Sermon
Divine Timing; Understanding Seasons, Times and Chances in the Spirit - Elder Kingsley Appiah
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But now to. The one upon the.
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Troll. We.
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Raise our sun. We raise our Sun war before.
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You are God, Thank God the Lord. We.
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Won't stop. Praising you, we won't stop
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loving you. Forever and ever, forever and
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Singh. We won't stop saying we won't
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stop. We won't stop saying we won't
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stop. Forever and ever.
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Forever and ever. Forever and ever.
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And we won't stop. Say we won't stop.
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We won't stop raising you forever and ever, Forever.
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Say we won't stop. Say we won't stop.
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We won't stop. Say we won't stop.
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Forever and ever. Forever and ever.
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Let's give a clap offering unto the Lord.
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You can do better, please. Let's give a clap offering, a
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better offering unto God. Bless God so much.
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So it's time for the Word of God.
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Please raise your Bible up if you have it on your phone or
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physical Bible. I want to see your Bible.
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If you have it on your phone, raise your phone up.
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Yes, You don't go to farm without a cat, lass.
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Yes. So it's time for the Word of
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God. Let's get our notebooks and our
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Bibles ready as we humbly invite Elder Kinsley appear to give us
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the Word of God. Please, let's give him.
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A clap, Hallelujah. Oh Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord we thank you so much for another day.
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He has granted us life and once there is life there is hope.
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Hallelujah. I thank God he already asked you
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your Bible because I was about to do that.
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So since he has already asked, then because this morning it's
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not more about preaching, I want us to learn a little, it's more
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about teaching and a little preaching.
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Hallelujah. We know that this particular
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year the theme is the church unleashed to transform society
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through the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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So if we are under the power of the Holy Spirit within this
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year, it is very important for you to understand the divine
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timing of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit also works with
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time. He's not, how do I even put it,
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He's not engulfed or let's say trapped in the time of man, but
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he works in his own time. Hallelujah.
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So under the topic, under the theme, the topic I brought out
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was divine timing, understanding seasons, times and chances in
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the spirit Hallelujah. Divine timing, understanding
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seasons, times and chances in the spirit Hallelujah.
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So I want us to open to ecclesiasis chapter 3 verse one
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if you can kindly project it for us.
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Ecclesiasis chapter 3 verse one. So I want us to read together.
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Please look on the screen we are all reading together Ready go
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chapter 3 verse one so there is time for normally hear all of us
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saying there is time for everything.
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It's a scripture, it's in the Bible.
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There is time for everything and a season for every activity.
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So when I say every activity, imagine the activities you go
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through. That is what I'm talking about.
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Every activity you can think about.
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Activities in your family, at home, in the church, every
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activity under the heavens. Hallelujah.
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So to everything there is a season.
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Now if you are not able to understand the seasons very
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well, we respond to seasons and if your respond to any season is
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the wrong respond, you'll be like God is not actually looking
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at you, but you have failed to descend the kind of season in
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which you are Hallelujah. When you read Galatians chapter
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6 verse 9, it says that and let us not be wary in well doing for
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in due season we shall rape Hallelujah if we faint nots.
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I like that last one. We shall rape say let us not
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become wary in doing good for at the prosper time or sorry proper
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time. I like using in due season.
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Aha. We shall what reap a harvest if
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we do not give up. I want you to look at your
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friend and tell him or her that the year has just begun.
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Tell them the year. Do not give up.
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I'm reading the introduction. It says that one of the greatest
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struggles of believers is not faith itself.
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We do not have a problem with faith, but timing.
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Hallelujah. We have the faith, but we have
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problem with timing. Many believers or many people
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believe God can do it. Meaning when we pray about
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something this year we have prayed a lot.
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We believe God can do it, but the struggle is with when God
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will do it. Hallelujah.
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Just like yeah we believe oh God will do it, but our struggle
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within is when God will do it. So when someone is praying about
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something, the person has prayed about it, but you see the person
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asking that question like so God, when so God, when so.
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Believers struggle with timing. Delayed answers often cause
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frustration, often cause doubt, impatience, and sometimes
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compromise. If somebody is compromising here
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this morning, the Lord has sent me to tell you that don't give
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up. Hallelujah, someone is
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compromising this morning. You are frustrated, you are
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doubting, impatient about whatever you have prayed about
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and it's about to frustrate you. The Lord is telling you do not
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compromise His relationship for nothing in this world.
