The Essence of Fasting Part 2 Rev Leslie 19.1.25

All over this place. You want to lift up your voice,

speaking the language of the Holy Spirit. Speak in the

language of the Holy Spirit. Edify your spirit man, Lift

up your voice. Someone lift up your voice. Someone in

Kava la do shadina maha kahamaha maha, I want to

hear you. Someone lift up your voice. In covad makolah baha,

I want to hear you. Someone, I want to hear you.

Someone left up your voice speaking the language of the

Holy Spirit. Edi by your spirit man this morning in

Kova la da baha in ka blaha do satina maha

y kova la door sata, lift up your voice. Lift

up your voice. All over this place. You want to

lift up your voice and speaking the long way of

the Holy Spirit. Ekova beat my.

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This morning.

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That's saying the name of Jesus, the name of Jesus.

In such spiritual atmosphere. Your attitude determines what you take home.

So if you come with a nonsense that attitude, you

take nothing home. But this morning we want to take

every blessing, every promise the Lord has given for this service.

One believer in the house this morning. We are not

living here with without the blessing and the promise of

God for the service. Shut for the hands, saying the

name of Jesus, the name in the name of the

We degree, we degree and declare and declare by divine.

Than can you thank you, thanking you for that gift

of life, of life, for that gift of hell.

Hell we degree with every declare as we come to

your messy, we pray we are messy and grace, and

we pray we prove a messy and grace.

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oh my lod on the crown, on the crown my head,

that soul, on my peace.

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limits then I would limit my encounter. But the holy

spirits spe divine you are crazy. That's it, uned, get it,

that's it. The arrest that I know, you know any

sign of the enemy, senate my life, my destiny in

the Sabbath, in the name the name of Tea, says no,

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natural grace bound in my life.

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any weakness in my.

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were left relay any infirmity to the foots of the cross.

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health that's away from life price.

In the name of Tea.

Now we degreem, wegree and declass sufficiency officials, in the

same sufficiency of your presence, of your greed, of you,

of your favor, of your encounter. In the name of Jesus, Jesus, someone,

put your hands together, give God the praise. I don't

know if you're praising yourself, but even if you are

present yourself, that wouldn't be an enough praise for yourself.

Come put your hands together and give her the praise.

It's a blessing to be in the house of the

Lord for the next few minutes. If you have no

problem with your legs, maybe upstanding, Please, I humbly ask

you want to give thanks to God for a great

man He has blessed this house with. There's none other

than my father, your father, It's eminence. They are Bishop

Nicholas and William. You want to put your hands together.

You want to thank God for his life. Wherever you are,

Our Father examinates respect of God to fortify you, and

God to keep you, and God to cause His face

to shign upon you in on your ministry journeys. We

also want to give thanks to God for the life

of none other than a global lead pastor in the

person of Bishop Joel thanc Williams. I think you want

to do it better. One thing you have to understand

is that what you do in the absence of someone

is more worthy than what you do in his presence.

So you want to give God a praise. You want

to put your hands together, give Lord a shout of praise.

By the life of our bishop. He has a heart

for the church. He has the heart for the souls.

I mean, thank God for it's life. Thank to your

neighbor and say it's good to be with you this morning.

I'm glad to spend the next one. I seitd next

to you. You're looking very splendid, You're looking very fantabless,

You're looking very beautiful. You are looking more annoyed than

I saw you last week. Please give your neighbor by

a high five and resume your seats. Thank you, Holy Spirit, Ladosa,

Thank you Holy Spirit have your way this morning. I

thank our Bishop a global lead pasta for the opportunity

he has given me to handle his special service in

a sersience. Amen. And we are believing God that by

the end of this service, his grace who are abound

with us. Amen, pleaseer have only do you believers? Amen.

I love this one. Amen. So, by the instructions of

our Father and our Bishop, we are continuing our message

from last week on firsting, first thing, first thing from

last week. I'm believing God that by the end of

today's message number one, we would want to have an

enhanced understanding of what firsting is about. Number two. We

want to see our desire for firsting being ignited. And

then last but not the least, we want to have

a first in life that is fruitful. A man, all right,

how many of us are partakers or are part of

the first thing our father has declared over the week one? Hey, wow,

this is this is much more impressive than the fair service,

this idea. You're not part of the church or he

didn't hear me, Okay, they said they didn't hear How

many of us are part of the first thing our

father has declared? Oh I love that two hands, that's

a blessing. It's important to understand that understanding of a subject,

or knowing about a subject, that's not guarantee you benefits

of the subject. So there's this very common example we

use all over the place that in as much as

doctors know their health detriments attached to smoking, and even

the one main signs on the packs, yes your lungs

will be destroyed, but with pictures of how your lungs

will be this particular one, you don't need a revelation

to see how your lungs will be. You don't need

an endoscopic and whatever. I'm not a doctor, but yes,

you don't need the doctor's help me and those scopy

or you don't need that to thank you to tell

the state of your lungs. But in as much as

they know the detriments of smoking, some doctors to smoke.

So even though you may know the benefits, you may

know the sequence, you may know everything that is concerned

with firsting. If you don't practically first you cannot benefit

from firsting. Amen, Amen, please preach with me, Amen, Matthew,

Chapter seventeen. I'm going there, fourteen to twenty one. It's

important that we apply the knowledge we are receiving about firsting,

so that we can benefit from firsting. Amen, all right,

are we there? Can I get help with? They're reading

first the German? Even Germans? Sorry. And when they came

to the multitude, there came to him a certain man,

kneeling down to him and saying, Lord, have mercy on

my son. Yes, please, for he is lunar and so vexed.

