Sermon
The Essence of Fasting Rev Nana Kweku Sekyere 12.1.25
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Rush this, watch this.
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You can't treat today as one of.
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The sure days. I don't know why you came here.
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That if you are here and then there should be
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a racy, there must be a racy.
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And you know I have to say this song like
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it's just a song, is administration.
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I don't know about you, but I know that whatever situation,
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whatever problem, whatever I'm mountain.
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That is ahead of you. He wears the victor's crown
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in our lives.
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This morning.
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He will make sure that I'm out the form it becomes.
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Plain and anything that mass me and so turn in
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your life in play. So I want you to attack
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this with an attitude that you're not literally here the
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same you're on lively having the problem. You're not living
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having this trashy. I understand what I'm saying. I stopped
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up two months on the mother. This Prince's sticking from walking.
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I see you have avercome, you have a thcome, you
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have O.
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My god.
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Yeah album.
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Every time must come down.
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Every brow selfie broadcast to have the Jexus Brown.
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You have other con you have other concrat.
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My bait boys all time, h than just hid.
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Hey, you wrote the vicious ground.
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You have all the time you have at every time.
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A ca me so the champing long hop, the bios
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drum you have, of the hay jungle traffic, patche.
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You snappy.
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You all the.
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Home you have a love A come look.
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You have.
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Come, come.
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Like all.
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About say father, I hear say further you can't do
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it better save father.
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This morning, have missy on me any situation that has
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become a tang in my life, by your missus.
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Let any situation, any problem, any mountain, whatever that is
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in my life that has become chrownedge, that has become
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terminal by your messes and by your power, Oh Lord,
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this morning, let any demonic influence amy the morning, evil linkage,
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Oh Lord, by my prayer and by my god, let
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darling the cuts, not darling the cut like the morning.
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I g this be destroyed.
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Oh Lord, I arrest ready arrow shut at me right now,
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as I clap my hand.
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And pray, use me, use me, loose me, release me
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usen Can you do that for us?
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One is breaking everybody that is breaking words, breaking mountains.
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He's past living bases, all of them. So send her money.
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Let padoh, let pado, don't ever go carry.
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Mam I'm getting the play, mam pa, I'm getting.
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My pa. Come that in roll that is row, no,
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the role that rock.
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Are you listening up?
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Somebody, come many my power, shutout, honey, name saga house.
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You're my mama sad my second day.
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The name of color.
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They won't Mama power. The Mighty Man.
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Of Jesus, say Father, madam, I thank you, I thank
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you for deliverer, but deliverer Jesus, Mighty Jesus.
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Those who love him. Can you appreciate him?
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God?
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Bless your energy music? Are we appreciating golf? The life
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of energy music? Let's do it better?
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Oh?
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Can you you are appreciating God? Can you do it better?
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At somebody?
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A man walk to two or three people and tell
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them today you will never leave the same. Tell the
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person like you.
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Minutes.
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Let a person know that today you will never leave
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the same. Tell somebody that you will have a testimony. No,
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tell somebody that you will have a testimony. This month
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will not end. You will have a testimony. Can you
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shouted like you?
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Minute this? Smile with my head Carl, helujah, Amen.
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And before we take our seats, us to specially towngue.
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God for the life of our Father, our head pastor,
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the one and only apostle, the one and only our
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teacher is eminas the Agriishop Nicolas dank Can William Church.
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This is my father, This is your father. Are you
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shouting up? Amen?
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Hallelujah? Are you not?
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Are you not? Are you not feeling the vibration in
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the house this morning? Hallelujah? And we turn God once again.
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We have the presence of our Bishop emeritus, Bishop Joseph
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now cold, Please, let's I appreciate God for his life.
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He's here to worship with us. Last week he was
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here and this week he is here. Let me tell
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you what then, for a man.
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As bishop and mirrors to come and come again, he
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should tell you something. He is our father's pastor. I
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don't understand what I'm saying.
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And always our father is proud of him and he
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is privileged that he has someone like him, and he
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has been here and he's here again. You some when
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you buy food from a vendor and it's not too nice,
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you don't go there again. Yes, So for Bishop to
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come again is that there's something? Are you not working,
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Bishop that he'll come again? Hallelujah and smiling when you
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look at the High Spirit a globally pastor is in.
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You can't see that. No, there is something. Even if
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you give him a music up beats, he can give.
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You some moves.
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Right now.
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Can we appreciate God for the life of Bishop the
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prophet of bad Bishop Joel than Can Williams, who wonderful
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a man? And tell somebody this morning, allow God to
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speak to you. Oh the way he was smiling. The
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person will not take it to your say it like
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a minute.
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God.
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As some people they have decided in their hearts that
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no matter what you will say, they will not change.
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But let them know that today Please allow God to
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speak to you.
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Amen.
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Let's appreciate God for our lives as we take our seats. God,
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bless you for coming. And please, very soon we'll be
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having our gathering services, which will not be just tend
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to have thirty. It to change a little bit. And
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very soon we'll be having our gathering service. That's the
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one that we'll have with first and kend service together,
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we'll have only one service. Very soon we'll be having
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such services here Amen. And in the match we are
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going to have our first swollen Sunday in this NLG auditorium.
