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The Essence of Fasting Rev Nana Kweku Sekyere 12.1.25

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  2. You can't treat today as one of.

  3. The sure days. I don't know why you came here.

  4. That if you are here and then there should be

  5. a racy, there must be a racy.

  6. And you know I have to say this song like

  7. it's just a song, is administration.

  8. I don't know about you, but I know that whatever situation,

  9. whatever problem, whatever I'm mountain.

  10. That is ahead of you. He wears the victor's crown

  11. in our lives.

  12. This morning.

  13. He will make sure that I'm out the form it becomes.

  14. Plain and anything that mass me and so turn in

  15. your life in play. So I want you to attack

  16. this with an attitude that you're not literally here the

  17. same you're on lively having the problem. You're not living

  18. having this trashy. I understand what I'm saying. I stopped

  19. up two months on the mother. This Prince's sticking from walking.

  20. I see you have avercome, you have a thcome, you

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  29. You have all the time you have at every time.

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  37. Like all.

  38. About say father, I hear say further you can't do

  39. it better save father.

  40. This morning, have missy on me any situation that has

  41. become a tang in my life, by your missus.

  42. Let any situation, any problem, any mountain, whatever that is

  43. in my life that has become chrownedge, that has become

  44. terminal by your messes and by your power, Oh Lord,

  45. this morning, let any demonic influence amy the morning, evil linkage,

  46. Oh Lord, by my prayer and by my god, let

  47. darling the cuts, not darling the cut like the morning.

  48. I g this be destroyed.

  49. Oh Lord, I arrest ready arrow shut at me right now,

  50. as I clap my hand.

  51. And pray, use me, use me, loose me, release me

  52. usen Can you do that for us?

  53. One is breaking everybody that is breaking words, breaking mountains.

  54. He's past living bases, all of them. So send her money.

  55. Let padoh, let pado, don't ever go carry.

  56. Mam I'm getting the play, mam pa, I'm getting.

  57. My pa. Come that in roll that is row, no,

  58. the role that rock.

  59. Are you listening up?

  60. Somebody, come many my power, shutout, honey, name saga house.

  61. You're my mama sad my second day.

  62. The name of color.

  63. They won't Mama power. The Mighty Man.

  64. Of Jesus, say Father, madam, I thank you, I thank

  65. you for deliverer, but deliverer Jesus, Mighty Jesus.

  66. Those who love him. Can you appreciate him?

  67. God?

  68. Bless your energy music? Are we appreciating golf? The life

  69. of energy music? Let's do it better?

  70. Oh?

  71. Can you you are appreciating God? Can you do it better?

  72. At somebody?

  73. A man walk to two or three people and tell

  74. them today you will never leave the same. Tell the

  75. person like you.

  76. Minutes.

  77. Let a person know that today you will never leave

  78. the same. Tell somebody that you will have a testimony. No,

  79. tell somebody that you will have a testimony. This month

  80. will not end. You will have a testimony. Can you

  81. shouted like you?

  82. Minute this? Smile with my head Carl, helujah, Amen.

  83. And before we take our seats, us to specially towngue.

  84. God for the life of our Father, our head pastor,

  85. the one and only apostle, the one and only our

  86. teacher is eminas the Agriishop Nicolas dank Can William Church.

  87. This is my father, This is your father. Are you

  88. shouting up? Amen?

  89. Hallelujah? Are you not?

  90. Are you not? Are you not feeling the vibration in

  91. the house this morning? Hallelujah? And we turn God once again.

  92. We have the presence of our Bishop emeritus, Bishop Joseph

  93. now cold, Please, let's I appreciate God for his life.

  94. He's here to worship with us. Last week he was

  95. here and this week he is here. Let me tell

  96. you what then, for a man.

  97. As bishop and mirrors to come and come again, he

  98. should tell you something. He is our father's pastor. I

  99. don't understand what I'm saying.

  100. And always our father is proud of him and he

  101. is privileged that he has someone like him, and he

  102. has been here and he's here again. You some when

  103. you buy food from a vendor and it's not too nice,

  104. you don't go there again. Yes, So for Bishop to

  105. come again is that there's something? Are you not working,

  106. Bishop that he'll come again? Hallelujah and smiling when you

  107. look at the High Spirit a globally pastor is in.

  108. You can't see that. No, there is something. Even if

  109. you give him a music up beats, he can give.

  110. You some moves.

  111. Right now.

  112. Can we appreciate God for the life of Bishop the

  113. prophet of bad Bishop Joel than Can Williams, who wonderful

  114. a man? And tell somebody this morning, allow God to

  115. speak to you. Oh the way he was smiling. The

  116. person will not take it to your say it like

  117. a minute.

  118. God.

  119. As some people they have decided in their hearts that

  120. no matter what you will say, they will not change.

  121. But let them know that today Please allow God to

  122. speak to you.

  123. Amen.

  124. Let's appreciate God for our lives as we take our seats. God,

  125. bless you for coming. And please, very soon we'll be

  126. having our gathering services, which will not be just tend

  127. to have thirty. It to change a little bit. And

  128. very soon we'll be having our gathering service. That's the

  129. one that we'll have with first and kend service together,

  130. we'll have only one service. Very soon we'll be having

  131. such services here Amen. And in the match we are

  132. going to have our first swollen Sunday in this NLG auditorium.

  133. So tell your neighbor that it means work, is that

  134. you have to invite someone to MEAs that I have

  135. to evangelize to someone. It means that you have to

  136. know that through you, God must cause people to be saved. Please,

  137. do you understand what I'm saying? Is that a good

  138. thing about sharing? Halleloyer a man? So this morning, by

  139. the instruction and vision of our father and our globallyd pastor,

  140. want us to stay on fasting and it's significance fasting.

