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Yahweh Nissi - The Lord is my Banner Exodus 17 8-16
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You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to
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page through the links below. How God fights for his people.
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Basically God fights for you. So we see in the last verse or
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the 15th verse, we see that Moses says Moses built an altar
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and called it the Lord is my banner.
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Everybody says the Lord is my banner.
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You know, this is very important.
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We were singing, I sing the name of Jesus.
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You know, it's something similar.
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You are saying the Lord is my banner, you are declaring His
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protection, you are declaring His victory, you are declaring
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His blessing, you are declaring His provision, you are declaring
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His guidance. You declare that God means
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something to you. So in the Hebrew it says Yahweh
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nisi. Everybody say that Yahweh nisi.
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So how? I mean, whenever God gives
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himself a name in the Scripture, and that has got deep meaning,
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and this is just a very small story where these people have
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just experienced a miracle from God.
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They have been fed by mana and they drank from the rock.
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Their thirst was satisfied by splitting the rock.
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God gave them water. Remember, when you have a
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miracle in your life, when you experience a miracle in your
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life, that's the time they will attack you.
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You have a big time and immediately the devil wants to
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make sure that you are discouraged.
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So he attacks. This is his strategy, this is
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how he works. So you need to know how God
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works. You also need to know how devil
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works. Why you will be prepared to
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face. When you know how he works, you
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will be prepared to face the devil.
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Think of Elijah, he went up on the Mount of Carmel, challenged
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the people of Israel, decided today whether the Lord is God.
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And then he called all the prophets of Baal, and then he
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killed them on the mountain. When the fire came down,
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consumed the sacrifice. He killed all the prophets of
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Baali, took them captive and killed them in the valley.
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But Jezebel, she sent a small message.
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Tomorrow by this time, if your head will remain on your
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shoulders, that's all she said. And this man ran from there to
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Beer Sheva with his servant and left the servant there, then
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kept on going, So tired, no energy, no food, no sleep, no
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rest. He fell, I mean, under the tree
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Bush. He fell asleep until the Angel
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came and woke him up and gave him bread and water a second
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time. And then he walks 40 days, day
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and night, you know, for 40 days he walks and reaches Mount
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Sinai, Mount Horre, wherever the Lord was speaking to him.
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But how did the enemy attack after the big victory?
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Jezebel challenged him. Tomorrow by this time, if your
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head will remain on your shoulders.
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So here they had the mighty experience of being fed with the
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food of the angels, the aid mana, and then they grumbled for
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water and God split the rock. Moses went and hit the rock and
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it split and gave water. And now in the in NIV doesn't
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come out very very strong. NIV says the Amalekites came and
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attacked the Israelites, but in some other translation says then
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Amalek attacked Israelites, then came Amalek.
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So Amalek stands for devil. Amalek stands for the heart of
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the devil. Resistance to God, resistance to
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the rule of God, resistance to the power of God, resistance to
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the plan of God. Amalek is representing the
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devil. And what is here happening?
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Who is Amalek? Amalek is the descendants of
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Esau. Who is Esau?
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Esau and Jacob were brothers, he was the eldest basically.
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And then God says even before they were born, what does God
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say? Isa.
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I hated Jacob, I have loved Jacob before anybody does
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anything good or bad, how does God say such things?
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Now think of that. What I am talking here is a
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revelation from the Lord. Yesterday I was sitting there
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and studying. The Lord gave me this
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revelation, so you may think it is not right.
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Why does God reject the eldest son Esau and give a blessing to
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the younger? 1 Jacob?
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But God foresaw what is going to happen in the future.
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He foresaw the descendants of Esau not going to honor God, not
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going to fear God, not going to follow God, not going to be part
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of God's plan. And they were opposing the work
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of God. And you know, very
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interestingly, when you look at this last verse of chapter 17,
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verse 16, it says he said for hands were lifted up to the
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throne of the Lord, The Lord will be at war against
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Amalekites from generation to generation.
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For how long? Forever.
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And they were completely wiped out.
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If God had chosen Isa, what would have happened?
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They will be working against the plans of God.
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God will finish them off. And how will Jesus come into the
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world? How can Jesus come into the
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world? That is why he saw into the
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future. And he said he saw I hated, but
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Jacob I loved. My question is, God is looking
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at your future, at your heart, at your future, at your children
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and children's children and children's children and
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children's children. And because you are fearing God,
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those descendants are going to be blessed, going to walk in the
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blessing of God. He says so.
