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And I said, now, at that time, Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the souls of your people, will arise. An angel was giving a message to Daniel. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time. And at that time, your people, everyone ...
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You're in an office, everybody will give you money to go and do something. You come back and say, yeah, retire the money. Say, no, no, this one is my own. They gave us to stay in a hotel. I didn't stay in a hotel. I've gone to get a receipt. Do you understand my point? To submit, to claim my 12,000 ...
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4:30
So first of all, you need to establish a, in quote, reputation of God in the things that you are doing. He said God was the fear of Isaac. Everything that Isaac did was permeated by the fear that he had for God. Then secondly, you are there to teach people the right way of doing things. So the first...
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3:00
These are the people who will shine like stars forever and ever. They are the same people, because of the insight that they have, that they will lead many to righteousness. Are you getting what I'm trying to explain here? That it wasn't just saying that some will have insight, and some will lead man...
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6:00
The thing that God wants more from his church is not that they do something, but that they should be something. It is the being that is more important than the doing. God is not looking first of all for an evangelizing people or people who are serving. He is looking first of all for a holy people wh...
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27:00
Somebody comes, he's crying. I just heard something. What happened? And they are calling me from the village. Then my father said, come, let me pray. You know what? You will be surprised at the number of testimonies that you will have. The problem a lot of us have as Christians is that we are not ev...
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51:00
He said, I call for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, and on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and all the labor of your hands. Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shattel, and Joshua, the son of Jehuzadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of...
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1:27:00
He just sat there and said, what is going on here? Of course, anytime he comes down south, you see big boys, big boys traveling all over the place. Let's close. Let's bow down. Father, thank you. Just stop my message here. We need to be responsible if this kingdom is going to advance. Just say, Lord...
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1:25:30
the house you bought in London or America that you are servicing with my money. I will make it, you can't pay the mortgage anymore, you will sell it. Why? Because the kingdom of God, with all the prayers you people have prayed, with everything I'm willing to do. I shouldn't end it on that note. Let ...
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30:00
Of course, exam and everybody went their ways. There was somebody invited his friend to fellowship. That one entered. Who was preaching for the day? That fellow, who refused to participate in what they were doing? It was one standing in front. He said, that man didn't listen to what he said. He didn...
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33:00
What am I saying? You get into that kind of situation, you begin to show the people, listen, this is how this thing is supposed to be. This is how I practice it. This is what I have come to understand. The man begins to appreciate the beauty in God's word. That is you being a witness. That is what i...
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31:30
What we are doing is just teaching, teaching principles. You see a man, maybe he's your neighbor, he and his wife, they are always quarreling and fighting. And you get involved in the matter. Settle down and teach. There's one thing about divine wisdom, especially to those who are in need. When divi...
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7:30
My own Bible uses the word teaching like most of yours do. Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. The word is teaching, not preaching that to them. But to be careful to take time out to explain and persuade people concerning what I have commanded you to do. It says you have to teach...
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22:30
A lot of people, that's it. The neighbors know. What does he say? Say, this one too is preaching. Now, my emphasis here is talking about being a witness for Christ, okay? It's not about going to cram scriptures. I was listening to, okay, that message I was listening to. There was a person said that ...
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52:30
and they will come with the wealth of all nations. And I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts. He says, the silver is mine and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts. The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place, I...
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36:00
Everybody says, ah, better put this money aside because of your children's education in the future. You see, my brother, I have learned that sufficient unto the day is evil thereof. What do you mean by that? They begin to teach the same principles that you have learned. That's what the Bible was say...
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28:30
But people who don't have that background, you can't start teaching them from that angle. That's what I'm trying to explain. About this issue of how we shine as what? As light. And so back to the one we read earlier, I wanted to add this one to it. So Daniel was not saying that this is our assignmen...
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1:12:00
Are you getting my point? I remember when the church, who had cast, like three or four people, the same people had groaned. They now say, ah, this person has been the next people. What do you have? That guy says, okay, I think I have 500,000. Take. You, what do you have? 200. What do you have? What ...
