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A Church Unleashed - Ps. Emmanuel Osei-Akosah
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To do is to desire him. Praise the Lord this evening.
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God richly bless you for coming. We want to inform the house that
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by the grace of God we have our resident minister and the wife
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in the person of Pastor and Mrs. Sosaya Kosai Namis.
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Shall we welcome them? God richly bless you.
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Without wasting time. We want to invite our dear
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Pastor to share the Word of God with us.
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Shall we welcome him with a club?
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Oh praise the Lord, Hallelujah. May the peace of God be with us
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all. We thank God for tonight and for
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this special time for us to also share in this time with the
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English Assembly and may His name be praised now and forever
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more. I want to share with you the
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church unleashed and I want to use we want to use Job Job as an
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example for we want to learn things from Job as we are
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unleashed, the church unleashed to transform society through the
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gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit today and go willing on
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Sunday. One use the book of Job chapter
Job 29 chapter mention
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29. I share this I think with
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pentacles fire or so but for you we are going to go deeper.
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What I shared with them was about 110th.
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They could just get about 110th but with us we're going to dive
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a little much more deeper to get many things from it.
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So one read from Job chapter 29, we take our time and read about
Job 29 chapter mention
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verses 1 to probably verse verse 6.
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Then God willing on Sunday will continue from verse 7 to where
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God will allow us to end. So Job 26 from verse one through
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to verse 7 verse one to verse 6 verse one to six.
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So Job continued speaking. OK, next verse how how you have
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not 2929 please 29 not 26. So Job continued speaking for I.
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I longed for the years gone by when God took care of me, when
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He lit up the way before me and I walked safely through the
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darkness. When I was in my prime, God's
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friendship was felt in my home. The Almighty was still with me
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and my children were were around me.
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My cows produce milk. Is it from from the newly
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living? OK, so the Almighty was still
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with me and my children were around me.
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Verse 6. Your verse 6 is different from
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my verse 6. My steps where I washed in cream
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and the rocks gushed olive oil for me.
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Please go to the new new King James.
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Please. When my steps were were bathed
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with cream and the rock poured out.
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Rivers of oil, rivers of oil. So Job.
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Why Job? Job is one of the giants of
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faith and his lifestyle as he was thinking about his former
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way of life gives us some lessons which we can learn from
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it to also help us as a church unleashed.
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Job was described by God himself as one of the righteous men and
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he received that special commendation from God.
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He told the devil, Have you considered my servant Job, that
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there is no one like him. So have you noticed my servant
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Job? He's the finest man.
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Job one, verse 8, you know the earth.
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He's blameless, a man of complete integrity.
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He fears God and stays away from evil.
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This one is God himself testifying about Job.
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So Job was not just an any ordinary man, but a man who
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lived in his time and received a very special commendation from
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God, special special commendation from God.
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So Joe was thinking about his good old days before all things
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that came his we, how he used to live his life.
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And these things, there are many things that we can learn from
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it. As a Church of Pentacles from
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the Vision 2028, we seek to unleash the, the life in the
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church, locked up in the church for the, for the world to also
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draw from it. So let us go straight into what
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we're going to have a look at before let's go straight to it.
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So we'll start with the first thing that we, we want to learn.
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The first thing is that Job had a personal relationship and a
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household relationship. That is from the verse 2 to
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verse five, Job had a personal and a household relationship
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with God. You see the oh that I were in
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the months past as in the days when God washed over me.
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Next verse please, when His lamp, take notice of the
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keywords, when His lamp shone upon my head, and when by His
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light I walked through darkness. Not this verse.
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Just as I was in the days of my prime when the friendly counsel
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of God was over my tent, and the verse 5 when the Almighty was
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yet with me, with me, when my children were also with me, so
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Job himself had a personal relationship with God and his
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relationship with God was evident in his household.
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He was he. He lived with the consciousness
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of the presence of God when the Almighty was with me, with me.
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Notice how He stressed with me, my tent, not just with him, but
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He also goes at another step further that when his light,
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when he lit the way before me, when I walked safely, when God's
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friendship was with me, when the Almighty was with me and my
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children were with me. So there was that relationship
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with me that two things are connected together.
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So Job had that personal relationship with God and he
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lived in the consciousness of that.
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So he lived with that. No wonder that when even his
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children would go and feast, Job would even pray a day after and
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ask God to forgive them. So you pray that perhaps they
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might have cursed God in their hearts.
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So Job, live with the consciousness that God is with
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us and we cannot just live anyhow.
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And this was confirmed by God, not by any human being.
