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1:12:00
17 keys on how to make it into being a millionaire before you are 30. Don't worry about it. Most people who use it did not make it into anything by the time they were 50. But they did not write their own book titled, How I Failed in Business Attempts. Will you buy that? So they did not write. Nobody...
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If it's population, Nigeria has more population than South Korea. What's the population of South Korea? I'm not sure now. But I perceive that even those of us in the South, we are more than they are in South Korea. We still did not build a one-million-man church. We still did not. We uprooted all th...
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It was on the G's I was flying around that, have you been to that church? Have you heard the worship there? Hey, my father. That was how the G's moved around, and they got to their own headquarters. The man came to come here with his own ears. And when he heard it, he walked over to the man, gave hi...
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1:18:00
He said, when I led him about, there was no other God with him. He was speaking concerning Israel. And that's what he's doing in your life, so that there will be no other God. Your friends will disappoint you. Your relatives will disappoint you. People that have power to help will disappoint you. Un...
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Yes. Tell the person, for when you are weak, then indeed you are strong in the Lord. Sometimes, you know, if we know what God is in our lives, sometimes you think you have everything together. You know, listen, you know what happened to Job? I have thoughts, I've read Job, I've reasoned about him, I...
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1:10:30
a God of faithfulness and without injustice. Righteous and upright is He. Now, those four verses are important to what I want to explain. And for time's sake, we will not read this now, but you can also go to Job chapter 32. There you will find Eli who explained the same thing in another way. He sai...
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1:13:30
Why did the man who made the armor of Ahab, why did he not put a cover over there? The reason why people die is because when they are going to battle, they don't have every joint covered. Learn to cover your joints. Learn to cover your joints. The Bible says Saul died because of the trespass that he...
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31:30
Sometimes you think you know how to declare the right words. And once you declare these five words, it's scriptural, the thing will open. What you don't know is that you have become Babalawu. It's called abundance of revelations, you know? Once you think it gives you personal control, God says, I ha...
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7:30
you will behave like a responsible child of mine, whose head will be filled with knowledge, whose heart will be filled with understanding. So if lectures start by 8, get your seat by 7.30. And I don't want you sitting anywhere beyond the first or second row. He was not saying you will get it by your...
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1:16:30
what no man has done. You will do what no man can do. Let us sing that portion again. I have no other God but You. I have no other God but you. You have done what no man has done. You have done what no man has done. And you will do what no man can do. You will do what no man can do. You know, I was ...
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30:00
A man becomes proud. He said, God now did something for me. He now gave me a tormentor, a messenger of Satan. When we started learning the word of faith, we tried to explain that in a way, but there was no explaining the way. Paul said, I went to the Lord three times. He was saying what God was tell...
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54:00
And when it comes to dresses and shirts, I forbid you from paying instrumentally. Any shirt you are paying for instrumentally is too expensive for you. The person that sold you the shirt is calling you at the end of the month, knowing that you have paid salary. You should know that, no, listen, you ...
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Seta went after Job until Job lost faith in everything he understood. His friends sat with him and showed him the principles. Job, Job, you are telling me this kind of calamity came to you and you did not commit adultery? Job. Job said, who reported me to you? Whose wife did I take? Listen, each one...
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1:07:30
I don't need to tell you that he prayed. The man he used to work with is a prayer warrior, taught him to pray. The British did not give him the visa. He got angry and shouted in the embassy or high commission. They still did not give him the visa. He started praying in his mother's sitting room, he ...
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9:00
When the Lord is building a house, the manifestation is that the laborers are laboring, they're not sleeping, except that it will not be in vain. When the Lord is not building it, no matter how hard they build, it will be in vain. So if God says, let's build a house, he doesn't mean everybody, get s...
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1:09:00
and that walking through us, the first thing he expects from us is that we'll be agents of production of faith. That we will exude faith into the environment. We will pour faith. Faith is like engine oil. It's like oxygen. Fire cannot burn if there is no faith. Are you getting my point? No matter ho...
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1:19:30
all things have passed away in our lives. We are now filled with the Spirit of Christ. We live above sin and walk above the devil, because we are seated high above with Christ. This is our season of multiplication, dominion, and shining forth, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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He wants to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. He goes ahead to destroy it by himself. And then, with the intercession of one man, he saves a few, actually, also. But destruction, he uses his angels. Whatever that thing he wants to do, he must involve people. That's the way it works. And if he doesn't find...