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was not used by the church. It was the way the world described, you know, what we are like as Christians now. Actually, what the church used for Christians were disciples. They were believers, two words used, believers and disciples. And believers means the believing one. People who have made a habi...
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1:13:30
Our villages in the East here, it's not that bad in the West. In the East, it's really horrible. You see gigantic churches, Catholic church, Anglican church. All those things, 100% are idols. Even if they are Pentecostal. How can you build that size of a house next to huts? Are you all right? If peo...
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1:31:30
When I read it again, I said, coronavirus, my father. God. Because when you see men killing themselves like that, next, next is pestilence. I said, no, no, no. We have to push this thing back at this point. I'm going to say it. It was because of what they worshipped. That's it. The scene was wrong w...
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1:30:00
You know what he said? My kingdom, the one I want to bring cannot come. Remember what he told Jesus. He said, for you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, God, even thy God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. That is, I need to produce that kind of hea...
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7:30
I need to know. It's not as if you're not paying us to be with us, all right? We valued your presence. We valued your friendship. But now that you have gone, now I'm concerned about you. I'm concerned about your soul. I'm concerned about your spiritual well-being. And so I want to know who are the p...
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1:00:00
And people were sounding so, amen. One day I was in church. One brother was in front, was preaching one of those funny doctrines. He said, the Bible said, bring the whole tithe. Some of you are not paying the whole tithe. I wanted to get to that tithing, that's how good it looks, so they don't come ...
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1:33:00
For us, money comes in two levels. One, basic small sustainers, eat, drink, be merry, that's all. Second level is abundance, which is an anointing, to do the purpose of God on the earth. We're not serving God for what he's gonna give. We're serving him because he's worthy to be worshiped, he's worth...
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4:30
That's what they call worldliness. Worldliness is when you start having the standards of the world as your own. When the things that are important to them become the things that are important to you. That is real worldliness, okay? We start thinking like the world. And it's a risk, let me just empha...
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1:28:30
You know the truth, a lot of people are complaining. They are pressuring their hearts. They just have not had the opportunity. There are those that God will bless. Here, you are listening to me, whether physically or somewhere. You are listening to this. God will bless you to an extent, but He will ...
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that he said in that verse seven, that you have loved righteousness. Let's get it clear. We do righteousness because we love righteousness. Please, I need us to get this clear again because the world every day, you know, they teach us everything has to have a deliberate reward. And then when we star...
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21:00
Don't worry. I'm giving the money to you. Go and spend it on your business. When he starts bearing seed, you can bring it that time. Bearing fruit. Don't worry. Not now. And it was like he didn't accept offerings. He did. He just said, no, this man has been, his mind has been twisted. Which was the ...
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1:30
the change that we desire, yes. Let's start from Psalm 45. I'm going to read a long portion, even though what I really want is really verse seven, but I'm going to just read so that we'll get a bit of Bible reading to commence. And my heart overflows with a good theme. I will address my verses to th...
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9:00
You're a good man. You raise them up every day, studying the word of God, praying and all of that. We know that. But we are saying that even though they've been washed, their feet will get dirty. Who is going to be washing his or her feet? That's the question we're asking you. You want to wash it on...
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1:21:00
You will have done my will. Then you can now go. The Lord is good. I'm telling you the truth. But let me summarize what I'm going to say. Time is good. The point I'm making in all of this is this. Listen to this. God is requiring people who love righteousness for the sake of righteousness, who will ...
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42:00
Sometimes, you know, I like one thing David Paulson said. He said, when we worry about things so much, we're actually saying to God that he cares more about the birds of the air than he cares about his children. What he said, it's not as if he's not mindful of those things that concern you. He said,...
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1:19:30
Or is it Britain exited? Why do you think they exited? Europe? They ran away because of spiritual problem that's coming. And their name is Judah. The rest of Europe is Israel. God has given them over to Assyria. Thereby giving the younger sister. What do you call, and go and check it. Europe is, any...