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So tell your neighbor that it means work, is that
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you have to invite someone to MEAs that I have
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to evangelize to someone. It means that you have to
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know that through you, God must cause people to be saved. Please,
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do you understand what I'm saying? Is that a good
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thing about sharing? Halleloyer a man? So this morning, by
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the instruction and vision of our father and our globallyd pastor,
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want us to stay on fasting and it's significance fasting.
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And it's significance.
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And as we are in there twenty one days. First
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you have to know that there are reasons why we first.
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Please do you understand what I'm saying? And some of us,
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some of us you know that when you first, you
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know it yourself that it's not really a first. So
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you've broken the first before you even started. You what
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I'm saying, it's that you decide that to first, But
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before you started, some of the circumstances and things you know. Amen,
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and you see and there are some things that we
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have to know as a church and as believers.
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And if you're not.
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Careful, you will follow people's experiences and you will not
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have an experience for yourself. And by the time you
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realize they will make they will make you feel that
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fasting is some wild work, that you can't do it,
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because those who have been fasting, when you look at them,
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it's like they're not encouraging. Do you understand what it's like.
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They will even advise you that you can have also.
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And even now, immediately we go for the first day,
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the doctor starts advising you you understand, And people also
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let you know that we are on medication and all
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that before, so that before you even put not the
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first by the time you realize it will be only
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you and maybe your wife and children.
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Is like the rest. They are all on medication.
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Because of some of the things we've heard about fasting,
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and because some of us to be fasted and we've
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not seen any results. Pastor Lizzie, please tell the lady
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behind you to sit to wards so that you're not for.
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Let's help.
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Let's help each other, Amen, And we have to understand
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that it's very important that we know why we first,
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the benefits of it, the reasons and why it is
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important to you as a twenty first century believer. To first, Amen,
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and one thing that you have to know is that
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people will tell that if you don't first, is that
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your prayers will not be answered.
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It's not true. Please, it's not true.
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And because of that, people are not praying at all,
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because they feel that because I'm not able, because I'm
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not well or I'm on medication, my prayers will not
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be answered.
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It's not true. Your prayers will be answered regardless of firsting.
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But there are some kind of situations that will have
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to compel and provoke you to first, because that kind
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will never go unless you inconvenience yourself, unless you go
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a step further, unless you go past the normal things
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that you usually do, so that God will know that indeed,
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you want to touch a particular nerve, you want him
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to move from his seat to append to you, because
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you have to understand that you are not the only
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one praying. Some people who have not been sleeping for months,
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some people have not been sleeping for weeks, for years,
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and people have I can tell you for a fact,
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people have their residence at their trial wanting they don't
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climb down. They're there and you go there. They have
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their the staff that they have been working with, and
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you can't see that they have been there for long,
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and they are also saying that some of their prayers
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have not been answer. But you you do the football
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and prayer and you sleep, and you are still saying
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progress and results, and you think that the first thing
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is is nothing. You know it's not necessary. Prayer is
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not you know that all this well some of us are.
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Prayer is reheisted. It's typed.
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So you read it out and you sleep. Turn to
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your neighbor and tell the person that today.
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Receive delivers Oh, if you don't love the person, that
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to tell the person like you mean it. Amen, And
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tell one other person that that miss my like that
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kind of prays. It has never saved anyone.
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It will not save you. So be received deliverance. Amen.
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You understanding what I'm saying. Yes, So that when we
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standing we are praying, you will know how to navigate.
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You know that when someone is just standing there, you
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are different from the person.
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Amen.
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So when you talk about firsting, when you look at
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the dictionary meaning, it says that first thing is to
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abstain from food. Is to abstain from food, and it
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goes on to also say that firsting is to eat
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sparingly or abstain from some foods. So people have various
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types of fasting engaging. The reason why is saying that
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some food is that some of the first Some people
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will tell you that you are doing fruit firsting is
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that we take only fruits. Some people too, it's like
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only liquid. You don't take this thing. Some people too,
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it's like you have refrained yourself from eating at all.
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So all these things a kind of fasting. So you
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know what works for you and you go for it.
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Do you unders know what I'm saying? But for a
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long time in my life, I never knew that there
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was the kinds of first thing. All that I knew
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was when you were firsting. Even if you take even
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if I drink what, I know that I've broken the first. Yes,
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that's how that's that's that's that's how I was taught.
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So I don't take water till I'm breaking the first.
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Yes. So like when when I take what, I feel
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that I've broken the first.
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Do you understand I'm saying, It's like we have some
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and I'm try to change, but I'm still not able to.
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So you can't take water, but some of you the
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way you take the water, it looks like you are
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broken the first already, Amen, God to give us understanding. Please,
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if you have to change the microphone, do it now.
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The way it keeps going on, I don't understand. Halleluojah.