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Hallelujah, someone will tell you there's a shortcut here,
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young faha. Oh, you get your answer right
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now. Do not compromise.
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Yet Scripture reveals that God is not lit, neither is he early.
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He is always on time. Divine timing teaches us that
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life does not move randomly. Life does not move, meaning if I
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say it does not move randomly. Meaning you can't determine
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where your life is moving. Today you are set, tomorrow it
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will jump to J, the next day it will jump to kill.
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Life is not like that. It does not move randomly.
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God operates by seasons, God operates by time, and God
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operates by opportunity. Hallelujah.
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So let's let's, let's let's look at this.
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God operates by what seasons? He operates by time and he
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operates by what opportunity. Previously, I was the local
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evangelism leader. One, it was an opportunity. 2IN
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God's time, I was supposed to be that.
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And in that season there's a purpose for that particular
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office. If I did not do whatever God
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asked me to do, that time has passed and there's nothing I can
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do about it. Again, I can't go back for it
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this morning. Wherever you have been placed
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this year, in the church, at your workplace, in the family,
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please get to know that it's an opportunity.
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It's a season. Whatever problem you are going
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through, even problems are seasons.
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Hallelujah. By the end of the lesson, you'll
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be able to understand a lot concerning seasons and times, so
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you know which season in which you are.
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So, as I said, God operates by seasons, by times and
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opportunities, and spiritual maturity is learning how to
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descend and cooperate with them. This morning it's my prayer that
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God will give you spiritual maturity.
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Now Gopon Emmao spiritual maturity to be able to descend,
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meaning if you don't descend the season in which you are one, you
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will respond wrongly and you will blame God for something
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that he's about to do. Meanwhile you think he it was it
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has delayed all because you have failed to descend the season in
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which you are. When a student is writing exams,
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that is not the time to begin to ask your teacher questions.
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Have you seen a student writing final exams and you're asking a
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teacher a question before? No, because it is not a season
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of learning. It's a season of accountability,
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a season for you towards to write what you have learned.
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There was a particular time you were supposed to ask questions
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you didn't ask. That was the season of learning,
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season of asking questions. You failed to do that.
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But now we are in the season of examination.
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There is no way for you to ask. That is why when you cheat, you
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are arrested or you are sacked. So there is time and season for
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everything and this year it is my prayer.
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God will give you that spiritual maturity because if you don't
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have that spiritual maturity, you cannot descend the season in
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which you are. When Joseph was in the pit, he
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descend that it was a season. He will not be there forever.
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When Joseph was telling his brothers concerning his dream,
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it was a season. When he was in Potiphar's house,
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it was a season. When he became the Prime
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Minister, it was a season. Hallelujah.
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Life is made-up of seasons and in every season there is time.
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In every time there is moments. In the moments there are
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opportunities. How are you treating these
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things if the Lord does not open your eye to these things?
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Ignorance in the House of the Lord is not an excuse.
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Ignorance is not an excuse, so the Lord will bless you though,
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but you need to descend what season in which you are and what
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kind of blessing you are receiving and how to be able to
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respond to it. Hallelujah.
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Everything in life operates by seasons.
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In Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse one, it says that to everything
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there is a season. A season I'm defining a season.
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A season is a period characterized by a specific
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purpose and activity. A season is a period
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characterized by a specific purpose and activity.
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Seasons are not permanent. One thing I want us to
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understand is a season is not permanent.
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They change according to God's design.
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That is why Joseph did not remain in the pit.
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That is why when his brothers plotted against him, it ended
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him in good. That was why when it was the
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season of Christ Jesus to die, he did not remain in their
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grave. When there was a season of
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resurrection, He was up a season of kinship.
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He's in heaven reigning. Hallelujah.
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Seasons are God's ordained, meaning that seasons are not
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accidental. Seasons are not accidental.
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They are arranged by God to shape and prepare and test and
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also reward us. So look at the functions of
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seasons. God has ordained seasons to
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shape you in the 1st place, to prepare you in the second place,
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to test you in the in the 3rd place, and the last one is to
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reward you. Hallelujah.