  141. And it's significance.

  142. And as we are in there twenty one days. First

  143. you have to know that there are reasons why we first.

  144. Please do you understand what I'm saying? And some of us,

  145. some of us you know that when you first, you

  146. know it yourself that it's not really a first. So

  147. you've broken the first before you even started. You what

  148. I'm saying, it's that you decide that to first, But

  149. before you started, some of the circumstances and things you know. Amen,

  150. and you see and there are some things that we

  151. have to know as a church and as believers.

  152. And if you're not.

  153. Careful, you will follow people's experiences and you will not

  154. have an experience for yourself. And by the time you

  155. realize they will make they will make you feel that

  156. fasting is some wild work, that you can't do it,

  157. because those who have been fasting, when you look at them,

  158. it's like they're not encouraging. Do you understand what it's like.

  159. They will even advise you that you can have also.

  160. And even now, immediately we go for the first day,

  161. the doctor starts advising you you understand, And people also

  162. let you know that we are on medication and all

  163. that before, so that before you even put not the

  164. first by the time you realize it will be only

  165. you and maybe your wife and children.

  166. Is like the rest. They are all on medication.

  167. Because of some of the things we've heard about fasting,

  168. and because some of us to be fasted and we've

  169. not seen any results. Pastor Lizzie, please tell the lady

  170. behind you to sit to wards so that you're not for.

  171. Let's help.

  172. Let's help each other, Amen, And we have to understand

  173. that it's very important that we know why we first,

  174. the benefits of it, the reasons and why it is

  175. important to you as a twenty first century believer. To first, Amen,

  176. and one thing that you have to know is that

  177. people will tell that if you don't first, is that

  178. your prayers will not be answered.

  179. It's not true. Please, it's not true.

  180. And because of that, people are not praying at all,

  181. because they feel that because I'm not able, because I'm

  182. not well or I'm on medication, my prayers will not

  183. be answered.

  184. It's not true. Your prayers will be answered regardless of firsting.

  185. But there are some kind of situations that will have

  186. to compel and provoke you to first, because that kind

  187. will never go unless you inconvenience yourself, unless you go

  188. a step further, unless you go past the normal things

  189. that you usually do, so that God will know that indeed,

  190. you want to touch a particular nerve, you want him

  191. to move from his seat to append to you, because

  192. you have to understand that you are not the only

  193. one praying. Some people who have not been sleeping for months,

  194. some people have not been sleeping for weeks, for years,

  195. and people have I can tell you for a fact,

  196. people have their residence at their trial wanting they don't

  197. climb down. They're there and you go there. They have

  198. their the staff that they have been working with, and

  199. you can't see that they have been there for long,

  200. and they are also saying that some of their prayers

  201. have not been answer. But you you do the football

  202. and prayer and you sleep, and you are still saying

  203. progress and results, and you think that the first thing

  204. is is nothing. You know it's not necessary. Prayer is

  205. not you know that all this well some of us are.

  206. Prayer is reheisted. It's typed.

  207. So you read it out and you sleep. Turn to

  208. your neighbor and tell the person that today.

  209. Receive delivers Oh, if you don't love the person, that

  210. to tell the person like you mean it. Amen, And

  211. tell one other person that that miss my like that

  212. kind of prays. It has never saved anyone.

  213. It will not save you. So be received deliverance. Amen.

  214. You understanding what I'm saying. Yes, So that when we

  215. standing we are praying, you will know how to navigate.

  216. You know that when someone is just standing there, you

  217. are different from the person.

  218. Amen.

  219. So when you talk about firsting, when you look at

  220. the dictionary meaning, it says that first thing is to

  221. abstain from food. Is to abstain from food, and it

  222. goes on to also say that firsting is to eat

  223. sparingly or abstain from some foods. So people have various

  224. types of fasting engaging. The reason why is saying that

  225. some food is that some of the first Some people

  226. will tell you that you are doing fruit firsting is

  227. that we take only fruits. Some people too, it's like

  228. only liquid. You don't take this thing. Some people too,

  229. it's like you have refrained yourself from eating at all.

  230. So all these things a kind of fasting. So you

  231. know what works for you and you go for it.

  232. Do you unders know what I'm saying? But for a

  233. long time in my life, I never knew that there

  234. was the kinds of first thing. All that I knew

  235. was when you were firsting. Even if you take even

  236. if I drink what, I know that I've broken the first. Yes,

  237. that's how that's that's that's that's how I was taught.

  238. So I don't take water till I'm breaking the first.

  239. Yes. So like when when I take what, I feel

  240. that I've broken the first.

  241. Do you understand I'm saying, It's like we have some

  242. and I'm try to change, but I'm still not able to.

  243. So you can't take water, but some of you the

  244. way you take the water, it looks like you are

  245. broken the first already, Amen, God to give us understanding. Please,

  246. if you have to change the microphone, do it now.

  247. The way it keeps going on, I don't understand. Halleluojah.

  248. Amen all right. So I want us to look at

  249. the biblic coming in of firsting. Firsting often represents a

  250. period of spiritual reflection, devotion, and seeking God's guidance. When

  251. you're looking you go through the Bible, firsting of it

  252. represents a period of spiritual reflection, devotion, and seeking God's guidance. Hallelujah,

  253. because I hope you understand. And in the Bible when

  254. you talk about firsting, it also says that firsting is

  255. the practice of abstaining from food for a period of

  256. time for spiritual purposes, standing from food for a period

  257. of time for spiritual purposes. And it's a time for reflection,

  258. a time for guidance, a time that we devote ourselves

  259. in worship to the Lord. Sometimes, if you're not careful

  260. when you hear firsting, you will think that it has

  261. it has to when you have to ask for something,

  262. that's when you have.

