. If God gave them to
you, they will be back.
Let me conclude by saying that there is a duty to rest as
you do the work of God. Plan a restful h...
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We'll answer that in a short while but first let me explain
the meaning of these words: gift, calling, and ministry.
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CHAPTER 13
GIFTS, CALLINGS
AND MINISTRIES
nd since we have gi...
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you simply
do not enjoy the work that you are doing, and there is no
real reason for this that a natural person should easily
understand, it is possible that's a sign that you are in the
wrong place.
When the Lord calls someone to do something, the
passion for that thing tends to grip the soul so t...
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See, I understand
that their lives do not have to revolve around me, but if
they are not willing to make the sacrifice to come and
listen to me, then they cannot be serious about what
they are asking.
I have learnt over the years that you do not have to go
and ask someone to be your mentor. If you ...
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he use of unrighteous mammon,
who will entrust the true riches to you? And if you have not
been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will
give you that which is your own?” Luke 16:10-13
In the previous chapter we saw that God has a plan for
the world as we know it and that the work o...
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e department of the church he was
working in, but he continued going to that same church
regularly and for a long time too. Some people began to
wonder about his 'newfound freedom,’ as they called it.
Now, am I saying that everyone who learns truth
should stop working in church? No! But for him it ...
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to a lonely place and rest a while.” (For there were
many people coming and going, and they did not even have
time to eat.) And they went away in the boat to a lonely place
by themselves. Mark 6:30-32
The passage above describes what happened upon the
return of the twelve apostles of the Lord after...
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n and
many other outward shows of dedication even if there
is no proof of character improvement and increasing
godliness in the lives of the people. They are interested
in the outward and little else.
Yes, it feels good to have people all around you running
up and down at your command, but you are ...
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me the only help, but he was careful to let the king
know where the answer was actually coming from.
That is how to testify about God.
For the world to see the gospel of Christ, we must be
witnesses.
Awitness tells of what he has seen, what he personally
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st rule to apply to this thing
so as to make prayer unnecessary; all the things I have
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approach the throne of God, as Solomon said in
Ecclesiastes 5. The Bible says you are to take word...
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les that they should freely ask
God for whatever they needed and expect answers
simply because the Father loves them (John 16:26,27).
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why things get done for him or her. This...
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his word and it would be
very wrong to take that away from them. The strength
to do anything meaningful for God comes by this very
word and so we must not take it away from Mary or any
other disciple.
The word of God transforms us as we sit in its presence.
It is not about intellectual imbibition a...
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CHAPTER 11
MIND THE BOUNDARIES
here is one problem that exists in the body of
Christ today, and which many do not realize is a
problem, and this is the problem of breaking of
ranks.
When I say breaking of ranks, what I'm referring to is
when people who are not at all called by th...
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their
shoulders, with the poles thereon as Moses had commanded
according to the word of the LORD. 1 Chron 15:12-15
So we see that problems sometimes can be that of the
methods that one is employing.
Once, I heard a message preached by a seasoned elder
in the faith, and he was talking on this calli...
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to be able to make petitions before
God. Situations sometimes come in life when you are
just without strength even to pray. Like David once said,
the heart can be overwhelmed (Ps 61:2). Eli was tired.
Spiritual exhaustion was what led Solomon to support
idolatry in his latter days. He was never an ...
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from
him. He was not just spontaneous, rather he took time
to prepare. Let us follow this example of David.
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Set an ambitious target for your giving. Say to yourself,
“This year I will like to give a million ...
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to know God personally. It is that knowledge and
relationship that provokes the work that you do. You do
Christian work out of love for the brethren and out of
the knowledge of your gifts and calling.
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As an example, I am a te...
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meone
who he hardly knew. I charged him to forget all about
church work and to begin to concentrate on learning,
not for the purpose of working or preaching, but simply
for the purpose of knowing God.
God was calling him to come closer to Him, but he had
been coming closer to service; he had missed...
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I came down to Lagos, I went everywhere
listening to the teaching of the word. Remember I
mentioned earlier that my service year was
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characterized by not much happening spiritually for
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us and we foolishly believe
them, and as a result we start pursuing things that only
men approve but which are not of God. How many
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times have people tried to tell me how to run my
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. Love for God is actually defined
by obedience to His commandments and His precepts;
therefore a person who is serving God in the area of
giving is using his money as the Lord desires that he
should.
One thing many Christians do not realize is that the
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egularly for the teachings
which we hold twice a week at the ministry office, and
that it is as they do this that the external work will
eventually manifest. That is the way it works.
GOOD CO-WORKERS
I like the kind of men that I have, people who love the
teaching more than the work. I have severa...
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tried to
correct, who claim they have a particular gift and I
wonder who lied to them. That very thing that they are
trying to do is what turns people off from them, and yet
they think they can doit.
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I heard other people, mostly my seniors, ...
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nd to persons he is
commanded to honour, such as parents. We will see
more of this in the next chapter.
A similar law to the law of tithing is to be found in the
law of gleaning.
THE LAW OF GLEANING
‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall
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n of resources
according to the situations we are faced with. This is as
long as we consciously put the knowledge of truth into
our hearts (which is what you are doing right now by
reading this book).
As I mentioned earlier, many insist that every Christian
must give a tenth of their income to thei...
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it means to work for God and
be free from every kind of bondage to human ideas. I
pray that no one will exercise himself or herself
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CHAPTER 5
HERE IS WORSHIP
ut an hour is coming, and now is, when the true
worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and
truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His
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many.
It is interesting to note that the people who Jesus called
and made apostles were all doing something when he
called them. They were not idle people who were
supposedly waiting upon the Lord.
What I have tried to explain in this chapter is that
Christians must bear in mind that God's work ...
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es for exercising your gift. | remember the
story told by Ben Carson, renowned American
neurosurgeon, formerly of Johns Hopkins.’ In his book
Gifted Hands, he told of how he honed his surgical skills.
Immediately after his residency the Lord led him to
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there is an issue I'll like to
tackle. If someone is already in something,
how can he or she decide if that is the right calling, and if
it is not, what can be done to change into the right
calling?
To answer this we must first see why someone may be in
the wrong calling in the first place. The re...
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the world in his
temptation of Jesus, but God in His wisdom is
honouring the faith which the Lord Jesus showed when
He refused to bow down; He is doing that by handing
over everything to Him forever.
Now, in everything the Lord wants to do on this earth
He uses people, and to take over all the king...
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teacher and prophet.
He had been a pastor for about twelve years and had
pastored different kinds of churches. At this point he
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was the pastor of the best church he had ever pastored
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both alike will be good. Eccl
11:6 AMP
Whenever you give there is a reward, that is if you do it
with the right motive and in obedience to God's due
order.
So, what are the right motives?
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MOTIVES FOR GIVING
mong the wrong motives for givin...