For oft times he falled into the fire and off

into the water. And I brought him to the disciples,

and they could not kill him. Then Jesus answered and said, oh,

faithless and perverse generation. Jesus answered and said, oh, faithless

and perversed, faithless and perverse generation ahead, How long shall

I be with you? How long shall I suffer? You

bring him hither to me? And Jesus rebuilt the devil,

and he departed out of him, and the child was

killed from that very hour. That's very are go ahead

nineteen please? Then came the disciples to Jesus part and said,

why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said,

unto them, because of your own belief. For verily I

say unto you. If ye have faith as a grain

of muster seed, ye shall say onto this mountain, remove,

hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing

shall be impossible unto you twenty one, How bid this

kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting? Amen?

How be it this kind goeth not out but by

prayer and fasting. In this personage, Jesus was trying to

model to his disciples the importance of fasting and prayer

and the importance of having faith. Can you give me

the verse that spoke about yive faithless generation? Then Jesus

has said and said all faithless and perverse generation because

they couldn't kill.

A man.

Or the son of the man, and had to come

to Jesus. You see in the Initial times or in

their Bible times, you realize that anytime the disciples were

with Jesus, Jesus had to do everything. Even when the

boat was about to sink, they had to go and

look for Jesus. So anytime they felt the best or

the next alternative is to call Jesus to solve their

solution or to solve the problem for them. Jesus was

their superman. Right. Another is saying Captain planets zorr and

all there is amen their family members right, But at

this point in time, Jesus had to draw their attention

to the fact that there has to come a time

as a believer, as a Christian, as a disciple, you

have to rise up and wore a good warfare for yourself.

So he went on to say that how long shall

I suffer you? Or how long shall I be with you?

How long shall I suffer you? Bring him teter on

to me. How long would your pastors be with you?

How long would your mother be with you? How long

would that uncle be with you? There is a time

in the life of a believer where you have to

rise up and deal with certain situations by praying fasting.

You have to learn to fight and war a good

world fare for yourself. Wait until going on your knees

and pray for yourself. Put it aware all the shaama

the watching. There was some time I was so like

watch it on Friday because I had this lady in

my church. Every time she will post the watching. I said, hey, right,

you can't do that though, So every Friday, sho I

will see it. If I see it restext right, where

are you? I know that the watch is coming. So

from Thursday nights I'm waiting for Friday. I've been dreaming

about the watching some of you. You have been eating

three square meals. I don't know why they don't call

it thrade triangle meals. But three square meals times seven

days in a week, times fifty two days and weeks

in the year, times three hundred. Like you have not

fasted before, even the one that they say in the morning,

Like you first to nine o'clock. Some of you have

not tried it before. No, if you juice, I've tried.

But some of them their bread, their eggs, they are

so sagous and things like they've not like six o'clock

is ready? Amen. But at this point in time, Jesus

had to model the importance of fasting and prayer for

his disciples. Another word and critical foundational doctrine. Jesus had

to model for his disciples what's faith? One thing you

have to understand is that the prayer requisite, or the

foundation of your prayer and fasting is the level of

your faith. The Bible even goes on to say that

for without faith, it is impossible to please God. So

I don't know what you are doing without faith. It's

boldly written here. So at least if you don't even

know any scripture. Then you should know one scripture that

we work by faith and not by side. When it

comes to the things of the spirits, you cannot do

without faith. Is someone learning something this morning? He Bill

Stave that six Verst. Twelve. The Bible goes on to

say that that's being not slotful. But followers of them who,

through faith and patience inherit their promises be you know,

some versions called it being not lazy believers of today,

believers of this generation. I won't go there. I was

navigating by you help me, So I don't go there.

I was going gently, treading cautiously. But the Bible is

the one that I'm saying it, So I will say

what is in the Bible. We do not want you

to become leasy believers. Letsy Christians who cannot imitate through

fak and patience, the generation we find ourselves we can't

build any faith for ourselves. The patients, the patients, they

don't go there. I like that day at least sometimes

I can do their complations. See that chalie that is

still balancing time. No day I have to cut some

conness and try and maneuver and get to their destination.

But this generation has to get to the point where

they learn the value of patience and faith. And these

are very critical matters when it comes to fruitfulness and

the results have a result in your fasting and prayer life. Patience.

This generation, our father wrote a very powerful book I

loved so much. Don't fight to the process. You should

get a book reader. It's a very powerful book. Don't

fight the process. This generation that's not understand what process means,

or our father says it process. You don't understand what

process means. We want everything now, We want everything when

we want it. You don't understand the purpose and the

meaning of waiting. That is why when it even comes

to the Bible talks about waiting, it involves fasting and prayer.

So some of us we have lived almost twenty five years,

almost thirty years of our life, we have not gone

on waiting before. We don't even know what waiting means.

We have become a generation that is deficient of spirituality.

Our father said the other day that want to fit

the most grows the most. You're looking at my face

and I'm also looking at you. If you take benku

put i five balls, preen soon there's tension in the room.

I'll take my brother's advice. I won't go there. People

of God. Another thing a scripture in Matthew teaches us

about is the power of fasting and prayer. At least

if we don't know anything fasting and prayer, that we

know that it can cure a disease. Yeah. Yeah, So

you can sit there and say you are not sick,

but there's someone close to you who is sick. It's

time for us as believers to rise up. And I'll

get there and pray for the who are weak and

pray for those who are very besides us. This morning,

I want to give us a few points. At least

I spoke about one that if we don't know why

we even first, we know that we come first. So

that a disease where we pray to be killed, because

why this are spread for that lunatic boy at that

same hour that's was sorted out. You you have been

praying about the situation for three years and counting. Someone

said ten years. And that's so you see a snooker

and now you've given it the name and you have

personalized it. My my, my my heart pains, my my

my my pneumonia. My my, my, my word. The name

of that one craw my author, that one there he

kills me crab because at the point I was even

very angry the number of people around me who are

alswer like it was like, what is the like I

got angry and that and that is holy anger that

is supposed to drive you, as a believer to pray

for your friends, pray for your loved ones, pray for

those who are around you, even to the extent of

first thing for them, telling me naturally, like let me

be honest with you, and I love all my church members,

if those close to me, they know that I love

them very well, but telling I'm first for you, like

let me be truthful to you, like some pastor's first

for their chuch members don't come and so you have

to pay this cour solation for first, like I'm first

for you. But before you say, reever less list there

you are, I'll first with you. No, I'm first for you. Yeah,

We've got step by step faster together, praying together. I

will send you their prayer points. I don't pray for you, no, no, no,

no no, I don't pray for you. I can't pay

but like there's a situation. Now I'll pray for you.

