PRAY (PRAY-A-THON 2025)
Sep 8, 2025
PRAY (PRAY-A-THON 2025)
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Oh hallelujah. Uh I apologize for the small technical glitch. Can we continue now? Are you
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ready? So prayer is important in our life. It is it is so essential that it
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is part of what makes us a righteous person. The fact that every now and then, every second, every moment we find
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we are praying and seeking God's face is strategic, important and required in our
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life as believers. Amen. As I said, prayer is essential for our
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development in righteousness. The righteous is called to pray. You are called to pray without stopping, without
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fainting. This offers you a depth in developing your closeness with God. You
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as the more you pray, the more you understand God better, the more you appreciate him better, and the more you
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become a resource for the divine giftings and grace of God for your
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earth. Every Christian on the face of this earth, born again, spiritfilled
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Christian is God's investment on the face of this earth. And uh God will work
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through us to fulfill his will on the face of this earth. And prayer is what
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allows us to open the doorway for heaven to have access to us and the path we
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walk and also to allow us to also have the unending resources, grace and help
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of God in times of need. Prayer offers comfort, understanding and
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strength in times of need. Prayer is our expressions as gods. Amen. If you love
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to pray, what you are doing is that you are expressing your godliness. One of
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the nature of Jesus Christ who was God on earth is that he loved praying and
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prayer was so important to him that his apostles were curious that no we pray we
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all pray as Jews. This man prays regularly. This man never misses his
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praying times. This man loves to pray. Every opportunity he will find he will
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pray. And so it became something they wanted to have. And so they went to him and said, "Look, the way you pray, we
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love it. You are not praying in public. We never see you pray in public. We never see you shouting and lifting your
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hands in public. We never see you crying in public. But your closeness to God,
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your dedication to be close to God is so much an an admirable thing we want to
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copy." Hallelujah. Remember Jesus never held a prayer meeting. Amen. Jesus never
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held a prayer crusade. Jesus never held an all night but he was always praying
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so much that the apostles wanted to be with him. He was always doing his own thing all the time. Even though he had
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12 apostles, he will go and pray until they came and asked him to teach them to pray as he prays. Then one day he
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invited them to go and pray with him and they slept and left him because he had not yet built a habit because for the
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three years he had walked with them he they hadn't built that habit of praying with Jesus for that long. Amen.
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And so when Jesus took them to prayer, they were sleeping. He came back and woke them up and said, "Don't sleep.
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There is temptation coming. Pray." But they still slept. And Jesus looked at them and they realized that he can't
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help them. Then he said, "Sleep." Hallelujah. Amen. Clap for man. Clap for man. Man tried. Tell somebody, "Man
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tried." H instead of prayer and say, "Help me. Help me." Then people slept.
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They just slept. Jesus looked at them and he saw them. They were pitiful. So he slept. And then when they woke up, he
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told them he has prayed that the enemy may not destroy them because the
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temptation that was coming to bring their own master before their eyes could destroy their faith. So he told Peter
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that I have prayed so that the enemy may not be able to cause harm or to hurt
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you. Amen. In the first book of Thessalonians the chapter 5:17 Bible says that pray
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without ceasing. Tell us I would pray without ceasing. It means to pray without stopping. Hallelujah.
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Amen. If you're a member of this church, I have tried to tell you to pray all the time. I have tried my best to teach you
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to pray at every opportunity. Being in the bathroom is a good place to pray.
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Huh? Being on your bed is a good place to pray. Being alone when nobody is there is a good time to pray. Meditating
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on God's word, trusting God is a good time to pray. Amen. Being in church is a
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good time to pray. Hallelujah. If you want to make babies, it's a good time to pray. Even before you touch your spouse,
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it's a good time to pray. Hallelujah. I remember when I really wanted a baby
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girl and my sister spoke to me. He said, "Sir, you've been I've been trying, sister, but I'm not getting a baby
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girl." And he said, "Well, let me tell you what a lot of me and my friends did. We got baby girls. Before we ever wanted
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to have sex, we would tell God that let this one be a girl. We prayed and God gave us what our heart's desire is. It
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was a very funny funny suggestion, but it worked for me. Hallelujah.
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That's what it works for you. It will work for you too. Amen. And so you we
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must come to understand that every opportunity in life offers prayer. You know, the world has made us think that
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prayer is a sacred spiritual activity that requires us to either go on a
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mountain alone or to go into the bush alone or to be in the gathering of
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everybody who is holy before God will hear us. That's not how prayer works.
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The Bible said he's our present help in time of need. So every moment that you
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have opportunity to ask God for something, he's available to you.
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Hallelujah. The Bible said that the veil has been torn into two because of the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. So
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that we may be able to come boldly into the throne room of God and to ask for
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mercy and kindness. The Bible says that continually we are in the presence of God. It's not as if
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that God forgets us every second. Some people make it think that until you come
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to church, that's when God is seeing you. God sees us. God sees us when we are stealing.
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God sees us when we lie to people and then we intend to think we've beaten them with our common sense. God sees us.
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God sees us when we are secretly doing the things that we cannot mention on this altar and there are curtains and
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air condition everywhere and we think we are hiding from the public. But God sees us. God sees everything we do. God sees
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the malice, the lies we tell, how we we inflict suffering on other. God sees it
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all. Amen. And so nothing is hidden before God nor
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his host of angels in heaven. Remember that the earth
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is beneath God. And the Bible says we have a great witness.