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We can find this pattern in the life of Jesus.
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We can find this pattern in the life of Daniel.
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We can find this pattern in the life of David.
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We can find this pattern in the life of Moses.
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And that pattern also is in your life only if you understand the
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season in which you are. Joseph had a season of dreams, a
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season of prison, a season of palace.
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Hallelujah. You might be in a season of
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singleness. You might be in a season of a
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season of poverty. You might be in a season of
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confusion. You might be in a season of of
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doubts. But the Lord is telling you that
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seasons are not permanent. Hallelujah, seasons are not
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permanent as I am single as I don't have a job.
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What season in which am I in? What season is this?
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How am I descending the season? Even in prison, Joseph received
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revelation about the prison. Even in the pit Joseph received
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revelation. He never forgot the God.
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Even in your problems, you need to receive something from the
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Lord. What season in which am I in?
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I'm as single as I am in my singleness season.
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What am I doing in this season? What do you want to tell me?
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What am I supposed to accomplish?
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David had a season of pasture. He was always a shepherd.
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David has a season of persecution.
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David had a season of kinship, so the seasons come one after
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the other. If you understand your season,
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you may fight. What's God?
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If you, if you misunderstand, sorry.
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If you misunderstand your season, you may fight what God
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is using to prepare you. Hallelujah.
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See, if you don't understand your season, you will fight what
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God is using to prepare you. Your singleness.
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God is using it to prepare you. Right now you don't have money.
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God is using it to prepare you. Whatever situation you find
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yourself right now, tell yourself God is using this
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situation to prepare me. Someone might be a president of
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Ghana today or tomorrow, but the state in which you are right
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now, God is using that season to prepare you.
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And if you do not descend that it is a season of preparation.
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You speak against God. Hallelujah.
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Seasons demand appropriate response, as I said.
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If you understand your seasons, you need appropriate response.
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We respond to our seasons. You cannot behave the same way
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in every season. The way Joseph behaved with his
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brothers, that was not the same way when he had a dream.
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That's not the same way he behaved when he was in prison.
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That wasn't the same way he behaved when he went to a
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participants house and when he became Prime Minister.
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You said that, Joseph. Grew.
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Joseph. Oh yeah, Spiritual maturity.
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Joseph grew. So in every season you must
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grow. Hallelujah.
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When you understand a season is here to to, to, to, to, to
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prepare, to prepare you, to test you, to reward you, you must
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grow. If you don't grow, you think you
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have been tested your whole life because that particular season's
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exams won't pass it. You didn't pass that season
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exams in. What season are you in?
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A planting season requires sowing.
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You can't harvest during planting season with the Lord.
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Open your eyes. Hallelujah.
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You can't harvest during planting season.
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You are supposed to be planting, but you want to harvest.
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No, it's up to you to descend. You are waiting.
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Your waiting season requires patience.
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Some of you are your waiting seasons.
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Some of you are your waiting seasons.
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Someone is going through a problem.
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The Lord is asking me to tell you to wait.
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Be patient, be patient. You are in the waiting season,
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so in a waiting season, it requires patience.
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Sometimes when you're praying, don't pray that the Lord should
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take the blood away from you. Pray that the Lord will give you
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a stronger out, a stronger back to be able to carry it, because
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you cannot. There is no shortcut to heaven.
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You must carry that load, but you need the patience enough to
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wait upon the Lord. And Bible says those who wait
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upon the Lord shall do what shall renew their strength.
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A harvest season requires readiness.
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A harvest season requires readiness.
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Now many believers miss divine opportunities because they
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respond wrongly to the season they are in.
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This morning. I pray the Lord will open your
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eye for you to be able to respond in the right way.
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If you are in a season of sowing, you don't need patience.
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Or a season of planting you don't need patience.
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If you are in a season of waiting, you do not need
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readiness, You need what patience in your season.
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What do you need in this season in which you are?
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What do you need? Ask the Lord.
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The Lord is the person who you are supposed to ask in the
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season in which I am, what do I need?
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That is why He has given us the Holy Spirit who is our teacher.
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Hallelujah. It's not about Him coming to
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baptize you alone, but Bible also calls him as a teacher.