  263. To first know.

  264. You first as a form of worship, just to let

  265. God know I love you. I want to put everything

  266. aside and want to be with you. I don't want

  267. any distructions.

  268. I want to be with you. You understand what I'm saying.

  269. So when when you are we are to abstain from

  270. certain things when you are firsting, it means that if

  271. your phone can become a distruction, you put it somewhere.

  272. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because some of us,

  273. the things that comes on our phones, it's not helping

  274. when we are firsting. How can you first and your

  275. own social media throats to well away time?

  276. Do you?

  277. That's what I'm saying.

  278. And so people to when they are to first they're

  279. not there. They will not wake up. It's like they

  280. want to sleep till.

  281. The time.

  282. A fasting and they're not that.

  283. When they are fasting, time usually slow. So by when

  284. you go pin down.

  285. It's still nine am. At what is happening? Yes, before

  286. they start.

  287. Amen, So ask your ask your neighbor what kind of

  288. first have you been engaging in?

  289. Now ask that person.

  290. Ah m hmm.

  291. You are alone. That small first thing you are doing.

  292. You don't wake up that.

  293. It's twelve's twolve doing and you are still sleeping, and

  294. by three pm you've set your food and everything that

  295. that breakfast you didn't take the lunch, and that everything

  296. is set, so you want to kill yourself whiles first thing, Amen,

  297. that first thing that public come mean is a time

  298. to abstain from food at time him to abstain from distrustionings,

  299. so that you would devote that time in reflectioning of

  300. the things God has done for you, in reflection of

  301. how things are going in your life. Sometimes when you

  302. sit down and you reminisce, you know that things have

  303. not been good and you need to up your game,

  304. you need to go further. Some of these things will

  305. provoke you to just cause yourself that I want to

  306. do three days or five days first. Some of us

  307. are until the church announces the first. You will never

  308. first in our lives. And some of you are the

  309. thing here.

  310. You said that, oh a Papa mentioning that the main

  311. church it was not in this gens. So we are

  312. not part. You know, you say your life like I said,

  313. look at you, look at me. You're like you know

  314. that you have not started. And some of us you've

  315. postponed the first for too long.

  316. Amen.

  317. It's very important.

  318. That you know that when you need dieing downs from God,

  319. some of the times you need to go into a first.

  320. You need to restrain yourself. You need to refrain from

  321. certain things because you want God to meet you in

  322. a particular way. You want to hear God in a

  323. particular way. You don't want any other voices. So you

  324. put this aside. You set this aside, and you are

  325. just saying that Father, this is me and you alone

  326. in this room, alone in this hole, alone in this place,

  327. because I need you to read direct things in my life.

  328. I need you to speak certain tastes in my life.

  329. I've lived on this place for too long.

  330. I need a ten around.

  331. I need God to come too for me. I need

  332. God to come and let me feel that indeed He

  333. has not forsaken men. Indeed he has not left me.

  334. Indeed he is with me.

  335. And when you put everything aside and.

  336. You are in this first the Lord, you know that

  337. paid you are not here for your gain, you are

  338. not here for a bad motive.

  339. You want him to speak to you. And he said

  340. that I'm drawn now on to me, and I will

  341. drawn noigh.

  342. On to you.

  343. So it means that he's waiting for you to make

  344. a step whilst he also make a step. So if

  345. God is making a step and you are still at

  346. the same place, that it means that you've not been

  347. able to drawn now on to him, that are drawn

  348. now on to me? A and I will drawn noiwh

  349. on to you. And God is our lover. So it

  350. means that your lover has come from all the way

  351. and it's at a particular junction, and it's waiting waiting

  352. for you to also make a step, and.

  353. That this truges all over us. A. Oh, and you

  354. ask yourself that what do you want the most?

  355. Hum?

  356. What do you want the most? If you ask yourself

  357. what do I want the most?

  358. If I need God to really speak into my life,

  359. I can put it from aside. If I need God

  360. to speak into my life, I'll put off the series.

  361. If I need God to speak into my life, I

  362. will make sure that some friends that will not benefit

  363. me in this period of my time, I will put

  364. them aside because this state of my life, it is

  365. just me and my God, and I need Him to

  366. come to for me. I need him to Sometimes you

  367. just have to put a child and ask work, where

  368. are you? There should be a reflection. Huh, you've worked

  369. on the first of this ad for twenty years and

  370. you don't have any guidance, You don't have any direction,

  371. and you are still living. It is a dangerous thing

  372. to do, and it's a tragedy because you understand what

  373. I'm saying. So I want us to know that it

  374. is very important that when you hear firsting, no matter

  375. where you find yourself, you should be able to attend

  376. to do something. Hallelujah. I said you should be able

  377. to do what to attempt to do something? Come with

  378. me to Isaiah chapter fifty eight. I'm reading from verse

  379. number three. These are some of the questions we've been

  380. asking an lt He said that we have firsted before you.

  381. They say, this is what God is saying, that we

  382. are fasted before you. They say, why aren't you impressed?

  383. We have been very hard on ourselves and you don't

  384. even notice it. This is a conversation God is having.

  385. It's like, this is the cry of my people. These

  386. are the things that you have been asked. How many

  387. of you have asked this question before? It's like, we

  388. are fasted before you?

  389. Go like, where are you?

  390. I mean, I have asked that I don't know about you,

  391. but the way you are staying that, it's like you've

  392. not asked this thing before.