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Great witness. The entire host of heaven is looking at what is happening here every second. And so the the Bible makes
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us to understand that there's nothing hidden from the God of heaven. Amen.
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Tells nothing hidden. Nothing in your heart, in your mind, in your dream life is hidden. Hallelujah.
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God, God, you see the devil, you need to say what God wants to do to you for you
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before the devil can stop you. But God doesn't need you to say anything out loud to fulfill it. Amen. God doesn't
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need you to do anything before he knows what you are thinking. He knows our thoughts. He understands that. David
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says, "Search thou my thoughts. search thou my inner parts and locate what is in my intents. Amen. And so God has the
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ability to find within you all the things that you are considering, you are
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thinking about and you are praying about. Amen. And so nothing is hidden. So no
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opportunity is too prime, too perfect, too ugly, too wrong, too sinful for
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prayer not to be offered onto God. Amen. Hallelujah. And so God encourages us to
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look up to him in every situation. Philippians 4:6 says, "Be careful for nothing." Confirming my said there is no
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special occasion. Said, "Be careful for nothing." "But in everything," I didn't
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say that. The Bible said that he said, "But in every what is everything? What is everything? When you know that 10
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times your brain is working overhaul to come and beat me or to come and dupe
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sister Abigail for her money. Bible says in everything we must pray. Hallelujah.
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Do you know armed robbers pray before they go and steal or they never told you before? They sit
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down and say God let no be any problem for this mission. And there are pastors for them and
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people who give them special oil and other things so that when they go the impossibility can become possible for
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them. So even sinners pray. Hallelujah. Praying is a lifong thing for everybody.
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It's not something you do at one time. Sometimes when we are growing up as Christians, we have time to pray as young people and gets to a time that
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prayer becomes difficult for us. All that kind of perception is wrong and
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misplaced. Philippians 4:6 says, "Be careful for
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nothing. But in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your
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requests be made known unto God." Amen. Amen. So start taking your relationships
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to God in prayer. Start taking instead of letting your heart feel all the ooh and ah through the phone conversations,
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take it to God in prayer. He has your best intention at heart. Thank him for
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that new sutor but take it to prayer. Say father what would you want out of this? What would you want this to happen
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for me? Amen. So Bible says everything. Tell somebody everything. Ingredient
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when you get your fufu and I punchakra or your tilapia fish and instead of
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praying say no tell somebody pray. Tell that person
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pray over the food. The food will reduce because you prayed. It doesn't matter how hungry you are, just pray over the
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food. Commit everything to God in prayer. Hallelujah. Amen.
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Billy Graham said that true prayer is a way of life. Not just for use in case of emergency.
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Make it a habit so that when the need arises, you will be in practice. Do you
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understand what he's trying to say? When you make prayer your way of life,
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emergencies don't now become something special that requires you to pray further or deeper. But because you are
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used to prayer and you love to pray, you are able to take your problem to God in every situation.
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That's what Billy Graham says that true prayer is a way of life. Not just for use in cases of emergency.
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Make it a habit. Make prayer your habit. So when the need arises, you will be in
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practice. Hallelujah. Amen. Ephesians 6:18 according to the
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Amplified Bible, the classic amplified Bible says, "Pray at all times on every
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occasion in every season in the spirit with all manner of prayer and entry to
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to the end to that end. keep alert, watching with strong purpose and
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perseverance, interceding on behalf or in the behalf of all saints that uh the
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people that God has consecrated. Amen. Hallelujah. The book of Ephesians according to the
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amplified Bible is like a dictionary. So it says one thing and it gives further explanation in brackets. So sometimes
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when you want to um give deeper meaning to something you can also quote the
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amplified Bible and he says that at all times pray at all times. All times it
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means that within the 24 hours in the day there is no occasion more prime for prayer. No occasion too little for
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prayer. No occasion too holy for prayer. that soak yourself in the availability
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of God by always going to God in prayer at every time. Said at every occasion.
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Every occasion. Even sometimes when you are led into temptation, pray.
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Some of you, you see this temptation in front of you,
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then you say, "God, you wait. Let me go finish this temptation. Then when I come, I'll pray." Hallelujah.
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When Jesus saw temptation coming, he prayed. When the apostles saw temptation coming, they prayed. Are you with me? So
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when you see temptation coming, don't put God on hold and say there's a better time to pray. Pray. Ask God for help.
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Ask heaven for assistance at every occasion you find yourself in. Hello.
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Says be in the spirit. It means identify with the grace of the spirit and pray.
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When we say pray in the spirit, it's not always a matter of praying in tongues. Hallelujah.
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You see, most people think when we say prayer is all about tongues. Amen. The Bible says when you you pray in tones,
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you edify God. The Bible say when you pray in tones, you stir up your most holy faith. But when you pray, you speak
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to God as a man speaks to God. And thank isn't the language God gave you to speak
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to him. It is what you are able to declare from your mouth. So pray.
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But there are times when you need to pray, especially when you are afraid. You will have to pray in tones. When you are afraid, you don't have to pray in
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tonesues by shouting, but you can pray in tonesues even in the smallest in the smallest movement of your lips, but
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still pray. Hallelujah. And so when we talk about pray in the spirit, it's not limited to tongues. People have turned
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this thing about prayer into some form of of something else that scripture doesn't fully declare. So, amen.
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And so, praying is good. Praying in tongues is good. But that is not only prayer. Some of you when we say pray all
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you do is bubble your mouth about tonga the whole day.