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But God will say testified before the accuser that have you
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considered my servant Job. There is no one in all the earth
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like he means the finest God himself saying that you are the
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finest. It means that Job was indeed the
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finest. So he says that God watched over
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me. He slams shooting upon my head.
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Friendly cancer was on my 10 the almighty world.
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So he lived with the consciousness that God was
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within him and he cherished the presence of God in his home.
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He cherished it. If I was saying it that God was
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with me, his light, it, it wasn't just he even living with
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the consciousness, but he lived with the word of God when his
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light, even when he was working in darkness, Look at how he even
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says that he was. He worked safely through the
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darkness. He wasn't afraid of the darkness
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because God was with him. So when he walked through the
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the value of the shadow of death darkness, he knew that God was
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with him. And look at when God's light,
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his counsel, his light shone upon my head.
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It meant that when his lamp, his lamp.
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So Job was not an ordinary man, and he is using these phrases to
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show us the extent of his relationship with God.
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So as a church, individually, collectively, we need to build
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the personal relationship with God first.
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The church cannot be unleashed if we don't have that
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connectedness with God. We need to know God for
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ourselves. Individually.
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Everybody must know God. Every member of the church must
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be connected to God, must be connected.
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So the lamp of God, meaning that the word of God, he cherished
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God's word. Thy word is what?
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A word, a lamp or word and a light unto my.
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No wonder that when he was walking through darkness, he
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walked safely, because God was with him.
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May we be connected to God. May we know that God is with me.
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So it's one thing knowing that and working with the
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consciousness that God is with me, so I must live as such.
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May we live as such that God, God is with me and He also took
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care of his home. Job 15.
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Let me hit that one just a little bit.
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Is it that when these celebrations ended, sometimes
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after several days, Job would purify his children?
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He would purify his children. He would get up early in the
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morning and offer a bent offering for each of them.
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For Job said to himself, Perhaps my children have sinned and have
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cursed God in their hearts. This was Job's regular practice.
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It was what Job's regular practice.
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So it wasn't just one time event.
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Job was doing it often. Anytime his children will go and
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celebrate, he will preify perhaps.
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So Job live with the consciousness that God is here,
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God is with them, and he needed to he cherish that God was with
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him, God was with him, and he also knew that there's a
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connection between the presence of God and being fruitful as a
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church church. If we lose cause presence in the
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church, the church will become an ordinary group, will become a
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cubia, but with the presence of God, the active presence of God
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with us, that is what makes the church a powerful group.
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We pray that we will cherish it and the Lord will protect us.
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So your success, my success, the glory in the church is connected
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to us having the relationship at the individual level and at the
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corporate level as well. Hallelujah.
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So Job knew that his life he but he had the understanding of
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acknowledging God as the source of his life and wealth and it
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was confirmed by Satan himself. Job 110.
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Job 1-10. You have put a wall of
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protection around him and his home and his property.
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You have made him one prosper in everything he does.
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Look how rich he is. So Joe, he knew that the secret
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is connection with the Almighty God and living with the
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consciousness. We pray that we will have that
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connection with him because He's the source of all things and he
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can. If I look at what you will get
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from when you are connected to God and you live in that
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consciousness and you cherish that relationship of God, he
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says that the devil now is saying that you have put a wall
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of one protection. So one, God will protect you,
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God will do what protect you, not just you, but your home as
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well, not just your home and everything.
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You have everything, everything. And it will not even they say
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that you have made him prosper in everything he does.
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So as a church, if we can be on leash and we are learning from
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Job, we need to be connected, we need to have that personal
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relationship and be conscious and be conscious and be
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conscious. Some have described the presence
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of God in Job's life as guarding God, as guarding somebody.
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Was that when God washed over me?
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And then guiding lump. So those two things, God and
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guide God is protecting him and is guiding him in all that he
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was to doing. That is how God would do for
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you. May the Lord guide us and guide
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us. Hallelujah, oh Hallelujah.
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So as a church, we must also continually cherish building
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altars. Job was fond of building 1 Otis
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and then praying. So the church too.
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At home, we should also build Otis.
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We should do what Build 1 Otis And it should start from the
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family. The family.
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If our church, the family is so crucial to God.
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God is interested in families. God, when he's thinking he
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thinks in terms of generations and who who makes up families,
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makes up what generations. And the reason why God thinks in
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in terms of that is that the blessings he has for us is
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transgenerational. Yami Inshra or Israel, it will
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always outlive you. So he doesn't want it to be
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truncated with you. He doesn't want anything.
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He starts to end with us. That is why he's interested in
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how you raise children in the home.
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So for the church to possess the nations, possessing the nations
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or being unleashed, you cannot be unleashed without possessing
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your home. Charity, they say, begins at
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where? At home.