  393. Because you have not fasted before. Mm hmmm.

  394. They say, why areing too impressed? We have been very

  395. hard on ourselves and you don't even notice it. And

  396. this is God's response. I will tell you why. I respond,

  397. it's because you are fasting to please yourselves. Even while

  398. you first, you keep oppressing your workers. See, this is

  399. to let us know that there's a particular firsting that

  400. God decides that he wants from us. It's not the one.

  401. He is the one who is going to answer the prayer.

  402. So whose whose man?

  403. One?

  404. Do you want to believe?

  405. Ah, I've got to write the book five ways to first.

  406. And God is saying that that's not the way, and

  407. he said that you want the book?

  408. What is wrong with you?

  409. Pas said that telled me as a amlited Christ and

  410. he is the model when it comes to Christianity. And

  411. he's saying that there are some kind of first he's

  412. not interested in, he's not impressed with. So it means

  413. that if you are continuing engaging in this fast first,

  414. the reason why you have not had anything, the reason

  415. why I've not seen anything. The reason if you don't

  416. received any results is that you are not doing it

  417. the right way.

  418. Huh.

  419. And you're ask you why have you not been impressed

  420. for this while? And he's telling you.

  421. That are you first to please yourself? Why are you fasting?

  422. And everybody knows you are fasting? When when the person appears.

  423. You know that?

  424. Phalah, probably the action said that, Charlie, Chary the first

  425. day are the first? Are there desire for like three

  426. days now? Yeah?

  427. So child, if you signed me the prayer request at

  428. the anti the entire m that that is between you

  429. and your goal. Everybody knows, from your schoolmates, your whatever.

  430. Everybody knows, and you keep giving them updates. Charlie, Charlie,

  431. cansh you to the trunk. Canshry into the trunk and TV.

  432. So around this time you don't have you don't have

  433. to call me. I will be off I'll be off line.

  434. For some time.

  435. Hey, is that that you have received your reward already

  436. fasting moody and everybody is asking you, oh, wait, where

  437. are you going? We weren't here the last time? So

  438. you have changed the case. The spirit is leading to

  439. this side.

  440. Ah, my God, and.

  441. You're asking God, why have you not answered my prayer?

  442. And he's telling you that I go to the people

  443. you've told them to unswer them for you. If you

  444. reveal me enough, you make sure that this is between

  445. you and I. Why have you published it?

  446. Amen?

  447. And the reason why you feel that whenever you first,

  448. your face should be disfigured. You're miss so and people

  449. I've said, people have asked me that I've seen someone

  450. asked me that by you first, And I know where

  451. they're suffering from, because in the dictionary, when you first,

  452. you have to lose weight, and it's like, I'm first

  453. and I'm still fresh, and they don't understand why I'm

  454. still fresh.

  455. I'm doing that right first.

  456. To you are not doing the right first thing, So

  457. you lose weight, your troasress will come down, and you

  458. are still not seeing any answers. Do you are sat

  459. that saying tell your neighbor that this thing is the arekys? Hallelujah?

  460. How many of you believe that there are keys? You

  461. don't just jump into this. You will kill yourself. Phone,

  462. you will kill yourself.

  463. The rackys go to the next vese.

  464. Let's look at it. It's a lot of blessing someone

  465. right now look at it, say that what good is

  466. firsting when you keep on fighting? Inquarently, this kind of

  467. first thing will never get you anywhere with me. You see,

  468. it's like you don't that that's stunding. Whilst you are fasting,

  469. you are telling the people you let me be, let

  470. me finish with this first. You will see the other

  471. side of me. Don't let me see you right away after.

  472. This kind of fasting will never get to anywhere with me.

  473. I wish I'm the one saying it, but it's not me.

  474. Like if that one, like when your face looks some way,

  475. like I will have pity on you.

  476. But this one, you knows. It has to be the

  477. right thing. It has to be the right way, because

  478. do you understand what I'm saying. It has to be

  479. done the right way.

  480. But with this particular one that we have been doing

  481. all this years, it will not get It will not

  482. get you anyway. It will get you somewhere with your friends,

  483. your people who feel that you're audacious that when you

  484. come and you are not saying.

  485. You're bubbling you know, yeah, are you talking?

  486. Yeah?

  487. Asks the person that when you started doing this, what

  488. have you received the actually another person that if it

  489. is not working, why don't you change it? Look at

  490. verse five, you humble yourselves by going through the motions

  491. of penance, bowing your hairs like reaze, bending in the wind.

  492. You dress envelope and cover yourselves with ashes.

  493. Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think

  494. this will please the Lord? Amen? So I feel like

  495. when you're first, you're not even in bath, said like God, God.

  496. Loves It's like God, God, It's like God is the

  497. only one who loves sting sentence, What is wrong with you?

  498. And when you are when you are going to see

  499. what whoever you want to go and see, you won't

  500. freshen up. Why won't you freshen up and start your first?

  501. That God also needs.

  502. A nice environment.

  503. So if you don't even brushot because you say when

  504. you brush, you become hungry. Ellie Amen. Okay, why do

  505. you why don't you brash you? That's somebody if if

  506. it's not what I'm telling you, what because you feel

  507. that that one will go hungry?

  508. Ellie Amen.

  509. Let he said that your face must look cheerful. Let

  510. people know that this is when you look people know

  511. that you are This is this is where's you? This

  512. is like a punishment to you. It's like, why what

  513. are you trying to tell him? And he said that

  514. my my joke is light and my badding is easy.

  515. He said that it's light, it's not badding something. So

  516. why are you doing something that you you are letting

  517. everybody knows that you are in the punishment, and some

  518. of you the way you are lying. I was like,

  519. you can't even wear ape like so the food is ready,

  520. hey sixty six six six that even even do it well.

