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AS WE START TO STUDY THE WORD, THIS IS OUR DECLARATION:
Now I declare that the Lord has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him…
…and I am being filled with the knowledge of His will, in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
As a result of this…
I am walking in a m...
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lowing portion of the book of Ephesians. Please note the words I have put in bold letters and recall our discussion on some of them. Also I will bring forth a summary on those words after the reading.
= This I say therefore… that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of...
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. We are to constantly pray for understanding and continually cleanse our hearts by confession when the word of God exposes something that is wrong in our hearts. That is the way it is supposed to be.
It is unfortunate that we that claim to believe in the manifestation of the Holy Spirit focus so m...
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t the primary thing He does in our daily living. These occurrences are mostly related to the performance of ministry, even though they may also occur in daily personal life.
FILLED WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE
This is why I lay my emphasis on building our hearts by the word of God into the place where the w...
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LED BY THE SPIRIT – 2 (Renewed in the spirit of the mind)
What we learnt in the first part of this teaching is about the word ‘spirit’ and what it means to be led by a spirit. To be led by the spirit of God implies that we are motivated, driven and propelled by godly desires, values and principles....
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hteousness
for the sake of righteousness that He anoints.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows. Psa 45:7
The resolve for righteousness will be tested. The
person commi ed to righteousness will be faced
w...
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Power Belongs to God 61
…and He died for all, so that they who live might no
longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose
again on their behalf. 2 Cor 5:15
As we shall see in a short while, God's abundance
will be released only upon those who have go en
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his life..." 1 Sam 1:11
She consecrated the child to the Lord even before he
was born. By that dedication, she fi ed herself into
*Isa 6:8
A Covenant of Service 73
the order of God for His covenant people. God's
covenant people are people chosen to serve the
Lord...
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ches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat
from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his
labor; this is the gift of God. Eccl 5:19
A Covenant of Service 77
I have seen people who will give anything to
anybody but will not buy themselves even good
clothes...
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ve been sent to the
business world. This is how the influence of
righteousness will spread. It is the leaven principle.
* Eph 4:12
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More Than Church Activities
We Christians often forget the job outside the
church which the Lord g...
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11
witnessed the excesses of some preachers. We
should rather learn the balance of the word of God
on the subject. That is my aim in the following
chapters of this book.
Caution!
I understand that such a title as this book has will
a ract many covetous and worldly Christians, but
the work is not f...
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hteousness to gain comfort or relief from the
troubles. Remember that that is the aim of the test
anyway. Eventually, that trial shall pass.
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A Just Recompense
The last reason that I wish to explain concerning
why Christians have problems i...
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ng on the earth is temporal and
has uses determined by God.
But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus
Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to
return as our Savior. Phil 3:20 NLT
So, our hearts are on the things of heaven. We
know, however, that when Jesus comes, He will
check...
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f
poverty is supposed to be. I was indeed surprised
to see that it was perfectly in line with the principles
of being a disciple of Christ, as I understood it. To
me, it was a sound biblical teaching.
I found out that, if taken in the proper light and
applied correctly, it is not a vow reserved for...
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and Problems 43
Trial of Faith
Another reason why we may have problems as
Christians is the trial of our faith. In this case, we are
to endure until the trial passes.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter
various trials, knowing that the testing of yo...
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% belonged to God, but a
Christian cannot say so and be correct. Some say it
is to be a starting point for generosity. In that case, it
is good, but it makes it a suggestion and not a
compulsory idea.
In most practical cases, a generous giver will give
far more than that proportion anyway, consider...
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sends it through someone. He holds that
person accountable for delivery to the place where
the thing is needed. God is looking all the time for
faithful people who will deliver as appropriate.
Everything God places in your hands has specific
intended uses, and it is faithfulness to use them as
appro...
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to eat
and drink whatever it was that they liked; the only
rule was that they had to finish the whole tithe.*
Interestingly enough, that was the primary way the
tithe was spent under the Old Covenant.
Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be
conceited or to fix their hope on the un...
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e ing to a place you are not supposed to get to.
The problem is that we like to think we can use
these things to control every detail of life when
actually God has not given us that privilege or
duty.
Women have been counselled not to marry a non-
tither, as they are thieves, that they will continu...
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things for God. God checks our motives.
I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to
give to each man according to his ways, according to the
results of his deeds. Jer 17:10
Allow me to set a few things straight.
The Law of Righteousness
Righteousness means to be accepte...
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ew Covenant is the spreading
of the gospel of Jesus and the building up of the
saints of God. The growth of the temple of God on
* 1 Chrn 29:1-5
The Art of Giving to God – 1 209
the earth, which is the body of Christ, is by the
preaching of the word for the conversion of sinn...
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s rewarded by God. They call it seed-
sowing. No, that is not true Christianity.
In Christ, every true believer has been made to be a
liberal giver.
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Conclusion
H aving read all this, the summary in a few
words is to fear the Lord, obey His
comm...
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that saved us, and that grace
does many things for us as part of the salvation
package. Salvation includes ending poverty and
lack, and bringing the abundance of divine
provision to us. It is wri en:
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that
always having all sufficiency in everything,...
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tree." Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the
Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham,
so that we who are believers might receive the promised
Holy Spirit through faith. Gal 3:13-14
Because of Christ Jesus, no one is more blessed than
another, but all are blessed only in Christ.
S...
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and material resources. For us, these things
do not validate us, they do not measure our worth,
and they do not determine if we are successful or
not. We see them as tools to serve the purpose of
God.
The purpose of wealth, as we have seen again and
again, is to be a blessing to others and to human...
