The Principles of Spiritual Fervency 1 | Rev. COS Fawenu

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A new topic titled the principles of spiritual

fervency. The principles of spiritual

fervency Romans chapter 12 starts with I mean starts with a

Romans 12 · chapter mention

pleading from Apostle Paul on what the believers private life,

personal life with God should be.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, give yourself to God,

a living sacrifice. It proceeded to highlighting the

interconnectivity that you operate between believers.

Praise the name of the Lord and then by the time we go to verse

11, we're categorically to not to be slothful in business.

We must be fervent in spirit serving the Lord, not level in

business, fervent in spirit serving the Lord.

I pray in the name of Jesus that anyone you are connected to, you

will be a positive influence on them in the name of Jesus.

Now there are three prongs to success in life.

In other word, if you liken success to a fork, I mean, or if

you liken success to something that can be picked by a fork,

the kind of fuck you will use must have 3 prongs.

If it is 2, it will not succeed to pick it.

If it is one, it will not succeed to pick it.

It must have 3 prongs. And what are they?

The first one, it's what I call divine clemency, if you like,

you call it undeserved favor. The second one is what I call

practical vibrancy. And the third one is spiritual

vacancy, which is going to be our focus.

So for you to attain success in life, these three must be in

place. The first divine clemency, the

second practical vibrancy, and the third is spiritual vacancy.

So by the first one, define clemency.

I'm talking about the place of the grace of God.

It's not of him that will it, it's not of him that run it.

It's of God that soweth mercy. So the place of the grace of

God, you cannot wish it away if you will make headway in life.

Then the second one is the place of practical vibrancy.

And by that I am talking about the place of the skill of man,

the place of practical responsibility by man himself.

So life is not a place whereby God will do everything for you.

Hello, We expect you to also do certain things by yourself.

So when you talk about clemency, it looks like all responsibility

is on to God. But there's also the place of

practical vibrancy is the reason God has gifted you with life.

He has gifted you with the Holy Spirit.

He has gifted you with practical skin and so many things that God

we expect you to apply. Praise the name of the Lord.

Then by spiritual vacancy. That is the place of spiritual

responsibility of man. So you do not only have

practical responsibility, you equally have spiritual

responsibility. So this teaching that may take

us couples of weeks to engage is focus on this third prong, the

place of spiritual responsibility.

So we are examining the topic, the principles of spiritual

faculty. What is the necessity for

spiritual faculty? Why must you be spiritually

faculty? Life is a place of contestation.

Life is a place of confrontation, and because of

that, spiritual privacy is inevitable.

Life is a place of contestation. It's also a place of

confrontations. So there are things that will

confront you in life, and of course, virtually everything in

life. You must contest for them.

You must desire them to. Desire is part of the components

of contestation. To develop vision is part of

what you require in life. It's a component of

contestation. Then to pray for it, to demand

for what you desire in life is part of contestation.

Then beside that, life is full of confrontations and to be able

to contest and to overcome the things that confront you, you

cannot waste away the place of spiritual vacancy.

So what makes spiritual vacancy inevitable is because life take

it and understand it that way and approach it that way.

It's a place of contestation. It's also a place where you are

going to be faced with numbers of confrontations.

So life is a place of contest and conquest, the place of

contest and conquest. So you contest for so that you

can conquer. Life is never a comedy space.

Life is never a comedy space. Life is not a space for the

funniest. SO life does not deliver its

best to the funniest, it deliver its best to the fittest.

Hello, are you with me? So you are not here to joke?

Tell your neighbor you are not here to joke.

And I tell yourself I am not here to joke.

Life is a serious business. Are we together?

Life is a serious business, so even from onset of every

individual life, life always start as a race, even from mass

conception. Those who did a bit of biology

and medical science, OK, they will tell you that very clearly

that you were conceived because the contest, OK, of millions of

spermatozoa from your father, you won the race to fertilize

the egg. Hello.

Are we together? Do you understand what I'm

talking about? So even from the beginning of

life, right from conception, life started as a race, as a

contest. That been the case in life,

opportunities are banned for everyone.

So what is available for everyone for free, OK, is

opportunity. But contest, I mean, conquest in

life goes to the fittest, conquest goes to the fittest,

and probably the smartest is never to the funniest.

In fact, the slackest has no chance.

You want me to say that again? Because life is a place of

context and of conquest. Opportunities are banned for

everyone. So the only thing that are

banned for everyone is opportunity.