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1:03:00
But listen to me, if you are feeling like Peter right now, I have a word from the Lord for you. The resurrected Jesus is about to meet you. The Jesus of resurrection is about to meet you. Yes, that's what it is. That's what the experience is saying. Listen, listen, those men were totally frustrated....
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One of the things, and I was sharing with my brother last night, I had a meeting, and I traveled, that's why I came a bit late, so I came back. Of course, as usual, our meeting lasted through the night, you know? I was just sharing with my brother, I said, one of the things, now, please try to under...
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18:00
He felt that this was what he could do. He recorded demo tapes, made many copies, and was sending to every recording label, Christian recording label that he knew. All of them replied him, said they were not interested. All of them replied him. All of them. Discouragement one after the other. The la...
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42:00
He called it the sea monster, Leviathan. Human beings have tried assuming that Job lived in our days and with our own kind of, you know, animals around. Then there's a crocodile. What God described, He described the scales of Leviathan. It doesn't fit the scale of a crocodile. One day I just read my...
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28:30
He said there are too many I's. I, I, I in our songs. We suddenly began to analyze many songs that Christians sing. And there were too many I's. We will claim that it is I in Christ. But believe me, most of the time it's arrogant. I, I, I. Yeah, what God has. Listen, let me tell you. One of the thin...
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He has given it to you does not mean it will drop on your laps. He has given it to you means that if you do what you are supposed to do, it will come to you without undue effort. I use the expression undue because many times people can get things that God doesn't want to give them yet because he put...
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16:30
He said the earth by itself produces. Just identify what you are supposed to plant. Plant it consistently and regularly. Don't let yourself be discouraged. Don't let your hands be idle. I like the way Solomon said it. So you're sitting in the morning. At night, don't let your hand be idle. It has a ...
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10:30
You come and say, hey, hey, hey. Ada, come now. She looks at you, turns her shoulder, and rushes for the maid. Just start crying. Just start crying. Which child have you seen mommy wants to cuddle and say, hey? If it's daddy, we'll understand. Nobody likes them. You get my point. But mothers. Let th...
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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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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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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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and all that I command you, you shall speak.” Jer 1:7
“… and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.” 2 Cor 5:15
The only agreement you can make with God is that of total commitment to obey and to serve Him in e...
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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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TO RECEIVE FROM GOD
Something burns in me which I wish to teach on here; it is nothing new but that which I have written and preached about here and there.
Recently a man died, a good man and a Christian at that, and people were contemplating how such things could happen. A young woman was contemp...
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biblical principles, eg the biblical truth of sowing and reaping, however our application is mostly erroneous and does not correctly express the truth of the grace that in to be found in Christ Jesus.
Let us get this thing called the grace of Jesus clear. The basis of God’s blessings in your life i...
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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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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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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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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 the gods assemble.
You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds
and be like the Almighty. But instead, you have
been brought down to the deepest part of the
world of the dead. Isa 14:13-15 GNT
Never work so as to be better than someone
else. Do not compare yourself with other
people. You mu...
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bout our attitude to God.
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary,
the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking
someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your
faith… 1 Peter 5:8-9
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he
will flee from you. James 4:7-8
James said to sub...
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shall bind
them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be
as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.
And you shall write them upon the doorposts of
your house and on your gates. Deut 6:6-9 AMP
When you do this with prayers, having
dedicated yourself to the Lord, you are
setting yourself up ...
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nd spiritual
songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts
to God. And whatever you do in word or deed, do
all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
through Him to God the Father. Col 3:16-17
If you are student, you must study. As a
disciple, the Word must be a constant
companion. You are ...
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learnt what the
Lord has to say about it. Take our future as an
example, the Lord
has given us His
thoughts about it.*
He said He will
never leave us or
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on
everything. That is the attitude that resists
Satan. Now we understand why the Lord
Jesus' method of resisting Satan's
temptations was by speaking the word of
God which He had committed Himself to.
Many times we want to practice the motions
of Christianity by quoting scriptures in the
times of t...
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by having
the spirit of Christ. Having that spirit is not a
bragging point but a living point. It is how
we live.
But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he
does not belong to Him. Rom 8:9
You do not have the spirit of Christ just
because you claim to be a Christian, but
because you are...
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moved on to
other more available persons and to maybe
another generation. Very likely He would no
longer be interested in your services.