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because of his faith, which means that he has trust
that God is taking care of everything about his own
life. He is not afraid of tomorrow.
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Grace and Truth, the Basis of Cheerfulness
Being a cheerful giver is a result of the
transformatio...
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to God 155
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially
for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is
worse than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8
We all do these works as a natural outflow of the
faith in our hearts. We are not trying to a ain
r...
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ood and faithful
servant. You have been faithful in handling this small
amount, so now I will give you many more
responsibilities.' Ma 25:23 NLT
This principle was demonstrated in the life of
Joseph.
Joseph was called of God to be a ruler, not to lord it
over people but to preserve lives. You see,...
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t of a proportion of one's
income as a part of worship was only found as part
of the laws of Moses. It never occurred anywhere in
* Mal 3:10
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the scriptures before or after the Law. All who gave
gifts in those times outside the law were che...
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hat
you have heard.* All knowledge does is to puff you
up and deceive you into thinking you believe what
you really don't. The only way by which you can
know what you really believe is by your actions.
* Jam 1:22
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CHAPTER 16
The Art Of
Giving To God ...
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as in them, and it grew wild
and out of control. That is why they wandered from
the faith. That is why they look like children of the
devil.
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It is important that we bear in mind that the seed of
the love of money is in many more people tha...
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gineering, into
law, into medicine, and into the creation of wealth.
That is when we will see what is called the glory of
God.
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CHAPTER 10
The Vow of Poverty
M any years ago, as a young student of the
word under the Word of Faith movement, I
le...
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offering the help that he can give. Jesus was such a
person; He often saw the needy and was moved by
compassion.
The labour of love, together with the work of faith,
is what the Lord rewards.
False Hope Corrupts Good Works
Just as faith is the confidence that stimulates giving,
a major reason w...
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others.
God's Order – Seed and Bread
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food
will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and
increase the harvest of your righteousness. 2 Cor 9:10
Usually, anything God sends you has two
parts—seed and bread. The bread is the portion you
consume ...
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rything, you may
have an abundance for every good deed… you will be
* 2 Cor 8:1,2
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enriched in everything for all liberality… 2 Cor 9:8,11
If you read the story of Elisha, you will notice that
God used a wealthy family to take care of hi...
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studying the following por ons of the
scriptures: Deut 14: 22-28; Gen 14:19, 20; Gen 28:20-22; Mal 3:10.
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• Love for the poor and needy.
Anyone who takes care to do the above is fully
engaged in the spirit of tithing. The New Testament...
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Jerusalem.” Zech 1:17
So, we have to do the good works associated with
spreading the kingdom. Paul said we will abound
unto every good work. For doing those great
works, we will have super-abundance.
Poor or just-sufficient people cannot give
scholarships to the poor nor can they adopt orphan
babies...
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hose around us. It is service to God
and to humanity that I am talking about.
There are some persons reading this who the Lord
* 1 Chrn 4:9
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is waiting for them to get up and face the vision and
dream that He has placed in them long ago. T...
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t will own one because of you. This
will be a working person who can maintain the car.
Someone will own a house because of your
generosity.
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The Spirit of Ruth
Now, if you are in the Ruth stage of life, please don't
be ashamed to partake o...
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have an eternal abode with God. It is the guarantee
that we will not be condemned with the devil and
his angels.* This is the most important form of
prosperity and the foundation of the other levels.
The next level of prosperity is that of the soul. It is a
prosperity of the heart and mind. It is t...
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eful and in it you are
faithful. It also helps you know deep inside that He
is planning to increase you at a due time—the time
He will be 'back.'
“Do business with this until I come back.” Luke 19:13
A complacent person, on the other hand, is the
person who buries the talent the master gave him.
H...
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It is a product of our love for and trust in God.
Anyone who does not love God cannot effectively
lay up treasure in heaven. It is that confidence in
God that makes the child of God easily generous.
Another point to remember is that faith must work
together with love.* If you do not love the plac...
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do not
understand think that it is because they have too
much money. The truth is that their faith is in God
and their main concern is to do the will of God; that
is why they give of their substance.
If you are one that is prone to doing such good,
please I implore you to continue and to disregard
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ng out with the truth of God. In
fact, a lot of times, those titles give the impression to
business people that the bearers do not know much
about the so-called real life. That is not the plan of
God.
The Job Example
See, Job was a man who was respected in the
society. He was a man of godly influenc...
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er mites* and
definitely the thing with the widow of Zarephath
(who we shall examine shortly). It is the faith that
God is honouring and not the gift itself. God looks
at the heart and not the outside.
If you look at the case of the rich young ruler that
came to Jesus, the Lord wanted Him to be free...
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unnecessary. Wealth is an
endowment; it is not a product of struggles. You
can struggle for daily bread and a li le bit of extra,
but great wealth has to be given to you by a power
that is beyond you.
I want you to know at this time that God's covenant
with you is that kind that can take a person i...
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strength, no one can defeat you. In
that place, every setback is nothing but an
opportunity to recharge. Here, you are the
champion and no one else can be like you since you
are the best at being you.
A Shaking May Come
Many may suffer the loss of jobs soon. When it
happens to you, don't panic if yo...
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y life and you
will be doing God service if you use some of the
money He has given you to do just that, among
other things.
CHAPTER 18
The Giving Lifestyle - 1
It is More Blessed
I believe one of the main purposes of this book is
to get us all as believers into the givi...
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clude giving; He condemned the practice of some
people who use the excuse of vowing what they
have to God to not give to their parents. He said
they were cancelling the word of God by those
practices.