But when it comes to conquesting life, it goes to the fittest,

probably to the smartest, never to the funniest.

And of course the slackest has no chance.

If you slack, you have searching yourself.

If you slack, you have what searching yourself.

I am a Roosellawa. I am a Project Gelawa.

Hello, Kisaye do kusibe sousibe Maura massafe ma sawada aye.

Did this you do Shire rush up to your responsibility?

Am I talking to somebody? Yes, I have mentioned the issue

of clemency, the place of all the software favour.

That too is a principle of the Scripture.

But even when you find favour, you must be sensitive to

recognize it. Not only that, you must be

competent to manage it. Why?

Forces are banned that are ready to fight and snatch it from you.

Jacob overtook his song Hello and examples upon examples like

that in life. So even when you find favour,

you must be sensitive to recognize it.

You must be competent to manage it because life is a place of

contestation and concave. There are forces around you that

are willing to snatch it from you.

So when we say life is not a competition, because that may be

going on in the mind of some people that are we, am I now

saying that life is a competition?

I'm not saying life is a competition.

I said life is a place of contestation and of context.

I mean of conquest. So why we are correct to say

life is not a competition? OK, you must realize that

there's a thin line between competition or a clear

difference between competition and contestation.

So it's not a competition with your neighbor.

So when we say life is a place of contestation and conquest, we

are not saying it's a place of competition with your neighbor.

Never. Rather, it's a contestation for

what you need. They're not competing with your

neighbor hello, But you are contesting for what you need to

prosecute life. It's a place of contestation to

have your share of what life has to offer.

There are greedy men around who will want to corner everything

to themselves. So if you are the Jelly time or

digestive type, AM I talking to somebody?

So you are not in any form of competition with your neighbor

but realize that you are in contestation first for what you

need and in constestation to have your share of what life has

to offer. And life has many good things to

offer. But if you are not spiritually

favoured and sit up for your own share, they will take all the

good and push the back to you. They will take the best and

leave you to manage the remnants.

So what I'm saying essentially is that in life there are things

to fight for. I want you to understand life

this way. Life is a tree, a tree with ripe

fruits that may never fall on their own accord.

You know when you have a tree that is full of fruits, OK,

After some time, whether you climb it or not, OK, whether you

you use sickle, go to hell, whatever instrument of avesting

fruit or not, at some time the fruit will become so ripe that

it will be fallen by itself. But that is not life.

Life has many fruits on its tree.

But these fruits, even when they arrive, they may not fall on

their own accord. What do you do?

You have to block them. Tell somebody, go get your

sickle. Tell someone to go get your

sickle. Go get your go to hell.

You know what they call go to hell?

That's the one they used to harvest Coco.

Am I right? So in life there are things to

fight for, if not virtually everything.

Life is a tree whose ripe fruits may not fall on their own

accord. You have to pluck them.

So that's what makes life a place of contest, not a place of

competition with your neighbor. You are contesting for what you

need. You are contesting to have a

fair share, OK, of the opportunities that are banned in

life, OK. And what?

One of the basic things that make you ready and fit is that

you must be spiritually fashioned.

So life is not a thing. You approach with a casual

mindset. You approach life with spiritual

mindedness. With what spiritual mindedness?

People, people. People are going to learn.

People are travelling far. Hello.

They are going to what lands and they are travelling far and you

can also travel far in Christ. You can travel far in Christ.

You can reach the deepest level in Christ, whereby you become

unshakable, whereby you become well positioned to have your

fair share of what life has to hover.

Then life offers confrontations. We are looking at necessity for

spiritual vacancy. De Meru ninoye El ridojico

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confrontations. So there are things to confront.

It's also the reason you must be really perfect.

You must be well equipped to engage life, OK and be

victorious. So life of our confrontations, I

often say to people that Jesus never deceived anybody to follow

him. He made it very clear what we

are going to encounter as we follow him in this world.

He said you will experience tribulations but be of good

years. I have overcome the world.

So any preacher promising you is is an ever smooth route to

travel on your journey of faith is deceiving you.

There will be times where you will descend into the valley,

there will be time where you will have to climb steep

mountains and there will be time when things will play too.

When it play too forever for you.

Check it. OK, you may not be travelling on

the right Rd. Am I talking to somebody?