Signs Of Mammon
What else may be the signs of serving
mammon?
Once your prayers and spiritual activities
focus on what we shall eat, etc., you are not
serving th...
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ay good-bye to those at home." But Jesus
said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the
plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of
God." Luke 9:59-62 (NASB, explanation in
parenthesis added)
So you see that anyone walking by faith may
appear unreasonable except for the word of
God that is...
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e, he
would have people to call upon so that they
can help him. He was therefore willing to
break the laws of God so that he might please
men. This is what we call unbelief; it leads to
disobedience.
Unbelief is when we think that sustenance
comes from natural sources rather than God.
It means we ...
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ne who competes in the games
exercises self-control in all things… I buffet my
body and make it my slave, lest possibly, after I
have preached to others, I myself should be
disqualified. 1 Cor 9:25, 27
This was what David was supposed to do. If
only he bothered to think of what was about
to commence...
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he
flesh and the world, or we are controlled by
the Lord through His Spirit. It is a decision
we must make deliberately. If we do not
make the decision, we will be controlled by
the flesh and the world.
We must deliberately choose to be fully
conformed to His will. This is what
consecration is all ab...
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ing better than it. He never,
ever, asks us to do anything for His own
benefit (hey, what could He need that we
would be the ones to supply anyway?).
Everything He ever asks us to do is for our
benefit.
This is what the Lord says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
"I am the Lord your God,
who te...
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about
yourself and what is really motivating you.
Confess everything to Him.
Then begin to pray prayers of dedication to
the Lord. Pledge to Him that only His voice
you will follow. Say things like:
I am born of God.
I have the spirit of Christ in me.
I am a child of God and my spirit is alive to ...
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fail. He is the only one who
is dependable. He works in different ways
but He is trustworthy. A major reason we do
not see His power work for us is this thing we
are discussing here—the trust in man.
When we put our trust in man, we activate
the curse which Jeremiah prophesied; things
fail in our l...
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for more on this.
Thought For The Morrow
We saw a little bit about the god called
mammon earlier, but we need to examine it
some more as it is one of the major voices
people obey and so disobey God.
Mammon is one of those very sly things in
life. People who serve it do not even realize
they are s...
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g and not
paying back, or lying and cheating. And
many have resorted to lying and boasting
vainly to explain to their peers why they do
not have theirs yet. The flesh is speaking and
they are obeying.
Many Christians even go ahead and start
saying that their spirit said they should do
something or ...
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through imbibing the word of God and
prayer. Your spirit cannot be kept clean
except you are a constant student of the
word, and effective prayer is possible only
with a foundation of the word of God.
Anytime the word comes to you, it will bring
the light of God into
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mplished by his
anguish,
he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
for he will bear all their sins. Isa 53:11 NLT
That is how true Christians give—they
rejoice in being able to make a difference.
See, people of ...
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e like God, he said. It was not as
much the voice of Satan that she listened to as
much as the voice of the flesh. The lust of the
flesh and the pride of life was what was
being amplified by Satan there.
When James wanted to explain the origin of
temptations, notice what he said:
But we are tempted w...
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was not such
a one. He seemed, in summary, to be saying,
“I need to make money to help my relatives,
and this country is not showing me how I can
do that locally; I have to move to greener
pastures.”
For the first time in my life, in all the years of
engaging in these discussions, I felt terrible.
I...
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focus is on David.
There was no mistake greater in the life of
David than this few minutes of pleasure and
the subsequent plot to hide it. It was a
permanent blot on an otherwise impeccable
record.
…David did what was right in the sight of the
Lord, and had not turned aside from anything
that He ...
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ipture. It was a verse of the words of the
Lord Jesus which I was familiar with. My
reins, like David said, did instruct me in that
night season of my life.*
This was what the Lord quoted to me from:
If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own
father and mother and wife and children and
broth...
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ank deep into their hearts
and spoke to them. The same person who is
full of the fear of tomorrow, respects men
and follows the lust of the flesh, how could
he have discerned the Spirit of God rightly?
You can learn to hear your spirit through all
sorts of spiritual exercises, but what your
spirit i...
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way
from the eternal plan of God.
But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me,
Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you
are not setting your mind on God's interests, but
man's." Matt 16:23
Is a loved one speaking for Satan or not? For
us Christians, the test is simple: Is the
counsel fo...