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Amen all right. So I want us to look at
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the biblic coming in of firsting. Firsting often represents a
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period of spiritual reflection, devotion, and seeking God's guidance. When
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you're looking you go through the Bible, firsting of it
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represents a period of spiritual reflection, devotion, and seeking God's guidance. Hallelujah,
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because I hope you understand. And in the Bible when
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you talk about firsting, it also says that firsting is
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the practice of abstaining from food for a period of
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time for spiritual purposes, standing from food for a period
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of time for spiritual purposes. And it's a time for reflection,
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a time for guidance, a time that we devote ourselves
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in worship to the Lord. Sometimes, if you're not careful
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when you hear firsting, you will think that it has
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it has to when you have to ask for something,
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that's when you have.
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To first know.
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You first as a form of worship, just to let
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God know I love you. I want to put everything
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aside and want to be with you. I don't want
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any distructions.
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I want to be with you. You understand what I'm saying.
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So when when you are we are to abstain from
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certain things when you are firsting, it means that if
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your phone can become a distruction, you put it somewhere.
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Do you understand what I'm saying? Because some of us,
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the things that comes on our phones, it's not helping
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when we are firsting. How can you first and your
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own social media throats to well away time?
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Do you?
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That's what I'm saying.
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And so people to when they are to first they're
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not there. They will not wake up. It's like they
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want to sleep till.
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The time.
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A fasting and they're not that.
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When they are fasting, time usually slow. So by when
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you go pin down.
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It's still nine am. At what is happening? Yes, before
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they start.
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Amen, So ask your ask your neighbor what kind of
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first have you been engaging in?
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Now ask that person.
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Ah m hmm.
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You are alone. That small first thing you are doing.
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You don't wake up that.
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It's twelve's twolve doing and you are still sleeping, and
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by three pm you've set your food and everything that
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that breakfast you didn't take the lunch, and that everything
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is set, so you want to kill yourself whiles first thing, Amen,
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that first thing that public come mean is a time
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to abstain from food at time him to abstain from distrustionings,
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so that you would devote that time in reflectioning of
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the things God has done for you, in reflection of
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how things are going in your life. Sometimes when you
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sit down and you reminisce, you know that things have
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not been good and you need to up your game,
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you need to go further. Some of these things will
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provoke you to just cause yourself that I want to
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do three days or five days first. Some of us
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are until the church announces the first. You will never
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first in our lives. And some of you are the
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thing here.
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You said that, oh a Papa mentioning that the main
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church it was not in this gens. So we are
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not part. You know, you say your life like I said,
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look at you, look at me. You're like you know
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that you have not started. And some of us you've
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postponed the first for too long.
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Amen.
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It's very important.
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That you know that when you need dieing downs from God,
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some of the times you need to go into a first.
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You need to restrain yourself. You need to refrain from
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certain things because you want God to meet you in
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a particular way. You want to hear God in a
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particular way. You don't want any other voices. So you
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put this aside. You set this aside, and you are
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just saying that Father, this is me and you alone
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in this room, alone in this hole, alone in this place,
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because I need you to read direct things in my life.
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I need you to speak certain tastes in my life.
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I've lived on this place for too long.
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I need a ten around.
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I need God to come too for me. I need
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God to come and let me feel that indeed He
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has not forsaken men. Indeed he has not left me.
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Indeed he is with me.
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And when you put everything aside and.
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You are in this first the Lord, you know that
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paid you are not here for your gain, you are
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not here for a bad motive.
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You want him to speak to you. And he said
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that I'm drawn now on to me, and I will
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drawn noigh.
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On to you.
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So it means that he's waiting for you to make
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a step whilst he also make a step. So if
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God is making a step and you are still at
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the same place, that it means that you've not been
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able to drawn now on to him, that are drawn
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now on to me? A and I will drawn noiwh
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on to you. And God is our lover. So it
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means that your lover has come from all the way
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and it's at a particular junction, and it's waiting waiting
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for you to also make a step, and.
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That this truges all over us. A. Oh, and you
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ask yourself that what do you want the most?
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Hum?
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What do you want the most? If you ask yourself
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what do I want the most?
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If I need God to really speak into my life,
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I can put it from aside. If I need God
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to speak into my life, I'll put off the series.
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If I need God to speak into my life, I
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will make sure that some friends that will not benefit
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me in this period of my time, I will put
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them aside because this state of my life, it is
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just me and my God, and I need Him to
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come to for me. I need him to Sometimes you
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just have to put a child and ask work, where
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are you? There should be a reflection. Huh, you've worked
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on the first of this ad for twenty years and
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you don't have any guidance, You don't have any direction,
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and you are still living. It is a dangerous thing
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to do, and it's a tragedy because you understand what
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I'm saying. So I want us to know that it
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is very important that when you hear firsting, no matter
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where you find yourself, you should be able to attend
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to do something. Hallelujah. I said you should be able
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to do what to attempt to do something? Come with
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me to Isaiah chapter fifty eight. I'm reading from verse
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number three. These are some of the questions we've been
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asking an lt He said that we have firsted before you.
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They say, this is what God is saying, that we
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are fasted before you. They say, why aren't you impressed?
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We have been very hard on ourselves and you don't
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even notice it. This is a conversation God is having.