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Every season has expiring dates. Every season has expiring dates.
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No season, good or bad, lasts forever.
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So even if it's a good season, it will not do it.
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It will not last forever. That is why when the seven years
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of what good food and everything came, Joseph was able to prepare
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in that season. So that was the cow bottom, no
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enjoyment and yes, I'll be enjoying.
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It is good for you to enjoy, but as you enjoy, you're enjoying
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wisdom because another season is coming that if you treat your
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previous season well, you will not want to feel the heat.
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Hallelujah. During the time of COVID, most
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of us, they don't prepare for COVID.
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It was a very serious season, a season that changed career.
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It changed your decision making. Teachers were becoming both
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drivers. It will change you.
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So if you are not prepared for a season, the season might change
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you. And when the season changes you,
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you might not like where you'll be.
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This morning. The Lord is speaking to us.
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Pain has an end. Pain can be a season.
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Pain it has an end. Delay has an end.
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A one day, one day, one day, one day please, it will happen.
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Hallelujah. Preparation has an end.
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You will not be preparing for the rest of your life.
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You won't keep on preparing for the rest of your life.
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No preparation has an end. Hallelujah, if God has allowed
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the season, He has also determined when it will change.
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So if God allows something to happen, He also knows when it or
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what it will change. Hallelujah.
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Now understanding the times, I want us to look at the times.
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I was talking about season. Let's look at the times.
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Understanding times God's appointed moments moments,
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moments moments does not need 5 hours.
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Moments can happen in 5 minutes. In 5 minutes the Lord can change
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somebody's life. But if you are not descending to
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know what God is doing, you might not want, want to do or
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accept whatever that the Lord wants to bring you rejected
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without knowing that you have rejected it.
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Understanding times, God's appointed moments.
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While seasons describe period time, time describes moments
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within those periods. Time describes moments within
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those periods. So a time to every purpose, as
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we read over there, a time to every purpose.
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So time is about divine appointments, say divine
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appointments, divine appointments.
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God has set moments when certain things must happen.
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As you are there, I want to announce to you that God has
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already planned your life. You need to relax.
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God has already planned your life.
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He has planned everything. He has planned everything.
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Do not worry about anything. God has planned your life.
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So God has set moments when certain things must happen.
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Jesus was born in the fullness of time.
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When you read Galatians chapter 4, verse 4, Esther came to the
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Kingdom for such a time. When you're reading the Bible,
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it was only for such a time. Esther came to the Kingdom in a
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particular time. Something is going to happen to
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you. Something tremendous is about to
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happen to you. Hallelujah.
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You can be gifted, prepared and willing, but if the time is not
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right, it will not work. If the time is not right, the
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fact that you are prepared for marriage, you're prepared for a
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new job, you're prepared for this, it doesn't mean it should
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happen now. Go to the Lord and ask and then
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be patient. Hallelujah.
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Being early or late can be dangerous.
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Being early or late, it can be very dangerous.
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Saul lost his kinship because he acted before God's time.
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He lost his kinship because he acted too late before God's
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time, too early, sorry, before God's time.
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Moses killed the Egyptian too early.
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Abraham produced Ishmael before he refused.
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He was refused to what to wait because he refused to wait.
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Sorry. So meaning that if he had
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waited, there wouldn't be anybody like what Ishmael now.
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Rushing ahead of God can be a harmful, as harmful as
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disobedience in life. If you rush before God, you
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should be able to allow the Holy Spirit to be in front of you
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this year. Allow the Holy Spirit to lead
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you. Do not rush.
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Don't listen to what society is saying.
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Don't listen to even what your parents are saying.
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Don't listen to what your friends are saying.
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Don't listen to what people have said or has declared.
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Some people have declared into your lives, but the only thing
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I'm telling you this morning is patience and follow the Holy
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Spirit. Don't let the Holy Spirit follow
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you this year. Hallelujah.
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Times are discovered through sensitivity.
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If you are here and you are not sensitive to the Spirit, it is
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my prayer that the Lord will equip your sensitivity within
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you. Now those who work closely with
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God descend time through prayer. Those who are closer to God, you
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descend. I'm teaching you one of the ways
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to descend. Descend.