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ade, while the word of our God
stands forever.”**
Why would anyone trust their future to this?
No wonder the Lord Jesus told us to learn to
put our trust in the Lord and to lay up
treasure in heaven.
Laying up treasure in heaven does not mean
we will find it only when we have slept in the
Lord and ...
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these things are not peculiar to these people but that the same things apply to every one of God’s children; the difference is in how much each one fulfils what God wrote down concerning their lives.
It is important we realize the possibility of not fulfilling the written counsel of God for our liv...
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s of faith; in the first verse of the 12th chapter they are called our cloud of witnesses who have left examples of faith for us. Now in verse 2 we are told not to focus on them but to focus on Jesus.
…fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endur...
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lan for one’s life. Now, when you are doing that, the grace of God is released to make that work easy. This was the experience of Paul when he said “I labored…yet not I, but the grace of God with me”.
Listen again; when a man is following God’s assignment for His life, the work receives the power t...
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have financial security and the competitive spirit from your eyes. Mammon is the greatest contender with God for the attention of His children. He made them upright, but they sought out many devices.
Once your heart is cleansed of these things, those inner desires and gifting of God in your life wi...
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s are trying to be just what He has not formed them to be and are forever having problems and may even end up shortening their lives. After all, how long will the car that is trying to be a boat last?
When He said you have been fearfully and wonderfully made, He wasn’t saying you are Mr. Universe o...
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upon the soil…the seed sprouts up and grows- how, he himself does not know.
The second thing you must have in place is the eradication of the choking influence on the fruitfulness of the word of God.
“For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay in Israel who separates himself f...
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1:06:00
His uncles were going to jail regularly. They were criminals. They were the lowlifes. Those people that they bonded on the ship. They're not from Europe, from England and sent over to Australia. He's a descendant of prisoners. Was a descendant of prisoners. So I had more uncles in prison than out of...
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51:00
See, we are coming to Nigeria, please, we have $1.5 billion. Where do we go? The only person they know is the one they've been hearing, they'll go and meet him over there. Look at what I want to do, you hear that? You now hear that Dangote invested in this, he didn't invest in nothing. So men came a...
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52:30
He looks, suddenly you realize that no, your own is not prophet. And that scripture jumps, said, behold, you know, he said that I will give them pastors after my heart. We feed them with knowledge and with understanding. So I like to teach good. That is the description of your life. You start readin...
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19:30
you find Jesus in the sacrifices. Every time you see those sacrifices, the heave offering, the sin offering, trespass offering, the whole burnt offering, you are seeing Jesus in all of them. That's the way it works. You are seeing Jesus in all of them. That's how we look. So for those people, that w...
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1:03:00
You now went to church where they tell you that all your enemies don't want you to prosper. These are the sins of your youth that are catching up with you. They have removed all the comfort. And there's one thing you know, Satan will not remind you. That what happened to your father, he will know. Y...
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1:00:00
Let's read verse 17 together. No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper. Every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from me, says the Lord. Now I want you to read verse 17 and put I there now. One, t...
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even though tested by fire, that is gold that has been well purified, is still perishable. He said, but the proof of your faith is more precious than that gold, and that that may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. And though you have not seen Him, you...
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1:07:30
One day, let's make a long story short, a boy that was supposed to die, he stood again in the center of that town. I said, devil, I told you I am going to come back here. I hope you're getting my point here. Listen, no matter how dark the prospect looks, I'm telling you, the same place where you cri...
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Now reading from verse 3, 1 Peter 1 verse 3, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We are born again to obtain an inheritance which is imperishab...
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1:04:30
I hope you are getting my point here. Now if you are here this evening like that, I'm so strong about that because that is how this work came to my mind. I just said this was what I was going to preach this evening. I came to tell you there is glory to follow. The Bible talks about the sufferings of...
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37:30
Me and you, are you getting my point? That's the way it works. It was predicting, prophesying concerning the sufferings of Christ and what the glories to follow. That's the way it works. I like Peter Daniel's story. He's a businessman. Barnett is in his life. As an, you know, he thinks every Uyghur ...
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48:00
We don't start with fleecing, but God does different. It works different ways. But this boy went to church. I told the story in the book, guided by the Spirit. I think I did, I'm not very certain now. Just realized that. They finished praying, they closed the Bible like this, opened it, and put the ...