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It's like, this is the cry of my people. These
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are the things that you have been asked. How many
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of you have asked this question before? It's like, we
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are fasted before you?
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Go like, where are you?
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I mean, I have asked that I don't know about you,
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but the way you are staying that, it's like you've
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not asked this thing before.
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Because you have not fasted before. Mm hmmm.
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They say, why areing too impressed? We have been very
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hard on ourselves and you don't even notice it. And
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this is God's response. I will tell you why. I respond,
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it's because you are fasting to please yourselves. Even while
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you first, you keep oppressing your workers. See, this is
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to let us know that there's a particular firsting that
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God decides that he wants from us. It's not the one.
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He is the one who is going to answer the prayer.
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So whose whose man?
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One?
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Do you want to believe?
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Ah, I've got to write the book five ways to first.
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And God is saying that that's not the way, and
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he said that you want the book?
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What is wrong with you?
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Pas said that telled me as a amlited Christ and
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he is the model when it comes to Christianity. And
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he's saying that there are some kind of first he's
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not interested in, he's not impressed with. So it means
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that if you are continuing engaging in this fast first,
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the reason why you have not had anything, the reason
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why I've not seen anything. The reason if you don't
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received any results is that you are not doing it
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the right way.
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Huh.
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And you're ask you why have you not been impressed
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for this while? And he's telling you.
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That are you first to please yourself? Why are you fasting?
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And everybody knows you are fasting? When when the person appears.
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You know that?
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Phalah, probably the action said that, Charlie, Chary the first
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day are the first? Are there desire for like three
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days now? Yeah?
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So child, if you signed me the prayer request at
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the anti the entire m that that is between you
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and your goal. Everybody knows, from your schoolmates, your whatever.
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Everybody knows, and you keep giving them updates. Charlie, Charlie,
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cansh you to the trunk. Canshry into the trunk and TV.
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So around this time you don't have you don't have
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to call me. I will be off I'll be off line.
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For some time.
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Hey, is that that you have received your reward already
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fasting moody and everybody is asking you, oh, wait, where
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are you going? We weren't here the last time? So
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you have changed the case. The spirit is leading to
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this side.
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Ah, my God, and.
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You're asking God, why have you not answered my prayer?
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And he's telling you that I go to the people
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you've told them to unswer them for you. If you
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reveal me enough, you make sure that this is between
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you and I. Why have you published it?
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Amen?
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And the reason why you feel that whenever you first,
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your face should be disfigured. You're miss so and people
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I've said, people have asked me that I've seen someone
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asked me that by you first, And I know where
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they're suffering from, because in the dictionary, when you first,
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you have to lose weight, and it's like, I'm first
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and I'm still fresh, and they don't understand why I'm
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still fresh.
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I'm doing that right first.
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To you are not doing the right first thing, So
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you lose weight, your troasress will come down, and you
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are still not seeing any answers. Do you are sat
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that saying tell your neighbor that this thing is the arekys? Hallelujah?
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How many of you believe that there are keys? You
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don't just jump into this. You will kill yourself. Phone,
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you will kill yourself.
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The rackys go to the next vese.
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Let's look at it. It's a lot of blessing someone
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right now look at it, say that what good is
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firsting when you keep on fighting? Inquarently, this kind of
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first thing will never get you anywhere with me. You see,
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it's like you don't that that's stunding. Whilst you are fasting,
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you are telling the people you let me be, let
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me finish with this first. You will see the other
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side of me. Don't let me see you right away after.
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This kind of fasting will never get to anywhere with me.
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I wish I'm the one saying it, but it's not me.
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Like if that one, like when your face looks some way,
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like I will have pity on you.
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But this one, you knows. It has to be the
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right thing. It has to be the right way, because
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do you understand what I'm saying. It has to be
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done the right way.
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But with this particular one that we have been doing
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all this years, it will not get It will not
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get you anyway. It will get you somewhere with your friends,
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your people who feel that you're audacious that when you
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come and you are not saying.
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You're bubbling you know, yeah, are you talking?
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Yeah?
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Asks the person that when you started doing this, what
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have you received the actually another person that if it
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is not working, why don't you change it? Look at
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verse five, you humble yourselves by going through the motions
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of penance, bowing your hairs like reaze, bending in the wind.
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You dress envelope and cover yourselves with ashes.
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Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think
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this will please the Lord? Amen? So I feel like
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when you're first, you're not even in bath, said like God, God.
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Loves It's like God, God, It's like God is the
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only one who loves sting sentence, What is wrong with you?
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And when you are when you are going to see
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what whoever you want to go and see, you won't
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freshen up. Why won't you freshen up and start your first?
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That God also needs.
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A nice environment.
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So if you don't even brushot because you say when
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you brush, you become hungry. Ellie Amen. Okay, why do
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you why don't you brash you? That's somebody if if
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it's not what I'm telling you, what because you feel
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that that one will go hungry?
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Ellie Amen.
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Let he said that your face must look cheerful. Let
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people know that this is when you look people know
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that you are This is this is where's you? This
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is like a punishment to you. It's like, why what
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are you trying to tell him? And he said that
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my my joke is light and my badding is easy.