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And so I choose. And you don't fear God and your
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children don't fear God. And they are all going to be
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atheists and they are going to work against God.
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God will say so. And so I have rejected.
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It is very simple. Your faith is going to bless the
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future generations. It is not in vain.
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You believe, you don't believe in vain.
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You believe because God is not only God of Moses, is God of
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Joshua, He is not only God of Abraham, God of Isaac and Jacob
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Forever and ever. He is God S when you believe in
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Jesus, what is what is? What you are getting is that God
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is going to stand with you and your family forever and ever.
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What a great blessing. Can I hear a shout?
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Hallelujah. Yeah, Amen.
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Whatever. So it is not in vain.
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Remember your faith is not in vain because God is putting His
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finger on your life and blessing you and is going to bless your
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generations. Now I was just thinking about
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it, how God plans and changes things.
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You know, sometimes He likes something, sometimes he rejects
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something. Why does he do it?
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Think of Adam and Eve, They ate the fruit, but then he stationed
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A flaming sword so that they will not reach out and eat from
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the tree of life and live forever.
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That was an act of mercy. Otherwise they will be sinful
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and living forever. So God wanted to stop it, so he
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put a flaming sword. If God does not accept Jacob and
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reject Esau, it is going to be like allowing Adam and Eve to
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eat from the tree of food, from the tree of life.
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That's the reason why he doesn't want to make that happen.
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So Selex chooses Jacob and not Esau.
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Think of Saul and King David. Saul God made, he chose him as
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king, but he did not live up to his expectation.
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He disappointed God. He disobeyed God all his life
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and as soon as he disobeyed, God said I take your Kingdom and
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give to your neighbor. I am taking a Kingdom and giving
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to your neighbor. But yet Saul ruled for 40 years.
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It took 40 years for God to deal with the family of Saul until
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everybody died, until everybody died.
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And then God gave the Kingdom, transferred it to David so that
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he can establish that Kingdom forever and ever, so that Jesus
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can come through that and he can sit on that seat on the throne
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of David, and the kiss of David will be on his shoulder and he
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will be King of kings, Lord of Lords, forever and ever.
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Can we appreciate the wisdom of God, sovereignty of God, His
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power, his wisdom, his foresight, his knowledge?
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I tell you, the more you think of God, the more you are going
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to be humbled by God. They are going to be humbled
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before God. So this is this Amalek.
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They came and attacked. And why did they attack?
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When the Israelis came out of Egypt and crossed through and
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all these things were happening, when they came to that area
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where Amalek was living, they came and attacked Israel from
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behind. From Deuteronomy chapter 25,
Deuteronomy 25 chapter mention
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Deuteronomy chapter 25 verse 1718 says remember what the
Deuteronomy 25 chapter mention
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Amalekans did to you along your way from Egypt, how they met you
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on your journey when you were tired and weary and they
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attacked all your stragglers. They had No Fear of God.
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What what was the main problem? They had No Fear of God.
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And the last verse of 17 chapter is difficult to translate, very
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difficult to translate. You read some strict one
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translation. It says a fist has been raised
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against the throne of God and then God says I will fight
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Americans from generation to generation.
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So when they attack the Israelites, they attack the plan
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of God for his his plans and purposes.
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An attack on Israel is an attack on God himself.
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They raised a fist against Yahweh and God says because of
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this I will fight and finish you.
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I will fight and finish you and some other places it says no,
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no, no, it doesn't mean that. It means Moses lifted up his
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hand to the throne of God and because he prayed, God said I am
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going to defend you. I am going to protect you.
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I will fight the Amalekites from generation to generation,
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whatever way you like you take it.
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But one thing is clear, that God will not allow anybody to
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challenge him and let them go just like that.
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He will not. When Saul persecuted the
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Christians, what did Jesus say to him?
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Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
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You cannot touch the people of God and not touch God.
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That is the reason why we need to be having fear of God.
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And when you come under the fear of God, when you worship Him,
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you are establishing His. When you have established His
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throne over in your life, you are going to come under the
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banner of God. Everybody said banner, now
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banner. What does banner actually mean?
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The Yahweh nisi, the word nisi, the root word is Ness in Hebrew,
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and that stands for a flag, that stands for a banner.
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In the war, when you win, you're walking with the banner because
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you're victorious and you got a pole.