You skillfully sidestep God's law in order to hold on to
your own tradition. For instance, Moses g...
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omes and to sponsor a poor child's
* Heb 7:7
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schooling are all given to the Lord and are not
inferior to giving to the work of ministry.
"Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come,
you who are blessed of My Father, inherit th...
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not be full.
God is always looking for how to bless His
children, but the only blessing He can give to a
disobedient child is correction. Without accepting
to be corrected, there is no moving forward.
So, many problems we have are nothing but the
inevitable consequences of our ways. A person who
is...
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thing seems to go wrong in the life of the
person.
The existence of curses is a fact in life. It is a spiritual
force.
* 1 Kgs 12:13-15
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My message, however, is that Christ Jesus took care
of all of it for the believer. He took care of...
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rom the
pulpit. The surest way to lose many during a
message is for the preacher to start talking about
money. They feel this way, not because they are
wicked, but because they think too much emphasis
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has been laid on the subject. This...
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more than
enough for all good works. You are able to meet
needs that are not your own. To use the words of
Paul, it is having all sufficiency in everything and
having an abundance for every good deed.*
However, when you take a vow of poverty, you are
acknowledging and affirming that what you seem
to ow...
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s His children. I am quite aware
that things like praise and thanksgiving are gifts
unto the Lord but here our focus is on giving of
material things.
The various ways of giving to God are as follows.
1. The Work of Ministry
Whenever the work of propagating the gospel is
being done, giving to it is...
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possible, each person
should give as they earn.
On every Lord's Day, each of you should put aside some
amount of money in relation to what you have earned
and save it for this offering. 1 Cor 16:2 NLT
If you are a monthly earner, then give your major
offerings monthly. Give to your church and also t...
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the
mercy the Lord has shown to him in what he has.
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He is always full of thanksgiving and for this
reason he is forever ready to share.
A cheerful giver has a mentality that he is above
only and not beneath, and so is liberal in giving...
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When the Lord gave the Israelites the land He
promised to their ancestors, He told them to go in
and take possession of it. It was not going to fall into
their arms just because they came near there.
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you
cross over the Jordan into the land of Cana...
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ly cons tute themselves into heavy loads for the children to
carry, making excessive demands on them; this is not what the Lord
is suppor ng.
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person, but since you cannot see God and you want
to give to Him, then the person that He used is ...
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do not pick
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up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the
foreigners living among you. I am the Lord your God.
Lev 23:22 NLT
The Lord commanded His people to leave portions
of their fields unharvested. He also forbad them
fr...
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is a generous spender.
The Lord has always emphasized on blessing
people in such abundant measure that they will
have much more than they can use or even
effectively store. He said to His people that…
…I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour
* Mark 14:6
16 ...
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of poverty.
I will love you to go to the Lord in prayer at this
time, armed with the knowledge of the facts in this
chapter, and pledge to live your life within the
boundaries of this vow of poverty.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.
* 1 Tim 6:10
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hings control the physical; the treasure
one has in heaven is fundamental to sustaining the
treasure on the earth. Treasure in heaven causes
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more to be produced on the earth and it preserves
the life of the owner of the treasure.
As a tru...
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lar season of life. Faith
is not designed to accommodate the pride of life.
Ruth's faith was shown in how she, with Naomi,
accepted her humble state and followed God's
order for supernatural supplies.
Circumstances can happen to anyone, and indeed it
is how God sometimes humbles people. He wants
yo...
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t the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of male goats? Psa 50:10-13
Any gift that will be pleasing to Him must be given
in accordance with His instructions. It is obedience
that actually pleases Him.
Please recall the case of Saul, how the Lord
instructed him to totally destroy the Amalekites
and ...
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otive behind what you do.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Ma 5:7
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…for those who honor Me I will honor. 1 Sam 2:30
It is a spiritual seed that counts. Honour and mercy
may manifest in different kinds of physical se...
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you, but who would not be able to afford
such on his income or allowance. Sometimes, you
may sell it to someone but at a very reduced price,
just to give the person the feeling of having
purchased it.
I remember once a young man who asked to buy an
old car I had. He later testified that he was led by...
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has
placed in you that He will use to bring you to that
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place of being a blessing; He wants you to take that
thing and begin to use it.
Some are gifted teachers and authors, but
something else has taken their focus because it is
giving...
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ual and physical exhaustion. He has
literally laid down his life for others, howbeit
unknowingly. The scripture is then fulfilled that
says, “He amasses riches and does not know who will
gather them.”*
Beware lest it be that you are burning up your soul-
life in exchange for material wealth. It may ...
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ers mean nothing! All I do
at those times when I'm asked to do so in church
services is just to give Him thanks for the ability He
has given me to give and for the faith that does not
trust in riches.
People are often encouraged to give their offering a
name before they give it; this name is suppose...
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being disobedient and are missing out of
the blessing of God. If a minister has been a blessing
to you, then return to him a gift of material things.
Do it again and again; you will be blessed for it.
How was Jesus sustained in His ministry on the
earth? He and His disciples did not survive on
212...
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e sowing corn. Some give out their old
cars just because they want God to return it as a new
one. Some will change naira to dollars and then use
Why We Give to God 163
the la er as an offering in church. The reason is so
that God can pay them back in dollars. They kn...
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succeed. It is a spiritual substance
which confers upon a person the power of
fruitfulness and productivity. What Jesus is telling
us here is that the giver has more spiritual power
than the receiver.
A blessing does not only affect your finances but
also other parts of your life. It affects your heal...