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Men can be a gift on its own and you can also acquire it.
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You can descend the time of the Lord through prayer, Say Emre
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Naswa, Uber who say Emre Naswa, if the time is up, everything
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around you, the beds in the in the eye, in the air, there
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leaves, everything will testify that your time has come.
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Hallelujah. Through the Word of God, you can
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also descend through the Word of God.
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So if you are here, you don't pray, you don't read the word,
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it will be difficult for you to descend the seasons and times in
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which you are the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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That is 1. So you see, they brought prayer,
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they brought the Word, and then they brought the leading of the
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Holy Spirit. These are the factors you can
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use in descending. So Spiritual Descendant helps
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you to know when to speak, when to wait, when to move, and when
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to stop. You know, sometimes the Holy
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Spirit wants you to stop, but you keep moving.
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You need to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit.
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So the closer you get to the Holy Spirit through prayer,
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through the word of God, and I'm talking about consistency.
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And yet now, Kaya, not two weeks later, you don't pray, you wake
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up and go to work. No matter what happens, you
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don't care. You don't know what has
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happened. You just do whatever you like.
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No, I'm talking about consistence.
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If you know the purpose as to why God has called you, you'll
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be consistent. In what?
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In speaking to the Holy Spirit, because you know that the more
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you talk to Him, you'll be able to descend the time in which you
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are. Hallelujah.
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Chances and opportunities in the Holy Spirit or in the Spirit.
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Do you know there are chances and opportunities in the Spirit.
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It's not just about the baptism. That's another chance.
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Sometimes when you call someone to come and stand here.
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If you have not been baptized by the Holy Spirit come, it's a
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chance. It's a time opportunity or man
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by you and you and you know within yourself.
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You don't speak in tongues, but when you call them, they have
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not descend the the season in which has opened.
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Ahmed with how do you call it a testimony of that when I was in
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how do you call it demo districts?
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We're all parts of demo districts.
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They've been calling for those who have been baptized by the
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Holy Spirit. I want to wait for about two
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people to come before I also come because I can't walk alone
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over there. We've all gone through that
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before. And any time I go, I want to be
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baptized. But those who went early, they
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all be baptized. So there was a time they had a
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Christmas convention around this area.
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I was the first person I learned that you must place value on
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certain things. You must place value on certain
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things. Most of us are going to be
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baptized by the Holy Spirit because you don't even place
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value on what they're asking you.
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You don't place value on the partnership of the Holy Spirit
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this year. So while seasons and times are
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determined by God, chance represents opportunity that
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requires human cooperation. Chance, or we say chance, it
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represents opportunity that requires human cooperation.
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When you read Eccles, the Answer, Chapter 9, verse 11,
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please can you project it so that we read together Eccles the
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Answer, Chapter 9, verse verse 11?
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There is a time for everything and a season for every activity.
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And no, I think this is wrong. Please.
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Eccles, chapter 9911. I have seen something else under
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the sun. The risk is not to the swift,
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nor the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise,
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or wealth to the brilliance, or favor to the world learn it.
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But time and chance happens to them all, time and chance.
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So as we are in this world, everybody is going to have a
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chance and a time to have made it.
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You want to be rich, you want to get married, whatever you want
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to accomplish. God has given everybody equal
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time, equal chance. The problem is how you are going
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to make it happen. Hallelujah.
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So this particular morning, the rich man's time is not different
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from the poor man's time. God did not give the rich man 72
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hours for one day, and He gave the poor man 24 hours.
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We all have 24 hours, but the difference is how you manage
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your seasons, how you manage your time.
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Hallelujah. Opportunity must be recognized.
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Not every opportunity announces itself somehow, Say a Germany
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hole. There's no work.
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Oh, the man. These days, you don't see them.
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They don't come. Opportunities does not announce
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itself. It does not announce itself.
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Sometimes you, you have to see it.
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It does not announce itself, but wildly it is me.
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Oh, I'm here, I'm opportunity. No, it is not loud.
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It's very silent, but it takes those who are descending to see
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it's David's chance came as a shepherd boy delivering food.
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Look at the time, the chance of David.
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If he had missed that chance when he was a shepherd, he
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wouldn't have become a king. And look at the years he took
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before that particular prophecy was came to pass.