You go, you will see the solution. No I need

excuse me, Please tell me something else? My teacher or

a teacher do we say tell me another lie? Amen?

People of God? Number one? Why we first we develop

a hunger for God. One thing you have to understand

is that the more you seek God, the more you

desire to be in this presence. The most common example,

I'm looking for another one, but I'm not finding. But

if you can help me with one, iwill ticket. But

the one I know is that the more you draw

close to a lady you love, the more you want

to spend time with them. It's naturally I love that one.

I didn't know that. People sally, this is what emotional

do this share the aspect, so I'll come for a consultation. Wow. Yes,

the more you draw close to someone you love, some

of you is your your father. You are close to

your father, you're close to your mother's you're close to

that boy. Let me say it. In addition, who will

not help you? You only destroy your life because at

this stage in your life, you don't need a boyfriend.

Permits me to go there for just two seconds just

two seconds. If you I don't know why I'm facing

the choir, let me face the side, let me let

me say it. Yeah, but the choir is also listening.

If you have no business getting married in the next

two years, and it's not in the Bible, so you

can say like you can take you or leave it.

If you have no business getting married in two years,

having that boyfriend is detrimental to your health. You're spiritual

and physical health. You are ines. That's three. You have

boyfriend for what you have not even written BC before busy,

I've not eten before, and you have boyfriend. You cannot

even take care of yourself. You cannot prepare me loo

even how to water cry you burn it. No, don't

go to egg. If you go to egg, you have

you have graduated. Oh hits the hot water. By the

time you'll come the water, it is finished. Look if

I'm pretty, I say, if the message is for you,

just look for it. Don't don't lave too much. If

you love too much, you see that you're the one,

So don't love too much. People love God. It's is

high time we develop a genuine hunger for God through

a prayer in first in life, it's a high time

believers rise up and live a first life. Like a

week shouldn't pass without you firsting. You see out out.

I don't know what to happen next week, but if

I have the opportunity next week, we will talk about

the holistic benefits of firsting. Back to they'll just brush over.

So firsting helps us develop a hanger for God. The

more you seek God, the more you desire to be

in his presence, and you develop into a new year

and then for him. Number two, to show God that

you he is your priority. First thing helps you show

God that he's your priority. This is the time where

you put away every distraction. This is a time where

you put away everything the social media. Then what are

their distractions? TikTok? You see? I I love that, Like

I thank God for the life of my church members.

I've never heard maybe it was coming, but one church

member killed the deserve for TikTok like TikTok. Like I

don't have TikTok. I don't have and it doesn't do

anything to me. I'm not to my nose anything. Like

if you look at me, I look like you. Nothing's lost.

Like we're talking about TikTok nothing. Don't go there, but

some of you don't go there. That's why you say

I'm already there, don't go there. Oh I'm in a car.

I mean the uber half arrived and after you told

me that, like I don't, I'm not going to look

for anything there. I'm not there. Facebook at the point

I didn't shut it down. The account is there, but

I don't know the pastway to their accounts.

Mm.

So every time past germouth sends something Facebook, I said,

send the YouTube one. I can't watch it because I

need to watch it. You you're watching other things, but

we will share God meetings that edifiers, I said, send

me the YouTube one. So Facebook in UNIVERSITYO. I can't

remember how many years I don't go to Facebook to

do anything there. There's one that I'm still battling with,

the snap that one. I'm still battling, but I'll win

the battley eventually, because I closed it down for like

some three months. Thentally I wait to look for the

password again. I covered it. I went back hey because

at the point in time, what I was seeing there

no no, no, no, Charlie, you people like what you

have been watching is dangerous.

No.

No, on a more serious notes, if it's dangerous to me,

then Charlie actually aged to kill you.

Aye.

But anyways, let me move on. But all those things

are distractions that take you away from God. So it's

important that during fasting and prayer we show God that

he's a priority. Number three. It's helps us lend him

by God's word. That's why it's important that when you

are praying you have steady of the word. I mean,

when you're fasting, you have steady of the word and

you have prayer. Firsting without steady of the word and

prayer is a hunger strike. You are just staying hungry

for for fun. It has no spiritual benefits. It has

no spiritual rewards attached to it. Number four, I'll get there.

It yields first. It helps us yield to God's lead.

A spirit man becomes in tune and sensitive to the

Holy Spirit. It's a high time. As you have lived

your life for twelve years, fifty years, eighty years of

your life, you've never firsted before. Please, I'm begging you

this week we are closing the first soon this week,

join and research your your spiritual lives. Moll I beg

you like, if you want me to know that I

can do it for you. It's the same time you

research your spiritual life, because you have to understand that

man's not the body you see man or you you

sitting there. You're spirits man. You have a soul and

you live in a body, So you're first of all

spirits man. But because we always find ourselves seeing the body,

we concentrate on the body. We put makeup on the

body to look what they call beautiful, to maintain stease,

to look very well the mirror. Go ahead, they're sitting

by you. I've seen them. By What investments are you

putting in your spirit life? You can buy Mary kay

matter ky Y's the key all the cares in the world.

You have it in your wardrobe. When was the last

time you bought a Bible for yourself? You are using

the apple. That's when you're opening gene sister that eight

verse twenty two. Then advert to come and cover the thing.