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very commendable customs
in this regard. One example is that of giving gifts to
couples ge ing married. Another one is the custom
of giving gifts to new babies. These are common but
very good customs.
Now there is a custom we have in Nigeria which I
have deliberately stopped participating in becaus...
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n to want to be
rich. Now, I will tackle that question by first
trying to understand what the enquirer may have
in mind. Words as simple as being rich may mean
different things to different persons.
For some, and I dare to say this is how most people
are, to be rich means to have a lot of money a...
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to marry and a comment that
* Prov 19:6
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slipped from the fiancée's mouth showed that he
had not changed. I wondered why she was
marrying him.
You may wonder what such people do with their
money, and I will tell you. They love to count their
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eople—the church. That is His first
choice.
A Covenant of Prosperity 19
Now, the summary of the purpose of God on the
earth is the establishment of His kingdom
everywhere.
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of
our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall re...
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used to do a similar thing by giving to the poor.
The only other thing He did for them was to preach
the gospel to them. He never tried to get beggars off
the streets—it was not part of His assignment.
We tend to think sometimes that we can make a
poor man rich just by deciding to. No, you can't;
po...
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Chapter 11: Rich Toward God ..............................143
Chapter 12: Why We Give to God........................151
Chapter 13: How to Receive from God ...............165
Chapter 14: God’s Love and the Cheerful
Giver .......................................................
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. Your part is that of faithfulness, faith
and patience. Patience means to continue to do
what is right before the Lord no ma er how long it
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takes for any reward to come. Be faithful in giving
and leave the rest to the Lord.
I mentioned e...
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oung man that the Lord said should go
sell all that he had could not do. He did not have
this vow of poverty working in his life.
* Prov 18:11
The Vow of Poverty 133
Also, I recently heard the story of a young man
who, together with his friends and associates, own...
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muddy water. The loaves were ruined. The
woman bent down, grabbed a nearby
sympathizer's hand and began to weep on it. It was
clear that she couldn't afford to take that loss for she
was a pe y trader.
My friend turned to me and said, “Are you thinking
what I am thinking?” I nodded. We estimated the...
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ed in life's
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ba les. Now that you have se led on your firm
ground, you must turn back to those places and
offer an offering to God on those altars.
Your father or uncle who paid your way through
school is more deserving of your first salary than
y...
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keep
His commandments and do the things that are pleasing
in His sight. 1 John 3:22
And this is the confidence which we have before Him,
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that, if we ask anything according to His will, He
hears us. And if we know that He hears us in wha...
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Psa 68:5
The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the
fatherless and the widow. Psa 146:9
One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD,
and He will repay him for his good deed. Prov 19:17
We need to know that whatever we do for the poor
is something that we are offering to the Lord. God...
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ing above. You have
accepted that He has healed you, delivered you from sin and
from death. If you believe it, then get ready for the release of the
power of God in your life to confirm it physically.
It is to the person that has believed these reports that the
power of God will be revealed.
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at those who do not have what you
have for a second.
Be ever cheerful and thankful. There is so much He has
done for you.
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The Law of Life
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!
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has imparted life into you.
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The Law of Life
Righteousness has power; the scriptures tell us that it has
enough power to deliver from death.
…righteousness delivers from death.
Prov 11:4
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k a kind word to people you come across. Be cheerful
about life and be thankful to the Lord all the time.
This is the godly lifestyle that is in keeping with a long,
healthy and prosperous life.
…to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy
burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,...
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CHAPTER 15. LIVE IN IT
We must not forget that the last part of what we are to do
with what God has given is still there to be examined.
…and you shall possess it and live in it.
After you have taken possession of anything that the Lord
gives to you, you must occupy it and be e...
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nd this is the primary basis for the determination of
righteousness.
When life is imparted as a result of the righteousness that
comes by faith in Jesus, this life is imparted by the life giving
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Spirit of Christ; this is called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus.
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Christ.
If your focus is on your fear and the things that are
befalling the world, then one day a portion may fall into you
hands out of the lot.
Be wise.
The second prescription is this.
Who is the man who desires life
And loves length of days that he may see good?
Keep your ton...
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53:5
When He says that you have been healed by the stripes or
scourging of Jesus, it means He has given you health.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus.
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to cross the Jordan to go in to
possess the land which the LORD your God is giving
you, and you shall possess it and live in it.
Deut 11:31
Looking closely at these portions of the scriptures will
reveal some deep spiritual truths about th...
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Christ. There is
forgiveness of sins in Jesus and there is a deliverance and
fortification against evil in Him.
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CHAPTER 6. THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT
OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS.
Having explained the things that we have so far, let us now
go on to the main issue of our study.
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on of dementia was cured after the deliverance
and the subsequent images of her brain taken at radiological
examination showed a disappearance of the degenerative lesion.
Everything had become normal.
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of sickness.
There are two prescriptions that are preventive that I will
love to show you today.
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This is the first.
My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart f...
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u cannot possess what you
have been given but which you are not aware has been given to
you. The first thing to do therefore in possessing what the Lord
has given you is to know what those things are.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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ecause of righteousness.
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You will notice in the next verse that he began to explain
the mechanism that will bring this to pass.
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jes...
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necessary.
In the interval, hold on tightly to the confession of your
faith. Do not let any physical evidence or suggestions in your
mind persuade you against the word of God. Tell the devil and
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all his human friends that you will hold on to God even if you
died doing so.
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aled when He made
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clay with spittle and asked the man to go wash it off at the pool
of Siloam. The story is in John chapter 9.