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Sometimes when when Moses lifted up the pole in the wilderness,
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whoever he was bitten by snake, they looked up to the bronze
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snake and they were healed. And Jesus refers to it in John
John 3 chapter mention
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chapter 3 when he was talking to Nicodemus.
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And he says as Moses lifted up the serpent on a pole in the
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wilderness, so shall the Son of Man be lifted up so that whoever
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looks to him may be saved. So the word pole is also Ness.
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So when God raises a banner, he raises a pole.
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You have this is a this chapter 17 is a prefigurement or a
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future prophecy of lifting up the name of I mean Jesus himself
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on the pole. He because that word Ness stands
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for pole. And in the fight against the
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enemy, he gives you victory. He fights for you.
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He leads you into victory and what we have to do is to
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proclaim that he is the banner over my over our lives.
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So every day what you have to do is you say Jesus is my Lord when
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you are saying you are lifting the banner over your life and
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you say Jesus is Lord over my wifes life.
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Jesus is Lord over my children's life.
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Jesus is Lord over my job. Jesus is Lord over my health.
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Jesus is Lord over my promotion. Jesus is Lord over my future.
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Jesus is Lord over my destiny. You that banner, Yahweh is
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banner over your life. That is according to your
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confession, as you confess with your mouth, His protection
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descends on your life. His blessing comes upon your
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life. That's the reason why Moses,
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after the victory, he built an altar and named that altar
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Yahweh Nisi, Yahweh Nisi. Everybody say Yahweh Nisi, when
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you say it with your mouth, the protection of God, His blessings
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descend on you. And when you say it every day,
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over your family, over your children, over your finances,
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over your destiny, God works out His plan and purposes in your
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life, and then He Amalekites. They cease to be a nation.
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Today you do not have any country.
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Their descendants of Americans are living here.
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You cannot point out anywhere they are gone. 2600 years ago
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they were eradicated as a people.
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You do not have the DNA now anywhere.
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Why? God said I will fight Amalekites
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from generation to generation. So on that day God told Moses,
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tell Joshua to engage them in the war.
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Let him take the men who are capable to fight and fight the
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Amalekites tomorrow. But you go up on the mountain,
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hold the stuff that you have in your hand above, in your above
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like this, with two hands. And that's what happened in
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chapter 17. Next day Joshua goes with his
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army and is fighting in the on the on the playing field.
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And Moses goes up along with Aaron and Hood.
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And with when Moses was lifting up the hands with the rod was
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up, they were winning because his hands get tired and he
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brings it down. I'm gonna get start winning.
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What does this mean? It is prayer that wins the war.
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Not your power, not your weapons, not your horses, not
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your Spears, not your sports, not what you have is going to
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save you, deliver you. It is prayer.
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Everybody say prayer to enforce that idea.
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God says in verse 16 sorry, not 16 in verse 15 later 14 sorry in
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verse 14 he says then the Lord said to Moses, write this on a
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scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that
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Joshua hears it because I will completely blot out the memory
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of Hamalek from under heaven. From under heaven.
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I am going to remove the memory of Hamale 100% people will not
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remember them anymore because I am going to finish last one of
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them. I am going to kill everyone of
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them. You know when God says something
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like that is the end of that matter.
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May He never look at our life and say, I want to finish this
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case. Let there be faith in our heart
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that will attract His grace. Let there be trust in Him that
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will attract His blessing. Let there be joy at the mention
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of the name of Jesus because that joy will trigger you to
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live for Him, gives you energy, gives you power.
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It gives you, it motivates you. Let the name of Jesus motivate
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you to live for Him, because that will attract a blessing.
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And he said write it down. This is the first time you see,
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even though already many things were written down here for the
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first time, here he is writing down for the future generations.
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Why let Joshua hear it? You know the name Joshua comes
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basically from the Hebrew root word Hosea, that the Lord is my
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salvation. And Joshua is another another
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the another name for the name of Jesus, the name of Jesus.
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So you have Moses who is on the mountain fighting the battle and
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you have Joshua fighting on the field.
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Both represent Jesus. Both represent Jesus.
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You need Jesus interceding for you by the right hand of the
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Father right now he is praying for you day and night.
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You may be sleeping and get up in the morning.
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What a refreshing sleep, but Jesus was praying for you when
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you're asleep or you say I got this money, I got this
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promotion, I got this job. I he is sitting by the right
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hand of the Father is praying for you.
