The Key of Sacrifice - Sunday 7th Jan 2024

Father, this morning we have come bearing thanks and response to your goodness.

Thank you for your faithfulness even towards us. Thank you for gathering us together

again from far in near. We pray the Lord Holy Spirit, you have

your way in our miss this morning. We pray that, as your word

says, the entrance of your word brings light, and it brings understanding.

This morning, we have come to receive light. This morning, we have

come to receive understanding. So let it be on to us according to that

word, our Lord, this morning, and cause us to be blessed greatly.

Before we leave here in the precious name of the Lord Jesus, let

a believers say an Amen. And before you are seated, look to your

left and to your right and tell your neighbor's good to see you in church

this morning. Amen. Tell that neighbor who is not smiling, it is

really good to see you in church. Please be seated in the presence of

the Lord. Hallelujah. Amen. So we thank God for all the testimonies.

Amen. So we thank God that the person who's stole, who took

against money by a mistake because they didn't want to be kissed, they retain

the money. Amen. It means you are not a thief. And so

from today I declare that whoever you are, that God is helping you,

and your hands will not belong anymore. Yes, you will not take what

doesn't belong to you anymore. Amen. In Jesus Mighty, Ay Amen.

How many of you are excited to be in church this morning? Or can

you give the Lord a wave? Is that the best wave you can give?

Yes? Give You're telling God the Lord, this is me. I'm

excited to be church. Amen. And so God has seen your wave,

Amen, and He's excited that you're also in church. Amen. By the

grace of God our Father. The archbishop declared that the theme for the year

is open doors. How many of you are excited to walk through your open

doors of destiny this year? Amen? And so this year many of us

will walk through our doors of destiny because God has seen our works and He

has set before us an open door that no one can shut. Amen.

Before the year ended, us speaking to you about three keys the Lord gave

to me to teach you about open doors. And the first key I was

telling you about was the key of humility that in this year God expects us

to walk with the key of humility, expects us to put on the clothes

of humility, to be like Jesus. Because Jesus is the ultimate expression and

the ultimate example of humility, and because he humbled himself even to death on

the cross, that God has highly exalted him and given him a name that

is above every other name. Amen. That even at the mention of the

name of Jesus Christ, every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that

Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. Amen. So that

is what humility can give us. So humility brings us exaltation. So in

this year, many of you are going to be class prefects. When they

are looking for somebody to be school perfect, it is you they will look

up to because this year God will exalt you. Amen. When they are

looking for the wisest people in your class, you are the one who will

come to because God will exalt you this year. Amen. But until you

get to that point, you need to walk with humility. Amen. And

so we are putting away all forms of pride. If there is a shoe

that when you wear you become proud, don't wear that shoe again. Amen.

If there is a dress that when you wear you feel proud. Don't

wear that dress again so that you are not proud and you remain humble.

Can I hear an Amen? The second key the Lord taught us was the

key of thanksgiving, the key of thanksgiving. And from one hundred some one

o four we can enter into God's presence only with thanksgiving. And on Posit

thirty first or the first, Papa preach on the difference between thanksgiving and thankfulness.

Who remembers who was there? Amen? Did that message bless you?

You see, because you had a foundation already, so it was a top

up for you. Amen. So there's a difference between thankfulness and thanksgiving.

So go to YouTube listen to that message. You'll be a blessing to you.

Amen. And so, as a child of God who has been purchased

by the precious plot of the Lord Jesus Christ, thanksgiving should be our habits.

Thanksgiving should be our behavior. It should be our attitude. Amen.

You can't wake up from bed in the morning as a child of God and

all you are worried about is the leftover pizza you left in the fridge yesterday.

You have to show gratitude to God, and you need to be able

to express your thanksgiving. You express thanksgiving. Imagine somebody has brought you the

nicest dress you could ever have. No, in fact, let's go to

Wig, somebody has brought your bone straights. Wig. That's when you where

you feel gay and you don't express thanksgiving. You think next time when they

get born, Lizzy, wad buy for you? No? Amen? So

thanksgiving. You should give expression to thanksgiving. So if last year you are

not giving expression to Thanksgiving, we say let's thank God and you are standing

the like zombie pat one two and three, you need to change. You

have to give expression to your thanksgiving. Amen, because God expects your thanksgiving.