Advert to cover the thing. Then now you see that thing,

it would direct you to Instagram. Then you start scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

One hour you'll be sitting there and you have scored

your life away and most of us. Go into your

phone and look at the apps you use the most

and the time you spend your on those apps. You

are ways staying your life away if it's adding nothing

to your life. But if you's adding something now and there,

this clothes doesn't apply to you. Times and conditions applied,

People of God, it's a size time. Believe us invest

in their spiritual lives like they invest in their physical lives.

I was seeing someone snaps. She say, hey, now she

can spend all hours plaiting her hair in the house

because she loves the home service, in the in the salon.

She cannot watch her movies, she cannot eat their food.

She just waits so she is done. And I was

just thinking to myself, Now you have the opportunity to

sit at home. You cannot read your Bible while you're

plenty your hair, but you want to watch the movies,

you want to eat their food. You have done well,

people of God. Lets invest in our spiritual lives and

fasting and prayer is one avenue and one opportunity. Number

six or number five. We first to turn hopeless situations around.

Our father mostly talks about rules of engagement. So I

want to give you a few rules of engagements concerning firsting,

so that when you're engaging in fasting, you know that

you're doing it well and you know that you're doing

the right Matthew, Chapter six, verse sixteen to eighteen. Matthew,

Chapter six, verse sixteen eighteen. Moreover, when you first being

not as the hypocrites. Moreover, I like the first phrase.

If you studied English, is the phrase or a word?

When you first is a word? Is a statement? I'll

go and see your English teachers English. What did you

get her? Yeah, Charlie, if you got sixty in English,

don't be adding that when I'm preaching. I'm asking for everyone.

You are you say it's a statement? You have the answer? Ah? Yeah,

she doesn't want to destroy anything? Amen? The phrase is that? Moreover? Moreover? Furthermore.

In addition, I like that one the Chinese people say

faboso No. When I was learning Chinese had a girlfriend

who who spoke or lent Chinese, so I had to

learn Chinese by force. So I have nothing to do

with Chinese, but I have to learn Chinese. Really, So

one of the things I learned was fabosome. Please don't

take that. See your say, man, when when you first,

please one minutes, be not at least one minutes. One

thing you have to understand is that the Bible was

intentionally written. There's no word over there that was It's

just by chance that it appeared. When the Bible talks

about when the Bible has spoken about, instance, when he

says if and listen, But this time he didn't use if.

He said when ye first. Let me talk about when

we are talking about a certain point in time which

is setain and it's smooth, compared to if, which can

be unsettain. You don't know when it's happening. So when

the Bible talks about when you first, it starts to

reason that there's a point in time in the life

of a believer where you have to first. There's a

point in time in the life of a believer where

you have to put away food. There's a point in

time in the life of the believer. Listen to me.

People believe that first thing is God to do with

only food. When we talk about firsting, we are talking

about everything that is a distraction, everything that satisfies the flesh,

putting it away and focusing and putting your attention on

all things that benefits you spiritually. So when you first

as a believer, there's a point in time, there's a

period in your life where you have to first it's

a mast. There's a time you have to put away food,

you have to put away social media. For the yeah,

TV TV. First I was talking to someone and just

said hey, and and there was a movie on Dominion TV.

Essentially like I love Dominion TV, but like I find

it difficult to work TV now it is I find

it difficult to words like I literally don't have time

to watch TV. But you sit behind the TV. Your

mother will sack you to go and sleep. You wait

when they entered the room, You come back and put

on the Then you you load the TV and you'll

be sitting closer. And I want it when you hear

you mute and puts it off. They said, don't put

on the TV. Then you have put it on and

you can get attached. Thee in the TV has heated.

You couldn't put it in the fridge. They are there.

So one year. First, don't be as the Hippocrates, go

ahead for this figured your faces to show you spoke

about all these revene spoke about all these Number one

rule of engagements. And this I believe revengermin Revene talking

about it. This was Matthew chapter six, the Semon of

the Mouth where Jesus was speaking to his disciples. After

the beer to Chieus in Matthew chapter five, he came

to Matthew chapter six and started talking about the rules

of engagement when it comes to giving the rules of

engagement when it comes to prayer, and he spoke about

firsting too. So these are the rules of engagement when

it comes to first Number one, don't be pretentious. Some

of you, when you're firsting, you put your face would change,

like you cannot even smile, Like you don't even have

energy to smile, Like your eyes are always like this.

They are working through like an old man. And you,

I don't know what you seek to achieve, but some

of you you want to you want to actially some

sympathy so that some people will see you. I don't know,

they'll have messy on you. I don't know, so that

you show everyone that you are fasting. The one that

even kills me is that the spiritual the spiritual man continent.

They are working about town. They are like like, don't

cut you two part time excuse me, I keep you

walking down and up passage preaching the first everything, and

he spoke about was it Hannah who was praying? And

she prayed so much that she could even pray and

the words could even come. And they saw her, and

she was mistaken as someone who was drunk. Charlie, please

don't go and be doing then be doing those things

in the road. They can catch you somewhere if you're fasted,

if you walk along, it says the first in secrets,

you want to show everyone that you're more spiritual? Yeah, Dan,

how much did you gain in addition to nothing? Some

of you there like the first day, I've turned into hey,

you have you first seven days before? You have no

first seven me. I'm maybe on my third day. My

mother is even begging me that you stop. And this

day Papa has declared twenty one day to me, and

I'm on third day. My mother said I shouldn't actually

I shouldn't do seven days, So I'm being negotiating it.