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40:30
Oswald Chimba says the cost of discipleship is not what it costs you as a person. He says it's what it costs the people that you love. That's very easy. And listen, you know the truth? All these men that do a lot of evil, let's just put it like that, you know they realize that when they meet righteo...
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43:30
the big businesses, that is the reason for their righteousness. Unfortunately, that sacrifice is not acceptable to God. Let's talk real Christianity. And that's why people have been disappointed again and again and again and again. There's one portion of the scriptures my children and I, we have rea...
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3:00
Out of ivory palaces, strength instruments have made you glad. King's daughters are among your noble ladies. At your right hand stands the queen in gold from offer." Now, I'm going to stop reading there, OK? Now, like I said at the beginning, the main verse I wanted to get from there is verse 7, whe...
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1:09:00
Know what God expects of you. Yes, that's how we write in our flyers. How to pray effectively. Nothing more than that. Knowing the plan of God for your life. Go and check it too. I just write it simply like that. One day we'll soon do one. If you're a sinner, time to repent. We just write it like th...
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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 the manner worthy of the Lord, I am pleasing Him in all respects...
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And he gave us an expression to emphasize how private it should be. He said, let not your right hand know what your left hand is doing. That's not something you do for show. Yet we read that and deliberately close our eyes to that, simply because, now that's not talking about it, the world taught us...
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27:00
Just go. Any place you get to, look for somebody who's worthy. Say, can I stay in your house? I have come to preach the gospel. Say, if somebody who's worthy is there, they will let you in. Say, eat whatever they give you. Say, the laborer, listen to this, is worthy of his wages. Paul said, I magnif...
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6:00
Okay, which roads? Our own roads are not even completely tarred anyway. But people walked around a lot, that's the point, and the environment, they didn't have tarred roads. So if you moved a bit, by the time you get to where you are going, your feet will be dusty already. So if you are stepping int...
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15:00
And what I'm telling you is not to do. If it's recent, if it's recent, it's six years ago. So I now thought to myself, so what if he finds me in the filling station with shorts at night? Because once in a while, I go to buy fuel. Maybe in the house, we want to put on the generator to say, ah, or the...
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1:01:30
If you buy him Coke, he says, how much is a bottle of 100 naira? The old guy, 10 naira. Federal government has a word for it. It's called value added tax. Oh, God. Listen, that's not Christianity. It's not Christianity. The Lord is good. A lot of us, why we do so many things is that we still think t...
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1:22:30
That's true reward. He said a seed, when he abides, when he's alive, how does it go again? When he's alive, he abides alone. But when he dies, he does what? He brings forth much more fruit, you understand, much fruit. Now, that is what God calls a reward. What Jesus calls a reward is that I died and...
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28:30
and they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the lamb. For they have worshiped, I just jumped a few words, for they have worshiped the beast and his statue and have accepted the mark of his name. Now listen to this. This means that God's holy people ...
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sometimes we look at, I've seen people do it before. I'm not saying they meant bad, I just want to say it happened. I was in a church once, a function actually. A big pastor came there to preach. Maybe what he was trying to say was right, I don't know, but I just want to bring out something from it....
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for the reward it will produce on the earth, error. Listen, I have been deputized by God to tell everybody this. He will not reward it, if you are thinking like that. One woman who I saw, she was giving a lecture in a church in Lagos, I saw the video. It blessed me so much. I never even expressed it...
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1:34:30
Take a minute, pray from your heart. I want to serve for the love of serving God. I want to give for the love of giving. Oh Lord, I yield myself to you again. As the heart of the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul longs after you. So Lord, cause me to long after you. Deeply, cause me to l...
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Sex is not just a physical act; it goes beyond even the emotions. Sex is actually a means of worship and a sign of worship. Control of sexuality is a major exercise of true worship and those who do not succeed in this regard fail in their service of the true God, no matter how much otherwise they la...