So life offers confrontation that require the right spiritual

orientation to resolve. If you don't have the right

spiritual orientation when certain confrontations are

coming up, OK, let me get you confused.

You may lose your balance. Am I talking to somebody?

You may quit from the fit life. You may have reason so even

doubt God if you don't have the right orientation about life.

So life offers confrontations that requires the right

spiritual orientation to resolve.

And if you lack the right spiritual orientation, you

should be prepared for spiritual molestation.

Life will molest anyone that is not engaging life with the right

spiritual orientation. Life will embarrass anyone that

is not engaging life with the right spiritual orientation.

You take everything to be casual.

Hello. Everyone that smile at you, you

take them to be friendly. When the scripture made it very

clear that not all men have feet.

And these are men that are sitting in church.

These are men that you are shaking hands together on

campuses. These are colleagues.

Hello, that you sit down together in the boardroom and

you think you are on the same mission.

You think you are of the same mind.

Praise the name of the Lord, but behind the scene they are acting

differently. Behind the scene they are

plotting dangerous things against your destiny.

Am I talking to somebody? So if you don't engage life with

the right spiritual orientation, they prepare for spiritual

molestation. Like I said earlier, you are not

here to jest, you are here to fight.

So life is not a space for comedians, it's a space for

fighters. So the search of encounters you

will experience in life will either turn you to a fighter or

to a victim, depending on the kind of orientation with which

you are approaching life. If you approach life with the

right orientation, where you are confronted with challenges, you

become a fighter, you stand up to it, you bring out your

spiritual asanas because over time you have been preparing

yourself to be spiritually fashioned.

But we are. It is.

Otherwise encounters in life turns you to a victim.

You will not be a victim in life.

You will leave the testimony of a man, a believer that is indeed

more than conquerors, in the name of Jesus, in the name of

Jesus. So what am I saying?

Principally, I'm saying you must be spiritually fit to run the

race of life. So Spiritual Pharmacy is about

being spiritually fit to run the race of life.

Much of the battles of life are not to be confronted with

motion, For we rest do not against flesh and blood, but

against principalities and power.

The Bible also mentions spiritual wickedness in high

places. Hello,

always been ahead of those that are against you.

So in addition to whatever knowledge you have or the

philosophy you may hold about life, you must, in addition to

them, understand life as a fireplace and as a battlefield.

Life is what a fireplace and a battlefield.

Life is a furnace. It's a fireplace.

It's also what a battlefield and anything that goes through the

fire, is it that that they get consumed or it get purified?

There are no, there are no three ways about it.

When you once you take anything through fire, is it that that

thing gets burnt, get consumed, get destroyed or that thing gets

what purified? Put polythene through fire, it

will be consumed, but put gold through fire, What happened to

it? And of course, different

elements, OK, I have that different degree of of, of it

that they can endure the fire that we purify.

Good. OK, go and put aluminium in in

it. What happened to it?

Are you an aluminium Christian or a good Christian?

That's it. That is the retrospective

question you should be asked introspective question you'll be

asking yourself. So in addition to whatever

knowledge, whatever philosophy you may hold about life, you

must, in addition to them understand life as a fireplace

and as a battle feed. And that summarizes the fact

that life is a place of contest and of contest it's also a place

of confrontations. So life is a fireplace of

consumption for those who are not tough enough to survive

their daily confrontation. Then you become a victim.

Then on the other hand, is a refiner place, a faunas that

refine, a place of purification for those who are made of the

right stuff. They are made of the right

stuff. We have developed your capacity

in the spirit and in your emotion.

Then when you go through fire, you come out finer.

Hello. You come out refined, you come

out brighter. But where it is not so, may I

tell you, life is ready to consume you.

Life is ready to do what consume you.

If you are not tough enough to fight through, say O Law,

baptize Me with the grace to fight through the fire of light.

And of course He has promised you that when you pass through

fire you will be with you. So because you carry His

presence is the reason you will go through OK and you will not

be consumed. So if you are not tough enough

to fight through, you will consume.

So generally you must be spiritually strong.

And that is the summary of the message.

We are just opening up the message today.

We are laying the foundation for why you must give attention to

this message. So you must be really strong and

then you must be emotionally tall to survive life challenges.

Must be strongly strong and emotionally tough to survive

life challenges. So how much have you prepared

your mind to withstand the challenges that life may throw

at you? So in essence, spiritual Fabian,

which is the topic we're engaging, is not an option for

those who are not willing to be consumed by challenges that life

has got over. Life has got challenges to

offer. And because of that, spiritual

fervency is not an option for you.