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It should have come when he was grown so that by then you become
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a king. But look at the time David's
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opportunity came when he was a shepherd.
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So during the time that you are laboring for the Lord, you are
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serving for the Lord. Please, I want you to see it as
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an opportunity. Presiding was standing here
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talking about those who don't want to be part of work at
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church activities, church leadership, church work, please.
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It is an opportunity. Is that a child who is going to
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buy a car, one day when he or she is working, they begin to
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ask for the price of a tie. This is the time to be asking
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for the price of a tie because you know one day you are going
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to buy a car. The Lord is presenting these
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opportunities to us. When you do something for the
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Lord at this particular time, this is a season that you need
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to recognize that you need to invest in because one day your
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kinship will come. Hallelujah, Ruth.
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Ruth's chance came through loyalty and humility.
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We know the story of Ruth. Missed opportunities often look
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ordinary at first. If David were not anointed by
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how do you call it Samuel, he wouldn't have seen it as I don't
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think it's anything. It looks normal at the first
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time, but when you get to the time you're supposed to RIP,
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that is when you remember the hair.
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I didn't invest. I should have invest.
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It's like these financial institutions they come to you.
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Please funeral policy, please do it.
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Do this thing Masa masa. Let me just all my family
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members are alive. They are OK.
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Nothing is going to happen to them in Jesus name, no equity.
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Amen on you don't do it. Then in the next 10 years.
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I'm not saying somebody should die in your family.
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Something happens in some money for I should have.
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I should have done that thing by this time.
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Look at the amount of money I will have.
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The Lord is speaking wisdom to someone this morning.
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So opportunity must be acted upon.
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God opened doors but human must walk through them.
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If you can't expect God to open door for you and push you inside
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the door after opening the door, He has to still push you.
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Hey, it can't happen he opens door, but it is up to you and I
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to walk boldly into the door. A lot of doors has been open
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this particular you see and the doors funny enough, the doors
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are not attractive. The doors are not attractive
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until you enter. When you look at the doors, some
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are some some are the things that presiding is talking about
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paying your tithe is a door offering is a door working for
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the Lord is a door. Doors has been open, but we
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don't descend enough to see what kind of door it is.
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Come and be an usher. One day they will invite all of
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you to Easter convention. You are also part of the ocean.
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That is where you meet your husband.
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But you don't know. Hey, this lady is very
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hardworking. Where is she from?
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Oh, she's from escape. Do English assembly.
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Please. I have to go and make
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investigation. Why?
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Because you became an ocean at Easter convention.
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Imagine you rejected the ocean over here.
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You have missed your destiny, so do not look at little little
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things. As As for this one, if I miss
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it, it's nothing. Please, we are missing a lot of
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opportunities that is causing us a lot this morning.
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The Lord is telling you that you need to open your eye.
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So if He opens the door, human beings must walk through this
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door. I'll be bringing the sermon to
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an end very soon. Faith without action produces no
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results. Hey, you can have a faith as big
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as a mountain. No action.
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You still remain where you are. Delay in obedience can close
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doors, delay in obedience. We must not delay in obeying the
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Lord and obeying the Lord. It comes from the leadership
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over here. It comes from your boss at work.
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It comes from a friend. Instructions come from a whole
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lot, a lot of places. The Lord gives instruction from
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different, different arenas. It's up to you to descend that
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this is coming from the Lord. I want us to look look at the
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law of due season. The next thing I'll talk about
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is the law of due season. Galatians chapter 6 verse 9.
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In due season we shall reap if we faint not.
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That was the scripture I used. Now due season is guaranteed.
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It's not optional, it's guaranteed.
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God promised harvest, but not immediately.
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God has promised the harvest. You will harvest, but it's not
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what immediately. There is a gap between sowing
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and reaping. You see, sometimes you shouldn't
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look at God as as if he's wicked.
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Even if a farmer, there is a time a farmer shows something
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into the woods, into the soil, and there's a time a farmer what
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rips or harvests. Some of us sometimes want to put
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God in an ATM machine that the moment you press.
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Send. The answer will come.
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But God is not like that. Sometimes you need to send the
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account of gold in which you have accepted.
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There is a gap between sowing and ripping.