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So you need to possess your home first.
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You need to possess your home. We need to build alters where we
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will gather together. When you're talking about family
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alters, we are talking about holding devotions at home.
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Though it is tough, but we need to try and do it.
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Hallelujah, We need to do it. No matter how old you are, we
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need to do it and God will help us so that we'll do it.
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So anytime you hear about Vision 2228, our dear chairman, we to
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talk about about the Puritans. The Puritans, they saw the home
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as a seminary and a sanctuary. So for the church to effectively
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be unleashed, we need to turn the homes into what?
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Seminaries and sanctuaries. We need to attend the home into
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what seminaries and what sanctuaries, seminaries and
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sanctuaries was. I was thinking about this.
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Something came up Abraham when God told him to go and sacrifice
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his son Isaac, his holy son when they were leaving.
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Let us go to that text from Genesis 22, verse 6.
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Genesis 22, verse 6. So Abraham placed the wood for
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the bent offering on Isaac's shoulders, while he himself
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carried the fire and the knife as the two of them walked on
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together. So I saw that fathers must carry
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the fire for alters. That was the altar that God
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swore by himself. That Abraham, I will bless you
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in blessing. I will bless you.
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I have seen that, Abraham, what you have done, your obedience,
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you have done it. So for generations to be blessed
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fathers, we need to carry the fire to the artists where God
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will swear and bless generations.
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And now look at what is happening.
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Abraham's obedience and now Israel is still blessed to date
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nations. Israel.
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Their land size is about that of Florida in US, but Iran?
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Iraq So something is working.
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Abraham, Abraham so Mount Moriah before we can get there to move
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God. Fathers, may we carry the fire
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and build altars so that God will bless the home and when the
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home is blessed, you will see that the church is blessed.
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Let's go to the verse. Let's go back to Job, Job 29 and
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verse 6. So we are moving to the next
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lesson. The first one is Job had a
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personal relationship and a household relationship with God.
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So all of us too, we need to have the personal and household
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relationship. Verse 6 when my steps we bathe
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or bath was school alcohol and bitchiness of the cabbie was
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above we're bathed with cream because we bathed.
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I assemble various we're bathed. We can bath with cream and the
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rock poured out rivers of oil for me.
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So that's the the next thing we need to learn is that the steps
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and the path of the church on leaves wish our staff should be
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bathed with cream and the rocks should pour out rivers of oil.
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These things are there not for just being there.
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Let us look at it again. So the cream and the oils were
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symbol of material things. Anyone who was blessed in their
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days, like the steps were bathed with cream.
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It shows what you get from from milk, milk from milk you can
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get, cream you got and things. So it tells you that Job was
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worthy and it was even acknowledged that he had
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thousands of cattles, sheep, goat and other things.
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So it was a symbol of his wealth.
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And then the olive trees, olive trees were also plenty.
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So he had farms and he had livestock.
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So he was rich. He was a rich man.
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He was a rich man. And not just rich, but they were
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plentiful that everything seemed to overflow.
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So Job wasn't just living there, you know, living just life of
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it. No, he was wealthy.
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He was rich and he was living in the overflow.
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So Job, his steps were directed by God.
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So look at this text in about two ways.
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In about two ways, Psalm 37, verse 23.
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Let's read that one. Psalm 37233723.
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Am I there? OK, The steps of a good man are
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what? Ordered by who?
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The steps of who are ordered by the and it doesn't end there.
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He delights in his way. He delights in his way.
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So job as a godly person. His steps were directed by God.
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So the church unleashed, we need to also have our steps directed
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by God, directed by God. So we need divine guidance and
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guardianship. Then abundance will be our lot.
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If God will direct you, you ensure that you will not like
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God. He says that no good thing will
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he withhold from them that work upright even the lions and I
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ain't desire. But one hour.
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Don't you have it there? Oh, oh, morning.
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Let me read it. Let me read.
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Let's go to Psalm 34. Psalm 34, verse 1034.
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Ten. OK, let's start from the 9.
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Oh, fear the Lord, you his sins. There is no one to those who do
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what? There is no one.
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In other words, those who fear him, they don't lack, they have
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all they need. If you read from the new living,
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say that for those who fear Him will have all they need.
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For those who fear Him will have all they need.
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Next verse, even strong young lion sometimes go hungry, but
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those who trust in the Lord will lack no good thing.
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So no wonder. So there's a connection.
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If you walk by what the law says, if you allow God to direct
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you, if you allow God to guide and guide you, then there is a
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proportionate way that God will ensure that your steps are
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ordered, not just anyhow, but with abundance.