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how people as it would go on how to grow church, how to grow church, how to grow, I say, why are you bothering? You shouldn't worry about it, you should worry about how do I preach well? How do I broadcast the preaching? How do I reach the maximum amount of people? If they want to come to church, Go...
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in the sight of God. We are speaking God's word. That is, it is that word that has the anointing upon it. So in that chapter 3, I won't read everything because we've gone over it before. In that you understand, we're not trying to say we are better than other people. We're not trying to commend ours...
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19:30
Do you get my point? That is God has already given you. God gives people responsibilities. He told Adam, see this garden? Cultivate it and keep it. So what God has said to me in effect by giving me money is I see this shirt, buy it and wear it. You understand what I'm saying? As for this house, don'...
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Second Corinthians chapter 3. Now, before I read this, I want to just summarize something. While going through this book of 2 Corinthians, one of the things I have come to realize is that Paul had just a few things to talk about. It's just that when people like him are speaking, in trying to make a ...
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for myself is that please help me that my heart will never doubt that you are in charge and you are in control and you care about me. I said that's my, I don't want to doubt. I said because I've come to understand if, listen, if you can have that faith as a, that's real faith, that's real faith, tha...
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And what is sowing? I don't mean giving money towards the earth. That's not what I mean. I mean if I'm a preacher, I will get up and go back and preach harder still. Are you getting what I'm saying? Whatever work I'm doing, I put more energy into it and I keep giving God thanks for everything that c...
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You should be able to put your money to work elsewhere even if you can't go there. That was the aim. It's not the way by which to make people just become rich overnight. Now, I'm talking about the worldly system. The system of the world is that why do you have to work? Why can't you just become rich...
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Glory is not something we imagine. When you talk about glorious, not a joke. When Moses' face appeared shining, people literally had to block their eyes like this. So what is that? This is the face of Moses. First time Moses put the veil upon his face was to give everybody else peace. I'm bringing o...
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What what was he saying that I haven't seen that this is how this thing moves. Even though for the army after I've done this for like about 4 years, I had no big deal. I'm sitting in good time. I mean, the time of my breakthrough using those people's life as examples is still coming. Are you getting...
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And in the same manner, when people are destined for destruction, God raised some people up to go and show them the direction of destruction. Listen, the man who killed Saul, Ahab is the one I wanted to say. The man who killed Saul, Ahab, did not even know he was killing anybody. The man till he die...
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That's what Paul meant when he said, God, give the increase. And he explained the principle. Many years ago, of course, if you've been reading, he's talking about Yonggi Cho, Yonggi Cho, how he built the largest church in the world. And everybody settles down and start trying to learn the principle....
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I'm not but listen to it. Don't come for counseling when you haven't listened to me. Say please. I don't know what to do about what in my life. What is my plan? What's what's God's plan for my life? Do I look like god to you or you think I have a direct phone line? Pick it. Okay. Let me die. God. Uh...
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That is the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and godly sincerity, we have conducted ourselves in the world and especially towards you. And he said, of course, that is in opposition to walking in fleshly wisdom. He said, what we have experienced, what we have used as an instrument of effe...
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I have said that since the first kingdom of God and all that things have been added unto you. Like somebody said, you think he had time to be praying? Father God, I want the woman to be tall, or short, or fat, or slim, or fair, or dark. There was nothing like that. He was releasing me. Prayer...Prie...
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e to you as people come, and sit before you as My people, and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain. And behold, you are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on ...
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has entrusted once for all time to his holy people. I say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God's marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people was recorded long ago, for they have denied our only Master and Lord...
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h sin will be made up mainly of members who do not have saving faith. Their faith cannot save anyone, so they would still be unbelievers even though they are deceived into thinking they are believers. Their sins have not been forgiven, and they are not safe from eternal damnation. It is not because ...
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at cannot? What is the type of save that does not save, and how do we know it? Dead faith is the type of faith that someone professes but which does not have any works to demonstrate that it is there. For example, it is when someone claims to believe in Christ and the power of His blood but still co...