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we all do that. But to look beyond the current
circumstances and focus on the promise and plan of
God, and determine to pray until something changes,
that is work. Itis work for God and He rewards it.
The promises of God are interesting, especially when it
has to do with a group of people, such as ...
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ch.
We Christians must stop seeing our jobs merely as the
means of earning money for other things; rather we
must see those normal, everyday jobs as the mission
fields in which we are working for God.
Many people have a limited vision of this mission field
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The senior pastor of the
church called me one day and asked me to choose
where I would love to serve in the church. About four
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options were presented and I jumped at the one that
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hatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the
presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your
household. Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in
your town... Deut 14:26,27
Many times when we celebrate in thanksgiving to the
Lord (like when there is a new child), and we ...
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nterprises therein to your possession. It
is actually a divine assignment!
Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Thine
inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Thy possession.
Ps 2:8
The lawyer is not to be in practice just so as to earn a
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r regular jobs and duties. We cannot feign
faithfulness to God by doing well in church because He
does not look there only. He would have first checked
us out at our regular jobs before anywhere else.
One of the things we Christians must learn is that the
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oever else their sponsor is. (This is
the problem with legalism; it easily entraps in
arguments about letters of the law which nobody can
truly win.)
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HOW TO GIVE TO GOD
have outlined the people we should give to as
channels of giving money and material things to
God; what I want to describe next is how to decide
what to give to different people.
Contrary to w...
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m during the Full Gospel
Businessmen's Fellowship meetings. He learned to
recognize this manifestation of the Spirit and would
always buy the animal so indicated. That was how he
always gota good buy.
When people came to ask how he did it, it became a
witnessing point. In answering the question abo...
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ally show in our inability to do many things even
though we might be willing still. Itis so easy to overlook
imbibing your vitamins, but the effect will eventually
manifest.
LIKE VITAMIN TO YOUR SOUL
Just like vitamin deficiency in the body, the
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giving is because you have not made it a
matter of importance. I believe that is one of the
ungodly attributes of the natural man which every
Christian must strive to overcome with the Spirit of
God.
That same depraved human nature is expressed often
in life in the fact that most people do not unde...
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e in
Him. Believing in Jesus allows you to be called a
righteous person, even though you are not perfect; all
the shortcomings are covered by the blood of Jesus, as
long as you remain of faith in Him.
Now, this righteousness begins to generate in your life
the ability to do good works. Forgiving ot...
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prophets. We just need opened
eyes, and we will see the truth about the Christ in
everything in the Law and the Prophets. After this I
read the book of Isaiah until the pages in my Bible
became brown.
I learnt the role of sufferings in the life of the believer. I
understood for the first time what ...
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I reported
to Roseline that I was actively involved in listening to
the pastor. During this period I was learning mostly by
reading and by listening to tapes.
Anyway, I continued learning.
ANEW DOOR
Then one day in April 1997 I went with a friend to a
restaurant because he wanted to eat. While he...
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ons. They think it is
a sign of commitment but it is totally rubbish. These
things offend the Lord.
Read here the verdict of the Lord Jesus on such things.
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But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents,
‘Sorry, lca...
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Zipporah circumcising her son so as to keep
Moses alive (Exodus 4:25).
SPANNERIN THE WORKS
This leads me to one last point, and this is still talking
about how one may know he isin the wrong calling.
Now, sometimes God just throws the spanner, like we
often say, into your works just to point out t...
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ysical
law does not accept spiritual seed; for example you
cannot sow words into your farm, or good deeds or
prayer, and expect corn to come to fruit. You must sow
physical corn to reap physical corn.
On the spiritual side the same principle applies; you
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sonal
and managerial discipline on the part of the minister,
we will discover that begging is not necessary.
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This is why I never push for offerings or make pleas for
donations either for myself or for Kingdo...
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e said to the Master, “your mina has made ten
more!” And the Lord called him a good and faithful
servant.
There is a danger in complacency; the servant who
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refused to work so as to multiply that which he was
given was severely puni...
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nd
the cares of this world, we will find Him leading each
one of us automatically into the right place. That is part
of what is meant by ‘He leads me in the path of
righteousness for His name’s sake.”
The Spirit of God will lead you concerning the steps to
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to relax and to take His meals whenever He was in
Bethany. John's gospel testifies of how He loved
Lazarus.
On this particular day the Lord Jesus was around and
Martha was up and about trying to fix a meal ...
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his times to explain away his
actions. God says, “Only acknowledge your iniquity!”
The man committing adultery uses his wife's bad
attitude as his excuse. God says, “Only acknowledge
your iniquity!”
One major reason why people try to justify their actions
is that they do not know how to stop doing...
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Chapter 7: The Word and Spiritual Progress............. 63
SECTION 2: SECULAR WORK IS ALSO GOD'S WORK.
Chapter 8: God’s Plan for the World
Chapter 9: The Lord Checks at the Business Office. 85
Chapter 10: Growth is a Divine Assignment............. 93
Chapter 11: Mind the Boundaries...........
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amous but mostly misinterpreted
statement:
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for
those of his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse
than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8-9
We usually quote this to instruct men to take care of
their wives and children, but that is a misi...
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budget,
just like you budget for your other obligations. Don't
wait till a special offering is being collected. The man
blesses you or has blessed you; go to him and settle your
debt.
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atter of fact, in a few years it
will also be declared eradicated. The scientific
knowledge is already at work. What the public health
scientists are trying to achieve is what is called herd
immunity.
Asimilar thing happened with infections generally and
the use of antibiotics. Until a few centurie...
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e
step into the world.
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Phil 2:15 KJV
Please notice that the shining of the child of God is not in
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eople; it
is then that the Lord will move you into your ministry.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for
that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. 1
Tim 1:12 KJV
Ministry simply means that God has committed a
specific assignment into your hands; it is almost t...
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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. Alright, let's begin today by reading from the book of Romans chapter 12,...
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We are not teaching worldliness. We are not trying to use another method to achieve what the world is trying to achieve. Please, this thing is very important, because there is a mistake we make, both as Christians and as ministers of the world, to try and teach people how to get the results of the w...
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put it there, but please don't put airplanes and cars and houses, all right, as a picture of success. They are not the picture of success at all. They are not. So when we're talking about financial prosperity, I like the definition of Derek Prince. Derek Prince said that prosperity is having all tha...
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and lead to also, but what am I trying to say in all of these things? When we're talking about financial prosperity, however, listen, first and foremost, I said this before, God must be able to birth contentment in your life. Do you get my point? Paul said, having food and raiment, that is having th...
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And I say, you see, that man, if he calls himself a theologian, he doesn't believe in God. He should have settled down and said, look, a man cannot use his personal experience to prove the word of God wrong. If under inspiration, David made a statement, believe me, if a man claims he's righteous and...
