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The Principles of Spiritual Fervency (Prayer)

Oasis of Wisdom Bible Church

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  1. Who is this of Wisdom Bible Church, the Church of a distant

  2. Christian marriage. Welcome to leaders breakfast.

  3. You are blessed in Jesus name. For the past three weeks now the

  4. man of God has been teaching on the subject the principles of

  5. spiritual vacancy, the principle of spiritual vacancy.

  6. We took our bearing from the book of Romans chapter 12, where

    Romans 12 chapter mention

  7. opposed to Paul was pleading to the believers what our personal

  8. life should be. And then we proceeded to verse

  9. 11 of the same chapter, Romans chapter 12, verse 11, where we

    Romans 12:11

  10. were made to understand that there are three prongs, so

  11. success in life. A prong is like a fork with

  12. teeth. That is the meaning of prongs.

  13. There are three prongs to success in life.

  14. A prong is like a fork with teeth meant to pick or hook

  15. another object. So the man of God describe and

  16. explain to us that there are three prongs to success in life

  17. and that for anyone to succeed in life these three prongs must

  18. be adhere to number one. He spoke about divine clemency

  19. or you rather call it undeserved favour.

  20. That is the place of the grace of God in a man's life.

  21. This cannot be overlooked or underestimated.

  22. If you will make headway in life, you need the grace of God

  23. to achieve success in life. And number two thing is to

  24. discuss with us is practical vibrancy.

  25. Practical vibrancy that is the place of personal or practical

  26. responsibility of man, the place of practical responsibility of

  27. man. As a man, you have your part to

  28. play in attaining success in life.

  29. You can't afford to leave everything for God to do for

  30. you. You have your part to play.

  31. And of course, the number three thing he described and explained

  32. to us is spiritual fervency. Don't forget, I'm trying to

  33. remind us of the three prongs of success, which was explains to

  34. us in the last three weeks. Now number one is divine

  35. clemency. We talked about the grace of God

  36. in a man's life, and #2 is practical vibrancy, the place of

  37. practical responsibility of man, and #3 is spiritual vacancy.

  38. That is the place of spiritual responsibility of man.

  39. And then we dwell so well under this third prong, and our focus

  40. has been on the issue of spiritual vacancy.

  41. Spiritual vacancy. The man of God made it very

  42. clear that life is a place of contestation and that life is

  43. full of confrontations. Life is a place of contestation,

  44. contestation and is full of confrontations.

  45. And that is why spiritual fugacy is inevitable.

  46. Life is a battlefield whether you are conscious of it or not.

  47. Life is a battlefield and that is why it is necessary for you

  48. to constantly keep feet in the Spirit and not to lose God.

  49. The Bible made it clear to us in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12.

    Ephesians 6:12

  50. Ephesians chapter 6, verse 12, the Bible says, for we wrestle

    Ephesians 6:12

  51. not against flesh and blood. So it means the Bible made it

  52. very clear to us that in this life when we encounter warfare,

  53. life is a battlefield. For we wrestle not against flesh

  54. and blood, but against principalities.

  55. There are principalities we must contend with.

  56. Against power, there are powers, powers of darkness, powers in

  57. high places that we must content with, against power, against the

  58. rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual

  59. wickedness. And of course we can't use human

  60. weapons to to fight that that type of battle.

  61. We are fighting against spiritual wickedness.

  62. So battles of life is not dodgeable, but it is

  63. conquerable. You can't dodge it.

  64. The Bible has made it very clear that we rescue against

  65. principalities, against paths of darkness.

  66. So battles of life is not dodgeable, you can't dodge it.

  67. You can't dodge it, but through the help of God it is

  68. conquerable. Jesus said in John chapter 16

    John 16:33

  69. verse 33 the B path, He said in this world ye shall have

  70. tribulation but be of good year. I have overcome the world.