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1:01:30
Are you getting my point? Glories will follow. Glories will follow. I said glories will follow. And this is the interesting part. The Bible talks about the sufferings of Christ and there's glories to follow. And I'm explaining that the glory does not just recover your previous state for you. It does...
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1:09:00
That refusing to steal is what good business is. Telling the truth when you are doing business is what good business is. This is a man whose relatives were mostly in prison. God would tell a story from every family. God has chosen you to tell a story. You are down today is because he has to tell his...
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33:00
Are you getting my point here? When he says, the Lord is my shepherd, he was talking about you, he was talking about me. He wasn't just talking about the Lord Jesus, he was talking about everyone that is found in him. When he says, the Lord delights in the prosperity of his servant, he was talking a...
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57:00
That's what he was talking about. So it can apply to anybody, man or woman. Anybody that feels like there is nobody to help me, I don't have help. That's what he's talking about. He says, such times your help is from the Lord. That's what he was saying. Say your husband is your maker. Now in verse s...
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He says, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating, as he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. It shows, therefore, that there are sufferings sometimes in their lives, but every one will be followed by glory. I don't know whether you...
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Now I declare that the Lord has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in 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 manner worthy of the Lord. I am pleasing Him in all respects. I'm be...
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Moreover, I will make your battlements of rubies, and your gates of crystal, and your entire walls of precious stones. And all your sons will be taught of the Lord, and the well-being of your sons will be great. In righteousness you will be established. You will be far from oppression, for you will ...
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1:10:30
The glory of God will be seen upon you. You say, arise, shine. Your light has come. When the word of God comes like that, it's light, light, light. It's time to shine. You start shining with your face. A smile comes to your face. You are no longer downcast. Yeah, it's very important. You fight that ...
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15:00
That's what you'll be seeing. You won't be seeing laws that shall not do that. No, what you'll just be seeing is the loving face of God. Do you get my point? I mean, reading from the scriptures, I've seen a few things just to show you the character of God. Just to show you the character of God. A fe...
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46:30
It speaks different ways. And they say, when you are persecuted in one city, what do you do? Lead to the next. You've been chasing one woman for three years. Your head is not correct. And there are three women next door, waiting. Three years. What's her name? Rachel, I mean. You'll soon get there, t...
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18:00
One guy did those very, very bad. Horrible. The guy is a wicked soul. You know, there are Christians, you just see. Like the kind of people that when they are coming this way, you go this way, in obedience to the word of Paul. Don't be associated with those sorts of people. No. There are Christians ...
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ind something small to do to tide you over for just another day. You current job doesn’t pay so much? Just learn to manage; Paul taught us that it is one major skill the Lord gives strength for. “I can be satisfied with little because of Him who give me strength,” He said. You must...
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energy in us to tackle each day. That is the seed of faithfulness. Let us keep planting it. One day we will each look around and wonder at what the Lord would have done. Take these days one at a time. Fill each day with praise, and thanksgiving while fulfilling the duty of the day; many days will pa...
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xcitement. Why? The baby had just given her a strong kick as in response to my command. Yet, a few days later, the baby expired and my wife went into premature labour to mark the end of the pregnancy. It was her eight month. That night in the hospital, after all visitors were gone, we joined our han...
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o visit. Luke 10:1-2 NLT. Actually this plan was for the then current day. He took the days one at a time. It was the ‘day’ of visiting many towns and places, so He sent His workers ahead. That day could have been a year in a chronological sense. Many times, there is a season you are in,...
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ain at a fellowship. He’s the keyboardist and praise-worship leader, and now we work together in that vineyard of the Lord). The finger healed neatly with little sign the accident ever happened. It was a painful day that day; my wife wept her eyes sore as she sat on the couch in the National O...
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matt 6:34
You see I have realized that the Lord in reality does not want us to be too concerned about tomorrow. He wants us, and commanded us so, to take the days one by o...
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. Actually I have no recollection of when such a thing happened last. My son is the one that gets that now. Once I got home to see a school bag, books and shoes put out to sun. Why? You guessed right. It was a long walk for him from the bus stop into the estate and our home. But as for me, I have a ...
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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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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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the sake of the kingdom.’ No, He is saying that, for
you, His way is the sure way to abundance and His path will lead
you to the breakthrough that will be far above what you could
ever have dreamt of.
Again I say, there is a counsel of God for every situation. The word
of God, applied to any issue ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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r,
there is no hope until there is faith.