And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this
man or his parents, that he should be bor...
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yday rejoicing because of the victory that the Lord has given
you in Christ.
Please do not take pleasure in declaring the works of death.
I have met people who seem to me that they love pain and
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suffering; I say this be...
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om
evil. Evil are the things that are in the environment because of
the sin that is therein pervasive.
You do realize that sometimes Jesus would heal people and
then tell them to go sin no more.
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him,
"Behold, you have become well; do not...
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it will physically
rearrange your body and your feelings. The word of God is not
an opinion or just an instruction manual for how to live life. No,
please! It is an encapsulation of the power of God.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing;
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earth.
…the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery
to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children
of God. Rom 8:21
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Life came in by Jesus.
…I came that they might have life, and might have it
abundantly.
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Jesus upon the cross was the shedding of
His life for the redemption of mankind and everything that is
attached to them, like the earth. The Bible tells us that the life of
the flesh is in the blood.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it
to you on the altar to make aton...
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nd
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more energy on the word of life as this is the thing that will not
fail.
This is precisely what the Lord was warning the children of
Israel about when He told them that…
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ill
only in the realm of the spirit.
So, what do you do while what have been promised you is
still not seen?
But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance
we wait eagerly for it.
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answer.
The next morning, I woke up to discover that all the pocks
on my face had vanished, less than 24 hours after they arrived. I
can still remember the feeling as my hands rubbed over my now
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smooth face. Only two pock...
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ood of Jesus is God’s signature on that document;
your own is your faith in Jesus.
The blood speaks; once it is shed it does not keep quiet but
demands the realization of the reason it was shed.
…the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood
of Abel.
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o disease, no matter the name that it is called,
that this glory will not heal.
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CHAPTER 4. THE LAW OF SIN AND
DEATH.
It will be good to briefly see the origin of sicknesses and
diseases.
You see, this life we ...
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can be. Now, subsequently you will
produce the good works that are in keeping with the
righteousness of God.
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CHAPTER 10. TAKE IT
I have found out from studying the Bible that whenever
God gives you something, it does not automa...
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that it is not relevant whether your affliction
came as a just recompense of reward for your deeds or you were
born with it or it came as a result of the evil in the environment.
What matters is this,
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the
old things passed away; behold, new...
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d by the resurrection life of
Christ. That same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead has given
life to those would-have-been-cancerous cells. They have
received life and will bless me into old age.”
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What you are doing is that you are taking by force what is
yours; the thin...
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r over the realm of mankind,
And bestows it on whom He wishes
And sets over it the lowliest of men.
Dan 4:17
At the end, he confessed,
"Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise, exalt and honor the King
of heaven, for all His works are true an...
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But I have a central theme in my mind. Let's read. And when he saw the multitudes, he went up on the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Remember, this is a message for disciples, not for everybody. You cannot teach this to unbelievers. You'll be making more clear of yourself...
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because I left university 27 years ago, all right? And by that time, I'd known that doctrine for at least two years. So it's been fine for a long time. That's the doctrine that you hear sometimes, that when a Christian cannot sin because he's a spirit man, anything he does in the body, it's just the...
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Lord. He looked towards the plains of Sodom and they were well watered like the garden of the Lord. Look, what am I explaining? That's discipleship. I'm going somewhere, right? Jesus said it clearly, because you see, you are the salt of the earth. I'm going to talk about that also. But I have one me...
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Verse 48, after saying many things. Now, remember along the line, he said, you've heard he said, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I said to you, don't resist the fellow who is evil. If he took your eye, and you are my disciple, let him go away with it. He said, if he wants your shirt, let him...
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Are you getting my point? That their mouth is purged, that their lives are purged, so pure that they can speak for God and God's power can manifest through them. That is what we're having to deal with. Sometimes my wife and I will be talking. You hear the kind of complaint I'll complain, I say, baby...
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All right, the Lord is good. All the time. I said the Lord is good. All the time. All right, the culture of faith, number 16. Let's open our Bibles. Today we'll go to the book of Matthew, chapter 5. Last time we read the account from Luke because we wanted to just get a quick panoramic view of it. B...
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in the center of a fire. He stood like that. They lit the fire. He didn't flinch, did not move. The story after that gets a bit confusing. Some say the fire could not burn. that the fire just burnt around him, couldn't touch him. As if to prove to them that you're not the one killing this man, his L...
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If you are counting results, there was no result again. Church had emptied. But what emptied the church? Revelation of truth. Please, don't follow results. Follow truth. Because sometimes truth sends people into hunger. That's what I'm trying to explain. The pursuit of truth, you become shipwrecked....
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Because Paul said that if we do, we may be cast away too. We may be disqualified, we may be removed. If you see at the end of the day, you know what Jesus said? He said, not everyone that says to me, Lord, Lord, ah, he's at the end though. In chapter seven. Verse 21, not everyone who says to me, Lor...
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There are all kinds of things. Even Martin Luther had people tortured. Oh, many people don't know that. Many of the things he accused the Catholic Church of doing, he did. Many people got tired and said, we need to worship God with freedom. That was why they went to America. Guess what? Many died in...
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You know what they call retiring money? For those of you who don't know, you work in a company, you work in a big organization, they give you cash a lot of times to do things. So let's assume now that, okay, it's October 1st celebration, you work in government house, they can hand you $10 million to...
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He said, I can't help myself. And I used to believe statements like that. He said, it's because you don't realize that the gate is HIV positive. The moment they tell you it's HIV positive, you realize you can't help yourself. Suddenly, help will come from above. In the name of Jesus, I put the body ...