And the reason that God has been good? Has God been good to

anybody? Is he? He's been really good? So expressing thanksgiving is the

least we can do. Do you understand? Can you bring one million dollars

to God? Do you have one million dollars to give to You don't have

one million dollars? Or maybe you have the way he was quiet, maybe

he has a Do you understand? The least you can offer to God is

thanksgiving. Today we're going to learn about I'm going to teach you about out

the key of sacrifice, that is the third one, the key of sacrifice

with three keys, key of humility, key of thanksgiving, and the key

of sacrifice. Amen. And so let's look at our foundation scripture from Psalm

fifty verse five, Sound fifty verse five. And if last year you didn't

bring a bible to church, this year, purpose in your heart that I'll

bring a bible to church. I'll bring a note book to church. I'll

write down notes, I'll take downloads, i will go over my notes,

i will meditate on it so that God's word will benefit me. Amen.

And the word of God came to the writer and said that, gather my

saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

So this is God saying that, gather my sayings to me, Gather

them, Gather all of them, as we are here, are gathered together

to understand. So God is saying that there is going to be a gathering

of saints, his saints. And who are saints, People who have received

Christ, who have been bought by the precious blood of Jesus, who have

been washed clean, who have been justified, sanctified, redeemed, and justified

again. By the blood of Jesus, who are now called children of the

Most i God. Those are saints. And you are a saint. Please

tell your neighbor you are a saint. Amen, you are a saint,

he says, Gather onto me my saints. He qualifies that my saints who

have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. Six. Let the heavens declare

his righteousness, For God himself is judge a man. Let's look at first

bit touchapter two, verse four to five. And so the saints that God

is looking for as saints of quality, and what qualifies them is that saints

who have made a covenant with God, who have made a covenant with God

and offers sacrifices to go. Amen. How many of you have watched a

Nigerian movie where there is a priest making sacrifice to some tree somewhere or some

rock and you are shaking something aquaaa and they are doing some things. That

is a priest that is dedicated to that idol. Amen. And so you

cannot just go dristly. You can't just walk there and say I'm going to

give a sacrifice to that idol. They are spiritual implications to it. Do

you understand. But guess what God has made you and I priests. So

it means that we qualify to bring sacrifices to the most psycho. Amen.

Can you think about that for a moment. You mention your name to yourself

me, I'm a priest. I can bring sacrifices to God, the mosa

God, the creator of all things. Wow, that's a great honor.

Indeed, Amen, Oh, I said, Amen, Oh, you're still

thinking about it. Wow. So the scripture says that coming to him as

to a living stone, we come to God as to a living stone.

The Bible says in Hebrews that those that come to God must know that he

is, and that He is a reward of them that seek him diligently.

So we come to God knowing that God is a living stone. Jesus Christ

is a living stone. Rejected by men. Jesus was rejected by men.

How many of you know that Jesus was rejected by men. He came doing

good, but they killed him, and even now people are still rejecting him.

Amen. But he was chosen by God and he was made precious by

God. Next verse, you also please tell your neighbor you also you are

also a living stone. Amen, you are also a living in store,

and you are being built up as a spiritual house. You are being built

up as a spiritual house. Amen. Where my photographer is, Senuel,

where's are you? Please get that? Where's my phone? Please go around.

If you see anybody sleeping, take a picture of them and put them

on the screen. Amen. You are being built up as a spiritual house,

and you are being built up as a holy priesthood. You are being

built up as a holy priesthood to do what to offer up spiritual sacrifices which

are acceptable to God through Christ Jesus. Amen. And so God is building

you up as a spiritual house. He's building you up as his own temple,

and he's building you up as a priest to be able to offer sacrifices

Amen, which are acceptable to God through Christ Jesus. Amen. And so

we want to look at a few types of sacrifices that are in the Bible.

Amen, and please write this down. Everywhere there is a sacrifice,

there is an altar. Everywhere there is a sacrifice, there is an altar.

And please write this also. An altar is a medium that gives access

to the spirit realm. An altar is a medium that gives access to the

spirit realm. Amen. And so there's always a priest that ministers to an

altar, all right, And what you put on the altar is a sacrifice.

And some of you might think that altests and sacrifices our Old Testament things.

No, even in the New Testament, altars and sacrifice still play out.

If you read a book of Revelation, it talks about seven or eight

sacrifices an altist. Amen. And so we need to know that even the

cross, the cross that Jesus hanged on was an altar, because on the

altar the greatest sacrifice ever made in humanity. Hang on that cross to understand.

And because of that great sacrifice, all of humanity can be saved.