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He said that it's light, it's not badding something. So
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why are you doing something that you you are letting
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everybody knows that you are in the punishment, and some
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of you the way you are lying. I was like,
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you can't even wear ape like so the food is ready,
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hey sixty six six six that even even do it well.
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And ready? That's someone you have to do. Say hey,
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since the sais hey, pus why.
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And this classic cannot sleep because of spiritual attacks and
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they're telling you why.
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It's like that forgot why amen, go back to my scripture,
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go to verse six. Look at it. No, this is
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the kind of first thing I want.
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Free those who are wrongly imprisoned, lighting the bedding of
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those who work for you.
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Let the oppress go free, and remove the chain. Stop
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buying people. So the reason why when you come to
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this place, we pray for you. We are annoying to you.
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We want their jokes to be broken. You want the
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beddings to be lifted, You want any attacks that you
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are in, you have to go free. You understand what
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I'm saying and instead that this is what I've prescribed
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for you. There must be an agenda to it. Why
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are you doing what you are doing because the church
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declared it because our father said we should do it. No,
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if that is why, then you have missed it. There
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is a greater and the idea reasy for you to
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first then for someone.
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I mean, if you first with it, I will never.
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I have to have a reason. I have to have
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a reason. If I don't have it, I will not.
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Oh.
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Yes, you can call me whatever you want, but I
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don't mind because you don't answer praise.
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It is good.
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So if he prescribes, that's what we use. If you
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have not prescribed, we don't use it. We don't first
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because we feel it makes us spiritual.
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No, it is not that.
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You can't first, but you are not spiritual.
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The reason why you if you, if that is what
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caused you to feel spirituality, why do you break your
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first way to worship pornography?
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Find out?
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Yes, and some of you, because you've spoken about pornograph
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for a long time, said that you don't want to
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what you don't want people to see them, So now
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you want You asked me this movie does you have
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a lot of sex scenes? It's like that, it's not
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really that you want that one and you are using
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it first. The reason why you have a password on
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every app on your phone.
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You Elione knows this. Some of us we have twenty twenty.
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Four spirit Field Worship, but when you open that twenty
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twenty four spread field Worship, it is not spirit field
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worship that is in there, twenty twenty four that you
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think that you are going to. You are going to
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open it and you will feel Michael.
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And you go back.
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Some of us when the music is playing, we minimized
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that one.
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We are watching somewhere, so as you are sitting down
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and you are they think that you have entered into
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that spirit. You don't know that as a particular spirit
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has entered you somewhere, asking you that do you think
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that this particular one? Why are you fasting? And there
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is no prayer to it. You are first thing and
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you're watching movies. You're firsting, and you've got the reason
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why you've gone for a lot of series is that
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this week is a first week. So when you sit
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and you cross your leg and you are there. You
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watch time and you're watching it. You watch time and
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you're watching it because most of us when you watch movies,
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we don't feel hand. So I don't know what the
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enemy is doing. He's making sure that your devise strategies
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to destroy the sacred things that God has given us.
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So in as much as you are doing it, it
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has become just a religion or a ritual, and there's
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no there's no spiritual.
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Activity back in it. And he's asking that this is
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the kind of first.
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I have prescribed, Amen, the way your Likinglime is like
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you don't like him, write it down, reasons why people.
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First Number one is a way of prayer, exod Chapter
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thirty four, verst number twenty eight.
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It's a way of prayer.
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First thing is a way to pray with your whole body,
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surrendering your physical appetite to focus on God and Exodos
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chapter thirty four, verst number twenty eight. Enalty says that
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Moses remained there on the mountain with.
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The Lord forty days and forty nights.
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In all that time, he ate no bread and drank
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no water, and the Lord wrote the Times of the Covenant,
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the ten Commandments on the stone of Tabutes Exodos before
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twenty eight. It's a real prayer. And when you need God,
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you need to catch God's attention in a way. You
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surrender your whole body, You surrender your thoughts, your heart,
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your whole being. You submit everything to the supremacy of
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the law, that in this period of time, I will
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not allow anything to entangle me. I will not allow
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anything to come between me and what I am doing.
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The Bible said that forces was on at the mountain
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for forty days and forty nights at nothing, at no
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food was there with God. And when he came down,
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he came with something. He came with an answert prayer,
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he came with results, He came not coming with sadness.
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And the Bible said that when he came his face
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sure that the people who were not even able to
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look at him. The reason why when after you first
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you have series of attacks and you're not able to
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find your way around it is because maybe, just maybe
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you're not doing the right way, Because if you were
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to meet an attack, there should be a God telling
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you there's something ahead of you.
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Amen, there are attacks, you will let you go through it.
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That he will let you know.
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Amen, he will let you know that even the period
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of time that you go through it there israelized. He
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told them the period of time that there will be
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in captivity and after there will be a deliverance. And
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one man had to be there to stand in prayer
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and fasting for the outcome of what God has said
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to come to reality.
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So it means that if God has.