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explain. Quickly let us go to the book of 2nd Corinthians chapter 9. I will read from verse 10. Now, here Paul was teaching people about generosity. I remember last time I talked about the matter of having treasure in heaven. Generosity is a sign that your faith is in God. He said in 1 Timothy chapt...
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Because what was happening to them, alright? It happens in different ways to different people. But to them, what was happening was simple. They were ministering by their gift to the saints. Do you understand my point? And God was bringing fruit for them from somewhere else. I used that to explain so...
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that I'm saying, God, I recognize you are the one giving it to me. Please, we must get this thing very clear. Those little things, don't let us ever take them for granted. Believe me, one of the reasons why people have serious problems in life is because they don't know how to appreciate God in smal...
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You can label in one direction, and God gives you fruit from another direction. It is because what God is doing with his children is this. He will put something in your hand and say, occupy with this until I come. And then even you are doing may not be directly producing plenty of fruit. You get my ...
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I want to read from verse 10. It says, for God is not unjust, Hebrews chapter six, verse 10. For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward his name in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. Let me emphasize that again. Here, what the peop...
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by which you will build a house that will compete with that of your cousin in the village or bigger than his own. Listen, I am not teaching you that. You are alone in that quest. Do you follow what I'm trying to explain? We are not teaching the principles by which you gratify your loss. That is what...
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Indeed, must be one that walks in righteousness every day. That is, he doesn't go around incurring curses for himself by cheating people. I said something last time, let me say it again. If you go around defrauding people. If you go around selling fake things as if they're original, everybody that y...
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Now the point I'm making here is this, you see that Paul said it very clearly that you'll be enriched in everything for all liberality. That is to have plenty is what makes it easy, all right, to be generous, even though generosity must be practiced in the midst of little. Because if you read the pr...
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But the fact is that the people that really can't do anything, you know, if I cheat this one, he doesn't have anybody to speak for him. God says, no problem. That is the reason why I will kill you suddenly. You just wake up at night, one day you have a headache, suddenly you have a stroke, you are d...
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So we are not equating it at all. So you see, we shouldn't take the extreme to now prove the other extreme wrong. Do you get my point? Because mafia men are crook, yet they have millions and hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, the other day, I think it was Forbes, they released a list of the r...
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And then they put down some of the reasons, well, some that was common to all of them, which for them was the reason why these people were rich. And when I finished reading it, I told myself, this is not right at all. This is not in accordance with the instructions of the Word of God. Because what t...
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the word that was sown in your heart. You understand what I'm trying to say? That is, the Genesis, the beginning of all these things, are those things that are planted in your heart. That is why a man should take time, therefore, ensure that he has the right things planted in his heart. And I would ...
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Do you get me? And that word that is sown in your life produces results by itself. You know, I'm sure by now you've heard me give at least 15 different definitions of grace. All of them saying the same thing. Grace just means that God's word is sown in your life and the result comes by itself. That ...
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You get my point? Collect my genes, carry it to the best laboratories anywhere in the world, and let them come to the conclusion that certain things, they discover that certain things are not like this. Therefore, look, my own is that. Therefore, I shall live to be 120. They say, no, there you have ...
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I said, ah, thank God, this is excuse to keep on saying the same thing. I've been looking for that excuse, and I finally found it. You know, because people can't hear it enough. Because there are times you teach people one thing, they speak to you two, three months later, you can't believe that you ...
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Paul said, I'm going around explaining this principle to you, that Christ in you is the hope of glory. Glory is tangible. Glory is not a Christian expression, a word that you use in church just to complete the language. That's not what I'm talking about. Glory is tangible. He said, men sinned and be...
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which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. And in whatever he does, notice thus the word, he prospers. In whatever he does, he prospers. Now, what I want to share with us briefly now for a few minutes is can be found in more, in greater details if you listen to the message, ...
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the word can become anything. It becomes connection if it needs connection. If that word, if that confirmation would need connection, the word becomes connection. No word of God is void of power. What am I saying? Once you hear God's word, don't worry about how can I apply it. It's unnecessary. Thos...
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that this is the way the Word of God works. We said that once words are sown in your heart, the words by themselves produce results. God has never endeared himself to men who get results by struggle. Let me explain what I'm saying. Now, there is a difference between Joshua and Um, what's his name? N...
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For those of us who've been around, you know that we have been speaking on what we have titled the power of faith. And we have said many things in that regard. We have discussed extensively on the fact that, in fact, this is one thing I would like to review for a minute. And that's, this is like my ...
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Do you know why? Because it was a bread of life. I have not come to say I'm the light of the world. I said I'm a blessing to my generation. I am a man of God. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not a matter of pride. So you can't treat me like a slave at first labor. Never. I won't take it from y...
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the point I'm making? Do you understand the point I'm making? Just one simple word. And that's why I'm just using this one to lay the emphasis. Psalm one. He said the man delights in the law of the lord. He doesn't, it's not as if the man runs away from the path of sinners. No, he's just delights in...
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You say yes. The word became flesh and is dwelling in my house. Are you getting my point? Listen, that's my concept for life. I'm not a beggar. Do you understand what I'm saying? That listen, I know I'm going forward every day. That is what god has made me to be. You can't, you can't, you can't enti...
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I mean, you are in a place where you are a king. But because you don't, you don't understand. Look, let me tell you something about money. Money is a very dangerous thing. It is the bait the devil used to buy people away from their destiny. It is the only thing. Listen, if we're in not that demand, ...
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so that you can say you made Abraham rich. That is, he understood that the blessing... I'm going to read out my little book, The Blessing. He understood that the blessing working with him will produce riches anytime, unless people like this king of homosexuals begin to call himself the man that made...
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verse five. He said, they do not know nor do they understand. Therefore, they walk about in darkness. He said, all the foundations of the earth are shaken. What don't they know? God said, I have said, you are gods. All of you are sons of the most high. He said, but because you do not know, you will ...
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the disciples when he was walking on water. And Peter said, if it is you, ask me to come. You know, the way we like it. Well, what we expect is, Peter, put forth your right foot from the boat. When it touches the water, don't be afraid. It will not sink. Then drop it and leave the left one. Have no ...
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The blood will not be stolen. From where? Here. Let me see the devil. I'll let him come. I will personally handle him. That's what I'm trying to say. The ones that the word was stolen from their hearts were those who heard it and did not understand. It was not the ones that had the blood played over...
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I hope you are getting my point. Now, I'm just introducing this because this is exactly what I, this is the thing I wanted to talk about, all right? But I want us to get the foundation right because as a child of God, you see, I just want to take it for granted that we all know these things. We have...
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I hope you are following the point I'm making. So that's why he said, this man prospers. Why? Because the word enters into his life and becomes flesh. So if the man plants beans, the word enters into the soil and becomes fruit for him. If the man marries a wife, the word enters into her and brings f...