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good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed. 1 Tim 6:17-19
When Abraham believed in divine abundance, he was willing to let the king of Sodom ta...
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ip;’ These are kinds of talk that certainly appear like faith talk. But what did James say? What use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, ...
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One of the major problems in life is self-deception. Imagine someone working supposedly for God all his or her life only for the Lord to say ‘you never worked for Me. In fact I never knew you; as far as I know you are worker of iniquity.’ Also imagine giving and giving, thinking that abu...
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them. Behaving this way is not in keeping with the fear of God. In the fear of God, we do not do things because of what we stand to benefit; rather we do them because they are the right things to do.
Obeying God is the right thing to do, whether I get anything from it or not. That is what is called...
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the conviction of the things that we do not see.
Everyone who claims to be a Christian must believe all these
things. Accepting them produces a general righteousness in the
life of the one believing.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power
of God for salvation to everyone wh...
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od with
repentance from unbelief in your mouth, committing your life to
faith, and He will give you the spirit of faith, a heart force that
easily takes the word of God and real.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
The second thing that is important is the knowledge of the word of
God. However I need to point ou...
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place of God’s
placement for my life. There I will always be found.
Prosperity flows towards me, I do not go after it.
I go after the will of God for my life and all other things are added
unto me.
I am saying all these to get us to understand that faith is indeed a
present thing. One is not a be...
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ed for, the
evidence of things not seen. Heb 11:1 KJV
Of course we know that the faith being spoken of here is faith in
God. We know that it was by it that God judged the people as
righteous.
Here we see faith described in two distinct forms. It is,
1. The substance (or solid base and evi...
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that of any other person. I
dedicate my ears and my heart to follow and to listen, and to hear.
Lord I will stick only with the report that agrees with yours; all
others I reject and turn my back on.
I ask you to teach me your word; feed me with knowledge and
understanding. Plant across my path pe...
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He that believes
What you cannot declare boldly you are not yet convinced of. If
you were persuaded about it, then you would talk about it freely.
If you are a believer, then those expectations should be declared
boldly from your mouth. What you really believe will come forth
spontaneously from yo...
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someone about issues of life and when they give
you their reasons for taking the decisions they are taking, you do
not hear one single consideration of the counsel of God. I had one
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of such discussions recently with a brother who had just made a
major decision that would affect h...
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the
word of God. Rom 10:17 KJV
There are two things that bring faith into your heart, and then into
your words and actions. One, hearing and hearing, and two, the
word of God. Let me explain.
‘Hearing and hearing’ does not necessarily connote a continual
listening; rather, it is a principl...
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that should become you attitude towards
the word.
Know for sure that the voice that your second-hear is the one that
will determine your experience in life. Remember the issue of
Peter on the waters.
Peter stepped out according to the word of Jesus. He had told him,
‘Come.’ With his focus on that ...
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that God would raise him from the dead if necessary. It was this
faith that he demonstrated in God that excited God about him. It
was the reason why God began to swear to bless him.
That inherent propelling power that is in faith and which moves
the person of faith into automatic...
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Philistines envied him. Gen 26:12-14
What God is telling us to do will often appear foolish in the eye of
the worldly wise. Thank God for it. That is just what is marking
you out as a believer.
Every major decision I make in this life is checked out with the
written word of God. My decision to ask...
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s questioned concerning how He got
results when He cursed the tree, His answer was simple: “Take
your faith away from all the other things that you hitherto had
faith in, and place that faith in God.”
It follows first that a believer has placed in faith in God. But if I say
that I am a Christian an...
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expectation in life. This word had a direct
relationship to his situation. His faith was not at all something that
had no relevance to his current life; it was real, it had an answer to
his situation.
The second level of faith is that which you have in the word of God
that has something to do with ...
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en of God, however, it is simply living
below the glory. If you behave thus, you are simply not a believer.
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PRACTICAL LIFE
Many people, when they talk like this, claim they are being
practical. To them, faith in God is ju...