Then maybe I'll do six, then i'll break it for

two days, then I'll do twenty one. And who are

you impressing? Settings? I love that one. The settings setting

is not drawsom are a certain still and sety okay,

I pick here, I picking it, and you're setting a

sooner man, not picky. People love God. It's high time

we do things right, especially spiritual things. Why why are

you impressing? Maybe you feel that the ladies inlet they

like spiritual our boys. Yes, yes, yes, these ladies, I'm

very set and all them. If there were some other

ladies in the church down there, I'm not sure. But

this one I'm sure. They like spiritual boys. But I'm

giving them kids. So the so the old detect the

fake one. There you do go, I'm going to what

are you? Some of the prayer guys go and praying.

I said, what's that? Where did you learn that from?

So personal? Leslie? That's leslie you have been listening to.

That's this thing. So that's why. So you've got to

let somebody. It makes you feel spiritual. But spirituality it's

not feeling. It's not feeling. Spirituality is what you're possessing

your spirits. Man substance over form. My lawyers, People of

God says, don't be pretentious, don't call attention to your

first just to gain the accolades of men. If you

gain the accolades and the rewards of men. You miss

the rewards and the blessings of God. O't noways that

hunger I could have eaten, for I could have eaten.

Watch then, just to impress you with no reward. The

guy you even impressed her, he didn't even give you

answer Number two, Number two rules of engagements for first thing,

first thing should be done onto God. And I'm spoken

enough about this. It's not a spiritual competition. First thing.

It's a form of sacrifice or worship onto God. Some

of you, like you do competitions. It's good to but

don't be doing those kinds of competition. When I was

first raining Kreissy something like, I had one of these ladies.

She said, well, as a Leslie, there was this app

was the name of that Bible up. Let's then you'll

be you be reading the Bible. It's not your Bible,

but there was this Bible app. You have friends on

the app, so you'll be reading the whole Bible together,

and yeah, be monitoring each other. Fascination. It is good,

but make sure that the motives appeal. It's that you

show that tally. I've read my Bible from Genesis to revelations, Talian.

Have you even read Genesis? What's in Genesis? It's like

you know, I'm going to memory Genesis's words someone I

can quote from someone to someone there tonight. Hey, glory

be to God. We thank God for it. But to

let you be in your pocket and let us see

change in your life. You can't quote the scriptures that

you cannot see any change like your your your your

attitude is excuse by Chinese thinking. In your house, your

parents are always calling us and complaining about you charly.

Sometimes I don't want to go there. You say to go,

but I don't go there. Some you can be on

the call for more than one hour and we are

talking about the jas member like their complaints. And if

you take full scrap sheets like you finish, you can't

go to the Bible. It is good. We want to

see the change in your spiritual life and your attitude

and your homes. In your school, stopping so to your friends,

stop me behaving to your parents, Stop disrespecting your teachers.

You go to an a school, and so what the

teacher is also a human being. If you respect your parents,

to respect your teachers. I know, I know some people

I have a lot of sheep. It's like everyone needs

inside and I love them all the same, and I'm

believing God that will come out your whole. Amen. All right.

Number three, don't first for health reasons or as a

way to low exercise. Look, if you want to get flattering,

you want to move to size one, Glory be to God.

We love your size one, but don't use the first

in period for that we beg you. You know them, Charlie,

one day, declare first that you like you have even

waited from November December worried chickens with ball forgive me,

forgive me, forgive my Chinese and you have become like

the second five. I didn't say that one. And you

are waiting for Jennery first because you know that paper

declared you into one day, so that you using for

a way to lost exercise. Charlie, stop that wroth. Tell

your neighbor Day said, gave me a a growing in

the Super Champions League. Amen. What then you have to

understand is that if you're engaging in a spiritual exercise,

then you want to receive spiritual blessings or spiritual rewards.

So if you're not going to benefit from it, spiritually.

Then words they use tell their way to February February

room first, not room first. Maybe much your sister, maybe

you'll call him first of all, But like there are

many man's room first, wait and do your way to

loss exercise there. Tell you if you want, you can

come me. I'll give you some routines you can do. No, no, no,

you see today more than the Michael to there. I

can defend myself. Every time I'm here. I can't defend myself,

but to their I'm here by the grace of God,

I can defend myself. The Bible says that spiritual exercise

profits little. I mean fascal excise profit little. You are there,

you're not engaging any fiscal exercise. What to do? Profits zero?

Some wis and get you a little exercise to benefit little.

You say, hey, what's the meaning of that? What's the

meaning of that? I will keep fits and be strong

so that I can't do the work of God. You

are sitting there tomorrow at my ways, tomorrow, my neck,

my every day you're something. Why exercise and stretch your

body and your bones so that you'll be fit? You said, no,

you guys climb the mountain. Why climb the mountain. You

see the people. You are there, stand by the gast

of God. I had the opportunity like you, doesn't you.

You are there the mine stronger than you. There was

a time four year we go and climb debris. This

thing every day with our father the act. You are there.

You cannot even work in your neighborhood. Go to the

gate and go open the gates to do exercise. You

cannot do it. But you are saying that this are

sitting in the much are sorry to be careful? Amen? No, no, no, no,

like viscalcise perfect little, it's viskal incise. Amen. So please,

this is not the time to engage in wait to

loss exercise. If you want that time, if you come,

I'll help you. I'll give you some routines to do

you you lose them. You have a life that I

beg you. It's not a place for advert I cannot

ascertain the veracity and the truth of the matter. But

for exercise. There if you do it well, you will

see the benefits. Amen. People of God doing first thing.

It's not the time to be checking your wait every day.

Some of you are first thing. You check your wait

more than you check the scriptures. You're checking your wait

more than you check the scriptures, like every two hours.

You're going to stand on their skill. Hey, it has

produced by health, you know, like you serious? Hey, people

of God. First thing is a place where we engage

in spiritual exercise. So make sure that you focus on

the spiritual excise and gain the spiritual benefits of fasting. Amen,

I won't see if I can go through quickly for

the sake of time, the main or the benefits of

firsting the benefits of fasting. Second chronicles after twenty verset

two to four. Second Chronicles twenty two to four, number one,

we obtain divine guidance, help and direction from God. Divine guidance,

direction and help from God. Then four then there came

some that Jehoshah Fath, saying, there comet a great multitude

against thee from beyond the sea on the side Syria.