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Whenever you are praying in tongues you must also imagine the topic you are praying about. You must imagine why and
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what you have presented before God. Because the Bible says let the meditations of my heart let the
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declarations of my mouth be acceptable in thy sight. Hallelujah. Amen. And so
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if you want to pray, it's not just shouting and saying anything you want and screaming in words and screaming and screaming and screaming. See, this is
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why we have a problem. This is why when you pray in groups is not 100% what will
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help you. Some of you, you are busy doing all nights with people here and there, doing that here and there, doing
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that here and there, and you never find the opportunity to ask God for what concerns you
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because you are busy trying to join the crowd. If you come and join my prayer crowd, I'm going to speak on topics that
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are that matters. Huh? You're going to try and find out the topic which hits on your need. Am I not lying? But you never
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have a time where you truly pour your heart to your heart to God. Are you with me? Amen. I don't know how to put this
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in a better way. If I organize a prayer meeting, it's good to come. I'm not saying it's bad. Or if I organize a a
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midnight service and you decide to join me online, it's good. But you must also cultivate a personal prayer attitude.
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Are you with me? Are you with me? A personal prayer life. You shouldn't
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depend on that as your prayer life. Because public prayer does not allow you
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to be sincere and honest to pour your heart with God. Whether you are in your own home joining online or not.
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Are you with me? Whenever the apostles organized group prayer, they prayed for certain
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important things like the deliverance of the church. They prayed for the world
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peace. They prayed for the will of God. They prayed for soul salvation. They didn't gather in groups to pray for
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people's personal and individual needs. Because corporate prayer is meant to
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deal with corporate things, things that have a meaning to our broader purposes in life. Amen.
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and your spiritual development is is hinged or it stands on your personal
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prayer life and not a group prayer life. That is why you can have people who have
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they've joined every prayer meeting everything and yet they are defeated and beaten by darkness
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and they their only confidence is that they are part of the crowd. They they they they've not allowed God to be part
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of their life yet. But they think that God knows them. Before you pray public, please develop a
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private prayer life. Develop a private prayer life. Develop a way where you
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soak up with God every now and then so that if you are in public prayer groups
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and something happens and it's not from God, your spirit can easily identify and
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walk away. Are you with me?
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Otherwise, you will assume that everything that is done publicly unitedly is going to God and coming from
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God. That's our biggest weakness as the body of Christ.
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Seek every opportunity to pray. Tell somebody every opportunity. When you have a you have a discussion
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with your beloved or your wife and the thing is not going better, you find opportunity to pray. I do that several
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times with my wife. When we have a discussion, I think it's going nowhere, I start praying. I don't just close my
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eyes and start praying. But she knows that I stop talking about it and realize I'm babbling or I'm thinking about it in
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my head where I'm praying. Why? Because I want to find every opportunity to be in prayer. I want to find every
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opportunity to be in what? In prayer. When I'm dealing with a member of the church, when I'm dealing with somebody and I feel the sense of understanding is
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not going well, I begin to pray. I seek opportunity to pray. I bind the spirits
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of misunderstanding. I I deal with the situations that I feel require prayer.
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Hallelujah. And so find every occasion to pray and find every occasion to
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declare the will of God over that situation. Hello.
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Very important. Very important. The earth and everything in it thrives
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under the will of God. You must remember that evil is placed in
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check. Humanity enjoys the goodness of God continually
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within the will of God. Let me try and rephrase this in another way that you understand better.
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Now many people pray trying to establish their will
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on this earth. Many people believe that when we are about to pray
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then it means that we're going to command God to do what we want.
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So the prayer warriors say I'll give God no peace. God you have to do this. God
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you have God has owe us nothing to do for us. When you go into prayer, you must come
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to that place. Jesus was God, but he didn't go to his father making this assumption that he he had to be forced
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to do something in heaven for him or on earth for him. That's not how the things
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of the spirit works. Listen to me carefully and I am praying that everybody will pay attention. These
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words I'm going to speak will change your prayer life forever. Are you with me? Is your attention here?
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Listen. Every Evil and power of darkness on this earth can only operate within the will
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of God. So can only good, peace, love,
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understanding, everything good on this earth operate within the will of God.
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Why? Every element of the universe operates within the will of God. The sun
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rises in the morning according to the will of God and sets in the evening. The moon arises in the night as declared by
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the will of God. The earth gives it its fruit to us as
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according to the will of God. Anytime there comes something wrong with
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the weather or atmosphere, it is because we have broken the will of God concerning a situation. Either we are
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testing for mass weapons, either we are polluting our environment. Everything that we have done that is against God's
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will brings about the hand of darkness to punish us within what? The will of
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God. Are you understanding what I'm trying to say? So long as Israel went
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about the will of God, they were the strongest nation and nothing could beat them. But every time they went outside
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the will of God, they were helpless in the hands of even nations they've already conquered before. Are you with
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me? So this is why we don't walk around being afraid of powers and authorities.
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This is why we don't walk around being afraid of authorities, powers, witches, anything that has power because we know
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that if we do what is right in the hands of God. If we're within the will of God,
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there is no power that can touch us. That is the truth. Tell her that's the
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truth.