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any other negative things are almost as common in the church
as they are in the world. The church has no hope because the
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people believe nothing. We have limited our faith to a creed,
which is only good enough for us to ...
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ly
subjecting themselves to the Lordship of Jesus by obedience to the
word of God. As this kingdom is released into anyone’s life, he
begins to experience the promises that are to be revealed therein.
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Long life is my portion....
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make me dwell in my own home as the
joyful mother of many children.
“I will not die young. I will live and see my children’s children.
With a very long life will I be satisfied by the Lord himself.”
Friends, this is the way that the believer talks. He speaks exactly in
agreement with God. What the...
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ath. What James was saying here is that just as a dead body is
without the breath, so is a dead faith is without actions. The lack
of breath is not a cause of the dead state but a manifestation of it.
As a doctor in training, one of the things I had to learn was how to
decide that a person is dead,...
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re, but in the light of the promise of God, he understood
that God would have to raise him up from the dead. This is faith as
the substance of things hoped for. No wonder God got so excited
about him.
Those who have taught that faith is present tense are very right;
but they should not have been so...
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the fact that, as I read in an edition of the National
Geographic, some people are claiming that there is no scientific
evidence that he lived. We accept the accounts of Jesus testifying
to his life.
We are convinced that he had a son in his old age by divine action.
We are convinced of God’s deal...
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That is the way by which the real faith is manifested. This is why
Paul used the expression, hearing and hearing.
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
word of God. Rom 10:17 KJV
Many people who go to church are only involved with the first
level of hearing, and that is why th...
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delight.
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the wicked…,
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night. Ps 1:1-2
What you enjoy is what your have made up your mind to enjoy.
Think about those who smoke and drink...
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ness can hold me down or kill me before my
time. It is irrelevant what the human experts say; the word of God
is supreme in my life. That is the faith that calls you a believer and
a righteous person.
You are not a believer if the word of the doctor is what decides
your response to the situation. I...
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He that believes
HE THAT BELIEVES!
Dr D. B Olusina
Bible quotations marked NLT are from The Holy Bible, New Living
Translation ©1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. All rights reserved
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faith that we know them. Our faith is therefore the
conviction of these things we did not see before accepting them as
facts.
Faith is… the conviction of things not seen.
Why we believe these things
There must be a reason why we are accepting as true the things
that we have not seen and are build...
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yet there was not one of them. Ps 139:16
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
And before you were born I consecrated you;
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jer 1:5
What applied to Jeremiah here in being called a prophet according
to the will of God for him does ...
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the things that are not seen
(historical things), and as a furtherance of this faith, has a specific
thing that he or she is believing that God will do in this present
day life or in the near future.
A believer is one who interprets all the events of his current day
life in the light of those thing...
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he first level of faith is that which has to do with
essentially historical events that one did not witness by himself
but has to rely on the testimony of others to know. But when a
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word comes to you describing what is yet to happen; a thing that
affects you personally; accepting...
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and saved Noah and his family by an ark.
We know he believed all these and yet was not declared righteous
as a consequence. What was it then that he believed that caused
him to be declared righteous?
You have given me no children, so one of my servants
will have to be my heir."
Then...
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ed but has no personal expectation
is not a believer.
One who believes that Jesus died and rose but does not know that
he, the Child of God, has therefore passed from death to life is not
a believer.
One who still fears what the world fears is not a believer.
One afraid of death is not a believer...
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ord.
What you conclude based on the word of God will ever be the best.
The word of God is the real wisdom that will cause you to
overcome in all issues of life. This was what Paul was telling
Timothy.
…thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able
to make thee wise unto salvation… 2 T...
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according to the word of God without a
conscious effort on his part. Joshua and Caleb were not trying to
please God when they returned with the rest of the spies and
spoke the things that pleased God.
“If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us
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eve that God is one. You do well; the demons also
believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize,
you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?
James 2:17-20
Many times people do things that they claim are done so as to add
works to their faith. I recollec...
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I totally agree with him.