All of humanity can now be called children of God. Amen. And so

types of sacrifices. Let's look at our more scripture before we go to types

of sacrifices. Let's look at first pit touched up to two verse nine,

first bitter two nine. And this is your your identity as a child of

God, your identity as a child of God. If anyone asks you,

what makes you think that you are a child of God? You should quote

first bit touch after two vers nine to them, and you should be bold

to tell them that for I am a chosen generation, God has chosen me.

You should be able to boldly tell them that I am a royal priesthood.

Why because we have come to the living stone. Who is making us

also live in stones, and it's building us up as a house, and

it's building us up as royal priesthood, holy priesthood who can offer sacrifices to

God through Christ Jesus. Amen. So you should be bold to tell them

that I am a royal priesthood, I am a holy nation, I am

a peculiar people, I am special. And why has God made it so?

So that we can show forth the praises of Him who has called us

out of darkness into his marvelous light. As we go along, you get

to know that praises is a sacrifice, and so because Jesus has saved us,

we can offer praises to him legally. Amen. Oh, I said,

amen, are you in church? Amen? I say you don't like

the message, But whether I like it or not, I don't care,

because I'm telling you what to help you and what to give you life.

Amen. If I was to tell you what you like, we'll be talking

about social media. Five dangers of social media. Don't do a don't do

me now. I won't take you to heaven. Amen. Now I won't

help you walk through an open door. Even if I come UNDERSTANDIA and teach

you economics, I'm doing you a great disservice because over here you don't need

economics. You need a word of God so that you may grow thereby.

Amen. So please tell your neighbor whether you like it or not, we

don't care. We will say it anyway because you need to hear it and

you need to know it. Amen. Who knows anything about sacrifices? Or

I've said, how many of you knew it before I told you? Please

give the a lot away. I don't see any hand. I see one

hand. Yes you know something about sacrifices. Yes, that's good, But

I see many of you don't know anything about sacrifice. You know anything about

all this, But you know everything about YDX, You know every and anything

about history, you know biology, you know the male and the female reproductive

organs. You know everything but the things in the world of God. Amen.

So please tell you an about for free you need this one so you

can walk through an open door. Amen. Amen. And so the New

Testament type of priest that God has called us to is one dedicated to offering

spiritual sacrifices onto God. Amen. If you have, if you are a

little traditionally enough, you should know that there are still people who are fetish

priests who are still offering sacrifice. They are buying gold and chickens and sacrificing

them. By seeing the priest wood we've been called to. We don't kill

chickens and rats and goods and peacocks, and no, no, no,

we offer to God's spiritual sacrifices. So our sacrifices are of a spiritual dimension.

Amen. Because in order for you to engage with spirits, you need

sacrifice. Amen. Those who don't say God, go go and worship idols.

They are engaging with spirits and they use sacrifice as a medium to engage

with the spirits. And how many of you know that God is spirit?

Jesus told us samaratan woman, that God is spirit, and they that worship

Him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Amen. And so we

offer up to God spiritual sacrifices. Amen. Please, sell your neighbor.

We offer to God's spiritual sacrifices. Amen. And so God is seeking for

you to have expression in coming into His presence by offering to him a more

spiritual sacrifice. Amen, offering to him a more spiritual sacrifice. And there

are just a few sacrifices I want to speak to you about. Just touch

on it, and I will focus on one for today. Next week we'll

focus on another. Amen. The first one is prayer as a sacrifice.

Prayer as a sacrifice. As a child of God, you need to be

able to offer prayers as a sacrifice to God. You need to pray.

You don't need to wait for bad things to happen before you are praying and

you are clapping your hands. No, even while all things are good,

you need to pray because prayer is a sacrifice. And what do priests do.

Priests offer up to God spiritual sacrifices. And so prayer is one of

the sacrifices you need to offer up to God always. Amen. Number two,

Sacrifice of Thanksgiving. Sacrifice of Thanksgiving. I spoke to you about the

key of Thanksgiving. So thanksgiving in itself is a sacrifice that every child of

God who is born again of water and of the spirit, who has the

spirit of God in them. You should be able to give God thanks Amen.

If we say if we throw a challenge, we are doing one hour

of Thanksgiving prayer. Are you up for the challenge? Who is up for

the challenge? Oh, I'm looking at your hand. God is in your

handsle If you're out for the challenge, meet us online on Saturday eight pm.

We pray from eight tonight and we are just going to thank God.