This is the order: First, the evidence (which is the word of God);
then faith to receive the word; then hope, which is a natural
consequence of any evidence.
When we misunderstood this hope, we thought that when a
person has ‘hope’, he or she should then g...
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or failures. It is a thing that is produced as a consequence
of the faith that takes the word of God as real evidence. The life of
Abraham is just perfect to use to reiterate this point.
HOPE VS HOPE
(as it is written, "A father of many nations have I
made you") in the sight of Him whom he...
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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
into this land, and give it to us ...
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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 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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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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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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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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just because you are there. He
will by blessing you show what He can do to anyone who follows
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Him wherever they might be.
Physically prosperous places hold no special promise for the child
of God; neither does the place ...
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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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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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osper. He will cause economic
policies to be altered to fit your life of abundance. When I think of
the events that surround the birth of Jesus, it gives me courage to
trust that He will do it for me.
Remember that according to prophecy Jesus was to be born in
Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), and just before...
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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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t God came forth with another word saying,
"This man will not be your heir; but one who shall
come forth from your own body, he shall be your
heir."
And He took him outside and said,
"Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if
you are able to count them." And He ...
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I totally agree with him.
Buy truth, and do not sell it,
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Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. Prov
23:23
The way to be strong in faith is to be filled at all times with this
word. There is no other way. ...
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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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rain
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to fall because I was planning to have a stroll, but I still expect the
rain because I have very strong reasons to.
It is important that I point out again that the confidence of the
expectation always has a reason o...
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n admission into the university to study medicine and
you are progressing in your course, then you have an expectation
that one day soon you will become a doctor. It is hope based on
what you can see.
A man with acute appendicitis who has a very good surgeon
looking after him and who can afford all...
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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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He will cause all kinds of grace to
abound towards me so that not only will I have all sufficiency in
training those that are mine but also I will super-abound to train
many who are not so privileged.
In recent times, the Lord has caused me to understand that any
seed I plant in the land in the tim...
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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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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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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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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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many people are running like crazy from the things that are not
even chasing them by avoiding anything that they suppose
contains cholesterol.
Friends, it is a matter of faith. It controls your life.
It is interesting to point out that with all the knowledge they have
acquired, doctors and scienti...
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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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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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to the king of Sodom.
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn
to the LORD God Most High, possessor of heaven and
earth, that I will not take a thread or a sandal thong
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or anything that is you...
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h just because
the maker indicated that it can.
One will buy a beautiful and expensive wristwatch with a lot of
money and yet jump into a pool with it just because ‘water
resistant’ is written on it.
These are all examples of believing.
See, most of us have never seen ozone; we don’t know what it...
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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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the evidence upon which
it is based. Take for example the matter of hopes of success that
we see here. We know that those who have such hopes are likely
to be disappointed, because it is written that,
I have observed something else in this world of ours.
The fastest runner doesn't always wi...
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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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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 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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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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verse of the Bible is describing the source of hope that a
believer should have. It is saying that my expectation is not based
upon the things that are around but upon the evidence of the
word of God.
The hope that the Bible is describing is that which a man or
woman has but which is not explained ...
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Pastor Bankie Olusina
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
Bible quotations marked AMP are from ...
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is may say what they like and try to
discourage us believers, but we have chosen the report of the Lord
alone as the relevant report for our lives.
The issue is who each person has chosen to believe.
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He that believes
CHAPTER 9
THE SECON...
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have a delusion; you can have all these without any evidence. But
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to have a hope, there must be evidence.
The hope is only as good as the evidence that generated the
expectation.
There is an order I am trying to bring out here, and that is the fact
that the evidence always prec...
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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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ter that day, he saw the man the following week; by this time he
was looking very sick. He had lost weight suddenly and had
become jaundiced. That same month, in which the diagnosis was
made, he died.
Judging by his speed of deterioration following his diagnosis, his
doctor, my friend, felt that th...
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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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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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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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Toyota became a top car manufacturer in this world after just a few decades of existence. They ascribe it, at least to a large part, to the culture of kaizen which they have. What is that? It means ‘continuous improvement.’ This is the key to their success. It is interest...
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me, he learnt to rely on God more. He said, next time he would go, so to speak, without purse or scrip, and definitely not greeting any man on the way, just like the Lord told the apostles (Lk 10:4). He realized that even though he was trusting God, there was still a bit of the darkness of trusting ...