  521. And ready? That's someone you have to do. Say hey,

  522. since the sais hey, pus why.

  523. And this classic cannot sleep because of spiritual attacks and

  524. they're telling you why.

  525. It's like that forgot why amen, go back to my scripture,

  526. go to verse six. Look at it. No, this is

  527. the kind of first thing I want.

  528. Free those who are wrongly imprisoned, lighting the bedding of

  529. those who work for you.

  530. Let the oppress go free, and remove the chain. Stop

  531. buying people. So the reason why when you come to

  532. this place, we pray for you. We are annoying to you.

  533. We want their jokes to be broken. You want the

  534. beddings to be lifted, You want any attacks that you

  535. are in, you have to go free. You understand what

  536. I'm saying and instead that this is what I've prescribed

  537. for you. There must be an agenda to it. Why

  538. are you doing what you are doing because the church

  539. declared it because our father said we should do it. No,

  540. if that is why, then you have missed it. There

  541. is a greater and the idea reasy for you to

  542. first then for someone.

  543. I mean, if you first with it, I will never.

  544. I have to have a reason. I have to have

  545. a reason. If I don't have it, I will not.

  546. Oh.

  547. Yes, you can call me whatever you want, but I

  548. don't mind because you don't answer praise.

  549. It is good.

  550. So if he prescribes, that's what we use. If you

  551. have not prescribed, we don't use it. We don't first

  552. because we feel it makes us spiritual.

  553. No, it is not that.

  554. You can't first, but you are not spiritual.

  555. The reason why you if you, if that is what

  556. caused you to feel spirituality, why do you break your

  557. first way to worship pornography?

  558. Find out?

  559. Yes, and some of you, because you've spoken about pornograph

  560. for a long time, said that you don't want to

  561. what you don't want people to see them, So now

  562. you want You asked me this movie does you have

  563. a lot of sex scenes? It's like that, it's not

  564. really that you want that one and you are using

  565. it first. The reason why you have a password on

  566. every app on your phone.

  567. You Elione knows this. Some of us we have twenty twenty.

  568. Four spirit Field Worship, but when you open that twenty

  569. twenty four spread field Worship, it is not spirit field

  570. worship that is in there, twenty twenty four that you

  571. think that you are going to. You are going to

  572. open it and you will feel Michael.

  573. And you go back.

  574. Some of us when the music is playing, we minimized

  575. that one.

  576. We are watching somewhere, so as you are sitting down

  577. and you are they think that you have entered into

  578. that spirit. You don't know that as a particular spirit

  579. has entered you somewhere, asking you that do you think

  580. that this particular one? Why are you fasting? And there

  581. is no prayer to it. You are first thing and

  582. you're watching movies. You're firsting, and you've got the reason

  583. why you've gone for a lot of series is that

  584. this week is a first week. So when you sit

  585. and you cross your leg and you are there. You

  586. watch time and you're watching it. You watch time and

  587. you're watching it because most of us when you watch movies,

  588. we don't feel hand. So I don't know what the

  589. enemy is doing. He's making sure that your devise strategies

  590. to destroy the sacred things that God has given us.

  591. So in as much as you are doing it, it

  592. has become just a religion or a ritual, and there's

  593. no there's no spiritual.

  594. Activity back in it. And he's asking that this is

  595. the kind of first.

  596. I have prescribed, Amen, the way your Likinglime is like

  597. you don't like him, write it down, reasons why people.

  598. First Number one is a way of prayer, exod Chapter

  599. thirty four, verst number twenty eight.

  600. It's a way of prayer.

  601. First thing is a way to pray with your whole body,

  602. surrendering your physical appetite to focus on God and Exodos

  603. chapter thirty four, verst number twenty eight. Enalty says that

  604. Moses remained there on the mountain with.

  605. The Lord forty days and forty nights.

  606. In all that time, he ate no bread and drank

  607. no water, and the Lord wrote the Times of the Covenant,

  608. the ten Commandments on the stone of Tabutes Exodos before

  609. twenty eight. It's a real prayer. And when you need God,

  610. you need to catch God's attention in a way. You

  611. surrender your whole body, You surrender your thoughts, your heart,

  612. your whole being. You submit everything to the supremacy of

  613. the law, that in this period of time, I will

  614. not allow anything to entangle me. I will not allow

  615. anything to come between me and what I am doing.

  616. The Bible said that forces was on at the mountain

  617. for forty days and forty nights at nothing, at no

  618. food was there with God. And when he came down,

  619. he came with something. He came with an answert prayer,

  620. he came with results, He came not coming with sadness.

  621. And the Bible said that when he came his face

  622. sure that the people who were not even able to

  623. look at him. The reason why when after you first

  624. you have series of attacks and you're not able to

  625. find your way around it is because maybe, just maybe

  626. you're not doing the right way, Because if you were

  627. to meet an attack, there should be a God telling

  628. you there's something ahead of you.

  629. Amen, there are attacks, you will let you go through it.

  630. That he will let you know.

  631. Amen, he will let you know that even the period

  632. of time that you go through it there israelized. He

  633. told them the period of time that there will be

  634. in captivity and after there will be a deliverance. And

  635. one man had to be there to stand in prayer

  636. and fasting for the outcome of what God has said

  637. to come to reality.

  638. So it means that if God has.

  639. Even promised you, you will need to provok him for

  640. the reality and the manifestation to take place. So it's

  641. not that he has said it and it will be done, okay, Sarah, Sarah,

  642. whatever will be will be.