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He said, God, Paul was speaking, God, whose I am and whom I serve, that is my life is God's address. When you want to preach, you say, God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you can say anything about any God. Muhammad claims that he's a servant of God. Buddha says his own, everybody says th...
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I said, the $500 out of the $6,000 a month I'm earning now is too valuable to put as a seed for 15 years in which I will reap chicken change. It wasn't like I didn't believe in investment. But the proposal to me was too cheap. It was fraudulent to my soul. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? T...
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Your greatest fear in life should be God, walking out of God's will. If you have that, the Bible says the fear of God leads to life. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? Listen, the fear of poverty leads to death. Now, the man is not sowing seeds, he thinks, of death. But the man with an evil eye...
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Listen, child of God, walk with dignity. That Christ is in me and that is the expectation of glory. That my life will never be small, I will never be average, I will not fail, I will succeed, I will be a blessing to my generation, I am a good man, I am a good husband, I am a good wife, I am a father...
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but he said if you had little treasure in heaven so that by your actions on the earth you have persuaded God that you are deserving of that house we talked about then he will say though I'm saying it to you 10 years ago all right now and I said it to you 10 years ago now you need 10 times or 100 tim...
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I don't have it. I won't buy it for you. I don't have it. I can't afford it. It's simple. There's no fight in it. I used to say that this is the way I am. That's how I used to do it. I asked my wife, she's sitting down here, and this is a fact. I said, my job is to show you what I really am. Your jo...
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If Satan speaks, oh, listen to this. If devil and his agents speak sickness into your life, your genes will be altered. If God speaks health into you, your genes are corrected. I know what I'm saying. That is not supposed to be a joke. I mean it literally. God knows I believe what I'm saying. The wo...
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hat she broke the sound-barrier. I challenge you too to break the sound-barrier of your giving. Not for personal gain of seed-sowing for an intended harvest, but just be able to rejoice in good works.
Really, think about it: If you called up a friend and informed him or her of an opportunity to mak...
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expressions from the KJV expression of Heb. 11:3.
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
The part or side seen is a result of the side that do not appear, and it is the latter that matters...
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JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. Rejoicing In Real Things.
“…for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Rom 14:17 NASB
One of the things we have as our duty, we Children of God, is to learn to value things properly. We must look at things fro...
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thinking of how powerful and anointed as ministers they had become. The Lord however interrupted their rejoicing and explained to them they were rejoicing in what was not the main thing demonstrated.
“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your na...
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aving children, but he seemed to have overlooked to mention those things as the source of his joyful thanksgiving to God. The reason was that he knew how to rejoice in the things that really mattered.
See, those outward things are not the things that God is doing in your life. They are just the man...
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arnt and learnt. I was studying the word of God every time and the Holy Spirit gave me insight; that season I will not exchange for millions of dollars, houses or aeroplanes. It was a glorious season.
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t the thing that gives you joy. So rejoice in the things that matter.
You can rejoice when you are broke!
You can rejoice when people are laughing at you.
It all depends on what you are looking at.
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eter...
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hings around, but a kind of joy that comes from having the right spirit and contemplating the things that are real. We rejoice when we see things that have real eternal value.
Let us take an example.
Imagine you are in church, and during the time for testimonies, somebody comes up smiling and tell...
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aise is due.” 1 Cor 4:5 NLT
So we see that there is a common perspective to things, and there is the one that is real. We must keep learning to see things from the real side – the divine perspective.
My focus at this time is concerning the sources of our joy. What are the things we rejoice in? Wha...
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oned that the disciples must have remembered that the Lord described it as a blessed thing to be persecuted for His name’s sake. Now the word ‘blessed’ brings me to another example of a source of joy.
Once a young man came to me and wanted me to help him solve an issue he was having. He had noticed...
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forgone a business deal to attend a teaching meeting and you were so happy you did even though that did cost you a huge sum in lost opportunity? Don’t worry, you are not crazy; it is the will of God.
“I rejoice at Thy word, as one who finds great spoil.” Ps 119:162
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ecrating Our Mission
Closely related to motivation for living is the mission
for which we are living; by this I mean the thing that
we wish to accomplish with our lives. This too must
be consecrated.
Before I formed you in the womb Iknew you,
And before you were born I consecrated you;
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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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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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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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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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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.
...(we) ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His
will in all spiritual wisdom and unde...
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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with me ahead; in fact, he had never heard me speak
about sucha thing.
So how did he know? That is what is called having
someone's spirit.
After the meeting that day, he came to speak with me,
and that was when he told me of his earlier ...
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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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ty common, but they are mostly without
significance. Some dreams have meaning; of these,
many are easy to interpret while others may need
prayer, meditation and counsel from others to get the
meaning.
As Ihave mentioned, most dreams are meaningless.
They often only reflect what the mind is dwelling...
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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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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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Love thee more dearly
Follow thee more nearly
Day by day
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The Voice of the Spirit
Sometimes what rises up inside us is stronger than
just an impression or perception; sometimes the
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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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riginates from mental
or emotional causes even though it might have physical symptoms.
The mind has such power over how the body feels.
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to some otherwise meaningless dreams. For example,
if you are owing too many people, you are likel...
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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thing. I explained these
truths to her and if Iremember correctly, I led her ina
confession of faith. But I refused to pray specifically
about her dream because I did not wish to give
credence toalie.
But that is all many churches and ministers these
days do. They make sucha big deal of those who h...
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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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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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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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is own body and live in
holiness and honor — not in lustful passion like the pagans
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who do not know God and his ways. 1 Thess 4:3-6 NLT
What we do with our bodies affect what our spirits
can perceive and release. That was why Paul lin...
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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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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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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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en one of the partners decides to live in
adultery or abandons the faith totally.
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granted the wisdom necessary to know what to do or
say.
In our everyday life, the plan of God is that we will be
able to understand what is good and what ...
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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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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
speak.
The system of the world tells us that the more the
number of ‘powerful’ people a person knows, the...
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come to expose something that is hidden in your
heart. This you will also know with some prayerful
introspection.
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When Non-Prophets Prophesy
A very common way by which prophecies come to us
is through a word of knowledge. Usually, when a
p...
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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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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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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.’
Ihave told this story here to illustrate how someone
may hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. A numb...
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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
to interpret everything in light of what t...
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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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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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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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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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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
walking and breathing will. He is turning ...
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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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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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actually be inaccurate. Many young Christian men
have had such impressions with several sisters; t...
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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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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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am which occurred some 8 years
before I started ministry, I wouldn't have understood
divine timing. Dreams have also been employed by
the Lord to correct me concerning several issues at
various times.
Some revelatory dreams are easy to understand
because of the direct nature, some require good
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them. All is because the people have never said that
‘Father, if you will not bring the money, we will not
need it and we will not spend it.'