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The Bible says when you break the hedge, the serpent will bite you. Your your protection, your your greatest
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grace is in the will of God. Your ability to live a fully functional
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Christian life is within God's will. Now the problem is that the enemy loss
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many people outside the will of God with oh this one you have to force
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yourself you have to try this one you have to put God on hold you see money is not easy you have to the world gives us
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this impression that we can do things within our will outside the will of God
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and throws everything out of balance and out of purpose for a reason so to expose
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us to the elements of destruction when they come against us then they
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immediately also throw into our thought life ingratitude of God in appreciation
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of God it they give us the impression God doesn't love us enough God is wicked God God is punishing us they give us
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that mental because the more they can keep us in that mentality the more we are slaves to the will of the world and
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not the will of God the more we are not
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Hallelujah. We must pray. But anytime we must pray as believers, we must pray within the
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will of God. We must exercise our authority as believers. But every time
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we declare something in any situation, it must fall under the will of God.
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Hallelujah. Listen, listen, listen to me. The Bible says that for we wrestle not against
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flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places. Now the Bible
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was definite. He says that we wrestle. That means that our work of the spirit
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we contend we make grounds on which access is given
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to us or access is denied. And he did not limit it to forces of evil. So what
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when the Bible says said for principalities and powers, most of you thought that principalities and powers are all evil things. No. No. There are
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principal spirits that rule over nations and they are angels and their purpose is
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to fulfill the will of God. For example, if it is not God's will that certain things cannot be discovered at certain
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times, they make it impossible for that generation to access it.
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Are you are you understanding what I'm trying to say? So when I talked about the angels and
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demons and I I explained the order of angels, I intentionally explained them.
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But the Bible said there are spiritual wickednesses in high places. The Bible defines them. He speaks of the the
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enemy's list of opposition for the things of God. Now if an angel is meant
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to help you on the face of this earth, he will do that within the will of God. He will not go against the will of God.
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Are you with me? It doesn't matter how much you can pray. If an angel is subject to do what pleases his father
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because he's designed to act on the on the will of his father. He's created for
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that purpose. You cannot use an angel for evil. But you can use a fallen angel
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for the purpose of a fallen angel, which is to do evil against the things of God, which is the opposite of the will of
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God. Are you with me? And so Jesus explains this to us and tells us that when he talks about spiritual
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wickedness, there are orders of darkness in higher places whose purpose is
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wickedness. The Bible said, "Let the wicked man forsake his way." So the wicked man is the one who is not walking
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in the will of God. Let him return unto God and he will abundantly pardon him.
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So wickedness represents a thought that is outside, a choice that is outside the
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will of God. So most people think that when we get up and we pray about principalities and
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powers we are contending with. No, that's not how the Bible described to us.
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The Bible says for we wrestle not. Tell us we wrestle not. Not we wrestle not against flesh and
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blood but we wrestle against principalities and powers.
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And he goes ahead to describe. He said, "And what? And what? What else?" And he says, "And spiritual wickedness in high
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places." Are you with me? There is no occasion in scripture that an angel appeared, an
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angel appeared to man and came to do what man wants. They came to fulfill the will of their father. That's something
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about angels. You You cannot corrupt an angel to do what you like unless he's an evil angel.
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If any angel appears and wants you to do things outside the will of God, he is not coming from God. He's a devil in
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disguise. So it is important every believer knows
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the will of God. Some of you think the will of God is to be holy. Some of you think the will of God is to fast and
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pray. Some of you think the will of God is to be in church every day. Today I will open your eyes to something you
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have been overlooking for years. the earth and everything in
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it. It thrives only on the will of God. Even scientific discoveries,
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even things that has got to do with man's capabilities to do exploits is limited
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within the will of God. The Bible says, "Unless God builds, they that build,
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they build in what? In vain. Unless the watchman God watches, they
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that watch watch in vain.
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Until you come to that place to understand what the will of God is, you
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jeopardize your place of relevance in the things of the spirit and the
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physical. One time in my life, I was
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praying and praying and all of a sudden
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I saw a host of demons. Many of them take to great angels. They came in
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mighty companies. A whole entire army of enemies came against where I lived.
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When I saw them coming from the street, all of a sudden when I lifted my hand eyes, I saw that every corner, every
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inch of this property of my house was filled with angels from heaven.
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And I saw mighty waring angels standing with me, gathering my wife, my children, all with me. And he said, "Son of said,
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it says, "Servant of God, we have come according to the will of your father to defend you." I had not even prayed for a
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defense. I had not prayed for a defense. I just praying and I I was praying for everybody in church and all of a sudden
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I I I I went to sleep and I knew why they came. It wasn't about the church. It wasn't about
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anything but they came for a reason. And I saw God ahead of me asking for
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anything that heaven released every available arsenal to my advantage.
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Are you with me church? Are you with me church? Why the will of God?
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Several time I heard people say I've heard so many people say several
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things. But what I kind of really was hoping is that am I outside God's will?
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Are you understanding me? I measure my actions within God's will.
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You see, I don't sit down trying to establish my will and the trajectory of
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what I want done on people, but the will of God.
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And living that life of trust brings the entire heaven to your access.
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Let me say this. Let me say this without without any iota of pride. When I bless
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you, you are truly blessed. when I speak against you.