  71. That is the good news, that is the good news.

  72. So battles of life is not dodgeable but Jesus has promised

  73. to give us victory. I pray for you in the name of

  74. Jesus you will conquer all your battles.

  75. Can I hear your Amen? Louder I say, I pray for you.

  76. In the name of Jesus. You will conquer all your

  77. battles. You will be victorious over any

  78. challenge that may come your way as you journey in destiny in the

  79. name of Jesus. Again, the man of God said to us

  80. that you don't delegate your spiritual responsibility as a

  81. believer, as a man, you can't delegate your spiritual

  82. responsibility. You have to rise up to it

  83. through the grace and through the help of God.

  84. Spiritual warfare is not what you can delegate people to fight

  85. on your behalf. Don't forget that day it was

  86. citing example of a husband delegating the wife, you

  87. continue to pray for me and then the husband will be doing

  88. anyhow. Or the wife will say my husband

  89. is praying and then she will relax.

  90. No, you can't delegate spiritual responsibility.

  91. And of course, spiritual warfare is not what you can ask somebody

  92. to do on your behalf. So spiritual warfare is what we

  93. must understand and know. That is part of the package for

  94. a believer. And then we must rise up by the

  95. help of God, through the help of the Holy Spirit.

  96. In the battles of life, your faith will not faint.

  97. In the battle of life, your faith will not faint in the name

  98. of Jesus. So spiritual warfare is not an

  99. optional vocation in the journey of faith.

  100. I have said that it's not an optional vocation.

  101. I am trying to remind us of what we have been taught so that by

  102. the time we rise up to pray, we will be able to pray

  103. effectively. We must have this understanding.

  104. Spiritual warfare is not an optional vocation in the journey

  105. of faith. It is a component of faith that

  106. cannot be separated from the journey of faith and destiny.

  107. It is a vocation that is not optional in the school of faith.

  108. Therefore, we must all be fervent in the Spirit and

  109. serving the Lord. We must rise up.

  110. We must be fathered. That is why spiritual vacancy is

  111. necessary. It's important, and I want to

  112. add this, it is compulsory For you as a believer, you must be

  113. fathered. For you as a child of God, you

  114. must be fathered. You must not be cool and casual

  115. in your faith, in your Christian journey.

  116. All of us must be people who can pray effective prayer of faith.

  117. Praying effective prayer of faith is not only for the prayer

  118. warriors, if not only for a separate gender.

  119. It is meant for every one of us to rise on our feet and pray

  120. effective prayer of a James chapter 5 verse 16.

    James 5:16

  121. The big part of it says the effectual pheasant prayer of a

  122. righteous man at veiled much I pray for you receive the

  123. tireless spirit of Christ. Receive the grace for fervency

  124. of the spirits to be able to be persistence in your prayer life

  125. in the name of Jesus. And then the man of Godfather

  126. pointed out that life is a place of contest and conquest.

  127. Life is a place of contest and conquest.

  128. There are things that will confront you in life.

  129. There are things that you must contest for.

  130. Are we now saying life is a competition?

  131. No. But there are things that you

  132. desire. Those are the things you contest

  133. for, things you desire. You desire success in life.

  134. That is what you are contesting for.

  135. You desire promotion. You desire breakthrough in

  136. business. So there are things that you

  137. contest for and there are things that will confront you in life.

  138. Those are challenges of life, challenges of life.

  139. So nobody is accepted. Nobody is accepted.

  140. So to be able to contest and conquer whatever confronts you,

  141. you must be spiritually fathens. That is why you need to be

  142. fathens. Don't, don't put on the attitude

  143. of art. God is not a wicked God anyhow.

  144. Anyhow is OK with God. He looks only at your heart.

  145. God knows that I am trying. You must rise up and be fervent.

  146. The Bible says the factual fervent prayer of a righteous

  147. man, a veiled much. So you must approach life with

  148. spiritual mindedness. You must approach life, the

  149. issue of life, how you live on daily basis, how you live your

  150. life, how you interact with men, your relationship with other

  151. people, how you live in your place of work, even in your

  152. family. You must be spiritually minded.