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If that is clear to you and to them, there are things even you will not do. You don't understand what I'm saying, sir. Sir, if you insist on this, I will resign now. And you're not kidding, no. You're not threatening. It's not as if, ah. Demo, you know what they call demo? No, you really mean it. Yo...
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All right, the Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. Let's declare the word of understanding as we begin to study as we usually do once in a school. Now I declare that the Lord has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. and have been filled with the knowledge of His w...
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that your descendants will be slaves in another country, then I will bring them out, and then they will come back and inherit the land. Why? Because the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. So that also happened. So he was sent by God. Everything he was doing was divine assignment. It was not r...
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You think you are poor, but I think you are rich. He told the judge that they had no problem. He said, so now, because you are bearing fruit, I need to prune you. Why am I pruning you? You're all gonna go to jail for 10 days, and one or two of you might be killed in the process. So the rest of you j...
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When the disciples were learning serious words, they all turned into a hymn. But look, the shallower your message, the bigger your congregation. Then one day, Jesus said, I said to eat my flesh and drink my blood. How more? The boy said, that's so free food, B. I said, let's go, let's go, let's go. ...
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To convert is to legally collect. Are you getting my point? To scheme so as to, within the limits of the law, transmit somebody's property into your own, into your own hands. That is what the Bible calls it. But it had to be an act. It had to be something you did for the laws of Moses to address the...
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What does it mean to be disqualified? I won't discuss that now, but let's just know that you can be disqualified. And Paul said, even though I preach to many people, there's a possibility that I may be disqualified. For that reason, I make sure I discipline my body. I treat myself harshly. That's wh...
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If that was what happened, I gave a thousand, he brought 15,000. No, it's because I've been judged faithful. I've been called a dependable person. Paul said, when God found me faithful, he committed to me a ministry. So God says, okay, this boy gave out 1,000 Naira when he didn't even have much. All...
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For unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. That is the first statement. Another statement I want us to look at. Let's jump. We stopped reading in verse 20. I want us to read a few more verses. I'm looking for the one. Yes, go...
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The Lord blinded him. Now you can't see the women again. True story. The Lord made it clear. He said, oh boy, since you will not manage this other side, I have to manage the other side for you. And the Lord literally blinded him. So he never saw anything or anybody again. Please, I need you. Like Pa...
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nor do men light a lamp and put it under the peck measure. What do they rather do? They put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. 17. Do not think ...
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But the church is going to be debating whether we should have homosexual bishops. Of course, all over Europe they have them now, and England. Reverend Akinwola that time, this is the prelates of the, the head of Nigerian Anglican Communion, primate, have you? Yes. Direct Prince said, thank God for t...
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You can tell them any story you want to tell. The fact is that you must still say to what? The landlord. Such is it also. When people come and start asking me, can I give my tie to somebody? What do you mean? The money I wanted to use to support my church, can I give it to the poor? It has no meanin...
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general righteousness of God. After that is the second level. In the second we learn the ways of God in every situation. That was what Jesus meant when he said to seek God’s righteousness (Matt 6:33). There is a righteousness of God in every situation, and this describes what God says is right to do...
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racted useless men. It’s the spiritual force around her. Many people only attract bad business; some men haven’t married because they only attract bad girlfriends and so they call now every woman bad. No, it is not the women; it is the problem in their hearts and it cannot be cured by simple prayer ...
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FAITH AND TRANSFORMATION
The thing that marks out Christianity is faith. Many sceptics think that faith means to believe that which is not real but which is only imaginary. I actually heard an American public figure describing Jesus as an imaginary friend, implying that Christians are people who ha...
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is hands.
I know that Jesus indeed died for me, the power of His blood is real and has a very current and active cleansing power.
That is what faith is—the knowledge of truth, even though invisible. Now having re-introduced the subject to faith to us let me bring it to bear on our subject at hand....
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hat obeys the things that are known and revealed, a life of righteousness and holiness. In doing this we become the will of God in our very lives, and the actual Will of God comes out of us naturally.
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God indeed has a will. His will is not limited to only the ‘big’ things of life. He has a will concerning everything that concerns you. Many people think that God is only concerned about who they marry or which ministry to be involved in. No, it is not so.
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a manner pleasing to God on a daily basis, walking into the will of God in the big things is automatic and easy. The Lord takes it upon Himself to guide the person who does this into His perfect will.
“Who is the man who fears the LORD?
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for those who want to go. Because I'll tell you the truth, I want to preach a gospel to you, that my demand, that will, I will draw the word might, that will at a point in time in your life demand that you sell literally all that you have. I'll tell you something, it's not a joke. In those days, I t...
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unwillingness to obey God. I don't know what I hear what I said. Fasting and prayer is very good. Listen, Tuesdays we've converted our school of Bible and Isaiah now to a school of what? Prayer. So we are going to be learning about prayer and praying every Tuesday, beginning from maybe another two, ...
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Now we are going to start from verse 33. He said, again you have heard, now I have a very long portion to read. Now this is a famous sermon on the mount. And Jesus was showing people the true order of God, superior to that of Moses. The people believed Moses and they tried to obey him, but he was sa...
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that your British passport and everything. So you move over from Nigeria and come back to England. So they were doing the work, getting everything ready and all of that. So one day, he mentioned to one of his friends, also a believer, and said, I'll soon be leaving you guys. I'll be relocating to th...
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I can't buy the flight ticket. Let me not digress to that. So you don't look, it's you that think that going to UK is a breakthrough. Let me sit on my message. I'm trying my best not to get distracted. Why did I tell the whole story? I'm talking about that power of consecration. Catherine Kuhlman, G...