Put differently, spiritual warfare is not an optional

vocation in this school of faith.

Hello spiritual warfare is not an optional vocation in the

school of faith, but very unfortunately many of us three

spiritual warfare as a special duty.

It is stuff for the prayer squad.

Hello, their husbands like that as a reserve duty for their

wives, a reserve duty for their parents, a reserve duty for

merchand merchandise prophets. There's this song by Is he

telling me? OK, No, I think Baba Iowa by me

Bell Rumio. Baba by me Bell Rumi maceda meda

bucata MI oges but the late umi Dina babas we came up.

I said, yeah, it may, It may sound funny, OK, but you know

that there are times that when God will use a donkey OK to

speak to His prophet. So take it.

Spiritual warfare is not a special duty reserve for only

the prayer squad. Spiritual warfare is a general

vocation for all believers. It's a general vocation for war

for all believers. Life is a place of constant

battle. Life don't reward indolence.

Life reward, competence and diligence, free prongs to

success in life. Divine clemency, practical

words, vibrancy and then spiritual vacancy.

Ebodo Kojani. That tripod, that cycle must be

completed. If you enjoy divine Clemency

that is favoured because a lot of him that we let all of him

that are honored, but of God has sweared mercy, even that mercy,

OK, that which mercy has drawn to you, you must be spiritually

sensitive, perfect to be able to recognize it, OK, and assess it

and where you have assess it to. If you are not spiritually

strong enough, somebody beside you will snatch it for you.

So we recognize the place of divine clemency, OK, However,

practical vibrancy and then spiritual fantasy, all these

three, you must take them together when you are engaging

life. So spiritual warfare is a

general application for all believers.

Life is a place of constant battle.

Life does not reward indolence, rather it's the words competence

and diligence. Diligence not only in your

physical world but also diligence in spiritual vacancy.

Many of you are diligent in your day-to-day activity, your study,

your business, your career. Fine, wonderful.

But in addition, hard spiritual vacancy has spiritual fervency.

Don't get to the place of prayer and be cool.

Don't get to the place of prayer and be cool and casual.

Hello. Hello.

Life is never a regular ship. Life is not a trunk.

It's not a rectangle. It's not a squad.

Life can take any ship. Are you with me?

It is you that we are just unfit him to be able to move on.

Life pattern. Can you get pattern?

Hello, can you get pattern? You have to watch the wind.

You have to behave like the eagle.

Jesus himself attested to that in Gospel chapter 3.

So wherever the wind one, that's where it's Bluetooth, Only a man

of the Spirit will know how to kill him.

You won't miss divine flight. I prayed again.

I said you won't miss divine flight in the name of Jesus.

So diligence not only at the spiritual office, I mean at your

physical work, you know, but diligence and spiritual vacancy

too. Spiritual vacancy is not

something to be outsourced. I've said that it's not

something you outsource to a spiritual merchant.

It's irresponsible to be undertaking personally.

If spiritual vacancy were responsible to be delegated, God

will not require us or border us with prayer.

Hello. God himself spoke to the prophet

Jeremiah when he was incarcerated.

God was aware of his condition. Are we together?

He was the servant of God himself, genuine servant of God.

God was aware of his condition and the response of God to him

was call upon me. Hello, let's check the matter.

The three from verse one. Moreover, the word of the Lord

came unto Jemaya the second time while he was yet sought up in

the court of the prison saying does say the Lord, the maker,

the arrow, the Lord that formed it to establish it.

The Lord is his name. Then verse 3 call unto me.

It's so clear from US1 that he was aware of his condition and

he asked all the power to deliver him and he say you will

take you want to be there. If you don't call on me, tell

yourself I will accept personal responsibility for my spiritual,

for my spiritual obligations. Call unto me and I will answer

thee and see the great and mighty things without noise.

Note. So we must call him before you

answer us. There must be a practical

provocation before we can experience divine intervention.

So life is not a convert zone of no effort before success.

So that is the attitude of some people to lie a covert zone of

no effort. That's what's a good thing take

life to be. But life is never a comfort zone

of no effort before success. And some of the prayer points we

pray during our revival services.

Hello suggest to us that life is a converse zone of no efforts

where some people live or we will just enter their office.