  153. The man of God said life is not a comedy space.

  154. You must approach life with spiritual mindedness.

  155. Life is not a comedy, a comedy space where you can just joke

  156. and joke away your time, joke away your life, joke about

  157. everything. Nothing serious about you,

  158. nothing. Everything is just joke.

  159. It is not a space. Life is not a space for the

  160. funniest. Life does not deliver its best

  161. for the funniest, but it deliver its best to the fittest.

  162. Say God, help me to be fit. Life is a serious business is a

  163. serious business. So if you have been living life

  164. in a careless way, rise this morning and ask God for grace to

  165. be fathers and spirit. Life is a serious business and

  166. therefore this morning we are going to be praying that God

  167. should funnel us into flame and that the Holy Spirit should

  168. breathe on us and make us fit to conquer and be victors and not

  169. victims in the battle of life in the name of Jesus.

  170. The man of Godfather pointed for us, that pointed to us that life

  171. offers confrontations. Like I said the other time,

  172. challenges, life offer confrontations, challenges

  173. descending into a valley, climbing mountains and so on and

  174. so forth. Challenges of life.

  175. As you are praying about an issue, as you are receiving

  176. victory, you will. This is something we still pray

  177. about. Life is not a matter of I have

  178. done my part. Let me now rest.

  179. Let me now sit down, no more praying, no more doing this and

  180. that. I am OK.

  181. Now you rise efficiency, put on the whole amount of God, I'll be

  182. able to stand and after you have done everything he said stand.

  183. He didn't say sit down. He didn't say go and sleep.

  184. He didn't say go and rest. After you have done all these

  185. things, you should do what stand.

  186. Life is a serious business, so life offer confrontations,

  187. challenges. So if not spiritual life event

  188. life may push you out of the way.

  189. If you are not spirit, that is the danger of not being

  190. spiritual event. Life may push you out of the

  191. way, that is, push you out of the Christian way, and you begin

  192. to believe anything. You no longer have faith in the

  193. power of God. You no longer honor God.

  194. I have had a cancer with a man who will tell you, Jesu, there

  195. was a yeah, he said, honey, Jesu Badu.

  196. Yes, I have encountered such a man.

  197. I tried to minister to him, to preach Jesus to him.

  198. He was holy. Jesu die, so if you are not

  199. spiritually pheasant, life will push you out of the way.

  200. Therefore, we must be well equipped to engage life and be

  201. victorious. Then, Father, equip me, I can't

  202. hear you to be victorious in life in the name of Jesus.

  203. I pray for you that Lord will grant you grace to exercise

  204. yourself in all virtues of Christian discipline required to

  205. be fit for divine conquest in the name of Jesus.

  206. Again, during his teaching, the man of God said life is a race

  207. and those who are slack have no chance.

  208. Life is a race and those who are slack have no chance.

  209. They will push you aside. It's a race in which you must

  210. not be slack. When you enter a bus where if

  211. the seat is meant for four people or three people to sit

  212. and you are like 5 seats on that seat, some will sit down.

  213. They are they are they are put up will not be touching the seat

  214. of the of the fable. Can you feel that you know what

  215. I'm talking about? Some will be able to sit down

  216. but some their put up will not touch the seats and then they

  217. will be looking for opportunity that once if they could enter

  218. gallop or whatever as if they could enter gallop and everybody

  219. jump or you will quickly put your bottom fear.

  220. You have taken your place. If you are slack, there's no

  221. chance for you. That is life.

  222. You don't you don't run the race carelessly.

  223. Focus. May you be energized by God in

  224. the name of Jesus. Even when you are savored, you

  225. must be sensitive to recognize it and be competent to manage

  226. it. Even when God brings

  227. opportunity, be sensitive to recognize that this is an

  228. opportunity I must not miss. This is an opportunity I must

  229. hold on to. So you must be able to recognize

  230. it and then be competent to manage it.

  231. May you be energized to manage your guarding, to manage every

  232. opportunity that will come your way in the name of Jesus.

  233. Why? Because there are forces who are

  234. ready to fight and snatch it. That is life.