Churches and Christians have now gone to the world
to learn their methods. PR and branding are now...
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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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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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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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rse about being led by
the Spirit of God. It has been used by many as the
foundation for walking by esoteric feelings. They
claim they are being led by the Spirit, but Paul was not
saying that at all.
Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation
to do what your sinful nature urges y...
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arning as we are receiving
direction, but we cannot go and ask for direction on
personal choices from a prophet; that is definitely not
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Christianity. The prophet also should not have the
impression that this is his job. A prophetic gi...
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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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n needed it. If we really need those
signs, the Lord will give them, many times without
our asking for them. The problem is that most of the
times people are not actually ready to obey.
No Fixed Type
Let me also quickly emphasize that we cannot put the
Lord in a box concerning how He should
commun...
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houghts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way. Ps 139:23-24
Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying,
‘What are we going to have to eat?’ Matt 6:31 AMP
When there are anxious thoughts in the heart, the
spirit is polluted. A believer then operates wit...
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e
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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d we will not be like that.
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The Precepts and the Commandments
Thou hast ordained Thy precepts,
That we should keep them diligently. Ps 119:4
We saw in the earlier chapters of this book that what
the Lord wants for His children is that they...
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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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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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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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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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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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cording to her, her spirit just then
indicated she should. Let's make a long story short,
she needed money and her spirit said she should ask
me. Was it her spirit? If it was, was it speaking for
God?
Also, I have been in church services in which the
Pastor decides that he's about to do something o...
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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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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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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
certain criteria which do seem good but are actual...
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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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arily a mark of spirituality if you are visited
by angels; it is just one of those things that may
happenas the Lord chooses.
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The Prophet’s Ministry
And He gave some as apos...
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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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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
watching over us. We must bear in mind that ...
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And it will come about after this
That Iwill pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions. Joel 2:28
We have seen that there are many meaningless
dreams, but there are of course the ones that are
actu...
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ns of God’ (Rom 8:14). It is taken by
many that the ability to perceive the voice of the Holy
Spirit is a sign of sonship or maturity. But let's look
closer at the scriptures and get things correctly.
The word 'spirit' has a wide range of uses with
diverse meanings in the scriptures.” Generally, 's...
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shall bind
them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be
as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.
And you shall write them upon the doorposts of
your house and on your gates. Deut 6:6-9 AMP
When you do this with prayers, having
dedicated yourself to the Lord, you are
setting yourself up ...
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moved on to
other more available persons and to maybe
another generation. Very likely He would no
longer be interested in your services.
Signs Of Mammon
What else may be the signs of serving
mammon?
Once your prayers and spiritual activities
focus on what we shall eat, etc., you are not
serving th...
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learnt what the
Lord has to say about it. Take our future as an
example, the Lord
has given us His
thoughts about it.*
He said He will
never leave us or
...
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nd spiritual
songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts
to God. And whatever you do in word or deed, do
all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
through Him to God the Father. Col 3:16-17
If you are student, you must study. As a
disciple, the Word must be a constant
companion. You are ...
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g and not
paying back, or lying and cheating. And
many have resorted to lying and boasting
vainly to explain to their peers why they do
not have theirs yet. The flesh is speaking and
they are obeying.
Many Christians even go ahead and start
saying that their spirit said they should do
something or ...
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making decisions
primarily with that
in mind, no matter
how good a person
you are, you are serving mammon but you
do not know it.
Once the primary assignment of God for
your life is not first and foremost in your
mind but you are m...
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lusion which implies that the word of
God is not true and cannot be relied upon.
Reasoning with the scriptures is normal to
him.
Let me use the following account of an event
in my life to illustrate.
There was one of those days as a young man,
yet unmarried, that an old friend of mine
visited and ...
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mplished by his
anguish,
he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
for he will bear all their sins. Isa 53:11 NLT
That is how true Christians give—they
rejoice in being able to make a difference.
See, people of ...
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about
yourself and what is really motivating you.
Confess everything to Him.
Then begin to pray prayers of dedication to
the Lord. Pledge to Him that only His voice
you will follow. Say things like:
I am born of God.
I have the spirit of Christ in me.
I am a child of God and my spirit is alive to ...
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ade, while the word of our God
stands forever.”**
Why would anyone trust their future to this?
No wonder the Lord Jesus told us to learn to
put our trust in the Lord and to lay up
treasure in heaven.
Laying up treasure in heaven does not mean
we will find it only when we have slept in the
Lord and ...
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focus is on David.
There was no mistake greater in the life of
David than this few minutes of pleasure and
the subsequent plot to hide it. It was a
permanent blot on an otherwise impeccable
record.
…David did what was right in the sight of the
Lord, and had not turned aside from anything
that He ...
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world and the flesh speak to us in many
other ways.
…the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the
mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one's
own resources or in the stability of earthly
things].
It is a fleshly instinct to want something that
the eyes see, especially if we have not had it
befor...
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by having
the spirit of Christ. Having that spirit is not a
bragging point but a living point. It is how
we live.
But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he
does not belong to Him. Rom 8:9
You do not have the spirit of Christ just
because you claim to be a Christian, but
because you are...
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he
flesh and the world, or we are controlled by
the Lord through His Spirit. It is a decision
we must make deliberately. If we do not
make the decision, we will be controlled by
the flesh and the world.
We must deliberately choose to be fully
conformed to His will. This is what
consecration is all ab...
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add to the troubles each
day brings.” Matt 6:19-34 GNT
I have omitted a few lines in the portion
quoted above so as to save space, but I
encourage everyone to read the complete
thing in their Bibles.
What is mammon? Mammon is anything
material that is trusted in. Simply put, it is
material and fina...
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For you, it's a fulfillment. One book will be percentage. The second book will be 100%. What do I mean by that? The 100% was written before you were born. Books were opened. What are the books opened? The books written before you were born. Your name will be on the body. You see it. Ufoma. Bankeolut...
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deposit. That's what we do to God when we worry. That we are saying that he cares more for the animals, the birds of the air, than he cares for his children. Because Jesus said if he takes care of the birds of the air, how much more will they take care of you? He said the problem is your faith is to...
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Let's bow down our heads to pray. Let's bow down our heads. Let's say to Him, Lord, help me so I will be faithful. Say to Him, Lord, help me. Help me so that I will be faithful. Help me, Lord. Say, Lord, help me. You have heard words today. Say, Lord, help me. I'll just leave you to pray for a minut...
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Now let's just continue where we stopped. Last time I began to explain the principle of priest's destination, and what actually I was trying to focus on, which is in line with what I've been talking about, is about this pruning, about how we get into divine destiny. Now, of course, we must understan...
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He said, I don't worry like I used to worry anymore. I don't talk like I used to talk. Are you getting my point? I don't talk like that anymore. I'm not afraid like I was afraid. I don't think negatively of Nigeria. He listed like five or six things that he does not do anymore. And I said, this is m...