Buy truth, and do not sell it,
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He that believes
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. Prov
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The way to be strong in faith is to be filled at all times with this
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me, it is a very productive way of getting the word into
me. Every time you enter my car you will always find enough
teaching tapes to keep you busy for the next 6 hours at least. I
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soak my environment with it. I hardly can be found without a
book. My reason is that I may have to...
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dwell in the house as joyful mothers
of children. If you can’t believe this, then maybe you are a Muslim.
A believer believes it. (For more on this healing issue, please see
my book The Law of Life).
Listen to me, the word of God has ordained that every child of His
should have a long and fruitful ...
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e once-and-for-all sacrifice that washes away sins and removes ancestral curses. The real has come and so the old had to cease.
“He takes away the first in order to establish the second.” Heb 10:9-10
In many areas we need to be careful when copying Old Testament acts. They are types and shadows, a...
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the grace of Christ. You can’t claim it because of your giving—that would be the gospel of works; you can only claim it because of your faith in Christ. Let us wake up.
BEWARE HOW YOU COPY OLD THINGS
Sometimes we take examples from the Old Testament without bearing in mind certain important differ...
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y have to do something special for God.
As Christians, we do our good works naturally and as much as we have opportunity. We are also careful to pursue our specific purposes in life.
WHY THIS SERMON
This message is similar to the one I wrote titled “Works or Faith, the doctrine of mercy.” The mai...
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elieve yet or you are ignorant of the kind of spirit you have.
“You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good…” Acts 10:38
We do not say because we are prosperous by His promise we will stop giving. No, no! That is sensel...
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e blessings to others. That is the Abrahamic and Christ order; our faith implies that we must spread the blessings. The blessing did not come because we activated any other principle beyond believing.
I am emphasizing this because I see a lot of people behave as if God already owes them something f...
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e bitterness except that God showed him mercy (and let us never forget to hope in his mercy at all times). He learnt the lesson, repented, and when the prayer of faith was said for him, he was healed.
What should this man have done?
He should not have thought that he was immune to troubles simply ...
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ght to make a covenant of blessing with God. Listen to this: there is no covenant of blessing that you can make beyond that which is already made by simply having faith in the finished work of Christ.
When you look to your good works to get you blessings from God you are not praying in the name of ...
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roverbs of the Lord Jesus teaches us that there are serving sons and there are prodigal sons. Those are the two kinds there are. You are either one or the other. We are supposed to be sons that serve.
"They will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I w...
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of God over everything.
Say to your body. You are well because Jesus died to make me free. The spirit of Him who raised Christ Jesus dwells in me and is giving life and health to my body (Rom 8:11).
Declare to your business and to your pocket, “prosperity flows toward me like a river, and the weal...
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ing to deserve anything. The only deserving we claim is that we are in Christ and all the promises of God are now ours. That is what it means to pray in the name of Jesus.
PRAYING IN THE CORRECT NAME
To pray in a name speaks of the authority or grounds upon which we approach a matter. Many people ...
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r my children because I am supposed to be a good father, not because I think providing for them will make me get promoted. This is simply my duty as a father and an effect of my love for the children.
The basis of the blessings of the Christian is the whole of the promises of God which are confirme...
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s sons but to the field as servants. Prosperity is a promise as we saw earlier. We should claim those promises.
STUDY
“They do not know nor do they understand; they walk about in darkness.” Ps 82:5
Ignorance of the promises of God can be as devastating for us as if the Lord never made those prom...
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Doesn't matter. When you finally do this one now, people will know. After, by that time, you'll not have money to help the poor. I see that as a priority in the heart of God. I like what that man of God said. He said, God loves righteousness more than he loves people. When you put it on a scale, if ...
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that because of the prosperity and the blessing of God around him, he thought it couldn't be there. That's why he started saying, purify me, wash me, cleanse me with hyssop, search me, oh Lord. The man of God got the point after that. Because until he had killed Uriah, he did not know he was capable...