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Hallelujah. So when you have God as your
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source of life, then you are connected to an inexhaustible
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supply of life. Amen.
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Amen. So please be connected to God.
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Be connected to God. Let's take another look from
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that same text. The church on leash must also
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work in abundance of grace, of dung, oil, cream.
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The world is dry because of sin. The world is a patched land.
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Here we are. See dry the hair dry, but we
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need to work with cream so that we can bring some hope.
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We need to let the oil the church must work in abundance of
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oil and grace because the world that we are going into to
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process. If you don't have oil, if you
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don't have grace, if you don't have them in abundance, soon you
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will run out of oil and you may be like the five foolish
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virgins. So we need to carry extra oil,
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extra oil, extra oil. The church.
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We need to carry extra oil, extra oil, extra.
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OK, so let us read from another text.
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Let me pick a version that always let Let us read from
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Ecclesiasis 9 verse 8, Ecclesiasis 98 from the NIV or
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from the new Hey, move your head.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait. These guys have given us and
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another one, he said. Wear fine clothes with a splash
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of what? Let's pick it from another
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version. Always the clothes in white and
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always who do what? Anoint your head with oil.
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Let's pick the same text from the new King James.
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Please let your garment always be white and let your head lack
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no oil. So if we want to work in this
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world as a church, then we need to flow in abundance, abundance,
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abundance. And the source of anointing is
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the Holy Ghost, the oil, the cream, everything.
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The church, our source of life. Because how can rocks pour out
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streams of oil for you? Blow away Yenyangfrim.
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The oils come from trees. But even at the hardest place,
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God will cause 'cause the oil to gash out.
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So the church unleashed has abundance of resources, both
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spiritual and material. We cannot be unleashed without
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grace and power coupled with physical blessings.
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Hey, you cannot come and say that I have Holy Ghost.
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You have faith, but you don't have works the church.
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We need to get both. When we are unleashed, we need
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to show them when it comes to power is power.
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When it comes to cash, we have cash.
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May the Lord give you. May the Lord bless this church
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with material, physical, spiritual.
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We need abundance of them so that when we go out there,
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because you cannot go and pray for somebody at the hospital or
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you are soon singing a new hospital bill after praying.
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And So what? Take thousand cities, look at
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the joy, look at the joy that will come.
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So church, we need to work. It also means that Job wasn't
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lazy. He was a hard working man
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because a boy, a man who rocks will not just give you oil, you
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need that to work hard. So even the most unlikely
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source, God was even causing more abundance to come.
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So judge as we work hard, God will supply, but those who don't
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work hard, they will not get anything.
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So may our steps be washed with cream.
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So the wherever we step, when your steps are washed with
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cream, you leave Max, your impact will be seen.
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Look at the woman who broke her alabaster box.
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The fragrance filled the whole house.
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So when you are working with cream, you leave footpath for
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others to also follow. You leave lasting impacts on
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there's a cream. Never draw formal for others.
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Also see that there is something here, somebody has passed here.
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May our unleashing work bring impacts.
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And he said that the rock refers of oil.
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Oils were used for many things, many things.
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The oils. So it was not just a stream or
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river, just rivers. It was flowing, continual
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flowing of oil. May the Lord cause the church to
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have a flow, a flow, constant flow of oil.
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Hallelujah. So that we'll never be dry
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church. We need the anointing of God.
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We need the oil. So the wherever we go, our
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impacts will be felt. Oils, they have many effects.
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When somebody was ill or had a wound, they used oil to bind
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wounds. There are a lot of wounds in the
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world and we pay prow. Many are wounded and they're
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waiting. They need oil.
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They need a therapeutic effect of oil from us to bind their
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wounds. For healing, the world needs our
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oil. Oils are also used if there's a
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adoption for food, for for your skin, for glowing, for many
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things. Oil, oil.
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So the world is dry. May our oil never run dry, and
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may the Holy Ghost continually fill the church with oil.
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When as a believer, you don't have oil, your life is dry like
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the world and your impact is non existent.
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May the Almighty God cause us to have abundance of anointing.
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So tonight we're going to pray that Lord, may the anointing in
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your church never run dry. In fact, if a church does not
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have anointing, want to pray? If the church lacks anointing,
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we become ordinary. Seriously.
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Seriously, if we don't have oil, will become beggars.
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Will become what beggars? I pray that the Church of
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Pentacles will always have the oil.
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If the oil sets you apart, anyone who carries oil by fed
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grace, everybody will sell. But when you have oil, yours is
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different. When you carry grace, everybody
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will sing. But the moment you take the mic,
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things will change. Everybody will work as a nurse,
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doctor, whoever. But the moment you step in, you
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will see that the atmosphere has changed.