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wisdom, etc. When I would make some plans thinking, "that should work this way", I have been quick to notice that those things refused to work, even though every natural reasoning dictated otherwise. My wife and I experienced these things so much in just a few months that I realized that the Lord wa...
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hink that you are wiser than you are; simply obey the Lord and refuse to do wrong. Prov 3:5-8 GNT
Every little vestige of relying on my knowledge and ability, on people I know, I reject totally. I do not thing I am wise, but at all times I commit my matters to the Lord, and He will direct me a...
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erent types of worship/trust in things. There is the overt one, which we all easily understand, but there is the subtle one that only the Lord sees, and which even the person may not believe is there. If I have looked at the sun when it shone, Or the moon going in splendor,
And my heart became ...
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o confirm what I always knew to be the truth. How? Simple; I was told the story of a man who ran a ministry like mine years ago in the same city, but who heeded such counsel to convert it to a church. When he did, the crowd dispersed and the church did not prosper, and there was no ministry any more...
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t the Army
15. The Righteousness of God
16. Prophesy!
17. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
18. What is God's Will Here?
19. Living by Divine Wisdom
20. The Habit of Faith and Other Sermons
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o make one body of
all races of mankind. As true
Christians we must realize that we are
all of one ethnic group and one race.
That race and group is called Christ.
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ext we will see some of the things that
constitute errors in criteria for ...
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hard you
pray and how much you learn
methods of making the right
choices, you can only be granted
that partner that is in accordance
to your ability to accept.
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T here are different ways by which one
prepares to make a choice of a mate. I do not
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gs. You need a
blessing to prosper. A blessing is a spiritual
empowerment to succeed.
It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich…
Prov 10:22
Let me tell two stories to illustrate this point.
FAVOUR FROM ABOVE
I read the first one in Reader's Digest. A rich
business executive riding with h...
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d for me, and I choose to believe it.
"Make me one of your own and fill me with your life and your joy.
"Make me know you for myself and lead me forever 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 ...
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f God, then you
must go and pray. Parents, when they perform their
roles properly, are actually a layer of protection in
the lives of young people. That is something about
authority figures generally.
Now, sometimes the parents give their reasons, and
those reasons are totally against the word of G...
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righteous man on earth who
continually does good and who never sins.
Eccl 7:20
However, that same Apostle John pointed out that
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anyone born of God does not practice sin (1 John
3:9). He was implying that even though the basic
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produced is born of God and it
overcomes.
Let us go together in this book and create
expectations for marriage from the Word of God.
INTRODUCTION 17
*How to be a Christian. Being a Christian is not hereditary and
is not passed on by association. I...
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by the time he was through I said to him, “what you
want is what is called a wife. Go and get married!”
No girlfriend will ever be able to fulfil the things he
wanted. He had his definitions mixed up.
It is important we get our definitions right. As
Christians, getting it right means only one
thing...
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t life's principles; it is
about vision and it is about destiny. Your true love is
one with whom you can run in the same God-
ordained direction. How you will get to know that
person is another story.
Just as an addition, let me state that attraction can be
useful if your senses are well trained. A...
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st know these things!
We must know what marriage is from His
viewpoint.
We must be asking for the right things when asking
the Lord for a wife or a husband. We must have the
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right things in mind when we ask Him about getting
married. Once we align the thoughts of our hear...
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of success for the world to read. This thing
is about your attitude as a woman, and it is there
even before you meet your husband. It affects the
way you relate with men—potential husbands,
generally.
Worldly women are the only ones that are permitted
to allow themselves to be treated like second c...
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ely to end
up with one, and that is possibly statistically correct,
but…
…if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the
old things passed away; behold, new things have
come. 2 Cor 5:17
All the ancestral curses invented by a grandfather
who was a witchdoctor are erased by being in
Ch...
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also mentioned
as prophetesses (Miriam, Deborah, Huldah etc), but
apart from Priscilla and Mrs Isaiah I cannot easily
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recollect any other whose husband was also a
preacher.
So we see that it was never implied that a man's wife
must also be a minister of the word because h...
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at all. She has by that action
demonstrated to you that she could not have helped
you prosper. She is a drain, a nag and a source of
spiritual confusion. Rejoice for the great deliverance
of the Lord.
What a godly woman wants in a man is that he is a
man of faith with a sense of purpose, and that h...