Some of this attitude to life suggests that you are saying God

is the God of injustice. You want more soon.

Hello our coma she said he was in my query.

He said, well, life is a combat zone.

Of efforts to gain glory. It's a combat zone of efforts to

do what to gain glory. So life offers opportunities to

all, like I said earlier. But these opportunities that are

banned in life require opportunity before you can have

the testimony of a breakthrough. Opportunities are banned, but

the only people who can assess the opportunity are people that

embrace the principle of importunity.

I want I want, I want to work bad.

Rather Coco to you that benefit Co CSE to back back, we will

continue for 21 days. They will continue.

We have the example of Prophet Elijah in that regard 7 times.

We have the example of Prophet Daniel who stayed there for 21

days until the answer of joy comes.

So opportunities are banned in life, but only those who engage

live with the principle of importunity, who will not give

up suddenly, who will not be discouraged.

They are the one that will have faced the opportunity.

So in life you must go through and pray through to

breakthrough. So you go through and while you

are going through you are praying through and suddenly and

eventually breakthrough become your portion in life.

Nobody, I say it again, nobody is accepted from life's battle

and that is the reason believers must enlist as prayer warriors.

All believers must enlist as what prayer warriors.

In life, you are not expected to surrender to faith.

Rather you must engage your faith to pursue whatever life

has to offer to you. Those who surrender to faith

should prepare to fade out. You will not fade out.

I say. You will not fade out in the

name of Jesus. You are not entitled to favour

until you activate your faith for it pursuits.

May I say this as I begin to see how we can wind down today and

continue next week. Some of you want to bank on

innocence to deserve the best. You want to bank on innocence.

OK to be accepted from life battle in the Omageege Timon

Loggege Timoni, Gegege Ekumuru. So that you are not ready to

fight does not stop those who are ready to fight against you,

even for no reason. So battles are not optional in

life. Battles are among the inevitable

constants, inevitable words, constants, constants, or a

constants that is common to all men in life.

You can choose success, you can choose failure, but you don't

choose battles, you meet them. Is somebody listening to me?

Hello. That's why I describe battles as

constant, inevitable constants in the journey of life.

Battles confronts you without seeking your consent.

Hello. Hello.

Am I talking to somebody? Hello.

But no it you want, no need to, no need to.

In fact, I will come up with these are the things Jesus was

teaching us in Gospel to Saint John chapter 10.

John 10 · chapter mention

Now the chief comment not that to kill, to steal and to

destroy. It is in that same text of the

Scripture that Jesus was talking about the fact that only a thief

will come through the window. So battles confront us without

seeking our consent. They don't take permission.

So BIM Battu Reddy is a spiritual vocation and that's

the meaning of spiritual being battle ready, it's a spiritual

vocation and it's not an optional vocation.

Being battle ready, it's a spiritual vocation and it's not

an optional vocation. All believers must all avoidably

be spiritually affair. Don't delegate your warfare.

Face it, don't outsource your warfare.

Face it, we are counting on your pastor.

Your pastors are also facing greater challenges.

If you have always been counting on your father, don't forget

that your praying father is aging.

Hello, we have always been counting on your father.

Your praying father is what is aging.

If you have been counting on your mother, your prey mother is

not getting younger, Your prey mother is not getting what

younger. And the aging of your parents is

telling you that you will soon be left alone.

They will suffocate the space. So I said the responsibility to

fight your own battle. Accept the response.

To do what? Fight your own battle.

I conclude by saying that even if life were a bed of roses,

remember roses to have tongues. Even if life were a bed of

roses, roses to have what thorns?

Listen to this testimony of the spiritual giants.

Second Timothy 4 by 7. I have fought a good fight.

This is opposed to Paul. He didn't say I have played my

way through. I have jested my way through.

He said he has fought what a good fight.

So life is a battlefield. I have finished my course and in

the process I have kept the feet.

He fought and he kept the feet. But those who don't have the

right orientation to lie, if they, if they are confronted

with fight, they will lose their feet.

So if you don't retain your spiritual vacancy, or if you

don't attest virtual vacancy and retain it OK where you fight,

you may lose your faith in the process.

But I pray no matter what you are going through as you fight

on, you will not lose your faith.

It's a place of contestation and you will conquer in the name of

the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

We believe you'll be blessed by the ministry of this message.

You will do well to be the doer of all you've heard.

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