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That gap is called waiting. Say waiting, say waiting.
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And it is my prayer that the Lord will give you endurance.
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He will give you patience. See, one of the things that I
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pray for is that you see, the one who will be able to be what
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faithful to the end will make it to heaven.
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Even that it's not about being faithful for two weeks or for
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one week, like we said, the one who will be faithful to the end.
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So when I'm praying, one of the things I pray for is God give me
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endurance, give me patience, give me long-suffering to be
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able to stand. Hallelujah, so weariness is the
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greatest enemy of harvest. If you are weary this morning,
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if you are worried, the Lord is telling you that please do not
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worry. Hallelujah.
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Many believers quit praying too soon.
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We have been praying for one year.
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The Lord has not answered, so we have stopped.
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You quit being faithful too soon.
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God, you told me you provide for me, so I'll stop changing
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married men. Now I'm not seeing anything, so
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then let me go back here because it's like I wasting my time.
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Then you go back. A lot of instances will
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compromise. Don't stop obeying even if you
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don't understand. Sometimes when you want to be
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obedient to God, you need to apply this.
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Don't apply. Don't ask too much questions.
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Obey the law without asking questions.
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Don't stop trusting in God. Heaven rewards consistency, not
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convenience. One thing I want you to
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understand is Heaven rewards consistency.
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As you have taken your time and you are going through step by
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step, moment by moment, season by season, day by day, night by
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night, you are going through. You don't neglect the Lord.
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You are taking your time in prayer.
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When you are crying, you still believe in the Lord.
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When you are happy, you still believe in the Lord.
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When you are going through any kind of challenges, you still
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believe in the Lord. Just as Joseph went through, he
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never neglected the Lord. Heaven rewards consistency.
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So this morning we will pray about consistency.
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We do something right the next day we change to the next one.
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If we are on the left side, we have to be on the left side.
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If we are on the right side, you have to be on the right side.
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Heaven rewards consistency. Don't compare your season with
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another person's season. Don't compare your seasons.
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Hey God, I came into this church at this video.
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I was even here before her. She has gotten married and I'm
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still here. We have different times and
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different seasons. Hallelujah, Different callings,
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different timing. Learn patience as a spiritual
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discipline. Now.
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Waiting is not weakness, it is wisdom.
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We are praying for that wisdom. Waiting upon the Lord is not
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weakness, it is wisdom. Stay faithful in hidden seasons.
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God often promotes privately before publicly see the more you
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are consistent in waiting for the Lord, you are patient.
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He rewards you privately before it appears.
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What publicly may the Lord do that for you?
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Hallelujah. Trust God even when timing
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confuses you if you when the timing you think it is what's
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wrong. Please trust the Lord as I bring
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the sermon to an end. Divine timing teaches us that
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seasons if you forget everything, please don't forget
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this divine timing. Timing according to the Holy
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Ghost that particular season teaches us that seasons prepare
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us. That is 1/2 time positions you.
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If season has prepared you, then time will position you.
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Chance requires action. So it means that chance means
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opportunity. It requires action.
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It means you don't have to sit down.
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You have to keep praying. You have to keep reading the
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word. You have to keep doing the work
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of the Lord. When you're when you understand
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God's timing, you stop forcing doors and start walking through
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doors. God open.
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So some of us, we force doors to open.
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Those doors are not for you. The same God who started the
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process knows exactly when to complete it.
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If God has given you a promise, He has also scheduled its
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fulfillment. Hallelujah.
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Do not be wary and do not give up because your due season is
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coming. May the Lord bless us.
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Amen. You shall we be on our feet?
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Don't give up yet. I'm in control watching over.
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You to the end. Life may be dark, I'll.
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Be your light in your weakness. My.
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My grace revealed, look out to me.
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Rely on you. Keep trusting me in all you do.
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Surely. My prayer senses with you surely
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be true, will be your head. Look out to me, rely on me,
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intrusting me in all you do. Show me, my grandson says when
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you show living dream will be your.
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Shall we only resume our seats and let's stretch our hands and
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bless our elder God richly bless you.
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I believe we have all heard the word of God.
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He has told us about divine timing, understanding seasons,
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times and chances in a season and then when he was speaking,
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in fact, we are not going to pray for long.