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younger brother, Deji, wanted to marry and my
mother asked my opinion of the matter that the
young woman is Ibo, I said to her simply, “Mummy,
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we are either Christians or we are not!” That was my
opinion and I did not even think it was a mat...
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not a prize to be won in a
duel; she is a gift of God.* If she wants to marry the
greatest spender, please gladly lose and be happy.
The truth is that love, true love, cannot be bought, so
do not try.
If a man tried to buy love with everything he
owned, his offer would be utterly despised.
So...
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that proceeds out of the mouth of God
shall man live.” What that means is that everything
you can ever want in life is to be found in the word of
God, and that you are to pursue them through the
word.
If you are afraid of poverty, pray about it. Bishop
David Oyedepo tells the story all the time of ...
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your life?
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nd do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that you may prove what the will of God is.
I need to emphasize that as Christians we are the
light of the world, just as the Lord Jesus said. ...
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e is showing us divine defence against
oppression from wayward husbands. I pray that
you will not need this extreme of defence but it
shows us that women who are wives of youth are
specially favoured.
This favour will manifest in many ways, more than
we are able to imagine. One of such ways is that...
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ill
turn out only to be a source of entertainment or a
source of frustrating standards unless you are of
faith in Christ Jesus. Step aside for a while and give
your life to Christ Jesus (see page 17).
For those who are believers and who are looking for
the best from God, I want to tell you that you...
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other
and the senior bro seemed convinced of the
genuineness of the faith of Bro Abel. Anyway, that
settled it for us and we forgot about it. The pair
graduated and got married immediately
afterwards.
A few years later my friend met Bro Abel on the
street and as part of exchanging pleasantries he
a...
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at my helpmate might be thinking is a
waste of time?
For this reason I reasoned that it was vital that I had
a wife that believed I am called to teach, and just as
importantly that I could teach her.
I have had experiences with ladies who talked more
than me; they had to have the last say when we
...
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its that tickle your
fancy, like we say. Are those things the real things
that matter, or mundane things? Peter said both men
and women must seek the things that are after the
inward man of the heart.
You should be known for the beauty that comes
from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle an...
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l or remain holed up at home, colour
preferences, and such mundane things. In the real
issues of life, opposites repel.
Can two people walk together without agreeing on
the direction? Amos 3:3 NLT
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for
what partnership have righteousness and
lawle...
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in
my understanding, was a personal quest for the
knowledge of the word. No, I am not at all talking
about knowledge for the purpose of preaching or
showing off, but just to know and be changed by it.
I told the Lord I wanted a lady that loved Him and
whose love for Him showed in how she pursued th...
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stions we
will find it easier to clear our minds in order to be
able to receive what God really wants us to have.
Instead we have often spent our energy on questions
that are silly in the eyes of God.
“Is she from a broken home?” (I need to know since the
God I serve cannot heal a broken life.)
“Ho...
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nd them by faith much. We have become comfortable with what human wisdom can produce. When we are desperate, we run to a crusade where a big man of God is ministering.
Hear the words of E. W. Kenyon:
“Everyone should build his own faith life. I find that majority of people float on carelessly unti...
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d. Listen to Caleb recount what happened at Kardesh-barnea:
“Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear; but I followed the Lord my God fully.” Josh 14:8
The way by which he followed the Lord fully was by disregarding the physical presence of giants in...
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so much human knowledge that it becomes so difficult to believe God; they give you so much ground for doubt. You see, doubt is the good explanation you have for not building your action on God’s word.
Feed your heart with good testimonies of those who have experienced the power of God; feed it with...
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l; He did not expect the people to just get up there on their own.
“…He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them we might become partakers of the divine nature…”
God’s word and His promises are the means by which we will get to the place He planned. The word o...
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reate something new there, which will confound all human knowledge. Now He is saying that “anybody who will believe this report of Mine will definitely have the hand of the Lord revealed in his life.”
You see, I noticed that Caleb, in following God fully, spoke out what was in his heart in the mids...
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on to my words; incline your ears to my sayings; do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart…
“Guard your heart with all diligence, from it flow the springs of life.”
Your faith will only increase to the extent that you feed yourself on the word of God. John G. Lak...
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hat as far as I was concerned meningitis should be the one to hear my name and start running, looking for a vaccine. Why? I know He has said, “…neither shall any plague come near your dwelling place.”
The believer is not to fear the fears of the people. When he is taking decisions, people should re...
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