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Now please, it is a principle I want you to just bear it in mind, alright? Now, why did I say all of this? I made a statement earlier. I was talking about the advance of the Kingdom of God. I made a statement earlier. Now one of the problems why the kingdom of God suffers is that the people of the k...
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Money is just a tool. It's just a measure of whether we are doing business or we are not. Because if we are losing money every day, something is wrong with what we are doing. The Bible says, know the condition of your flock. So what's the point we are making? That if we put these things down properl...
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I said it earlier, and that's what I'm summarizing with. If we put the kingdom of God firmly in our hearts, and the thing is the center of our focus as believers, it will spread easily. In summary, what are you living for? That's the summary. What are you living for? When Twin Towers collapsed, they...
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Come to the person and say, the Lord is good. Alright, tell the fellow, I am being filled with the knowledge of His will, in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. As a consequence, I am walking in a manner worthy of the Lord. I am pleasing Him in all respects. I am bearing fruit in every good work...
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In verse 3 it says, as for the saints who are in the earth, they are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight. Number 4, the sorrows of those who have butthurt for another God will be multiplied. I shall not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor will I take their names upon my lips." In ve...
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So do I learn how to hear God? No, as a child of God, no. You learn how to hear the word and have the word purify your heart. And once your heart is pure, the Holy Spirit, in fact, Oswald Chamberlain said that the will of God is a natural life for the child of God who's walking in sanctification and...
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What is the reason? The only thing that I remember is that when we were in school, the man insisted, no going into ministry until I've made it in life. I know such things. God normally will let the thing delay well. 30 years later, you still haven't made it. Because if the business has to be moving,...
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Now what do you do with the power and authority? That's the issue. You either give it to the beast or you give it to the Lord. The victory of the Lord Jesus is dependent on his faithful people giving him their power and their authority. We have read that again and again. So we are being trained as s...
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that money is a tool, service is more important. That the business is not about money, the business is about service. That's what I'm trying to explain. The world must never tell you whether you are rich or poor. For you, the assessment of your prosperity must be how much of righteousness have I don...
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that you will not let your only one undergo decay. That's why he rose up on the third day. Now, so it was actually the Lord Jesus that was saying this. But let's just take it the way it is on the face value initially. What was David trying to explain to us? Now, if we back up a bit, you'll see somet...
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The will of God is not, do I know how to hear voices? You can't learn that thing. If God wants to speak to you, he will speak to you. If he doesn't want to speak to you, you can't force him. When he started talking to Samuel, Samuel did not even know that phenomenon existed. The will of God is, do I...
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arents were Christians when you were born. That is all!
The life of a true Christian is characterised by love for the word of God. A true believer wants his or her life to conform to the word of God.
“Jesus said to the people who believed in him, "You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful ...
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sinning a habit because God forgives. Anyone who is like that, who thinks that because God forgives he or she can go on sinning, such a one is NOT a true Christian. Such a person is condemned already!
“What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God's grace will increase? Cer...
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t and received their share of the Holy Spirit; they knew from experience that God's word is good, and they had felt the powers of the coming age. And THEN THEY ABANDONED THEIR FAITH!...” Heb 6:4-6 TEV
So we see clearly that it is possible for a Christian to walk away from his or her faith. That is ...
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ccept His forgiveness.
Truly, forgiveness is in the name of Jesus and not in our own works. By our own labour we cannot please God or walk above sin. That is why God brought forgiveness in His blood.
“…the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. ...
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f the twelve, used to also go out to preach and must have been involved in the working of miracles. Yet he was never a Christian in the sense of how the others were. I know because Jesus said as much.
“Jesus answered them, "Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?" N...
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, man or woman, to hell because of their outward appearance. God judges people for having a heart of disobedience toward Him and for the heart of wickedness in relating with their fellow human beings.
You will not find even one place in the whole Bible, especially in the words of Jesus, where peopl...
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Paul are also instructions to bear in mind.
“But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” Gal 1:8-9
“Don't be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say that the day of the Lord has already begun....
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