And behold they be in john Talma, which is engaded.

And Jehosha Fath feared and set himself to seek the

Lord and proclaimed. He proclaimed that what the first go ahead?

Throughout all Juda and Judah gathered themselves together to ask

help of do what to ask for help? So firsting

is the time or one of the benefits we get

from firsting is that we obtained divine help. We obtained

divine guidance and direction when we first even out of

all the cities of Juda, they came to seek the Lord.

Some of you, you are designed to hear the voice

of God concerning the situation. You're believing God for direction

on a particular matter, and you are there listening to

that scenes Proverbs and the rest. Your food partner APM, Like,

what's the meaning of that? What's the meaning of that?

You want to succeed in your job? You said? Your

froud part like, what's the houn does? Let's help you

call your nas and pray that God to give you directions,

give you insight to God, to wisdom, how you deal

with people. That's that's that's promotion you are looking for

may not be as a result of how many hours

you spend over time. That promotion you're looking for may

come as a result of how you deal with the

security man at your office, the cleanness at your office,

at your schools. But you are there, you are believing God,

and it's not happening because you have not gone on

your knees for God to grant you that direction as

to how to go about the situation. Many of you

you cannot hear God's voice because the voice of men

have clouded your thoughts and your your thinking abilities. Like

to break this thing down, I need another day to minute.

That's just that's just points one out of five. Yeah,

by the grace of God that I work with the carpardoids. Yes,

so let me try to break it down and do

what we call summary. You know, believers have gotten too

a point in life where the voice of men, the

voice of friends, the voice of whse sayings, have become

the voice of God to us because you cannot seek

to hear God for yourself, and two because there are

a lot of distractions and you cannot hear the real

voice of God for yourself. But Reverend GEREMI I believe

in due course we have to teach and Britain the

voice of God or hearing the voice of God. So

you want to go to that school, and they are like,

if you come to me and you want to go

to secondary school, there's not others. What I'll tell you

to go to them? Go to prisake youselve and living

god like and notaturally. I'll give you all that decaise here,

but I can't there no buts I say, if you

do like, please it is mine. That is not what

body is saying. Maybe God wants you to go to

in fancy him and the rest. You see. I'm a

very linear avers because I give you you're normally ording

the mike. It's only want to say. That is why now,

oh us to see because your journey and where God

is taking you, God is taking you to a course

somebody you have taken the end one. You're a faix

the pass you never get to. It will never happen

you want. You're confused about that, lady, I've come to

ask first and leslie. I'll believe God and tagine. But

it's high time you also were listening to God for yourself.

It's high time you add all the advices around you

and listen to what God is really saying for yourself.

Let me go on ACTD of the thirteen, verse two.

I love the scripture and loads and I'll tell you why.

As the minister to the Lord and first, as the

minister to the Lord and fasted, the Holy said the

first the Holy God said, are believing the Holy Gods

for a direction on making a particular choice in your life.

You want to make a particular choice in your life

which is very key and instrumental to your breakthrough. And

you are not. You are believing other things. What did

they go to? Where did they go to? The holy

ghosts separate me? And so so the holy words give

them the direction separate me. But please read from this one.

I beg you. Now there were in the church. Now

they were in the church leg generation that was at Antioch,

certain perfects like profetso d yea perfects like his first

please before I'm called beyond before they signdary. So they

were a profets. So they didn't say there was a prophet.

There were profets and words brother are you okay okay?

As banner Bass and so they mentioned a few. There

were profets and teachers as banner Bass, as Simeon that

was called Niger okay and luis. More prophets and teachers

and many coach had been brought up with herald Charlie

Harold like if they say and revenge and reminder who

was raised by the Albiso like before you like past

see the correct But they still went to the Holy

goes for directions. Go ahead now as the minister to

the law, as the minister to the Lord. And who

were with Harold, those who are with all the names,

they didn't select them. They selected only to the called

who and who banner bass.

And so.

For the work of the ministry, I've called them three.

And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their

hands on them, they sent them away. Give me, I

think and or n IV of the three. So after

they had firsted, give me I love this one. So

after more first the first the first time to select Paul,

and in three they said, after more fasting. So after

you firsted the twenty one days, don't say it tally,

I firsted for the year. There's a need for more fasting.

There's a need for more prayer. When you feel your

praid enough, there's still another one hour to go. Why

do you think you're faster for twenty one days? There's

still another seven days, There's still another three days. There's

still there's more. First thing to be done if you

really want solutions to your problems. And one thing, I

try to disabuse and we'll get there. If I'm not

able to get there, we'll get there. Is that we

do only first for problems to solutions or solutions to problems. Sorry,

so you are only prayering because you have a problem.

You are only firsting because like you have dreamt and

you saw a snake. Believe our rise up, fasting and prayers.

It's not for only when you have problems. In fact,

first thing does not bring solutions to problems. I'll explain.

First thing only creates an atmosphere in a room where

God can manifest solutions to the problem. Some of you

are confused about that. Lady be subjer Onan's preach and

he said he was preaching in America and there was

this guy he spoke to escentually, you you like fair girls,

blanktair chiefs. I don't know why revenge your minds looking

at me like that. But the last time I checked,

I don't know. I didn't know that I fell into

that category. Yeah, I like who God wants for me.

But if it's fair out there, if it's out the

black beauty, I love. But he said this guy he

loved fair girls. It was telling him that fair girls

will help you. So as he was finished straight to

him that he laid hands and was praying for him,

let me come down. So when he left hands on him,

then he went back. Then he went around. There's that

figure and he fell on that there. You told me

some of that prophets. I told you that's what I like.