  235. If you are too loose if you smack.

  236. There are forces, there are people, there are powers, there

  237. are principalities that are waiting for you to relax.

  238. And then they will snatch it. They will fight against you.

  239. So you must be spiritually fervent.

  240. I pray for you. You will not slack, say you will

  241. not slack. You will be empowered to fight

  242. and conquer in the mighty name of Jesus.

  243. Receive grace and strength to rise up to your responsibilities

  244. in life in the name of Jesus. The law will make you to be well

  245. positioned to have the good share of life in the name of

  246. Jesus. What belongs to you in destiny

  247. will not be forcefully taken from you in that name of Jesus.

  248. Please, I want us to rise up as we call on God this morning.

  249. I want you to really pray. Be fathered in your prayer.

  250. Are you ready to pray this money?

  251. Are you ready to pray this money?

  252. I want you to pray. Raise up your hand and say,

  253. Father, in the name of Jesus, I receive grace to be fervent in

  254. spirit. In the name of Jesus, pray that

  255. prayer effectively. Pray like somebody that is ready

  256. to receive, somebody that is well positioned to receive.

  257. In the name of Jesus I receive grace to be fervent in spirit.

  258. Hey, be, be, be, be intentional about your prayer.

  259. Please be intentional, Lord. Lord, I receive grace this money

  260. to be fervent in spirit, in the name of Jesus, In Jesus name we

  261. have prayed. Hey Nostizo, you are in the

  262. presence of God, Suraka, be ready to receive.

  263. Don't look at your neighbor. Don't look at your neighbor.

  264. We have told you that. Say, Father, baptize me with the

  265. Holy Spirit and fire. Oh yeah, pray in the name of

  266. Jesus. Father, baptize me with the Holy

  267. Spirit and fire. Maracata baza Pele Qatar.

  268. Lord, baptize me with the Holy Spirit and fire in Qatar.

  269. Karaka bosha katalia bosha. Baptize me with the Holy Spirit

  270. and fire. Baptize me with the Holy Spirit

  271. and fire in the name of Jesus. I received the Holy Ghost.

  272. I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

  273. I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

  274. Marika Talamasu Pali and de la Catalia Maika posa belika tala

  275. baliya Bo chandelier. That's OK.

  276. Bye. Thank you Father, in Jesus name

  277. we have prayed. Say I will be more sensitive and

  278. active so keep pace with the move of the Holy Spirit in the

  279. name of Jesus. Turn it into prayer Father in

  280. the name of Jesus Lord, I will be most sensitive and active to

  281. keep pace with the move of the Holy Spirit In the name of

  282. Jesus. I will be made sensitive and

  283. active to keep pace with the whole.

  284. We move for the Holy Spirit in the mighty name of Jesus.

  285. Marega bosha katana, Malia bosha katanana, masim belly and

  286. delicable. Thank you Father, in Jesus name

  287. we are praying the ends for the word of God.

  288. We nourish my soul and flourish my destiny in higher dimensions

  289. in the name of Jesus. Oh Father, take me to another

  290. level. Push me to another level.

  291. Let the word of God nourish my soul.

  292. Let the Word of God flourish my destiny in higher dimension.

  293. Father, let the word of God nourish my soul, hence for the

  294. word of God will nourish my soul and flourish my destiny.

  295. In higher dimension, my red catanama, he can tell you no.

  296. Push me to another level, push me to another level.

  297. Hey, higher dimension, higher dimension in the name of Jesus,

  298. Thank you Father in Jesus name we have pray, lift up your head

  299. and say Father in the name of Jesus prayer lessness,

  300. carelessness and spiritual laziness.

  301. We no longer journey with me in destiny in the name of Jesus

  302. Father, carelessness, prayerlessness and spiritual

  303. laziness. We no longer journey with me in

  304. destiny in the name of Jesus, prayerlessness, carelessness,

  305. spiritual laziness. We no longer journey with me in

  306. destiny in the name of Jesus Lord.