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Hallelujah. You must come to that place to understand when a man walks with God,
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when a man walks with God within his will,
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he's a dangerous person. Not weak, not feeble, not stupid, but
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he's a dangerous person. you know
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many many many years I think close to about 20 years ago and God called me one
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night and said in these three nations I make you
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my servant in charge of them whatever you think of them will happen whatever you allow will happen whatever you
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declare will happen I was a young boy then I was a young man in prayer then I
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was praying and I was praying and I was praying and I came to realize that every
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time I declared who should be president in these nations, it happened. Every time I said this person is not from God,
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but if you allow it, this will happen. It happened. I didn't go about tooting my horn and
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tell everybody that I'm there. No, no, that wasn't the purpose. I serve a divine purpose. I pray
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and I remember I remember in those years when God told me that there were a lot
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of suffering going on in Japan and they were having a lot of earthquakes massive earthquakes killing
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people that I began to go on my knees for that. I said Lord let these things stop.
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Said Lord let these things stop. I kept praying and praying. I kept praying and praying and praying and praying until
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one day I realized that for decades these things were not happening there. And if they even happened, they were not
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able to kill lives. But when we were younger, you could see earthquakes that could raise their whole nation down,
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destroy their whole bridges, destroy their whole cities and collapse them. And I saw the peace of God and I
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declared I remember there was a gentleman who was there. He one day he called me to pray and I declared that
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will happen to say you're not in this nation but you can declare these things and they happen exactly I said the grace of God because he's given me because God
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knows that he could trust me with that and he knows that I will not I will not turn it for my personal profit but for
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his profit when I speak he values my words over them
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are you with me you don't need to respect me but I'm I'm speaking of things that function well within the
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will of God I'm just sharing experiences with you so you will come to a place of understanding why the will of God is so
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important in everything you should do. What makes your prayer impossible for
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the devil h to even tackle, handle or touch is when your prayer is within the
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will of God. Are you within me? Are you within what I'm trying to teach? Church,
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what will make the things you prayed about impossible for any witchcraft to delay, to stop, to is when it's
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within the will of God. But if your prayer is outside the will of God, yes,
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you will contend them.
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Why? Man is made in the likeness and image of God, but man does not rule over the
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heavens and the earth. Do you know that? Do you know that?
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Though man is made in the image of God, and man rules in thestead of God on earth,
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the earth will only answer to man when it's within the will of God. Are you understanding what I'm trying to say?
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The Bible said when Cain killed his brother, the blood of his brother cried unto God in heaven for justice. The
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earth, the Bible said the earth, the earth cried out to God for justice for
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the blood of his brother Abel.
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We must understand the elements and everything on the face of this earth obey God.
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That's why even when there is disaster and a lot of people are being flooded,
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God can save his own out of them. Look, look, look at this. The Bible says
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when the time is right and judgment is due, the earth would would vomit back those it swallowed,
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the sea would would vomit back those it swallowed in death.
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Why? They are yielding to God's will for that moment.
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The power of prayer isn't to force our will on God. This is why there are
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certain opportunities I had in my life. People in fact, let's go and pray for this person to become president. I turned it down.
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I turn it down. Remember there was a politician who came to our church in AUA. Then he said we I
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wanted to be the the member of parliament for then that time was in
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power. I remember it was impossible to beat him because he was doing a lot of good work there.
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I looked at the woman and I prayed and I said God is going to give you a chance.
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You're going to win. They said, "No, no, no, no, pastor. Then we have to go and pray for I said I can't go with you."
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Said, "Pastor, I'm connecting to power, to influence, to money." I said, "No.
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God hasn't sent me to bless him. You are the one I've been called to
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speak over your life." When you they take opport they take authority, I never go to ask them for one person
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because the purpose of what I'm declaring is not to make profit from them, but to bring them to the knowledge of
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God one day to God who gave them that opportunity. He will judge them if they don't do that
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work. Are you with me? So, let us walk. You see, I've I've seen
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people uh think that I'm stupid, I'm not wise, I'm not chasing after money and
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those things. I must do this within the will of God. That's something you need when you walk with me. You need to come
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to that place of appreciation. Otherwise, just like you might go ahead of me to join and do things and go on
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the wrong side of God because I am afraid to go outside the
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will of God. Remember that in everything I do.
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John thought said prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God
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or bending his will to ours but it is the prescribed way of
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subordinating our will to God. What is he trying to say? John is saying
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that prayer is an activity where we bring our
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will under subjection to God's will. Where we allow our will to fall within
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God's divine will. We don't go into prayer trying to force God's hand to do
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the opposite of what God has not asked them to do. The churches do that trying to get favor
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within governments and political powers. They contradict the word of God,
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contradict the will of God and pray and make it sound as if that even when they
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prayed, God did not hear. But God hears every prayer. If only it
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is within his will. That is why a thousand people can pray
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and God will ignore it and one man may pray and God will hear. The difference
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is that he has prayed within the will of God, not outside the will of God.
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Father, help them understand this. We pray not just to be heard, but to
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establish God's will on earth. Heaven affirms our request. When we are
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with his will, all things find their equilibrium in God's will.
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All things work perfectly. All things align perfectly within the will of God.
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Listen to me. Do you know that if men respected the will of God, there will be peace on the face of this earth? There's
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no need for world superpower. There's no need for bullying people, destroying economies, economic sabotages. If people
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respected the will of God and understand the wisdom of God. Now let me speak to a
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broader caucuses of the G20 nations. And I pray one day you will have wisdom to listen to what I'm saying.
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In agriculture, a person's farm can only thrive if the rest of the farms around
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him are also doing well. In agriculture and I'm I'm building a simile to
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something very important. Why? There's something known as crosspollination. The ability for your farm to do well is not
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dependent on fertilizer, but is dependent on the fact that the bees that would cross to the other farm and come
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back with well and better grains pollins to come and cross your plants offers you
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the greatest harvest possible in any season. Proven fact in science.