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He's fighting a battle. He's fighting a battle.
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That's why you can exist and flourish because he's praying to
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the Father Day and night for you, making intercession.
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So Moses was doing that lifting, lifting up the staff in his hand
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was basically prayer. And that prayer was helping
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Joshua to win. And when his hand was tired and
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was going down, Amalekatsu was winning.
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The enemy was winning. That's why you have Aaron and
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who they said OK. If this is how the game has to
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be played, they bring a big stone and roll it under him and
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say sit on it. Now think of sitting 8 hours on
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a stone, hard stone which is not polished, not is it very
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comfortable. Try it sometime when you have
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free time. Just sit on a rock, 30 minutes.
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It's not easy Job. They didn't have a cushion.
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Oh, let's put this little small cushion under Moses.
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He was sitting on the Hard Rock because there's a little
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support. That was a little comforting
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prayer he needed. And they had to hold his hands
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up one side and another side who they held his hands up so that
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until the evening they held it up until the battle is won.
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Prayer is not for a few minutes. Jesus wanted the same kind of a
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support like Moses needed Aaron. And who to lift his hands up.
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Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane and he comes to the
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disciples, three of them. He says, Come with me and pray,
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pray. He goes little more, little more
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distance. He fell on his face.
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God my Father, let this cup pass from me.
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Not my will, but thy will be done.
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And he was in great agony, even to the point of death.
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And he comes again and looks at Simon, and he says, what?
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He was sleeping. Simon, are you sleeping?
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Get up, watch and pray so lest you enter into temptation.
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When you pray, you are not doing God a favor, you are doing a
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favor to yourself. Why Simon?
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He neglected to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane that day to
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support Jesus. That is why he had to deny him
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three times before the rooster crore.
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He had to deny. I don't know this man, I don't
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know him. I don't know him.
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What you are saying, I don't understand.
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I don't know this man. Why?
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Because he did not pray when children hit the hard places in
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their life. Its parents who fail to pray
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When the spouse is not doing well in some area is another
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spouse that is not praying. When future is bleak and dark
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and there is no hope and you don't know where you are going,
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that's because we have not prayed.
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We have not prayed and young Joshua, this is the first time
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his name is mentioned and he is going to lead after Moses.
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He is going to take over the reins and he is going to become
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the leader of the Israelites to lead them into the Promised
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Land. So this is his first battle lest
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he be puffed up with pride. God told Moses.
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Write it down and let Joshua here.
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Why pride can destroy Joshua. So God is protecting Joshua from
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being destroyed by pride, saying write it down.
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It is an answer to prayer. In answer to prayer, the hands
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are lifted up. I have fought.
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So today this is the most beautiful process I am telling
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you, where you have convergence of God's sovereignty and God's
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power, meeting human weakness and the plans and purposes of
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God being fulfilled through prayer, where man cooperates
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with God, Man cooperates with God.
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Does He need you and your prayer?
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Can you send one Angel finish off the Amalekites?
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He can, but God chooses to use you to join him in prayer.
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I can sense the presence of the Holy Spirit right now.
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Here He is moving over on everyone of you who are
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listening to me now, and He is impressing on your heart.
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My son, my daughter, will you rise up and become a prayer
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warrior? It's not just pastor who prays
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and the church is filled up with people.
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It doesn't happen like that. It is a bunch of people who will
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be praying and then the revival comes.
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We need Aaron and Hulu and we need the people on in the field,
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on the plane fighting the Amalekites.
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We need Joshua, we need the Israelites.
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It is entire church has to be praying to see a revival.
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It's not just one man's job. The question is, are we wanting
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to see revival? Do we want this name of Jesus to
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be spoken over the city of Christchurch, over Selvin?
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If we want to, then we need to become men and women of prayer.
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Why are we so hard pressed and say no, no, no prayer?
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I skipped this time, this week. I'm not there, I'm busy.
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If that becomes your breath, if that becomes your life, if that
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becomes your either win or loss, and if you are going to fight
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like that, then prayer makes sense to you my friend, it is
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not easy. What did Jesus say to the
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disciples? Can you not keep awake and pray
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For how much? One hour?
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He did not say Simon. 2 minutes. Please pray for me.
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Did he say? He said how long?
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One hour. Many people don't like me.
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Whenever I mention one hour, they resist in their heart.