  307. And I judge me Lord, and I judge me, Oscarpos and Bella Quetenia

  308. in the name of Jesus. In Jesus name we have prayed,

  309. say in the name of Jesus. The Spirit of God will help me

  310. to develop bitter hatred for sin and develop appetite for

  311. righteousness. In the name of Jesus, Father,

  312. your spirit will help me to develop bitter extract for sin.

  313. In the name of Jesus, your Spirit will help me to develop

  314. appetite for righteousness. All sins shall no longer have

  315. dominion over me. It is said that we make you to

  316. be unfruitful sin. We know I love spiritual facets

  317. in your life. Except you draw sin, there is no

  318. way you can be fathered in that spirit.

  319. Say Father, sin shall not have dominion over me.

  320. No longer shall sin Renob my life in the name of Jesus.

  321. Lord, help me to develop bitter and stressful sin and develop

  322. appetite for righteousness in the name of Jesus.

  323. Thank you Father in Jesus name we have prayed say I receive

  324. define inspiration to outsmart the devil and succeed in spite

  325. of our limitations on the way to success.

  326. In the name of Jesus in spite of all limitation on the way to

  327. success. I receive divine inspiration to

  328. outsmart the devil. I receive divine inspiration to

  329. outsmart the devil and succeed in life and succeed in life in

  330. the name of Jesus I receive divine inspiration to outsmart

  331. the devil and succeed in life in the name of Jesus.

  332. Father, help me Lord, I release myself to you.

  333. I receive help, I receive help to outsmart the devil and

  334. succeed in spite of our limitation on the weight of

  335. success. In the name of Jesus, thank you

  336. Father. In Jesus name we have prayed,

  337. say in the name of Jesus, through the empowerment of the

  338. Holy Spirit, raise up your hand. In the name of Jesus, through

  339. the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, my hands we perform

  340. great exploit in life. In the name of Jesus, that's OK.

  341. How are you in the name of Jesus?

  342. Thank you, Father. The man of Godfather said to us

  343. that life is liking to a tree with many ripe fruits that will

  344. never drop on their own accord. It's not like you have mango

  345. tree, you have even orange. By the time they are the fruits

  346. are ripe and you did not pluck them.

  347. If we get to a time where those fruits will be dropping, but he

  348. said for life it is like into a fruitful tree which the fruits

  349. will not drop on its own accord, you have to pluck them.

  350. So that is why he told us that go get your sequel.

  351. You are going to pray, lift up your right hand and say, Father,

  352. I will not lack the needed strengths to pluck my fruits.

  353. I will not lack the needed resources.

  354. Some of you, you have strengths, but you don't have resources.

  355. Some of you have resources, but you don't have strengths.

  356. I will not lack both. I will not lack both.

  357. I received the necessary strengths and resources, both

  358. human and financial resources, to assess my fruits.

  359. I will not slack in my responsibility, good things will

  360. begin to manifest in my life in the name of Jesus.

  361. Oh yeah, I will not lack the needed strengths and resources,

  362. both human and financial resources, to invest my fruit.

  363. I will not slack in my responsibility, Good things will

  364. begin to manifest in my life in the name of Jesus.

  365. Success, Victory through promotion, they will begin to

  366. happen in my life. They will begin to manifest in

  367. my life. They will begin to show up in my

  368. life. Father, I will not lack the

  369. capacity to assess my fruit. I will not lack the capacity to

  370. assess my fruit. In Jesus name we have prayed.

  371. You know the meaning of them will not drop on their own

  372. accord except you plot them. If somebody has promised you,

  373. you have to stick back it up. With what?

  374. With prayer you begin to promise.

  375. I'm not worried by the next month.

  376. That is the scripture. Pray until your joy is full.

  377. You have to if you call me. If you call me.

  378. Yeah, me. If you call me.

  379. Oh yeah. And my wife 's in my home in the

  380. name of Jesus. In quick succession.

  381. In quick succession. In quick succession, in the name

  382. of Jesus, thank you Father, in Jesus name we are.