  643. You die.

  644. This must change, This is can be changed. Attacks can

  645. be reverted. It all depends on how you attack. Tell

  646. your neighbor, we are at war and you have to

  647. change your mindset. You understanding what I'm saying. We are

  648. warm and if you're not careful, you will lose the battle.

  649. But this is a battle that we cannot lose. We

  650. have to win this battle. Amen, Are you understanding what

  651. I'm saying? We have to win this battle? Number two?

  652. Write it down. It's a way to express consent. A

  653. way to express consent. First thing can be a way

  654. to express consent for the work of God. Extra chapter eight,

  655. verse number twenty three. Let's start from verst number twenty two.

  656. Ezra Chapter eight, verst number twenty two Enalty the Bible

  657. said that for I was ashamed to ask the King

  658. for soldiers and horsemen to accompany us and protect as

  659. from enemies along the way. After all, we had told

  660. the King our gods terans of protection is on all

  661. who worship him, but his fierce anger rages against those

  662. who abandoned him. This is what Ezra says, that we've

  663. told the people. We've told the king that our God

  664. is the God who saves. Our God is a loving god.

  665. Our God is a god. When you call him, he

  666. comes true for you.

  667. Our God is the.

  668. God when you are waing to Difficut is in the

  669. area of your academics, and you call on him, he

  670. comes through.

  671. So it's a way that you express consent.

  672. And he was consented that what will people say if

  673. I go back to them and ask for protection? What

  674. will people say if I go back to them and

  675. be seeking for help? What would people say?

  676. Then?

  677. My God must come true, so that what I have

  678. told them they will know that indeed we serve a

  679. living God, he did, we serve a prayer answering God. Indeed,

  680. we save a God who when we cry out to him,

  681. he comes true for us. Indeed, when we serve a

  682. God which there is our God, and you feel like

  683. trying the towel, he calls a lasmid miracle to happen. Indeed,

  684. we save a God that when you go on your

  685. knees and you cry out to him, he casts things

  686. to move in your favor. Indeed, we save God that

  687. when the atmosphere is not lose, he will be able

  688. to cause things to move in your way. Indeed, we

  689. save God. When people attack you and you call on him,

  690. he is able to come to. Indeed, we save a God.

  691. Now even when there is faming and hanger, and there

  692. is drought, he caused that to be abundance.

  693. He did.

  694. We save God that when you cry out, he comes to.

  695. Why that's your problem? Persistent for a long time? Ah,

  696. The Bible said that God seeks pleasure in the prosperity

  697. of his children. So he tells you that it is

  698. not the will of God for you to be going

  699. through the problems that you're going through. He said that

  700. the kind of first that I prescribed is the one

  701. that causes people to be loosed from their chains and break.

  702. If we disease and cyncondesis, and why are you still

  703. having it?

  704. There is a concern. Look at verse oney three. Look

  705. at verse only three quickly, Ah, my God, that.

  706. So we fasted and endestly prayed that our God will

  707. take care of us. And he had our prayer. Ah,

  708. this is it.

  709. And when when you first and you endnestly pray, do

  710. you understan what I'm saying. He fasted and they endnestly prayed.

  711. It means that they prayed all kinds of praise. They

  712. kneeled down, they rode on the floor.

  713. Like whatever position that I feel that God will be provoked,

  714. I will do it.

  715. Honestly.

  716. Go I past your limitations earnestly, boy, I passed the

  717. way you feel honestly by it passed how and how

  718. in your life the circumstances and situation will not gosh

  719. to say that God, where have you been? No, I'm

  720. ennestly pray. He said that parry on til you'll receive.

  721. So it prays that until there's a solution, you don't

  722. have to move from day until there's an answer. You

  723. cannot move from day until there is a change. You

  724. cannot move from day. It's a way to express concern

  725. that father, why am I going through this?

  726. What is your mind? What you have to mean for me?

  727. What do you say about this situation? You go to

  728. him and you will let you know why you're going

  729. through what you're going through. You will let you know

  730. why as young as you are you are suffering from

  731. what you are suffering from.

  732. He will let you know. And if there's a way out,

  733. he will let you know.

  734. It's a way do you express concern. And I'm I'm

  735. very sure that look consense in the healths of people here.

  736. And as we express it together, there a lot of courses,

  737. shifts in the atmosphere, ah, the a lot of course

  738. things to turn around for our good. I tell you,

  739. I will not lie to you. No, I will not

  740. tell you something for you to just be happy, because

  741. this work with God has to be with resources. If

  742. there's no evidence, people don't know that you are saving

  743. a living God. Amen, you can't save God, then be ashamed.

  744. No, no, no, no no no.

  745. That I've been younger and I've been old, that I've

  746. not seen you see for you to get to that level.

  747. It tells you that you've gone through certain situations, but always, always, always,

  748. God downs true. It looks like your back is a

  749. dainst the wall, but God turns true. It looks like

  750. all hope is gone, but God comes true. It looks

  751. that there's no help from anywhere. But when you when

  752. you lift up your eyes on to the heels, the

  753. Bible said that for whence come at my help, my

  754. health comes from the Lord. When you lift up your

  755. eyes and say the Father helped me, he comes to

  756. with help because he knows that you know that you

  757. hate papable. You cannot do it by yourself. You cannot

  758. do it for yourself. Then you need a higher authority

  759. to switch into the situation. You need a higher authority

  760. to come into the equation. You need a higher authority

  761. to switch for things to change. Because there are levels.

  762. There are levels, Oh, there are levels. You have to

  763. understand that there are levels. That is why when you

  764. pray for someone in the life of the disciples, they

  765. pray for their lunatic.

  766. Nothing happiness. They did all. They are chea.

  767. They know nothing happenings. When Jesus came in, they answer.

  768. You know, they took him to one corner because they

  769. didn't want the people to that what happened the way

  770. you do that thing with the same way we did it?