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Even promised you, you will need to provok him for
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the reality and the manifestation to take place. So it's
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not that he has said it and it will be done, okay, Sarah, Sarah,
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whatever will be will be.
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You die.
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This must change, This is can be changed. Attacks can
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be reverted. It all depends on how you attack. Tell
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your neighbor, we are at war and you have to
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change your mindset. You understanding what I'm saying. We are
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warm and if you're not careful, you will lose the battle.
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But this is a battle that we cannot lose. We
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have to win this battle. Amen, Are you understanding what
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I'm saying? We have to win this battle? Number two?
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Write it down. It's a way to express consent. A
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way to express consent. First thing can be a way
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to express consent for the work of God. Extra chapter eight,
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verse number twenty three. Let's start from verst number twenty two.
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Ezra Chapter eight, verst number twenty two Enalty the Bible
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said that for I was ashamed to ask the King
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for soldiers and horsemen to accompany us and protect as
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from enemies along the way. After all, we had told
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the King our gods terans of protection is on all
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who worship him, but his fierce anger rages against those
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who abandoned him. This is what Ezra says, that we've
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told the people. We've told the king that our God
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is the God who saves. Our God is a loving god.
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Our God is a god. When you call him, he
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comes true for you.
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Our God is the.
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God when you are waing to Difficut is in the
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area of your academics, and you call on him, he
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comes through.
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So it's a way that you express consent.
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And he was consented that what will people say if
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I go back to them and ask for protection? What
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will people say if I go back to them and
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be seeking for help? What would people say?
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Then?
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My God must come true, so that what I have
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told them they will know that indeed we serve a
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living God, he did, we serve a prayer answering God. Indeed,
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we save a God who when we cry out to him,
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he comes true for us. Indeed, when we serve a
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God which there is our God, and you feel like
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trying the towel, he calls a lasmid miracle to happen. Indeed,
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we save a God that when you go on your
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knees and you cry out to him, he casts things
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to move in your favor. Indeed, we save God that
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when the atmosphere is not lose, he will be able
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to cause things to move in your way. Indeed, we
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save God. When people attack you and you call on him,
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he is able to come to. Indeed, we save a God.
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Now even when there is faming and hanger, and there
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is drought, he caused that to be abundance.
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He did.
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We save God that when you cry out, he comes to.
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Why that's your problem? Persistent for a long time? Ah,
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The Bible said that God seeks pleasure in the prosperity
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of his children. So he tells you that it is
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not the will of God for you to be going
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through the problems that you're going through. He said that
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the kind of first that I prescribed is the one
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that causes people to be loosed from their chains and break.
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If we disease and cyncondesis, and why are you still
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having it?
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There is a concern. Look at verse oney three. Look
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at verse only three quickly, Ah, my God, that.
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So we fasted and endestly prayed that our God will
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take care of us. And he had our prayer. Ah,
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this is it.
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And when when you first and you endnestly pray, do
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you understan what I'm saying. He fasted and they endnestly prayed.
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It means that they prayed all kinds of praise. They
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kneeled down, they rode on the floor.
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Like whatever position that I feel that God will be provoked,
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I will do it.
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Honestly.
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Go I past your limitations earnestly, boy, I passed the
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way you feel honestly by it passed how and how
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in your life the circumstances and situation will not gosh
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to say that God, where have you been? No, I'm
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ennestly pray. He said that parry on til you'll receive.
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So it prays that until there's a solution, you don't
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have to move from day until there's an answer. You
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cannot move from day until there is a change. You
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cannot move from day. It's a way to express concern
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that father, why am I going through this?
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What is your mind? What you have to mean for me?
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What do you say about this situation? You go to
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him and you will let you know why you're going
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through what you're going through. You will let you know
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why as young as you are you are suffering from
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what you are suffering from.
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He will let you know. And if there's a way out,
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he will let you know.
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It's a way do you express concern. And I'm I'm
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very sure that look consense in the healths of people here.
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And as we express it together, there a lot of courses,
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shifts in the atmosphere, ah, the a lot of course
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things to turn around for our good. I tell you,
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I will not lie to you. No, I will not
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tell you something for you to just be happy, because
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this work with God has to be with resources. If
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there's no evidence, people don't know that you are saving
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a living God. Amen, you can't save God, then be ashamed.
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No, no, no, no no no.
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That I've been younger and I've been old, that I've
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not seen you see for you to get to that level.
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It tells you that you've gone through certain situations, but always, always, always,
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God downs true. It looks like your back is a
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dainst the wall, but God turns true. It looks like
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all hope is gone, but God comes true. It looks
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that there's no help from anywhere. But when you when
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you lift up your eyes on to the heels, the
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Bible said that for whence come at my help, my
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health comes from the Lord. When you lift up your
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eyes and say the Father helped me, he comes to
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with help because he knows that you know that you
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hate papable. You cannot do it by yourself. You cannot
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do it for yourself. Then you need a higher authority
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to switch into the situation. You need a higher authority
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to come into the equation. You need a higher authority
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to switch for things to change. Because there are levels.
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There are levels, Oh, there are levels. You have to
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understand that there are levels. That is why when you
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pray for someone in the life of the disciples, they
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pray for their lunatic.