So God has they've played hands on you. You have

ten round and running around. What I want to say,

like You'm going to follow the figure and you're saying

that that's what you do. You say you do something.

You don't get that game? The A says, who cut you? Yeah? There,

you'll catch you or you'll let you follow on any

figure and say God has led me. And like you said,

God has directed me. You say, I told you you

are the one, Like, don't play those games over here?

Like believe God for or the Holy Spirit for direction

as to who to choose to marry? Tell you after

I learned all the Chinese and I'm picky ha tally

three now. But you have to believe that God's original

intents for life is what is being made manifest by you.

You are there. You've been crying for three days. Charlie

Church members said. Last I was telling my oobie the

church members they can be wild shit like this dawn,

I'm preparing to breach. There's the time, this dne I'm

preparing to breach like I've not slept, like from twelve midnights.

I'm preparing and praying. Then I received a call church

member at one o'clock. He was almost one choir. He's

fighting with his girlfriend Tally fact. Tell you some things

I've seen, I've heard, and I've encounted, like you cry

for me. That is all.

To do.

Conference call? Sad, okay, do the conference call telling you

can't cry for me? God, who are still solving the problem?

That told them that you know what, you will continue

to church. So after Chest seven, after preacher I called them,

I said, he this relationship. I said that from now,

don't don't't call me like this relationship. That said like

that was in the first time. Sure, sometimes they can't fight.

Time to become a police case and they'll call me.

It's has to come to the policeation. Like like I said,

I want to be a person, but this one there, God, please,

like Maggie, you help me. Hey, people of God, if

God is delivering you from that relationship that would destroy

your life, don't fight the process. The only spid is

speaking to you. Yes, and then the relationship that I've

loved you, your face has swallow. You're broken up with

him and you're saying that you still love him so

he would change, and you have gone back. You're praying

for him, pray for him so that you change. But

don't go back, chalte, any guy who here you, Charlie,

I beg you, let's pray for his salvation. But it's

not the one for you. I don't need to be

a prophet to say it. I beg you, he's not

the one for him. I had a friend whose boyfriend

will always be beating there and you call me if

I tell you like this is just one person that

you call me. I said, hey, talent, live there.

Guy.

Don't you say that that's the answer. Like, let us

have some peace, people of God. If you need direction

as to a particular choice, you have to make believe

the Holy Spirit for it. Amen. Amen. But Francis is

my lean as me too much? It seems as unfortunately

I didn't take my phone, but I should have left

my watch too. But I didn't leave the watch, so

I've seen your missing. Thank you, please, rever Frances actually close,

so permit me revery francis not to love your little brother. Really,

the people said, they're enjoying the word. Let's go to

three o'clock. I love that. I love that it's not

about just spending time in the house of God, that

is looking at them for food that they have started after.

Oh there, special, special, let me give you one more

points than you're close. H rise up to your feet,

O love so get there, keep her soul, love her.

Sometimes it's going to hit the direction and the leadings.

We want to pray right now. I have a strong

impression in my spirit that the number of us over

here that believing God for clarity, and we want to

make the right decision. We want to get it right

this time. In the first service, my brother said something

which was it hits me very strong. He said, sometimes

that decision may look too good to be true. The

girl is pretty. When we talk about pretty. Remember the

man was saying that in first service. I don't know

how he found out, because I've not told him, and

I don't I'm not saying it's true, but he was

saying that when it comes to myself and him, like

we like good things, and when it comes to the ladies,

we like good things. That's why he was saying, I

did I just asso said to myself from that comments.

But people of God, the girl is pretty and we

are not talking about the like beauty lives in the

eyes of the beholder. One that wiffe, he said in

the warfare like everyone in the in the area, I

say that this one like, she's fine. Next time, lads there,

so I need to stand there and preach like like

beautifully this all over the place. It's helping me. Or

I'm telling you that I'm saying this to say that

she can be pretty, very intelligent everything. Prayer for that one.

If she's praying like you feel the presence. But it

doesn't mean that she's the one for you. For he's

the one for you. Our father, the Absho said the

other day, he said, Look, the greatest strategy is when

two good people who are not meant to be together

come together. Wow, you can be good. I can be good,

but we may not be met for each other. So,

people of God, I don't know what decision you need

to make in your academics, whe your relationships are concerned,

some family decisions, some investment decisions. Some of us there,

I was talking to a lady the other day, I said,

telling me, I think in one zero so numbers and Charlie,

I'm an investment versus so I'm looking at how to

multiply the next number, and don't look at my nose.

I said, Look, there's a point in time where you

need the Holy spirit for that investment decision. You want

to make that business, you want to start that job.

I was talking to one of my lectures within the wiki,

said Chalie Leslie, I had to leave a job paying

me ham did he say nets about twenty k and

go for one that paid him nets about fifteen k

and the twenty k had some benefits and allowances at

that this one did they gave him to card? This

was no tomb card and he was a wow decision

he had to make. And he said, in just a

year the company is going down. So some of you

you have to change that job you're doing, and to

be a hard decision because you look at the money

and I'll get you, aw do man knows, So that's

what to be saying. Class it do so I'll get

you like that's Chinese, but let me translate it.

There.

The work is big, but they pay is more. It's

a wild decision. If you don't have the Holy Spirit,

you cannot take such a decision today. It's between you

and I told you that, Charlie. I love you, but

I'm fast for you. I can't pray for you, but

I'll pray with you. It's between you and God. You

want to speak to your father this month or it's

already after me. You don't to speak to your father

this after me. It's just one prayer, will pray. We

will continue next week. But if you get this right,

the leadings and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the

direction of the Holy Spirit, the help of the Holy Spirit,

and that decision you need to make. Some of you

are looking whether to go to the hospital for this

surgery or not. I don't want to go on. But

may the Holy Spirit give you guidance. May he speak

that word and one thing, one thing. One thing to

recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit is it comes

with peace, comes with peace. May the only Spirit speak

that word of peace into your heart. That was silence

the voice of confusing, that was silence any voice of destruction.