  771. Why And he told them challenges the thing. It's not

  772. just going they go, there's a key to it. Then

  773. there are some kinds in our lives.

  774. It does. Don't live until you pray, and you first

  775. until you engage the hand of the Lord.

  776. You don't just command certain things, like when bishop was

  777. saying that when when one of the pastors had our

  778. father commanding the orion and the priories and the things,

  779. he also went to command it and the leg to

  780. let him know that this is not your area. Now

  781. you need to gain some capacity.

  782. Amen. Last one, write it down. A way to seek deliverance,

  783. A way to seek deliverance first, they can be a

  784. way to seek deliverance from enemies or circumstances. Daniel, Chapter nine, vers.

  785. Number three.

  786. The Bible said that end o the Bible said, are

  787. so I tend to the Lord God and plead that

  788. with him in prayer and fasting that I also wore

  789. rough BallIP and sprinkled myself with ashes.

  790. And people are attacking you. People have danked up against you.

  791. You cannot be there and feel all okay, and said

  792. that I don't know why they are attacking me. You

  793. don't have to know. You have to you have to

  794. go on your knees. I don't know why this thing

  795. is happening to me.

  796. Who should they happen to?

  797. No, no, no, no, no, who should they happen to?

  798. You have left tasts loose, and you have opened the

  799. door for the animatory engage. When they come and they

  800. don't find anything from them in you, they will not stay.

  801. And if you have attacked any part of your life

  802. when you borne your niece, first thing in prayer, there

  803. is a switch and there is a ten. He said

  804. that it's any of you. That's any of you lack wisdom,

  805. said that let him call. So it means that even

  806. in the area of your education, if you call on him,

  807. Daniel was ten thanks better, and he had an excellent spirit.

  808. So it means that in your school you can also

  809. experience academic excellence. If you burn your knees and prayer

  810. the Father this area. I don't know why I steady,

  811. but I don't know what's going on. Could it be

  812. that if there is a littit testing in your house

  813. that you need to break, but they are not allowing.

  814. You to break h when you first and pray.

  815. The reason why people will promise you that they will

  816. help you, and they tend to bring a different news.

  817. It means that there is an attack on your life.

  818. You cannot stay there and say that when I'm mean alone.

  819. You have to fight it.

  820. You have to fight it. You have to you have

  821. to look. You have to be like those in the

  822. in the Bible.

  823. He said, when things are not going, they just tend

  824. their face to the wall and ask God, what is

  825. happening that you The only time when things are happening,

  826. things are not well. This are not right, the only

  827. time and the only place that you tend to is

  828. your status. They're right, So we don't even write the nity.

  829. You put some drugs there and people know you're not well.

  830. But if you gentier, they are calling you. I don't

  831. know where it came from. Everybody who hear it only

  832. good everyone who know it but God. They know why

  833. you are suffering from the world. You are suffering but

  834. God and all this, yes, they have not been able

  835. to do anything for you. But the narrative must change.

  836. The narrative must change the way we attack and approach

  837. the must change. There is ancest to prayers. God still

  838. ancest prayers. First thing works, But if it worked for you,

  839. your motive is very important.

  840. Why you are doing what you are doing is very important.

  841. The reason why you are doing this very What starts

  842. your feet?

  843. No one forced you to clap your haird But I

  844. don't know what you're doing. There's a type of club.

  845. When your club, they're just looking at you that what

  846. kind of ungratefulness is that? Let's stap your two hands

  847. all over this place? Can you speak to the father?

  848. Can you speak to your father?

  849. A liver case, a lure a my dear, Amastini and

  850. rap kids A parlor work attire, mom dollar this, oh.

  851. Jesus, oh Jesus, rapula massonde, exander amattia, Luah Mason a cartoonist,

  852. Oh oh oh oh.

  853. Pa sa Mason Anti a master.

  854. My palu a cat soon Tala machiats a pa talua

  855. am attire in Pala amat is zuga vada rap rap

  856. impa saga diamaste Rapallo.

  857. And my silter aanda namatai.

  858. A killer vadakiness rapp aloa masina.

  859. Dea ma cousa rapa zaga vers in the mindset name

  860. of Jesus.

  861. Open your I said, look at me, we are going

  862. to pray just two minutes, because this is what the

  863. Lord is going to do already. It's like an announcement

  864. I'm giving you. And I've seen this happen times with

  865. our number around four. The Lord woke me up and

  866. was telling me certain things that he was going to

  867. do as we started this year in this church. And

  868. I tell you how to wake up and write it down.

  869. And this year is going to be a great year

  870. for this church. One the Lord has opened the door

  871. for marriages in twenty twenty five. Listen, listen, you say,

  872. I don't even have to give give the give the

  873. microphone to revenge James. That is really as I have

  874. typed it, and and and and I didn't know I

  875. was going to preach you a supposed to preach. He

  876. just told me that I pushed for me. You're like,

  877. I will not even mention it. But I believe that

  878. God has a way of two is it saying the

  879. first one?

  880. The Lord has opened the door of marriages in five.

  881. That is the word of the lord, and I saw it. This,

  882. don't I saw it?

  883. The second one, A slight academic door has been opened.

  884. Listen, Kathleen, Listen, listen.

  885. He says that those who need scholarships to steady outside

  886. will have it.

  887. Those soon need to app the game in academics. Who's excellent?

  888. Number three.

  889. There will be people who will have surprises of relationships

  890. they were not ready and it will happen.