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The word of God is straightforward, but when he was
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preaching, another scripture also came to mind and I want to
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draw our attention. That is Ecclesias chapter 12
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verse one, Ecclesias chapter 12 verse one.
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And it says that remember your Creator in the days of your
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youth, before your days of trouble come.
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And the years approach when you will say, I find no pleasure in
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them. If you like, we can put it this
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way. Remember your Creator in the
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season of your youth. Remember your Creator in the
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season of your youth, before your season of trouble.
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Come and continue. Amen.
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And then when he was preaching, this picture came to mind.
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We have this. Our father here.
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Mr. Quit. Mr. Quit, please give us a
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weave. I know you all know him.
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He's in his season. I am in my season.
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You are also in your season. I got to know Mr. Quay almost a
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year now, or maybe 1 1/2 year since I got to know him.
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Every morning he comes to church, he's never late.
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I'm trying to draw your attention to something.
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I don't know how he spent his youthful days.
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I'm talking about what I have seen.
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And so in his season now look at his reaction towards the Church
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of God, how he comes to church early.
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And then I'm asking myself, should he have the strength or
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should he be more youthful? How would he have reacted?
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Maybe during his youthful days? I don't, I wouldn't go there.
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But the point I'm drawing attention is that even in his
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current season, look at him myself.
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I should look at my current season.
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And you also look at your current season.
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So the Word of God is saying that whenever you miss your
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season, whenever you miss your season.
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So what it means is that there is an appointed season for each
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and every one of us, that when you miss, you are too.
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Hello. And so as you are Saturday, I
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want you to think contemplates on the season in which you find
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yourself and how you are reacting, how you are responding
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to your season. But Solomon is saying that all
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Solomon is advising is that at least for each and every one of
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us, do not forget, Solomon is the wisest person.
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The Bible describes him despite all the foolish things he did.
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The Bible describes you as the wisest person.
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And he's saying that remember your Creator in the days of your
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youth, in the season of your youth.
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So what it means is that if there is a season that we don't
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need to miss, it is during our youthful seasons.
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Hello. And so how are you handling your
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youthful season? How are you handling some of us?
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We are using our youthful season to chase money.
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We are using our youthful season to seek for the things of our
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pleasure. They are all good.
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But we shouldn't forget that as people of God, as children of
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God, the Bible has told us that we should first of all seek the
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Kingdom of God and all the others shall be given unto us.
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But unfortunately, in our youthful season, we are chasing.
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We are looking for the pleasures of life.
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There are some of us. The Lord has deposited great
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talent and skills in us that He's expecting that we will
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worship Him with it. Yet we are wasting it.
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We are wasting it. Shall we be on our feet?
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Look up to me. Rely on you.
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Trust me in all you do. Surely.
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My pray that this is with you. Surely the tree will be your
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end. Who come to me, really trust in
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me. Shall you bow down your head and
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pray? What have you heard this
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morning? What season are you in?
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Have you wasted the season within the next one minute?
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Just pray and commit yourself into the hands of the Lord Jesus
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wherever you need to make our men speak to You.
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Father, we want to thank You for a moment.
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Like us, we want to rededicate ourselves on Jesus as Your Word
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has reminded us of the importance of the CCS You have
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given unto us. We pray, but we shall not keep
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the ceases for granted. Thank you, Lord, but we shall
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make use of it. Jesus so that your name keep
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Jesus survive but. Rather close keep.
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Shall we humbly resume our seats as our brother Cornelius Priest?
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Shall we pray? King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
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Father, we give you glory for the message that we have heard
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today. Father, as we have reflected on
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the seasons and times, Father, Lord, we pray in the name of
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your son Jesus Christ, Father. Lord, whatever season that we
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are in now at this particular moment, I pray.
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Whatever season that you find yourself, whether you're in a
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season of sickness, whether you're in a season of looking
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for a job, whether in a season of looking for marriage, I pray
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in the name of your son Jesus, that this shall be given unto
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you. In the name of your Son Jesus
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Christ Father, I pray, come and be with us.
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Guide us with your grace and mercy, so that King of Kings, we
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shall forever give you praise and adoration.
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In Jesus mighty name have prayed, Amen.