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The day we see the opportunity, what is really deep inside our hearts will show up. That's why I'm talking about pruning. Those are the things we prune. What is really deep inside your heart? That is why, look, there are those every time you see nice people passing with fine, fine motto, ah, God, on...
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At 60-fold, you have thousands of people that call you papa. At 60-fold, your children, don't worry, they are destined, they are taken care of. The church has placed them on salary. What work do they do? They are your children, that's work. So they have enough money, you don't even have to worry abo...
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Post a verse of scripture, smile and write Jesus is Lord on your teeth and post that one. Knowing that if you die for it, at least you die for righteousness sake. Sometimes they pass, I think they talk too much on Facebook. You pass comment on everything. They don't release results in River State, y...
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Then actually, literally, the people, they suffocate. You say, how do they suffocate? You don't realize that your arms are necessary for breathing. So when they stretch their arms out, you can take air in easily, push it out warm. So essentially, the only way you breathe is to keep stretching yourse...
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Now I want you to declare, all right, so as to use it to overcome every distraction. Declaration means you talk loud, talk with confidence. Are we ready for that? All right, I want you, let's go. Now I declare that the Lord has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, an...
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I've been beaten many times. Imprisonments, dangers of death, dangers on the road, dangers at home, dangers from my brethren, dangers from false brethren, from Gentiles, from Jews, from too many travels. Now, so this point I'm making, I'm saying that the reason why many people stay at different leve...
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In alignment, if the other one went off by 0.3 degrees, the Egyptian went off only by 0.1 degrees. That was where Moses was living. Don't let anybody go and watch the Prince of Egypt. You think that's how they were jumping on sand? Those guys were civilized. Moses left them to get his 100th fold. He...
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I'm not saying Facebook is 100% bad. I'm just saying be careful. What did I say? Post your sermons and leave the place. Every time in your life you must be pruning something. Because advancement from one level to another is based upon pruning. Once you are attached to Jesus Christ, fruit bearing is ...
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You have to be willing to walk away from glamour. You must be willing to walk away from disrespect. Today I saw him, you know, the video of him I saw even gave me an idea of how to do our website. We need to do some modification on our website, maybe sometime this year. He gave me an idea. So, you k...
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The point is this. How will you get to a hundredfold? This is how life is. God is always just when he makes his judgment. The reason why people stop at sixtyfold or thirtyfold or fivefold is because each time God makes a demand. God demands a kind of consecration and they are not willing to do it. A...
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and that he wants to do what churches are supposed to be. So he left, now listen to this. He left a church that there were thousands. He started it. And he decided to go and do, well, he started something like house fellowships and many of them. He said he wanted each church to be small. and then pl...
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and they gathered them and cast them into the fire, and they are born. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples." Let me just stop reading here. Also, l...
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The man just looked at it and said, what are they turning me to? I like one thing he said. He said, what we on campus do is we love the Lord. They are turning me to a celebrity. The man deliberately rejected the celebrity thing. He wrote a book just to write a book. He wanted to just write. I've not...
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to which you are attached to material things, or to the current success. I would not use the word material things, there's no misunderstanding. Because this man that I'm telling you about, it wasn't material things really. The extent to which you are attached to the current success, that is the exte...
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But he didn't do that. What did he do? He left him to eat if he wants to eat. If not chopping, you want chop, go ahead. But what is my will? My will is that you will not eat it. If you eat it, there are consequences. Please, let's get it so we can refuse. Abraham could have refused. And if Abraham r...
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in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren. I have been in labor and hardship through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without ...
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That is a hundredfold. That is a hundredfold. Listen, for God to get us there, that's what we're discussing, He prunes. What did I say? He prunes. Let me say it again. Pruning is removing things that are otherwise living. They are alive. When you prune, you deliberately kill. A man is never said to ...
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We will not know that he disobeyed God. Many people we are celebrating, they do a 30-fold thing. They don't get to the 60-fold level. They do a 60-fold level. But what God wants is for all of us, each individual, to get to the 100-fold level. That's what he wants. But it's not automatic. How do we g...
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They are the reasons why the fellow will get to 60 and get stuck there and not go beyond 60. You know, just before I came here this evening, my wife and I were talking about it. She saw me watching a video this morning. Actually, I forgot how I got into this anyway, but you know, I stumbled into it....
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One day they called motivational speaker. I said, if you call motivational speaker, warn yourself. Don't turn me to a celebrity. I'm not a celebrity. This man said they were turning him to a celebrity. He said, okay, share his money. Take the money I don't want to get. Can't I just save my Jesus in ...
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My wife and I brought out 95% of all the money that Kingdom World Ministries spent. Right now, we only give out to Kingdom World Ministries out of discipline, not out of discipline. We just say, ah bah, it's only your money that will not enter. Because whether we put, we don't put, it makes no diffe...
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And the man left the church or backslid or something. So when he investigated, what happened? The young man said, I did not know Christianity was a Sunday, Sunday thing. That in the gang, it was a daily life. I became a Christian. Now you people told me to come on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. So this Chr...
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No, please, don't give me money so I can be paying Kindle World Ministries bills. I say, how on earth will I know I was called? I will go out, sweat, sweat, sweat. You understand? Sell a charge card. Sell a gary. Sell this one. Then pack the money. In fact, anybody who comes to that meeting can neve...
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Okay, let's continue learning the Word of God, and we'll be looking at the perfection of the vessel of the Lord. Again, let's go back to that book of John chapter 15. We'll just read that in a hurry. It's been our main text since we began this, talking about perfecting the Lord's vessels. It says, I...
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They know they are not supposed to be sponsoring. They're supposed to be preaching. So they have to keep the conscience down. So every time there's a crusade, they'll give $10 million. You know why? So they can say to God, not to God. God knows to themselves, where I am is good. We are using it to p...
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If you can't find how this will serve the purpose of God, especially in line with what you know is calling for your life. I don't mean pastor, you're not going to look for business to do. Say, if I have business, it is to support the ministry. That other is not, I've never seen it being right. If yo...
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And God said to him, I'm not giving you to the business world with that amount of time in your hands. You have your work to do. He said, okay, Lord, what do I do? I'm about to be wiped out. He said, don't worry. I will send somebody to buy off a dying business. And one man was sleeping. Suddenly he ...
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You want your life, if you want enduring success, then make your dream that of your life counting in the lives of other people. Wake up in the morning and say, how can I be a blessing to other people? Listen, what God gives to you is what? Wisdom for salvation. The day you stop thinking about yourse...
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Everybody knows the man from McDonald's, but you know what? He makes money from his real estate business. Buying land, selling land, leasing land, and all that. Now, my favorite example, Mary Kay Ash, because I read her story and it really impressed me. The woman is known for Mary Kay cosmetics. Whe...