So bring your thanksgiving, Amen, bring your thanksgiving. So sacrifice of thanksgiving.

There is also sacrifice of praise, sacrifice of praise. There's a song

we used to sing where we're growing up. We bring sacrifice of praise into

the house of the Law. We bring sacrifice of praise into the House of

the Lord. As we are fer on to you, the sacrifice says of

thanksgiving, as we are firm to you, the sacrifice I says of praise.

You can offer thanksgiving and praise as a sacrifice to God because you are

a qualified priest. God has made you a spiritual priest that can offer up

these sacrifices upon to God. People who are not born again are not made

priests of God. They can't offer sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to God.

They are not thankful to God for anything. No, Nato, do you

understand? But you that has been saved by God. You have been made

a priest. And so when you come to church and you are singing,

it is not just about the song anymore. Do you understand me? It

is about offering a sacrifice to God. It is about what offering a sacrifice

to God because it is your responsibility as a priest that God has made you

to offer. Sacrifices are goord to God. Amen. So prayer as a

sacrifice, sacrifice of praise, sacrifice of thanksgiving. Even you your body.

You can offer your body to God as a living sacrifice. That is why

you have the mindset. The things I used to do, I will not

do them again because you have offered yourself to God as a living sacrifice.

Do you understand? So? Sacrifices are important because as a priest, God

has called you to another sacrifices, offerings as sacrifices, offerings as sacrifices.

One that we often don't pay attention to is the evening sacrifice. The evening

sacrifice where David said that let my prayers be unto you like incense, and

the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice. And so the evening

sacrifice happened in Egypt in Gshan, who has said the name Goshan before.

Please your friends who didn't lift their hands, please ask them, did you

go to Sunday school or you are a recent born again believer? Amen.

Gaushan is in Egypt. That is where the Israelites were living. So it

was like the Zungo of Egypt. Do you understand? And there was darkness

in Egypt. But God gave them light in Gshan because he told them to

make a sacrifice and to put the blood of the lamb the animal on their

lintels. And then the angel of Death who was st to kill the first

born sons of each the Egyptians, when he gets that, he will pass

over because of the blood. So David equates that whole sacrifice to the lifting

up of our hands when we are praising God, when we are worshiping God.

Amen. And so if you can't lift up your hands to God,

then it becomes a sacrificer to God. Amen. Before he didn't know,

so you always had your honey, your pockets when we are worshiping God.

But now you know so it's in your interest to offer up that sacrifice up

on too, God. Can I hear any amen? Amen? So I'll

teach you various sacrifices and how they apply to you as a child of God,

a man. But today want to zero in on prayer as a sacrifice.

Prayer as a sacrifice. Jesus said that men always ought to pray,

And when the Bible talks about men, it doesn't exclude the women or the

ladies. We are all part of that. All children of God need to

pray. All children of God need to pray. How many of you pray

this morning? Amen? How many of you didn't pray this morning? Amen?

You see when I say how many of you pray this morning, your

hand was down. How many of you didn't pray this money? Your hand

was down? So which one? Where are you? Where do you stand?

Amen? I'm saying, how many of you didn't pray this morning?

Give the Lord away and shame the devil. And there's no need lying in

church you didn't pray. God has seen you, Amen. But we know

that prayer as a sacrifice, So in the morning, of our praises,

of our thanksgiving, of our prayers upon to God. Amen. And so

let's look at Revelation chapter five vers. Eight. Revelation chapter five is eight

talks about the throne Room of God, the throne room of God. And

so if you've heard anything like any phrase like the throne room perspective, the

throne room is where God, where God reigns. So that's where the seat

of God is. And the Bible says that Apostle John was given the opportunity

to go and see how the throne of God is set up. And so

if you read Revelations chapter five, the whole of chapter five, you get

insight into how the heavens of heaven look like where God sits the throne of

God. Amen. And so while he was there, there was an announcement

that who can come and take this scroll? Who can take this book and

open it? And there was no one who was found worthy to open it.

But then he started to cry, and the Angel of the Lord said

to him, don't cry, we've not son of man, for the Lamb

of God is worthy to open to receive the scroll, and he's worthy to

open it. So he Jesus asked the Lamb of God took the book.