  891. Listen, this was this, This is something that will surprise people.

  892. It's like you are not ready. Some of us turning

  893. to ask you said, I'm not ready. Now these are

  894. the people who are going to be surprised this year.

  895. It's a surprise. Ah.

  896. Amen, there's my ahead. Number four. Some people a particular

  897. hold will break for them to enter into one. Listen.

  898. There is why you are clappy. The way you are

  899. clappy is that you don't know what he's saying.

  900. I saw some people who are not meant to be

  901. in a particular relationship, and all of a suddenly there

  902. was a creak and it fell on them and they

  903. started manifesting this career.

  904. And the last one, the last one.

  905. Some would lose some relationships when you make them cry

  906. for a bit, but for they who realize it was

  907. a divine providence.

  908. Listens in the vision, I saw people who were crying.

  909. It's yes, and the Lord was telling me that this

  910. is for the good too, and it would turn out

  911. for those relationships will break this year when you cry

  912. like I've told you that, I've thought you already like,

  913. it will break.

  914. So when you cry and you come to us, we

  915. share you up and let you know and bet this

  916. thirty year and it's very happy. Amen.

  917. Amen.

  918. I went to pray for just two minutes and I'll

  919. hand over.

  920. The Lord said that they said dog that has been

  921. open twenty twenty five for marriages, and he said that

  922. a slight stom. I saw a dog that has been

  923. opened slightly. He said that a slide dog for academic excellence.

  924. Jesus eight, those who needs scholarship to steady approached.

  925. That the door will open the way.

  926. Oh yes, and it to shock you what the Lord

  927. would do. Can you listen up the two minutes dash,

  928. I was pretty sure, like this is really about one

  929. of the days. And whilst they were thinking, I saw

  930. the Lord who the Lord was putting a baby in

  931. the stomach and I call her and I asked I

  932. told him that this is what I've said that I've

  933. been to the hospital. They said that there's nothing. I

  934. said that again, Robert, she's having a daughter now. And

  935. when she came back, said that, Reverend, you can't believe it.

  936. And I went back again. They said that there's a baby.

  937. They would have they would.

  938. Have moved it but for God, But for God, but

  939. for Jesus.

  940. And the things will happen practically in this auditory in

  941. the name of Jesus. And if you're post yourself of disgrace,

  942. will be a part. By giving the testimony, you will know.

  943. You will know that it's it's not really bad.

  944. Like I told you.

  945. It's not even for you to say him in your club.

  946. It's like what God is going to do that he

  947. has announced it. If you're pushing yourself, well, you can

  948. be part of those two Jesus. I don't know which.

  949. This that is happening to your life. That says something

  950. God b.

  951. No love.

  952. He shout shun the plah blah bah.

  953. He cut told shout down Taylor, your care come plad

  954. singing my door.

  955. He cut my tell tell me damn that shot shot

  956. called tell them the car package your call shout.

  957. Yeah he got shutting. Yeah your care I tell him

  958. my god, don't follow some.

  959. Pating the.

  960. Blah blah blah, shut your yeah, let you I'm comes by.

  961. Follow my arm.

  962. Hey he called.

  963. Pasa bya he's not telling me at tire he he.

  964. Got da pa.

  965. He turned a bar, he got dama he called. He's

  966. not telling the mea ta. He't come none me up

  967. here console my blah blah by he ain't got pay

  968. he can't come blah blah blah. He is telling he

  969. got he has got pazama pa here, tell me a

  970. pa he are packing he has come back here ba

  971. blah blah blah. He a maidy a p he ha

  972. mad me about he made me a.

  973. Da da he.

  974. He ain't cant feller here telling me are you you

  975. money up here.

  976. Packing your b blah blah bah bah yeah blah blah

  977. blah blah, yeah blah blah blah blah. I he liting

  978. me your part, yes, hell am off many airs. I'm

  979. donelly a peaty shape laha lah bada ladra lah bada

  980. Sunday Yeah snack shun y'a lah blah blah. You're telling

  981. gay apart are.

  982. Your twenty about us lifting.

  983. A cord.

  984. And you lifted up like you mean somebody all about

  985. his face.

  986. Ah yeah, yeah, it's not according you not sing I

  987. singing to.

  988. And then it's impory your sing.

  989. Ma man.

  990. Sing it, not acory sing God man a home mag.

  991. Sing it.

  992. Acord. Your singing, it's not it's according singing.

  993. Those without who has lifted all over this face.

  994. For your word says, as it's written in Daniel, so

  995. that as they firsted and endlessly prayed, you answered.

  996. Further.

  997. We pray as a nixt gent church on this day,

  998. on the twelve day of January, let your word manifest

  999. in our lives. Let this testimony follow us those of

  1000. us who need academic excellence.

  1001. Let the don't be opened. Those of us who are

  1002. waiting a response to a scholarsh Ah Leco civadi.

  1003. Ama told savers yea in the US, as we said

  1004. that they will be marriage, let.

  1005. Anyone enter. We call it down.

  1006. Oh Lord said that people enter into surprise relationship that

  1007. will change your lives.

  1008. Let them be in the name of testimony, Amen, in

  1009. the mighty name of.

  1010. Those who said that you are detaching them from some

  1011. people to take them to define providence.

  1012. Ah, let their manifested ship.

  1013. Amen.

  1014. In all and above it all you say, have your will,

  1015. have your way, and let your will.

  1016. Let your church move to a place that we will

  1017. know that indeed, whenever I call you, come true from us, come.

  1018. True love, and let your will for our demos we

  1019. call it down.

  1020. Yes, Lord, you call it then, yes, she says you snayjiously.

  1021. Can you appreciate God some time? If you're doing it,

  1022. do it better. If you're doing it, do it better.

  1023. H