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I am telling you, in 2 minutes nothing happens.
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Nothing happens in 2 minutes. When you have prayed for an hour
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every day and then you are in a crisis and you cry out for two
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seconds, still the two seconds will work because you have
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prayed for one hour every day. If you only pray for two
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seconds, you will never work. Why would God have to come down
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and rescue you when you have only two seconds for Him?
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Think about it. You go to work for 8 hours,
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that's why you get a full pay and you say I am here 5 minutes
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in a day. You think your employer is going
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to give you full money everywhere?
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The laws are the same, spiritual laws are not different.
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So now Amalekites were fought by Joshua that day, but they were
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not completely defeated. They were defeated but not
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completely eradicated. You see them up showing their
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head again and again. Saul fights Amalekites, but he
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did not kill the king of Amalek and Samuel came and pushed the
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sword through him and killed him.
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And after Saul, you see they were fighting the Amalekites,
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but still they were not gone. You see the king Hezekiah's time
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a tribe Simeon, I think it is tribe of Simeon.
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They go and fight the Amalekites and eradicated last one of them,
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everyone of them that is 2600 years ago.
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Amalek is finished. Now you may be thinking, oh they
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must be very horrible people. They are not the only people I
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will show you in the scriptures, lot of people who have been
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finished. And one more thing is why did
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God have such kind of a dislike for Amalek with Amalekites?
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The king Balak was hiring Balaam to come and curse the
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Israelites. He took him on the mountain,
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looked down on the plane how all these Israelites are 2 million
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people are there. You put a curse on them so that
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I can defeat them in the war. So many times he tried.
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Every time Balaam ended up blessing him, not cursing.
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But when he when he uttered a Oracle against Amalek, he said
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Amalek is the first among the nations.
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But he will be destroyed by whom?
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The same people on whom he is trying to put a curse, they are
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going to destroy Amalek. And Amalek is a symbol of the
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enemy, the devil. Devil will be finished, but who
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is going to finish the devil the church to the church Jesus said
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I will put I give you authority to turn up on snakes carpet all
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the power the enemy in no, no by number means he is going to harm
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you hurt you. The devil cannot hurt you.
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Why? Jesus has given you authority
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and He given you under your feet.
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You have to crush the enemy. It is given, but you don't want
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to fight, you don't want to pray.
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He is going to have a good field day.
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They will laugh at you when you don't pray.
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Ah, I don't worry about this man.
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Why he have only pressed 2 minutes?
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He says he sets the target of 5 minutes before 2 minutes is
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finished. How do you they will knows you
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more than you know yourself and particularly they will knows you
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more than you pray. He knows your strength, He knows
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your weakness. He knows what is going to happen
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tomorrow because he has watched thousands of Christians who are
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not prayed and he finished them. He will have a list of people.
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If you want, can I have a list? There's a list in the back, you
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know, some kind of warriors and all that, but the devil also
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will have a list of people he defeated, He is captured, he
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ruined, and he will look at you and say, hmm, look at the list.
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I want to put your name there. What do you want to say to him?
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What do you want to say to devil?
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Ah, you are right. Come on, go ahead and put my
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name. No, challenge him.
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Put him under his feet. God is waiting for you to rise
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up to fight his battle. He wants to cope.
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See, we need Moses, we need Joshua, we need the army of God.
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Without anyone of them, the fight is going to be incomplete.
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So God, Jesus has defeated Satan already upon the cross.
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He defeated death, He defeated sin, He defeated the devil.
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But he wants you to defeat him once more.
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Once more He wants you to defeat the enemy.
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And there is no other weapon stronger than prayer, no other
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weapon stronger than prayer. That's the reason why we need to
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pray. And if Jesus is telling Simon,
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can you not wait for one hour and pray for me?
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Keep awake in one hour. And I tell you, that's what in
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the in the Gospel of Mark, it says the flesh is weak, Spirit
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is willing. The church has not come out of
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that condition yet. Every time we hear about prayer,
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hmm, from tomorrow and that tomorrow never comes, I am going
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to pray for one hour from tomorrow and that tomorrow never
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comes. And the day you can prevail in
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the presence of God, you prevail over the enemy, and you cannot
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prevail in the presence of God. The enemy will be winning.
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Your hand is going down, he wins, Your hand is up.
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When you put both of your hands in the air, what you are trying
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to say is you are expressing full dependence on God, full
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dependence on God, saying no, no, no.