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As far as wealth and prosperity was concerned, I settled it years before that. I settled it the day I read Isaiah chapter 66 verse 12. Behold, I caused prosperity to flow towards you like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream. I knew I would never have to beg. I won't run...
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salvation is free. When we're talking about money and material things, salvation is free but to each person, salvation has a cost. Do you get my point? So, what we're going to say for salvation is free. I believe that that's one problem we have today. You know, we say this a lot of time. Let's try a...
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They thought to be a king meant you were a lord. No. You should be afraid. The first that they say so, you'll be king. You know Iran? That's how real kings should behave. They will see the responsibility and they will be afraid. But it's what I'm making. Because of the knowledge of purpose, the day ...
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that is, you will not experience the endowment of God's power, except your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees. Do you understand that point? Because when they came to him and said, how come there is so much power demonstrated in your life? He said, it is because of where I am dwelling. I ...
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M3 something or M4 something. Powerful car. And drove it into somebody's sitting room and parked it there. I'm telling you. When he was telling me that he parked in the sitting room, I thought it was a joke, like as if he knocked the wall down. Then he showed me the photograph. I screamed. The guy d...
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Before he blessed Abraham with the promise that he gave to Abraham, he made sure Abraham was able to give up Isaac. Before he gave Hannah the first child, Samuel, Hannah said, just give him to me and I will give him back to you. He said, fine, then I'll give you plenty. Are you getting what I'm tryi...
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was a natural man. Yes, yes, I remember. Let me use my own words now. He said Adam was a natural man, but God designed that, listen, listen to this, that through a series of moral choices, Adam will convert that which is natural to that which is spiritual. Are you getting the point? That is, hunger ...
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You can't make your hair. All right? You can't force yourself to fulfill a vow. So boy, live a life of righteousness before God every day. And all those ones will not be necessary. Now, are you getting what I'm trying to explain here? Now, let's continue reading, please. All right, verse 38. Then I ...
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You see, we read some scriptures, we don't understand what it means. Paul looked at it and said, everything that I gained, I counted as loss. I like the way Catherine Kuhlman used to say it. She said that, they say, cost to the power of God working in your life. That God will take everything that yo...
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on the righteous, all right? And the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax gatherers, those who you call sinners, do the same. And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore yo...
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looked at her husband, that was never her husband as far as God was concerned, and said, oh boy, it's not working. I can't keep on staying here deceiving myself that I'm a child of God. I'm disobeying God being here. The man said, where are you going? Said, I don't know. She packed a bag and bought ...
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One angel will give birth to a small sickness so that she won't birth to a knight that day. But why didn't God do any of that? He said, because David, you are feeling like a righteous man. There is iniquity lodged inside your soul. I need to allow it to manifest so that you might confess it. So when...
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And this calculated the amount of money a guy is supposed to be earning in a week. The richest men in Nigeria don't earn anything in a year. Most of those rich boys around don't earn anything in a week. You can see that option there. And you look on the left. I'm going to give you 50,000 Naira. And ...
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is present here. You are going to touch your people mightily today in the name of Jesus Christ. Alright, the Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. Alright, well, we'll take a text of the scriptures today to start our discussions to continue what we have been saying about um power with God. I will t...
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Because if indeed you came to Him, you will come as you are and change to what He wants you to be. Do you understand my point? Yes, you can come to Him as you are, accepted. But having come to Him, you won't remain the same. Neither do I condemn you. That's what He said to the woman that was caught ...
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all the doors of ministry that were open to her closed. Every single one closed. In fact, after the wedding, she realized the kind of mistake she made. She turned around and ran back home, except that there was nobody there to receive her. All her friends had disappeared. That is the way you want to...
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Did you hear what I said? Let me say it to you again. Before God gives you that resource control, He will make sure you don't want it again. That until you see it as a matter of responsibility, I won't give it to you. As long as you have seen it as my right, I deserve it. I own it. I should use it. ...
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or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king. Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. But lest your statement simply be what, yes, yes, or no, no, and anything beyond these is of evil. Let me quickly explain something there. I won't spend time o...
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ethnic group and one race. That race and
group is called Christ
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Next we will see some of the things that constitute errors in criteria
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like. Being carnal is not in going by what I like (I do
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acceptable to fellow strongholders (I just coined this
word please), and often to a very large segment of the society.
Apart from popular strongholds, there are also personal and strange
strongholds.
AN ASSAULT ON THE BLOOD
Let me say in simple terms: To distinguish between Christians
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who have been put into positions and for
this reason they will perform impressively but only because of this
influence of the anointing. However this does not translate to personal
true spirituality.
TRUE SPIRITUALITY
True spirituality is about a thirst for the knowledge of God. True
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Of
course there is no hard and fast rule about this, but generally
speaking, marriage was designed to be entered into in the youth
period. If you are waiting till you are made, then you will not marry
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ith your example of faith is just a
gamble. The fact that you married him despite the fact that you know
he is not a believer is all the example he needs to know that your
faith is not serious to you.
IT'S ABOUT THE SPIRIT
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ersonally by the word
of God. True spirituality is about walking habitually in
the ever increasing knowledge of God. It is not about
being a leader, preacher or being the lead-singer in
the choir.
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ing
standards unless you are of faith in Christ Jesus
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What do mean when you are talking about a wife, or a husband?
Once, a young man like I was and who...
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tell me what women should look like. Without going into
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details, I have watched in the few years I have lived as the societal
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ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your sight;
Keep them in the midst of your heart.