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Everybody can do all. Anyone can do anything but the
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believer who carries the oil of God.
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The moment you step in, things will change.
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Tonight we are going to pray that the Lord will anoint us
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anune, that the Lord will anoint us anune.
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And may the flow of the oil never run dry.
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Look at it or see. And the rock poured out rivers
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of oil for me, for me, not for anyone, but for him.
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Tonight you need the rocks to also give oil for you.
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We are. You are praying for yourself
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that oh God, give me oil. Anoint me.
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Because the Bible say that may our head never lack oil.
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So as a believer, you need to have rivers of oil for yourself.
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Otherwise you become the five foolish virgins whose oil got
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finished. But we will be the wise ones who
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took the extra oil. We need extra oil for the
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unleashing agenda. We need the rivers of oil from
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the rocks so that we'll never run dry.
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When our oil is finished, our lumps will go down.
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You work in darkness and you stumble and fall.
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Tonight we want to pray. Oh God, give U.S. oil.
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Oh Holy Ghost, anoint us. Give us more oil.
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Give U.S. oil. Left up your voice of you to
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pray. Give us yeah.
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Anoint. Give me oil in my lump.
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Keep me burning. Give me oil in my lump.
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I Hallelujah. Give me money.
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Give me money to the brink of Hallelujah.
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Give me all your in my life. Give me Benny.
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Give me all your. Give me all your in my life.
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I pray, I pray, give me all in my life.
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Keep me many we are praying the Lord give us.
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May the rocks may we have rocks unlimited supply of oil because
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Job was saying that the oil and the rock the rock, not any other
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rock but the rock and the rock is Jesus himself.
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The rock very specific the rock Jesus is the anointed one.
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And first, John says that you don't need anyone to teach you
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because you had you carried anointing the oil.
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So we are praying that Jesus, may I never be cut short from
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the constant supply of oil. May we always may you, may we
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always first. John 2:20 But you have an
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anointing from the Holy one and all, and all of you know the
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truth. Hallelujah.
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Oh, I said Hallelujah. And the best to 27 He says that
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As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in
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you, and you don't need anyone to teach you, but as His
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anointing teaches you about all things, and that anointing is
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real, not counterfeit, just as it has taught you, remain in
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Him. So we are praying that Jesus the
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rock, may I never disconnect myself from the flow of the oil.
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May we never be disconnected from that special flow of oil.
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Lift up your voice and begin to cry out to the Lord that the
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oil, that the oil, we are praying for oil for ourselves.
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Pray for the anointing, anointing, anointing.
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Rakadaba Sukate rendezvous, Satan.
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Ababa, the oil flowing from Jesus is the Holy Ghost in the
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Holy Ghost. May we pray and pray and pray.
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And as the Holy Ghost, more of him, more of the rock in US.
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Rakatana Maso, leave my son Ababa, Jesus the Messiah, the
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anointed 10 They will never be disconnected from the constant
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flow of anointed from you. Anointer so long.
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Anointer so long. Yeah.
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Yeah. Anoint us with fresh.
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Oh yeah, fresh. Fresh oil anointing us with
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Fresh oil through we bow. We bow before you, waiting for
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your cash flow anointing us with.
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The and what I know that's a crush for you, annoying.
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I sweep all your fruits waiting for your.
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That's all annoying us, annoying us.
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We bow before for sure you're through.
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We are waiting for a touch law, waiting for your touch law.
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Annoying us, annoying. Lift up your hands and pray.
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Begin to pray in tongues blowing tongues.
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Pray the language of the spring with the hands lifted up.
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I know it has fresh oil logo.
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None. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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No. May we be seated?
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Please, may we be seated. Father, we thank you today.
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May our steps and our path as you unleash us.
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May our steps be washed in cream and in butter and the rocks gash
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out olive oil for us, the rock. Jesus, may we be connected to
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you so that our source of streams of olive oil will never
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be cut short. If we lack the oil, we will miss
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the time you come because our lamps will go dim till they go
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out. Lord, help us.
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We need this extra oil always, so that we will brighten our
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spheres and transform it from darkness to light.
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Lord, may this deposit be in US rocks always giving, oil never
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running dry. We pray that, O God, anoint us
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are fresh, fresh oil from the throne.
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We thank you for answered prayer.
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May we also have that connection to you.
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May we be connected personally. May we be connected as families,
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we will be connected as a church, corporate level,
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individual level. May we be connected so that we
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would draw. Just as Job derived many things,
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everything he had came from you. Lord help us, so they will also
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depend on you to transform our fears.
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In Jesus name, Amen.