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Proven fact in science. And so if you are a farmer and you are
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hoping your the other farmers should fail, your harvest will be inadequate
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and your labor will not reward you. The west may not be happy about Africa's
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rising. The west may not be happy about other nations thriving, about China's thriving. But we need each other in this
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ecosystem of economies. When each economy rise, we provide
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support for each other. If we intend not to do each other harm according to the will of God, we build a safer, better
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world for everybody. But when we act outside the will of God,
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preempting fear, we work against each other and fight each other to the core
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needlessly, fulfilling the devil's will on earth and going against the will of
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God in every situation of our lives.
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Matthew 6:93 says, "For this manner, if
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you must pray, pray in this manner. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be
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thy name, thy kingdom come."
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And the most important part, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our
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debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is
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the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. I want us to examine this
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prayer wisely. The apostles go to Jesus and say Jesus teach us how to pray. So if you if you must pray, follow this
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pattern. The word like manner means follow this pattern. He didn't say go and repeat this thing.
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This is prayer. He says follow this pattern. If you must pray, go to God in
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a relationship as your father. Learn to honor, exalt, and praise him.
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Pray for his power to come. The grace of the Holy Spirit.
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In fact, Jesus wanted them to go and save souls. Jesus had come to die on the cross, resurrected. Yet, he told the
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apostles until the Holy Ghost has come. You should not go. Men were dying. They were waiting till
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Pentecost. They were waiting for 40 days. Within the 40 days, others died. People got sick. The devil beat
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somebody. The devil Jesus said wait because it's the will of God that you must not go without the
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power of God.
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I used to think everybody needs to hear the word of God until I brought my thinking within the will of God and
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understood. One time I had a chance to go and pray for a minister in a very big church. I'll mention the area in a crowd
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and I was happy and excited to go and as I was praying the night I fell into a trance and in the trance I was going
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into the church and I saw two angels at the gates and said servant of God this is not the will of God for you. This
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next morning the pastor and associate were in front of my house to pick me to the church. I said I could not go. He
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said why? Said pastor a very big church we'll help you. We'll bless. I said no.
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I said I could not go.
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I used to think everybody needs to hear the word of God. So I realize that the word of God is a precious seed God
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doesn't just throw away. Something if you force everybody to become a Christian then God will love
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you. That's not how it works. The gospel is a treasure. It is it is a
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price. The word of God paid for in the blood and weight of Jesus Christ. is not
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given to everybody but to them who have been called to hear it.
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For those he forneew he predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his only
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son Jesus Christ. This is why sometimes we tell the gospel to some people and then we later regret
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it. Have you noticed? You do everything to bring this person to God and the person never came to God because you
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cast your precious spells before swines. This is hard talk. This is very this is
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hard talk that many pastors will not be comfortable to hear. But we go about trying to think that we
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love the people more than Jesus Christ. We are jokers. None of us will live our lives and go to
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the cross for those people we claim want to save. And no soul can bribe God
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if it's not within the will of God.
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So there is something Jesus told them said the will of God be done in heaven
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in on earth as it is in heaven. No no no take your time. He says that as much as
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God is the final se of everything in heaven. As far as everything in heaven that conspires that goes on is meant to
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satisfy God's will so must it be on the face of this earth.
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I didn't say that. Our Messiah said that it includes our daily bread. He goes on to explain further. He said it includes
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our daily bread. It includes the fact that he requires us to forgive each other. He goes on to say it includes the
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fact that that he wants us to walk in his will so that we don't fall into
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temptation and that he will deliver us from temptation.
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And then he explains how he will deliver us. Because the kingdom is yours, the power,
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the glory, everything that we can think of on the face of this earth is yours
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and within your will. Philippians 5:17 said, "Wherefore, be
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not unwise." Tell somebody, "Be wise.
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[Music] very he's very he said he said do not be
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unwise don't be a fool thinking that everything is the will of God but he said be wise to be able to understand
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out of the options which one is the will of God
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is the will of God now let me tell you something when God sends you to go and help somebody go don't go and test him
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people going around with that foolish behavior. When God tells them, "Go and help us." Mercy. When they come, they
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want to test you whether you are a genuine person or not. Your own is to obey.
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So God knows you obeyed him. Your own is not to test the person. If God says, "Come and help Pastor David and you
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come, you want to test me first to see whether I'll be loyal to you before you help me," you're a joker.
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You forget the opportunities you are missing in times of eternity. I'm being serious. I mean, this is not
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something that is easy to say, but I must say it. When God says you go and go and support
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a certain man of God, you don't go and test him first, though. You don't go and see whether or not papa. You go to obey
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first.
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The Bible said a rich man had two sons. Huh? Two sons. Says go to the farm. Said
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I'll go, father. I'll go. I'll go. said to the other go. He said I won't go.
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Then he said the one who said he does he won't go later went and did the work. The one who said I will go did not go.
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Then Jesus asked them which one of them has done the will of the of the father said the one who said he will not go but went.
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So what is the will of God? Romans 12:2 says and be not conformed to this world.
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So number one, the world has a standard that is opposite the will of God. Remember this.
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Tell somebody remember this. Ch. Let's be honest. You cannot live in
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this world ah and understand God.