And when he took the book, the four beasts who are in front of

God, and the twenty four elders, who when they hear the name of

God, they cast down their crowns and they lie on the floor and worship

God. They fell down before the Lamb, having in one hand, one

of their hands a harp. So a hap is a musical instrument. It's

a ten string musical instrument that you play with ten fingers. They had a

hap, and in the other hand they had a golden vial. It was

a ball full precious gold, formed with gold. And in the vial there

were aromas or orders. In our mind we think that ortho is a bad

thing. This why is good order? Which is aroma? Amen, which

is aroma? They had aromas or incense, which are the prayers of the

saints. So please ask your neighbor where does your prayer go to. It's

not just about opening your mouth and praying. It should be conscious of where

your prayer is going. Because me, my prayer is before God. It's

in the golden vials. Amen. And when you read further, the Bible

says that there is a burning altar. Remember I said sacrifice comes with altar.

There is a burning altar, and that altar has fire in it.

And they take your prayers, which is incense, and they cast it into

the fire before God, and your prayers comes up before God as is sweet

smelling aroma. Sweet smelling incense. Amen, sweet smelling incense. So prayer

is a sacrifice. And in this year you should purpose in your heart as

a child of God, that you are going to pray to God. Amen.

Purpose in your heart. You are going to pray to God. You

are going to pray for your family. You're going to pray for your friends,

all your friends who are not born again. How many of you have

friends who are not born again? Give the lot of wave. Write all

their names down, Amen, write all their names. Divide the paper into

two. Write their names here not born again, and on the other side

right born again, and be praying for them. One after when God makes

them born again, you transfer their name to born again. Purpose in your

heart. You are praying for them to become born again, so that God

will also make them a priest who can also offer sacrifice to God. Amen,

so they can also offer sacrifice of prayer sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.

Amen. So paypos in your heart that this year, by the time we

come to December twenty twenty four, the vile that has your prays inside should

be over flowing with prayer points with prayer. Amen, it should be over

flowing because guess what. Once they put your prayer in the burning altar,

an incense comes out. God will be smelling. Whether the incense is nice

or not will determine whether God remember you. Amen. So if your incense

is nice, then God will do breathing breathing. Then he said, where

is this incense coming from? And then the twenty four or there's someone will

say, Oh, it's coming from some girl in the youth. Change.

Her name is a Dua. She has been bringing nice prayers. Amen.

So let your incense, your prayer go to God like incense. So David

said that, Lord, let my prayers come up before you like incense.

Whenever I pray, Mate, enter your nostrils. I notice it that I

am praying. And anytime I lift up my hands because I've consecrated my hands

to you, let it be like the evening sacrifice. Take notice of it.

Amen. And so this year I can promise you, if you are

going to pray, if you are going to offer up the right sacrifices to

God, that Heaven will remember you. Amen. Heaven will remember you,

and Jesus will set before you an open door that nobody can shut, no

devil from your bloodline? Can do you focal? Do you understand? Yes?

One of your mates called me. She texted actually that she wrote the

worsy, but all her friends their admissions have come and her doesn't come.

So she was worried. And I said, oh, don't. While we're

talking, I got angry, and I said, the name of Jesus,

any devil in your bloodline that doesn't want you to go to school, we

cut them off by divine authority. We disadvantage them. We're command in the

name of Jesus. Let your admission come speedily. She had had a dream

that somebody in her house and old ladies said you you go to school and

we'll see open confrontation. And I said, whoever that person is, may

they be arrested and be cursed in the name of Jesus. Then next day,

in the morning, she texted me, the admissions have come. I've

got to U see see Oh, Yes, when you pray, your prayers

will come up to God as an incense, and Heaven will move. The

day Daniel purposed in his heart to pray, Heaven responded to his prayer.

Amen, and God sent an angel to bring an answer to his prayer.

Even when the devils block the angel, God will send another angel. Amen.

Until God fulfills his purpose in you, he won't stop. But you

have to keep praying. Somebody say, keep praying. When you pray,

Heaven will respond. Amen. Even if you know that Heaven won't move.

In your case, until you you pray, Heaven will not move. Jesus,

who is the living Rock, he had the revelation. He was full

of revelations about the church. So he asks the disciples, who do men

say that I am? Who do men say that I am? Someone say,

Oh, You're Elijah, You're Moses, you are Abc, you are

Santa Claus, your this is your dad. And he said to Peter,

who do you say that I am? And me? Our God had given

Peter the revelation of the Christ. And Peter said that you are the Christ,

the son of the Living Girl. And he said that because you have

caught this revelation, you have also become a living stone. Your name is

Simon, but now you are Petros Peter, which means stone. And on

this stone I will build my church. God is building what his house.