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Each time he will pray, God will give him an idea. And I'm going to talk about some of that if I have enough time today. God will give him an idea, and he will use that idea to respond to the trials that Laban was imposing upon him. At the end of the day, Laban, this man was getting richer and riche...
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If you've never heard me preach anything before, there's what I call excuses for Satan. You start agreeing with Satan to keep you in bondage. You say, if you are childless, it doesn't mean you are less. I know, but I want to be childful. You get my point? Don't help me explain away my blessing. I do...
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when school, we're discussing somewhere in the journal. No, I think I was a postgraduate person then. And there's somewhere in the newspaper about one American lawyer who wears $1,000 suits. His suits are very expensive suits. And he sends all his suits from America to Europe for dry cleaning becaus...
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what we gain. The Bible said the kingdom of this world have become the kingdom of our lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for how long? You are getting what I'm saying. You are getting what I'm saying. That is what brings forth enduring prosperity into the lives of people. Listen, God allows c...
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You know God said something about Babylon. He said there are instruments in my hand, they are like canes, I use them. Then when I finish using them again, I'll laugh and say, hey, you're this wicked cane that I have been using. Now, let me tell you your offenses. Then I'll not use fire to light that...
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Now, what am I trying to explain? There were many people that God also called, and they never manifested the power of God, so you never read their stories. I'm not interested in reading the stories of failures. How much more God writes in them? You are getting my point. Listen to me, child of God. W...
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No, he didn't. And then his $1,000 suits are actually worth $1,000. But he's not struggling with you. The problem in life is when young people now want to live like that. Now, so the man who was analyzing that explained to me that, listen, this man is a lawyer. And that he has been a lawyer for deca...
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That's very, very unique, very, very peculiar. I'm persuaded that, in fact, there's one radio message we had the year before, which I titled, Righteousness in Your Generation. In each generation, this is just, this is in every generation. In every generation, God wants his own people to carry the le...
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a big program. At the end of the day, you should be counting a lot of money. They don't realize that for every, how do I say that, someone like Rehoboamki, for all those crusades, one Naira doesn't get back into the ministry pocket, you know that. Rehoboamki, do you know how much it costs to organiz...
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Now, I'm not a proud person who says that, look, I'm not in ministry because of money. I don't need your money. No, that is also another pit. You get my point? Try and stay in the middle of the road in everything. Are you getting what I'm saying? There is a balance to everything in life, all right? ...
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And the man was so famous, God said, ride on, ride on your fame. Then one day he was performing in the U.S. and he collapsed. And they took him down to hospital. He had advanced cancer of the lungs. God said, I want the whole earth to know that smoking of wee-wee is not good. Are you getting what I'...
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One of the men who invented, I don't know whether it's Salk or Sabin. Now, polio can be eradicated. The major reason why polio has not been eradicated in the world is because it's difficult to get, like now, they wanted to vaccinate in Kano. People were refusing to take vaccines. Otherwise, polio ca...
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They say, buy a football for your child. I said, listen, I am not doing anything because somebody is making money from me right now. When Okocha was small, football was not making money. Do you get my point? That education is important. My son will be educated and he will not start playing football ...
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you are getting the point I'm making. Now, so we're talking about enduring success, that's what people should go for. So that whatever you are doing in life, God will increase. So for me, success, when we are defining success, is when what God has placed in your hand is succeeding. Do you get my poi...
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Are you getting what I'm trying to say? That if somebody will travel from somewhere, may it be the kind of person who will come, collect some materials, and go home and share with people. I gather people, say, come, let me tell you what I brought back from Enugu. And, you know, release the word to t...
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from verse fourteen. Say you however continue the things you have learned and have become convinced of know from whom you have learned them and that from childhood you have known the sacred scripture writings or holy scriptures which are able to give you this wisdom that leads to salvation through f...
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He knew he was a Jew. He believes very, very strongly in God. That's why he says, God does not play dice with the universe. People have misunderstood that expression. They think the man was saying that these Christians, they don't know what they are saying. No. The man was saying that this universe ...
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There are those who have been in wealth in Nigeria for a long time. They have never faced EFCC. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Their wealth has never faced the testing of EFCC. Do you get what I mean? Now, if EFCC now sniffs around their wealth, the thing comes crumbling down. That is not...
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Make computers cheap for everybody to acquire one. Maybe your name is Michael Dell, and you'll be a billionaire before you're 40. Are you getting my principle? It is the man that gives that becomes wealthy. There is he that scatter it and yet increase it. Are you getting the point of this is I'm say...
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That's why I tell you, look, everything that happens in life is a test. Do you get my point? What God is doing is testing your ability. God is testing something inside you. Do you have that strength? You know, this country is very, very, very bad. You don't know, I don't know what's going on around ...
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God said, you know why I allowed that to happen to you? I am testing the righteousness of your heart so that I can do you good at the end. Then one day, a kind of prayer will rise up. And the man will say, God, how long will you withhold your hands? He said, arise, oh God, and let your enemies be sc...
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They came and told my vehicle, and I said, yes. And they look, this is my name, this is what I do. And they will apologize, and that is the end. But those 25-year-old boys who were driving Lexus's those days, half of them vanished. Nobody gave them the strength to go and reclaim their cars. All fles...
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Are you getting my point? We've seen things like this before. People say, ah, this is what I really love to do. This is what I really love to do. This is what I really love to do. But what's the problem? They have a job that pays them well, but occupies them from 5 AM to 12 midnight. Therefore, the ...
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Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance. Then let them gather up all the food of those good years that are coming and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh's aut...
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there was a problem who was going to interpret it. And let me say that to you again. Anytime there is a challenge in life, it's God's opportunity to distinguish somebody. Do you understand what I'm saying? Problems in life are the opportunities that God has given you to be distinguished. Listen, you...
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How we do this guy now? He damaged some more. He said, shall we receive good of the hand of the Lord and not receive evil also? He said, after he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. And at the end of the day, how he responded, decided where God placed him in life. Are you getting my point? So ...
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Are you following my point? In fact, this is on record, that men who are really blessed in life, every economic hardship only makes them richer. And that's why I said that the poor is always getting poorer. The reason is because, see, in fact, this is, somebody gave this to me as a fact, when they a...
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You know the challenge for the Nigerian generation? Is to walk into that same market. And people will say, no, you won't survive here. He said, watch me survive. No, you won't survive. You don't do it. He said, just watch me. And the first year, it will appear as if you are not surviving. The second...
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And they have showed up now, you're now blaming them that you don't have enough money to complete the seminar. Please, are you getting my principle here? And look, forget, I'm saying all of this because I'm a minister, alright? It applies in every sphere of life. It applies in every sphere of life. ...