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Nothing happiness. They did all. They are chea.
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They know nothing happenings. When Jesus came in, they answer.
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You know, they took him to one corner because they
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didn't want the people to that what happened the way
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you do that thing with the same way we did it?
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Why And he told them challenges the thing. It's not
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just going they go, there's a key to it. Then
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there are some kinds in our lives.
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It does. Don't live until you pray, and you first
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until you engage the hand of the Lord.
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You don't just command certain things, like when bishop was
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saying that when when one of the pastors had our
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father commanding the orion and the priories and the things,
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he also went to command it and the leg to
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let him know that this is not your area. Now
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you need to gain some capacity.
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Amen. Last one, write it down. A way to seek deliverance,
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A way to seek deliverance first, they can be a
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way to seek deliverance from enemies or circumstances. Daniel, Chapter nine, vers.
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Number three.
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The Bible said that end o the Bible said, are
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so I tend to the Lord God and plead that
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with him in prayer and fasting that I also wore
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rough BallIP and sprinkled myself with ashes.
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And people are attacking you. People have danked up against you.
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You cannot be there and feel all okay, and said
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that I don't know why they are attacking me. You
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don't have to know. You have to you have to
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go on your knees. I don't know why this thing
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is happening to me.
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Who should they happen to?
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No, no, no, no, no, who should they happen to?
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You have left tasts loose, and you have opened the
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door for the animatory engage. When they come and they
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don't find anything from them in you, they will not stay.
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And if you have attacked any part of your life
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when you borne your niece, first thing in prayer, there
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is a switch and there is a ten. He said
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that it's any of you. That's any of you lack wisdom,
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said that let him call. So it means that even
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in the area of your education, if you call on him,
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Daniel was ten thanks better, and he had an excellent spirit.
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So it means that in your school you can also
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experience academic excellence. If you burn your knees and prayer
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the Father this area. I don't know why I steady,
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but I don't know what's going on. Could it be
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that if there is a littit testing in your house
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that you need to break, but they are not allowing.
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You to break h when you first and pray.
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The reason why people will promise you that they will
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help you, and they tend to bring a different news.
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It means that there is an attack on your life.
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You cannot stay there and say that when I'm mean alone.
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You have to fight it.
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You have to fight it. You have to you have
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to look. You have to be like those in the
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in the Bible.
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He said, when things are not going, they just tend
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their face to the wall and ask God, what is
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happening that you The only time when things are happening,
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things are not well. This are not right, the only
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time and the only place that you tend to is
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your status. They're right, So we don't even write the nity.
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You put some drugs there and people know you're not well.
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But if you gentier, they are calling you. I don't
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know where it came from. Everybody who hear it only
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good everyone who know it but God. They know why
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you are suffering from the world. You are suffering but
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God and all this, yes, they have not been able
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to do anything for you. But the narrative must change.
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The narrative must change the way we attack and approach
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the must change. There is ancest to prayers. God still
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ancest prayers. First thing works, But if it worked for you,
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your motive is very important.
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Why you are doing what you are doing is very important.
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The reason why you are doing this very What starts
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your feet?
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No one forced you to clap your haird But I
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don't know what you're doing. There's a type of club.
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When your club, they're just looking at you that what
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kind of ungratefulness is that? Let's stap your two hands
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all over this place? Can you speak to the father?
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Can you speak to your father?
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A liver case, a lure a my dear, Amastini and
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rap kids A parlor work attire, mom dollar this, oh.
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Jesus, oh Jesus, rapula massonde, exander amattia, Luah Mason a cartoonist,
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Oh oh oh oh.
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Pa sa Mason Anti a master.
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My palu a cat soon Tala machiats a pa talua
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am attire in Pala amat is zuga vada rap rap
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impa saga diamaste Rapallo.
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And my silter aanda namatai.
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A killer vadakiness rapp aloa masina.
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Dea ma cousa rapa zaga vers in the mindset name
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of Jesus.
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Open your I said, look at me, we are going
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to pray just two minutes, because this is what the
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Lord is going to do already. It's like an announcement
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I'm giving you. And I've seen this happen times with
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our number around four. The Lord woke me up and
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was telling me certain things that he was going to
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do as we started this year in this church. And
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I tell you how to wake up and write it down.
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And this year is going to be a great year
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for this church. One the Lord has opened the door
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for marriages in twenty twenty five. Listen, listen, you say,
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I don't even have to give give the give the
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microphone to revenge James. That is really as I have
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typed it, and and and and I didn't know I
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was going to preach you a supposed to preach. He
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just told me that I pushed for me. You're like,
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I will not even mention it. But I believe that
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God has a way of two is it saying the
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first one?
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The Lord has opened the door of marriages in five.
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That is the word of the lord, and I saw it. This,
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don't I saw it?
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The second one, A slight academic door has been opened.
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Listen, Kathleen, Listen, listen.
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He says that those who need scholarships to steady outside
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will have it.
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Those soon need to app the game in academics. Who's excellent?
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Number three.