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It is not my strength, it is not my power that is going to
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accomplish it. I lift my hands up, my Lord, my
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God, you fight for me. I depend upon you completely.
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And then God says, Son, you have so much of trust in me, I will
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fight for you. Daughter, you have so much of
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trust in me. I will fight for you, I will
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fight for you. I will bless you, I will guide
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you, I will protect you. Then you will have a testimony
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and you say Yahweh nisi, you will have a testimony.
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I am telling you there is no testimony.
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Your Christian life is insipid, it is lukewarm, it is dead.
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You must have a testimony. You know, worship service.
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We used to have a testimony time.
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Somebody spoiled it and then they are when we give time.
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Nobody is there to say anything good about God because they do
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not have an experience of God. What kind of a church is that
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where you have no single testimony, 1 testimony, No one
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testimony or not a single person has a testimony in a week.
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What kind of church is that? You are not experiencing God.
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It is just not right. If God is a living God and you
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have a living faith, we must have a testimony.
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Cool, so much I said, which is not written down here.
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So we need to build a prayer altar.
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We need to build a prayer altar in our life.
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Learn to fight in prayer, but learn to fight in prayer.
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And the staff that Moses lifted up the stands for authority of
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God in Psalm 23, verse 4, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
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me. That rod is Ness.
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The rod is Ness, which is the sameness that he is holding in
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his hand is the sameness on which Christ died upon the cross
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is the sameness. But we need to come under that
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Ness, under the authority of God, enforce the authority of
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God in our life over situation, over Amalek, over devil and you
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will win. You will win.
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There is so much there to talk about in the book of Isaiah,
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verse, Chapter 11, verse 10, it says the root of Jesse will
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stand as a banner for the peoples.
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Who is the root of Jesse, Jesus Christ of Nazareth?
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What is he going to become? He will become a banner over the
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peoples, not singular plural. Peoples is people group, people
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group, people group. Many, many people groups.
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The whole world. He is the banner.
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He is the banner. And again, there's one more
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verse in Isaiah which says 14 and 22 extends the picture.
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I will lift up my hand to the nations and raise my banner to
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the peoples. They will bring your sons in
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their arms. This is talking about the end
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times when the Jewish people are scattered all over the world.
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God says I am going to raise a banner and the peoples are kings
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are going to bring the children of God in their hand.
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Basically you like you carry a child.
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They are going to bring the Jewish people from all over the
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world and gather them in Jerusalem.
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What a beautiful promise for Israel.
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So we need Aaron, who in Exodus 1712, Aaron who held up hands on
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Moses, one on the one side and the other on the other side.
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And Jesus asked for the help, saying, my soul is overwhelmed
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to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch and
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pray. That's what Jesus asked, and
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that what He asked disciples is not yet over.
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He is sitting as King by the attention of the Father, but He
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still depends on the Church to pray between upon you and upon
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me. He is depending on our prayers
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to accomplish His will, His plan, His purpose, His Kingdom
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to come with power. He is looking to us to pray
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because He wants to answer. He is ready to answer, but if
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there is no one who is praying, what is he going to answer?
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You have nothing to ask. What is he going to give you?
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So Joshua could not have succeeded without Moses, and
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Moses could not have prevailed without the support of Aaron.
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And who? Not everybody can be a Moses or
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Joshua, ADL Moody or a Billy Graham, but all Christians can
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be like Aaron and who and help hold their hands as they obey
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God. We need to hold the hands of
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your leaders so that they can obey God.
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God is looking for people who will share in the battle and the
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victory because they continue straight firstly in prayer.
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There was a single mother in the United States who was diagnosed
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with the terminal cancer. So there will be good days and
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bad days. There are days when she goes for
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chemo, and she is a woman who was praying very fervently.
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She is a prayer warrior. But there will be after the
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chemo, no strength, no energy to pray, no motivation to pray.
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It is the psychological condition caused by the chemo
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that does not allow her to pray. So she cried out to the church
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and the church said we will play the role of Aaron and her in
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your life. So one lady said, I'll pray for
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you every morning. Another one said, I'll pray for
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you every afternoon. Another said, I'll pray for you
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every night. And people took up different
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sorts of time and they started praying for her.
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And when she is on the table undergoing chemo, she knows that
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somebody is praying because something changes in her body.