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It's a phrase I'm using. I'm not saying you cannot be alive and understand God. Listen to me. You cannot live in this
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world. Listen. If if you if you you believe in bling bling,
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you believe in cruise cruise, big cars, Lamborghinis, you believe in a certain kind of lifestyle,
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God will not be a priority to you. No matter who you are, the best you can do
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is attempt to buy God with big money. I think if you do if if you give that
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offering more than anybody in that church, God will value you more. You you will tend to try and insult God every opportunity he gives you for obedience.
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You see these rich people, people, people keep saying that you never see a rich man in church falling under the anointing. They don't go to church.
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Their money goes to church. Am I lying? If a rich man will go to church, then there's the church that he has full
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control of, that he has extreme respect and value. Am I lying?
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Which billionaire will be here on this Sunday to listen to me? Am I asking you a question?
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The most humble of them will listen to you from a distance. Am I lying? But their money can go to church for
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them. I pray God doesn't allow their money into heaven and send them to hell. I'm praying so it's not the opposite.
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Their money may be familiar to God, but they themselves they are strangers to grace.
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Because when they sit under your anointing, they're going to take offense. When they sit under the word of
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God you are teaching, they will get angry
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because the word of God doesn't focus on them. But sister, brother, the Bible was not built on you. The word of God is not
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about you. You are not the target of the word of God.
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There's a divine purpose, a divine standard, a kingdom standard that God wants everybody who hear the word of God
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to adhere to. So when you fall outside that kingdom
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and those words offend you, remember that you are missing the standard. Don't take offense. Remember you're missing a
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standard. Correct yourself and stand again. I hope I made sense to you.
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So be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by renewing your mind by having a
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different mentality that you may prove what is good
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and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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So some of you believe the world behaves in a certain way. Some of when it comes to money, you think the way the world
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thinks.
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Remember
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the farm analogy I used to teach you something and teach the global world something.
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That person you are trying to hinder is still connected to your destiny for a purpose. They are connected to your
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destiny for a purpose. And when you fall into the right will of God, both of you
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will harness each other's ability, each other's testimony and glory.
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Are you with me? So the Bible says if you renew your mind, if you choose to walk the opposite
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of what is the world, that is only when you can prove, you can live a life that is evident of what is good, what is
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acceptable, and a perfect. We are not saying that don't dress. We are not saying that look ugly. We are not saying
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that look as if you are from Mesopotamia every day. We are not saying that uh
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live a life that is contrary to being human. What we are saying is that
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let your mind understand what is not right and what is wrong.
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Classic example if somebody gave you a choice is if you
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come and join us whether political party or a fan club what we do is that we
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steal everything we make everybody suffer but ourselves that we don't suffer we help each other join us or
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join them and suffer 90% of Christians will go and join them
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they want to have first think when they have first that they have power to do whatever they want but when people offer
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you that opportunity They your power to do the opposite the minute you see the money.
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When people give you such an opportunity, they intend to control you within those confines.
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And that's the truth of life. You can't go to a malam, take his money and go to
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a church to help a church. You're a joker.
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Yes, once in a while you do something good, but you cannot use evil to help good.
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1 Peter 2:15 says, "For so is the will of God that with welloing you may put to
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silence the ignorance of of what? Foolish men." Oh, read with me,
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church. The Bible says that this is the will of God that in doing what is right,
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you put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. So what is doing what is
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the will of God? Micah 6:7 to8 explains the will of God clearly.
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Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or 10 thousands of rivers of
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oil? Shall I give my first born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for
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the sin of my soul? He had shown thee, oh man, what is good.
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And what does the Lord require of thee? But to do justly, to walk righteously
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on earth, to love mercy, and to walk humbly. humbly
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with thy God.
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So what is the will of God? That all men walk in righteousness. Before Jesus came, God said the same
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standard. All men should walk in righteousness. Number two,
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that we should love mercy. What is mercy? God deal with us in
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mercy. Deal with your fellow brother in mercy. And finally, we must walk humbly. God
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must be more important than us. God must be more relevant than us. God must be so
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important that everything we do has God as first in our life. Seek ye first the
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kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all all all these things shall be
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added unto you. the kingdom of God, the power of God, the interest of God's kingdom on the face of this earth, and
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finally his righteousness to walk righteously before God.
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Have you ever been passionate about helping God's will be done on earth?
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Or you are quick to become rich. You are quick to drive your own car. You are
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quick to become you. You are quick to arrive because you see you are growing. You have to have kids, have a husband, have life, have a
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wife, travel, enjoy good food. You know, you are quick to be you.
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But you can be you whilst God's work also is thriving. Are you understanding
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me? The reason why God should allow you to be you is because whilst you are you, God's work does not fail on the face of
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this earth. Am I making sense to somebody? That we establish all things within
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God's will and sustain them on his terms.
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Did you understand what I just taught?
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Very simple but true. He expects us to pray.
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But God doesn't enjoy us coming to prayer forcing him to do what he has not told us to do.
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God doesn't enjoy we coming to prayer as his sons and then forcing him, blackmailing him, commanding him to do
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evil because we are his sons and daughters.
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God doesn't enjoy we going about doing things the wrong way in the name of the
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fact that we think we are Christians. He didn't die so that unrighteousness
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will become a standard. He died so that righteousness will become our standard.
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What is righteousness? to believe in Jesus as the Lord and
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Savior, to trust that he's the way, the truth, and the life, and to walk in the
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path he prescribes according to his word. Bow your head and let us pray.