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There will be people who will have surprises of relationships
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they were not ready and it will happen.
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Listen, this was this, This is something that will surprise people.
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It's like you are not ready. Some of us turning
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to ask you said, I'm not ready. Now these are
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the people who are going to be surprised this year.
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It's a surprise. Ah.
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Amen, there's my ahead. Number four. Some people a particular
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hold will break for them to enter into one. Listen.
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There is why you are clappy. The way you are
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clappy is that you don't know what he's saying.
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I saw some people who are not meant to be
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in a particular relationship, and all of a suddenly there
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was a creak and it fell on them and they
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started manifesting this career.
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And the last one, the last one.
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Some would lose some relationships when you make them cry
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for a bit, but for they who realize it was
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a divine providence.
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Listens in the vision, I saw people who were crying.
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It's yes, and the Lord was telling me that this
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is for the good too, and it would turn out
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for those relationships will break this year when you cry
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like I've told you that, I've thought you already like,
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it will break.
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So when you cry and you come to us, we
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share you up and let you know and bet this
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thirty year and it's very happy. Amen.
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Amen.
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I went to pray for just two minutes and I'll
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hand over.
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The Lord said that they said dog that has been
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open twenty twenty five for marriages, and he said that
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a slight stom. I saw a dog that has been
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opened slightly. He said that a slide dog for academic excellence.
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Jesus eight, those who needs scholarship to steady approached.
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That the door will open the way.
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Oh yes, and it to shock you what the Lord
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would do. Can you listen up the two minutes dash,
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I was pretty sure, like this is really about one
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of the days. And whilst they were thinking, I saw
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the Lord who the Lord was putting a baby in
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the stomach and I call her and I asked I
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told him that this is what I've said that I've
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been to the hospital. They said that there's nothing. I
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said that again, Robert, she's having a daughter now. And
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when she came back, said that, Reverend, you can't believe it.
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And I went back again. They said that there's a baby.
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They would have they would.
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Have moved it but for God, But for God, but
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for Jesus.
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And the things will happen practically in this auditory in
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the name of Jesus. And if you're post yourself of disgrace,
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will be a part. By giving the testimony, you will know.
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You will know that it's it's not really bad.
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Like I told you.
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It's not even for you to say him in your club.
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It's like what God is going to do that he
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has announced it. If you're pushing yourself, well, you can
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be part of those two Jesus. I don't know which.
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This that is happening to your life. That says something
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God b.
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No love.
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He shout shun the plah blah bah.
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He cut told shout down Taylor, your care come plad
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singing my door.
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He cut my tell tell me damn that shot shot
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called tell them the car package your call shout.
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Yeah he got shutting. Yeah your care I tell him
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my god, don't follow some.
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Pating the.
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Blah blah blah, shut your yeah, let you I'm comes by.
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Follow my arm.
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Hey he called.
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Pasa bya he's not telling me at tire he he.
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Got da pa.
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He turned a bar, he got dama he called. He's
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not telling the mea ta. He't come none me up
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here console my blah blah by he ain't got pay
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he can't come blah blah blah. He is telling he
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got he has got pazama pa here, tell me a
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pa he are packing he has come back here ba
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blah blah blah. He a maidy a p he ha
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mad me about he made me a.
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Da da he.
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He ain't cant feller here telling me are you you
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money up here.
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Packing your b blah blah bah bah yeah blah blah
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blah blah, yeah blah blah blah blah. I he liting
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me your part, yes, hell am off many airs. I'm
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donelly a peaty shape laha lah bada ladra lah bada
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Sunday Yeah snack shun y'a lah blah blah. You're telling
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gay apart are.
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Your twenty about us lifting.
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A cord.
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And you lifted up like you mean somebody all about
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his face.
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Ah yeah, yeah, it's not according you not sing I
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singing to.
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And then it's impory your sing.
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Ma man.
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Sing it, not acory sing God man a home mag.
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Sing it.
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Acord. Your singing, it's not it's according singing.
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Those without who has lifted all over this face.
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For your word says, as it's written in Daniel, so
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that as they firsted and endlessly prayed, you answered.
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Further.
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We pray as a nixt gent church on this day,
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on the twelve day of January, let your word manifest
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in our lives. Let this testimony follow us those of
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us who need academic excellence.
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Let the don't be opened. Those of us who are
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waiting a response to a scholarsh Ah Leco civadi.
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Ama told savers yea in the US, as we said
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that they will be marriage, let.
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Anyone enter. We call it down.
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Oh Lord said that people enter into surprise relationship that
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will change your lives.
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Let them be in the name of testimony, Amen, in
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the mighty name of.
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Those who said that you are detaching them from some
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people to take them to define providence.
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Ah, let their manifested ship.
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Amen.
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In all and above it all you say, have your will,
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have your way, and let your will.
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Let your church move to a place that we will
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know that indeed, whenever I call you, come true from us, come.
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True love, and let your will for our demos we
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call it down.
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Yes, Lord, you call it then, yes, she says you snayjiously.
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Can you appreciate God some time? If you're doing it,
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do it better. If you're doing it, do it better.
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H