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She feels the presence of God, the hand of God, because
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somebody is crying out to lift her up and say God touch her and
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heal her. And she came through completely
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healed. God gives the church so that we
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fight together, not on our own individuals.
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Don't be ashamed to say I have prayer need.
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Don't be ashamed to say I have prayer need.
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Why? Because the church is wanting to
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pray and support you so many times.
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I am praying for you guys. I don't just speak in the air
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individually by name. I pray sometimes and sometimes
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God shows something and I say this is what God is saying and I
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want all of us to do the same thing.
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Pray and wait. If you begin to pray one hour a
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day, before long you will begin to hear God very clearly.
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You will hear his words. You will see what is what is
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going to do like a video, you will see it and you will hear
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his voice explaining things to you.
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And before long you will become you will be having words of
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knowledge, words of wisdom. Somebody will be encouraged by
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your prophecy. Somebody will be healed by your
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prayer. And somebody is going to be set
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free from the demonic oppression because you have set aside that
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one hour every day. Do you want Yahweh to be nisi?
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Do you want Jesus to be banner over your life?
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Do you want to say Jesus is Lord over my life, my future, my
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children, my spouse, my job, my finances?
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And do you want to have a testimony where you can always
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say Yahweh is nisi? He is my banner.
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You know, you identify, you identify a team that is just on
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yachting races. You know, you got to every year
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you got that races going on and look at the sail.
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Oh that's New Zealand. You say.
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You look at the sail and say, oh, that's Morocco.
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I look at the sail and say, oh, This Is Us team.
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Will somebody look at your sail and say he she belongs to Jesus?
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Can somebody look at your cell and say you have made him a
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banner of your life? Can they see Jesus as a banner
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over your life? Let's pray.
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Father God, we thank you for your word.
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Again, thank you for challenging me.
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Thank you, Lord, for you have spoken.
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I know you have spoken, my Lord, I know you have spoken.
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I call upon the Holy Spirit to move powerfully now in the name
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of Jesus. I ask you to touch people, raise
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up errands and hooves and Joshua's in this congregation,
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people who will become men and women of prayer and who will
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partake in your plans and purposes, who will bring your
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Kingdom into the city. Oh my God, I pray that you will
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touch your children now to the glory of your name.
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Their life will change today because, Holy Ghost, you are
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stirring their heart. You are touching their heart.
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You are touching their mind in the name of Jesus.
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Appeal to you now in the name of Jesus.
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If you want to see his Kingdom come, his will be done.
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And if you want to say, I want to make Jesus my banner, I want
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to spend time, one hour a day, whatever it costs, I want to
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partake in His plans and purposes.
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I want His blessing to come, His protection to come.
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I want His guidance. I want to hear His voice.
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I want to be guided by Him. I will give my time to pray in
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His presence. Just commit yourself to that
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kind of a commitment and I want to pray for you.
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Just stand where you are and say if you want to commit yourself
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to prayer, just stand where you are.
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Don't be ashamed. It's not about anybody looking
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at you, it is Jesus. Make him banner over your life.
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Make him banner over your life. Make him banner over your life.
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Let somebody look at you and say they belong to Jesus.
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I see Jesus, I see the banner of Jesus over their life.
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Father, as your children have responded to your word in the
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name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus, I come against
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Amalek. In their life, Amalek, I speak
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to you in the name of Jesus, be lifted off of their life.
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I command Amalek, take hands of their life.
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I curse you, Amalek, in the name of Jesus, spirit of Amalek, that
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works against the Kingdom of God, against the plan of God,
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against the throne of God. If you raise your hand against
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the children of God, I curse you, you Amalek, in the name of
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Jesus. And I command you, take hands of
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these people now in the name of Jesus.
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They are the children of God, Yahweh nissi.
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For them it is Jesus over their life is Jesus is Lord over them,
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their children, their finance, their finances, their future,
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their destiny. Jesus is Lord.
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And they will like, come on you take your hands of their life
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now in the mighty name of Jesus. I resist you.
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In the name of Jesus, my Father, I have prayed in your name and
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you look at the hearts of people and Holy Spirit, touch them.
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Now, every heart, touch it, touch it, touch it, touch it,
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touch it, my Lord, touch their heart, touch their heart, touch
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their heart. To the glory of your name.
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Make us men and women of prayer and bring your Kingdom down into
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the situation where we live to the glory of your name Jesus.
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Mighty name, we pray and everybody says Amen.
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Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing
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