  383. We were also told that in life opportunity abounds for

  384. everyone, but conquest goes to the fittest.

  385. So we are going to pray. Say O Lord, say it like you mean

  386. it. Keep me fit and anodize my

  387. capacity to effectively manage my garden in the name of Jesus.

  388. Opportunity will not slip out of your hand.

  389. Opportunity will not slip out of your hand.

  390. Opportunity will not slip out of your hand.

  391. In the mighty name of Jesus. Opportunity will not slip out of

  392. my hands. O Lord Father, keep me fit and I

  393. just my capacity to effectively manage my garden in the name of

  394. Jesus. In the name of Jesus, Thank you

  395. Father. In Jesus mighty name we have

  396. prayed. In Jesus mighty name we have

  397. prayed. And lastly, the man of God said

  398. lack of spiritual orientation will lead to molestation.

  399. Is that the type of orientation you have about life?

  400. We either turn you into a fighter or to a victim.

  401. If you don't have the right orientation about life, it may

  402. make you to doubt God and His power.

  403. You must therefore have the correct orientation about life,

  404. and you must travel far in Christ to remain unshakable and

  405. well positioned to have your share in the good things that

  406. life has to offer. Do you understand?

  407. Do you understand? You must have the correct

  408. orientation about life. So the orientation you have

  409. about life, we either turn you into a fighter or to a victim.

  410. You will not become a victim in the battle of life.

  411. In the name of Jesus orientation you have about life.

  412. We tell you where you are going. It's all about it.

  413. That money by. Yeah.

  414. Yes. So your orientation about life,

  415. we tell where you belong. And then he said we must travel

  416. far. People are travelling far in the

  417. world. Many years ago the man of God

  418. said so. People are travelling far into

  419. the world, maybe to get power, maybe to get connection, maybe

  420. to be rich and so on and so forth.

  421. They are travelling far. So you are self believer.

  422. You must travel far in Christ, Know Him deeply.

  423. Have your understanding of the Word of God.

  424. Have the clear understanding of the move of God.

  425. Know the voice of God when God is speaking and when the devil

  426. is talking to you. Recognize and identify the grace

  427. of God. Don't be confused.

  428. Have the correct orientation about life.

  429. So when you travelled far with Christ and His Word dwells in

  430. you, then you will become unmovable and unshakeable in the

  431. face of life Challenges and good things of life that have good

  432. things that life has to offer will become yours.

  433. Pray Father, in the name of Jesus, take me deep and you pray

  434. here. Say, oh Lord, say, oh Lord, say,

  435. oh Lord, take me deep in the knowledge of Christ and in the

  436. word of God. Keep me unshakable and unmovable

  437. in the face of life challenges in the name of Jesus.

  438. Unmovable, uncheckable. You have deeper understanding of

  439. God, deeper understanding of the Word of God.

  440. Travel fire with Christ Jesus. Take me deep in the knowledge of

  441. Christ. Take me deep in the Word of God.

  442. Keep me unshakeable and unmovable in the face of life

  443. challenges in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father God, we are

  444. thanking you for grace this morning.

  445. Blessed be your name, in Jesus name we have praised.

  446. Lord, we are so grateful for the opportunity, the privilege, the

  447. strength you have granted to us to start in your presence this

  448. morning to pray. Lord, we say be exalted in the

  449. name of Jesus. You will find us into flame.

  450. You will find us into flame. You will find us into flame.

  451. Holy Ghost will breathe upon our lives and make us fit to face

  452. the challenges of life and to conquer.

  453. We will not be victims, we will be victors in the name of Jesus.

  454. Thank you Father, for you have had us.

  455. In Jesus name we have prayed. We believe you'll be blessed by

  456. the ministry of this message. You will do well to be the duer

  457. of all you've heard. For further inquiry and

  458. spiritual help, contact this number is 08035685882 or worship

  459. with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible Church, adjacent University of

  460. Ellorin Teaching Hospital, OK OC Ellorin, God bless you.