For they are life to those who find them,
And health to all their whole body. Prov 4:20-22
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often necessary; seeking
them is absolutely out of order. If they come we will accept them,
but we are not allowed to seek them. We are to seek only to
understand the ways of God by His written word.
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In Acts 10, Peter fell into a trance and saw a vision in which the Lord told him to
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ement has the
temple of God with idols? 2 Cor 6:14-16
We see from these verses that the doctrine of opposites attracting
is to be reserved for shallow matters that are not the main meat of
life.
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rld, and I have no
word for them; my issue is with those of us who call ourselves
Christians but who have not bothered to check with the word of God
about this matter of racial and ethnic segregation. Many Christians
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teous person is known by his
or her thought pattern.
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thoughts. Isa 55:7
It is plain unr...
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just get acquainted, I think it sounds harmless enough
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and it is not forbidden for Christians. Of course we understand that
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s the victory that overcomes. It is our faith. Whatever
is so produced is born of God and it overcomes.
Let us go together in this book and create expectations of
marriage from the Word of God.
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ogical development of a people; it is a
spiritual and godly order.
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in your way.
"Thank you for a new life.
"Amen.”
If you prayed this prayer, then a new life has begun. Your new duty is to start
learning the ways of the Lord, that is what it means to be a disciple.
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eria are these that you are using to make the
judgments of your life?
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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
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e things are just what we call gifts or simply, talents.
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ed for shallow matters that are not the main meat of
life.
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What I am saying is that you will only attract your true type. No
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oes not
belong to Him. Rom 8:9
The spirit of a person describes the force pushing someone and
this is what determines the direction the person is headed in. My
wife was not perfect, neither was I. A perfect man or woman is one
in which there is no need for improvement, and is someone you do
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g up and kept me with another until I was ready
to meet what He had planned, and till she was ready to meet me.
We had a good laugh about it.
Don't forget, it is the sinner that will be captured.
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ho truly loved the Lord and was seeking Him with all her
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heart. The way I recognized that, in my understanding, was a personal
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potential wives that is
true Christianity, not the practise of 'hearing' God. Years before I got married, a dear sister asked me what I wanted
in a wife, and I gave her a set of points, three of them. She smiled
and said that she asked me the same question a couple of years
earlier, and those were t...
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anything I was careful not to use the scriptures to support my
point, even when I had some to use; I felt it would not be a fair
discussion and I was being careful not to abuse my office as a
teacher. She testified to me one of those days that a major reason she
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Now notice this, you have jumped off the top of a building that has 80 floors, and for 79 floors as you are dropping, you actually think you are flying. He said, the reality will dawn upon you suddenly, when you finally hit the ground, and you realize that I wasn't flying, I was falling. That it's p...
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You will be careful not to defile yourselves by any of those things that the people defiled themselves by. That when people begin to perform abominations, when they get into the issue of murdering themselves, when they get into sexual immorality, homosexuality, bestiality and all those moral issues ...
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because you think that godliness is just about church, it's not about what is outside. So you see, that's one wrong idea that Satan has sold to us, that when we go to church, we behave. When you're about to get to church, you say, don't tell lies or this is a church. Listen, if you will not tell lie...
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What gave the person the right to afflict me? Do you follow what I'm saying? That is, they just don't have power in themselves. Satan doesn't have power in himself. God has given you godliness as a shield. You know what he says? He says, righteousness delivers from death. That is, if people want to ...
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We are seeing that the time comes in which the commandment of God for your life is that you repent. For that reason, we say there is what the Bible calls godliness and we are supposed to begin to learn the principles of godliness. David said, come you children, listen to me and I will teach you the ...
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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. In the book of 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 7, we have read it a number of t...
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because of his works, in that his works cooperating with his faith. Now, get what I'm saying. That is, if Abraham believed and it was declared to him as righteousness, you will notice that that Abraham began to walk in a manner that pleased God. When God said, leave your father's house, he left. Whe...
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It doesn't start from the outward things. It starts from the things that are inside. And that's why I want us to understand. There is the sincerity of heart with which we must deal and God will pour grace upon everything that we do. The mystic, I was saying something earlier about people aiming thei...
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in that arena of that blessing by labouring differently. What do I mean by labouring differently? I've described labour outside. You wake up early, you rush up and down, you try to get things done for yourself. But there is a labour in which I settle down and I work on my heart. I start checking my ...
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He said that everything that had to do with self-denial and suffering, and let me use those words, in life I rejected. And I gave myself over, all right? He said I rejected suffering, I rejected any kind of lack of pleasure in my life. But I gave myself over to extreme pleasure. I indulged in all ki...
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the small chick from certain death but he's saying that they are not allowing me go into the open space to go and play because you see the people who are trying to prevent the chick from going out to the open place to play is because they understand that the kite the hawk is hanging around and if yo...
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But people start aiming their spiritual guns wrongly. They start aiming at people who are not even thinking about them, and most of those people don't even exist. I've seen this in a number of times. And you see, the man starts praying and anointing his premises. One thing that he never comes to ter...
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He said, look, my fast is not the time in which you go hungry and bow your head like a reader and spread out sackcloth and ashes as a bed. He said, what I call the fast, listen to this, let me summarize it first, is to walk in a fashion that is pleasing to me, for you to walk in a godly fashion. He ...
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And to you, it is impressive what he's having now, not realizing that he's falling very far short of God's glory. Please get this principle here. You cannot reign in life except godliness is part of your character. What I'm saying is just so true. You cannot reign in life except godliness is part of...
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