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Oh Jesus, I thank you. I want you to pray this this morning. I just want you to pray in the next five minutes. I just
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want us to pray. Somebody just begin to pray and and and pray and thank God for
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life. Thank God for the sermon. Thank God for the opportunity to hear the word of God. And and and pray that that the
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grace of God abound. His spirit abound in you. His purpose abounds in you in
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Jesus mighty name. Go ahead and pray. Go ahead and pray.
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And please ask him to let his will be familiar. be familiar to you.
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His will. His will. It is God's will that evil must not thrive on the face of
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this earth. So we stand to pray. We have a duty to bring evil into the subjection
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of God's word. We stand to pray. It is important that
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God's will be done in every situation of our lives.
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talk to him. Now, I want you to begin to pray on the will of God.
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Pray on the will of God.
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You are a child of destiny. You are a child God has called on the face of this earth for a purpose. You
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are the investment of God on the face of this earth. One of the will of God is that you must
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not fail. That to every vision, to every dream he has placed in your heart,
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he will open the doors and you will walk through them without hindrances.
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And we shall become the living testimonies and praise of his goodness to our generations.
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The will of God. The will of God. Time passing the will of God.
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Time passing the will of God.
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Pray the will of God be done in every situation you find yourself in.
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In every situation you find yourself in.
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In every situation you find yourself in
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every situation you find yourself in.
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Trust that his will means good for you. Trust that his will means good for you
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in Jesus name.
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In the present you are making
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in the soil. I surrender.
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You are breaking new ground.
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So I careful
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when I trust I don't need to understand
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your make an offering.
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Make me whatever you want me to be.
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Make me an offering. Make me a vessel.
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Make me whatever you want me to be.
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I came here with nothing but all you have given me.
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Jesus, bring new word out of me.
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Make me a vessel. Make me an offering.
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Make me whatever you want me to be.
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I came here with nothing but all you have given me.
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Jesus bring you out of me.
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this new freedom. Jesus,
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new word. Now I want you to lift up your hands in agreement with me.
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Speak this word with me in Jesus name. Say in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. And by the power of the Holy Spirit,
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I declare over this nation, over this city,
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over the elements of the heavens and the earth, let them conspire to lift the righteous
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in the land. Let them work together to establish God's will in every situation
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by the blood of Jesus. Every contradiction of darkness,
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any contradiction of the will and purpose of God by the blood of Jesus, we
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overturn, undo, we break, we loosen the bonds of deception, the manipulations of
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darkness. We declare liberty, freedom,
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and power. Now I speak with lightning speed.
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Let the help of God come to those who are within God's will.
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Those who are within God's will, let them receive adequately, sufficiently above all purpose.
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Above all, let them sufficiently receive help on every side.
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I speak to the righteous to rise from their sick beds. I speak to the righteous to rise out of their
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situations of suffering. I speak around any police case, any matter, any trouble
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that those who fear of God have been placed in.
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And I declare liberty in Jesus name because the word of God declares that
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the Lord our God is our present help in time of need. I declare the availability of heaven for anyone who trusts, who
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hopes and believe in the Lord our God in Jesus name. Amen.
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An offering make me.
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I came here with nothing but all you have given me.
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Jesus break new wine out of me.
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[Music] Name him.
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Make me an offering. Make me whatever
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you want me to be. [Music] I came here with nothing
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but all you have given me. Jesus, bring new wine
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out of me. Cuz there's new way
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and new power. There's new freedom
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and the kingom is here. I lay down old flames
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to carry on new fire today. Jesus, bring new wine
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out of me. Father, I thank you
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that you've drawn our hearts to the realization of activating your will
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over every prayer and praying within your will so that no
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prayer we pray will ever fail or ever go answered.
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We thank you for revelation to become dangerous and powerful and influential
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in the spirit. We thank you that all things are line according to your will
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and purpose that when Jesus stood in fear at
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Gethsemane when fear crippled him and he was afraid at that when he asked you
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that the cup that you have given him to drink from be put away from him. He was
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quick again to go back and said, "Yet not my will, oh father, but let your will be done."
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So we declare in our lives, let your will be done. We know your will
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desires that we should be rich. It is your will that we should have money till we cannot even handle it any
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longer. For your word says, "If we acquaint ourselves with you, you will cause us to lay on gold as dust.
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It is your will that in this year will have great grace to exercise great power
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and to declare great things over our nation
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that the staff of wickedness be broken, the staff of manipulations be broken, the works and machinations of wickedness
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be destroyed in this land. It is your will
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that the yolks of suffering be broken. The yolks of manipulation, of cheating, of abuse, of suffering, of turning our
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children into prostitutes, into slaves, into all manner of painful livelihood
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for the interest and the benefit of the wicked alone is wickedness
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and unprecedented in your will. Therefore, we set the standards in
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righteousness over our nation, over our city. We declare the will of God in
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every situation to thrive. And we declare the hunger and the test for righteousness over our nation. In the
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name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Give a clap offering unto Jesus. I want you to take out an offering.
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Take out your offering and speak over your seed according to the will of God. Let this
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go and come back measures pressed down, shaken together and extremely running over.
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Let your presence preserve, protect and keep every other member anywhere at this
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moment. and let the presence of God sustain our lives and bring us into the
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will of our father in Jesus name. Amen.
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Lydia please help us.
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What are
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we over?
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Oh, we come on. [Music]
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[Music] [Applause] Oh no.
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Oh no.
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Yes.
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Oh no. Oh
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no. I know.