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I said, Amen. All right. Now, before we went on break, that's for that seminar, we're doing a series of teachings. What we're talking about then was how to enter into enduring success. That's what we titled it. there's something about things that happen quickly in life. You know, when Jesus was talk...
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And listen, God doesn't expect to be fighting those who were there before. Paul said, I did not come to you with what? Excellency of man's wisdom, but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power. That is what convinces people is that you eventually showed them that it works. Now, there's somethi...
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If that business prospers initially, the longer it prospers, the more terrible for you. If it collapses at the beginning, it's God's abundant mercy. But if it prospers initially, what will happen is that when God wants to deliver you, he will make sure you live with nothing. Don't be angry. Let me w...
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So you go, you look at one corner, but there is your... So the man said, where will I hang my suit? So like suit, you came with suit. So the man said, where will I hang my suit? And the man carried his bag and walked back and walked away. He said, run into the bush and started crying. Are you gettin...
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The Lord is good. So let's just go back to our message. That's just a small distraction there. So Jesus said, I'm not surprised. The man is in APC today, in PDP today. Tomorrow he's in PDP. It doesn't surprise me. He's a son of this age. He's a son of this age. Anything that's making money, they inv...
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After church, man, please, which company did you use? That's what they ask. Everybody will be playing. Oh, you know the way it is. 200 Naira, 500 Naira, 200 Naira. By the time they finish, the 2 million has been paid back so many times. Of course, all the people that play will win nothing, you know....
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But I know some of the stories. When you see boys who left them, some people work for them for some years, then resign, start their own company. They collect jobs from a bank, 100 millionaires. Collect jobs from one company, 15 millionaires. You see young, young boys. They have their own company, 10...
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Part of the thing is school. You must learn. You must come to fellowship. Whether you believe it's your problem, you must come. As long as you're working for me, you must hear the word of God. If you're like me, sleeping halfway through, I don't care. But you must hear it. Because out of that 150, 1...
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Am I creating a climate in which Homo Sapiens Adamus will be growing stronger or I'm producing a climate in which Homo Sapiens Christus, which I've discussed before, the life of Christ, the new man in Christ that I am will flourish. If you surround your life with chance, chance, chance, chance, ever...
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Now, as you move into Christ, those promises are activated in your life. So anytime you see a promise, it's not your own. It belongs to whom? Christ. It's as you are in Christ, as you abide in him, that those promises become active in your life. And Jesus said, this is how we relate, me and you. You...
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The reason why you can renew your mind is because you have the new life of God in you. It's because you are born again. Without that thing, without that spirit inside you, don't assume that anybody can do it. If God doesn't give that new life, try as hard as you might. You can never be conformed to ...
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It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Say, let your ...
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that by the Spirit, we are doing what? We are putting to death the deeds of the flesh. It's deliberate. It's deliberate. Somebody offends you, and you say, look, I won't talk to that fellow again. Maybe he offended you, you don't want to talk to him, whatever. He needs help. I need his help. I want ...
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As that one looks, he'll go, post me to Damaturu Martinsport. As you post on like that, he will land there, resign, take the next flight out of town. So what happened? The Lord called me. And the Lord actually called him. The Lord had been calling him for a long time. He just wasn't hearing it. Do y...
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I'll give you another example. Jesus said, don't be anxious for tomorrow. Sufficient until the day is what? The evil thereof. He said, tomorrow will take care of itself. He said, don't lay up treasure on the earth. Where thieves break in and steal, where moth destroys. What does it mean by thieves b...
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Chapter one is how. Chapter two is to. Chapter three is led. Chapter four is by. Chapter five is the spirit. Very orderly. And I have grace for it. Once I start cranking out this thing, it flows. And once we're ready, we paste it so that the people may know the truth of God. That's the church. Last ...
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If it doesn't open, I pick the number. Is there nobody in this house? I pick my phone. If I whack that gate, nobody answers me. I start calling. Somebody must pick the phone. When the Bible says the righteous are bold as a lion, that's what it means. You can't lock me out of my own house. There's th...
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without that breath. But with that breath that was breathed into him, conferred that uniqueness upon him, the trait of God that entered into him that day. He could now become a living, aware, self-conscious, known, able to decide being. All right? Now when Jesus came, of course, sin came in and corr...
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Chinese universities, look, all of our children are cheated to go to school. We are killing ourselves. You have your degrees, computer science, you cannot code. You can't write anything. You don't know anything. Why? Why? You cheated. Jam, before they started doing jam this way, you cheated. You pai...
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I have, if you know the number of books I have, like I told you, one is about to finish now, all right? Please get ready, early next year you are going to read that book, and I want you to read it. It's right after this minister's meeting. Remember when I was ministering that night, many of the thin...
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For faithfulness in what? Little. Okay, there are two words there, all right? Righteous. Faithful and righteous in little. Number two, let's use both words today. Faithful and righteous in money. Number three? Faithful and righteous in that which belongs to somebody else. Now that is how, you see, e...
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So they are trying to choose the best of the four. They choose one woman in Okunan, one in Phase 6, one in GRE, one in MNA. And they are very serious about the relationships. And you know what they are trying to do? Which one? So after some time, this one is very rude, not a big deal. Find a way to ...
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They want to spread it, it will not be able to move far. That's what salt does. Now when it says you are the light, there's a different thing there. Light is the way by which you could get direction. Light is what illuminates, that it shows you what is right to do and what you are not allowed to do....
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We have to be aggressive in nurturing it. If it says don't worry about tomorrow, you know what to do? You work hard with prayer and study. So what does it mean not to worry about tomorrow? Some people, you know, what we do sometimes to be able to obey God, while obeying ourselves, do you get what I ...
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Some women are marrying men that are smoking. What do they expect in their life? At least you have been delivered today. Have you noticed that we do these deliverance once in a while? Because some people backslide and some new people come to hear the truth. In Jesus' name you shall not bet again. Yo...
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Do you get my point? It can't be. It's how you think, how you now manifest in how you behave that people will see. And Jesus said, let your light so shine that men may do what? See your good works. Now, what does it mean to be salt? Let me quickly remind us of that again. We'll develop it again next...
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It's a love of money. That's what the Living Tradition says. Let me just open it here. Verse 36. He said, give me an eagerness for your laws rather than a love for money. That's what David said. Forget the word dishonest. David didn't use the word dishonest. He said, incline my heart to your testimo...
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in an environment where I am not laying up treasure on the earth. I'm obeying the word of Christ. So anytime he brings money to me, I do what I have to do, even if it appears like I'm putting my future in jeopardy. Ah, you say, Pastor Banki, God gave you this amount of money. What have you invested ...
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He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, without thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and ...
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Can I join? She said, what do you mean by joining? Well, I see you guys said you want to build a church. Is it possible? Let's just make these churches. You know you have a dream for four of them in these areas. I'm not trying to impose upon you men of God, but we can make it eight. And someone will...
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