It's time we silence every other voice and let the

voice of God be true. Spirit of the Living God,

we come before you. You know I said this one

thing we ask, This one thing we ask. Spirital guidance

is very key and important and necessary in our survival.

As leave us. Therefore, we come before your holy throne,

that you show us messy that this time around we

will make right decisions. We will not take decisions in

the dark. We will not make the wrong move, we

will not go the wrong direction, We will not make mistakes.

Spirit of the Living God, put a right line around

about us, that we will not cross the boundary, that

we will not cross the red mark, that we will

not go out of bounds. Spirit of the Living God,

help us in our marriages. Help us to take the

right decisions where our children are concerned. Let us take

the right decisions where our families consent. Let us take

the right decisions where academics are consent. Sometimes it can

be as pretty as solving question five or question four

in an upstyle examination. Question further, in the name of Jesus,

as I battle my niece upon the altar of your son.

They are Bishop Nicholas Dankan Williams and the global lead

Past the Bishop Joe dan Kan Williams. We pray for

your leadings and guidance. We pray for your direction that

we will haven't right this time around this year twenty

twenty five, we will not make foolish mistakes. This year

twenty twenty five, we will move into our next level

and manifest the next level anointing in the name of

Jesus Father, we give you things in Jesus name. Amen, speed,

lead your first speed, lead your bride spee this morning

if we leave this venue, I don't know your judgments

or your assessments of the word, but permit me to

present to you one of the greatest kids in life,

without which everything else you find yourself is sinking sand.

First thing is good, Prayer is good, given is good.

Every other spiritual activity too, is good. But first of all,

if you don't acknowledge a relationship with your maker and

your Father, it's all on sinking sern. The mathematicians call

it cost ninety. This morning, with our eyes closed, with

our heads bowned, this is an opportunity for you to

have a personal reflection. Believe God for a revelation of

your spiritual life. And I want to call out two people,

two groups of people, to pray with two groups of people.

So just have a spiritual reflection of your life and

have that examination within the next five to ten seconds.

Then I'll call out two groups of people. You want

to acknowledge the lordship of the Sus Christ overout your

life this morning. Jesus Christ has been ruling thirty percent

of your life, some of you fifty. Even if it's ninety,

he needs one hundred percent and even more so, just

have an examination with our eyes closed. You don't want

it's a personal time. You don't want to look or

be distracted by anyone. It's a personal decision. You have

not even come fast first half of January. Maybe we have,

but you can see that the direction that your life

is going in the whole of twenty three before you

didn't seem like that. Two groups of people, then we

ran off Number one. I truly need Jesus look here.

You can fall into the situation where you have been

in church every now and then. You have heard this

point in time in the service only times and countless

times that are so used to it you can even

predict my next statements. That is fine, but you need

to make that decision after a careful examination of your life.

Do you truly need Jesus or do you have him

or you don't? Are you sure? If you're not sure,

you're the one I'm speaking so and number two, having

observed the direction of my life, I believe that I

need to re dedicate my life to him. On these

times I'm on good terms with him. On these other times,

it's like I don't know Jesus. There's two groups of people.

If you fall into any of these two groups, please

do me the favor. And please with their eyes closed,

with the heads bowed, please control movements. Please come to

the four the front. LAM pray with you. Please come

to the front, LAM pray with you. Please come to

the front. It's a personal time. It's not a time

to club. Please, I beg your club please go bad.

Please please, please destinies as take at this point in

time further in the name of Jesus, behold your people. Okay, Father,

I see someone still battling with the decision, and it's

ask him for some small time to make that decision.

Is the past. If you could give me some few seconds,

I want to I want to make this decision. Please,

if you ask only in the congregation, you want to

come m it's a decision about your future. It's a

decision about your destiny. It's a decision about your assignments

in the land of the living. Please, if you're coming,

please come. I see someone saying that he's shy. People

look at him. I'm not going to cat any scripture

for you so that you feel that they're guilt tripping.

You know, it's a personal decision you need to make

your friend.

Yeah, pen you know, Holy.

Of Men, contact the heart of man, Holy spread confick

the heart of men.

That's the that's the help of man of man.

Shall we have a right you last, you.

Right and lifted up? If you're here, if you're in

the obligations, you can join them with the right and

lifted up. Say Father, in the name of Jesus, I

came before. You're of grace. Please say like you mean it.

I know you've been saying it over and over again,

but please say this like you mean ites and minutes.

Two repenters involves turning around and turning away from that

which was usual and going a new direction. So don't

do it like you've used or you have done it before.

The Holy Spirit is convicting hurts this morning. The Holy

Spirit is starting hurts this morning. All over this place.

The Holy Spirit is ministrying to people. So let's support

our brothers who have taken the bold step to come

to the front. And sisters say, Dear Lord Jesus, I

come before your throwing room of grace, that I'll obtained

messy and find grace in this time of need. Spread

of the Living God. Let any weakness, let any sin,

Let anything that is not pleasing to you in my

life be taken away. Now, please write my name in

the Book of Life. Please write my name in the

Book of Life. My name is Leslie. Mention your name.

Please write my name Leslie in the Book of Life.

That as you are coming, I'll be with you, and

you'll be with me in the clouds of glory. Help

me live the life of an overcomer. Help me overcome

the last of the flesh. Help me overcome the last

of they, Help me overcome the pride of life. In

the name of Jesus, we give you thanks. Take all

the glory, Holy Spirit, take all the glory of Jesus. Father,

we give you all the glory and all the priests

in the name of Jesus. This is the best decision

you could ever make. It you can put you answer

your