He's building you as a house. I will build my church, and the

gates of Hell will not prevail against it. Amen. So, by coming

to the revelation of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, you become a stone that

God can build his church with. Amen. So this year, don't just

be a church goer. Amen. Please ask your name. Are you just

a church goer or a church comer? Eh, don't just be a church

goer or a church comer. Amen. You have to be serious with God.

So God can build you up as a house. God can build you

up as a priest who can offer sacrifices onto God. Amen. And so

it talks about the golden vial that contains the prayers of the saints. So

be one of the saints who has your prayers in the golden vials of the

twenty four Eldest. Can I hear an amen? Or this your amen lacks

inspiration? Can I hear a better amen? Amen? And so let's look

at some ones are seven Verse twenty one someone's are seven twenty one to twenty

two. And the Bible says the Psalmons writes that old man that men would

praise the Lord for his goodness. We've established that praises is a sacrifice,

that men and women, boys and girls who offer up sacrifices of praise onto

God for his goodness. So this is ancest to some of you, those

of you who don't know the difference between praise and worship. You think praises

is one first song. Worship is one's low song. This is for you.

We praise God in response to his goodness, Amen, And for his

wonderful works, to the children of men, to the wonderful works of God.

So all the testimonies you have had, people, those are the works

of God. Amen. How God has delivered people. How somebody where's prass?

Cause you said what your mathematics say. Wow, If God hadn't help

you, you'll be a bomber. But God has Those are the works of

God. Amen. So we praise God in response to his goodness. Has

God been good to somebody here? Are you sure? You see? So?

You need to give expression to your thanksgiving the way you thank God.

It doesn't show that God has done. If somebody come, we is here

for the first word's coming here for the first time, so that I know

how to say what I'm going to say next. Is today's your first time

of worship? Perod us? Please give us away? Want to welcome you.

Yes, there's a lady that oh clapp for her. Amen. You

see your clapping surface is paralytic. Amen. So let me ask a question

again. Has God been good to somebody here? Oh? Yeah, So

you've got to give expression to your praise. You've got to give expression to

your thanksgiving. Do you understand? So that our sister who has now come

here for the very first time, when she sees how you are expressing your

thanks like, oh wow, God has really been good to this girl.

God has been good to this boy. But you see you lack expression.

It is a sign of ingratitude. Say ingratitude, the lack of expression of

thanksgiving means you are an ingrad is a big word. It means you are

and you are not thankful. It is not in your You lack the ability

to thank God. Amen. So you have to give this year when we

are praising God, give expression to your thanksgiving. Amen. Because we know

you. We've been seeing you on social media. When you go to worldly

parties, you are dancing. When you come to church, you are like

a rock of ages. You're not moving. You don't move in church.

There is no expression. As far as you're concerning church that you don't have

an expression. Nobody knows your expression in church because you are not a grateful

You are not thankful. Amen, Please tell your neighbor be a thankful person

this year and give expression to your praises. We know now that praises and

sacrifice isn't not, So give expression to your sacrifice. Amen. When Jeslyn

was singing we bou that's song, I don't like it. Do you know

why? It shows our hypocrazy on the largest level? How can you say

we bow down when you are standing? Eh? How can so? I

don't like that song? Because when you are really going to you need to

mean it. Don't understand? Kneeling down is also a sacrifice, the sacrifice

of bended knees. Jesus often prayed kneeling down. Daniel often prayed, we

look at the scripture. Daniel sixteenth. Daniel prayed always kneeling down. So

it's a sacrifice. Amen. So and this year we are going to mean

what we say. If we don't mean it, we won't say it.

Will keep quiet. And it includes our songs. So if we don't mean

to bow down to God, you can't say that, oh we are doing

spirit bowing down. Oh, if you are, we bow down and worship.

If we are saying, now we lift our hands to their great and

your hands are down, suspect you stop singing a song, it means you

don't mean it. You don't mean to offer a sacrifice and evening sacrifice to

God by lifting up of your hands. Do you understand? So mean what

you say and do what you say. Amen. Muslims mean what they say.

How many of you know Muslims? Anyone you know a Muslim? Do

you see that they mean what they say. Yes. So even if they're

in a plane and it's time to pray, if they are singing we bow

down, they will depth. There's expression to the bound down. You see

them bounding down. Amen. So this year, if you are going to

sing we bow down, we are going to truly bow down. Give expression,

Please say, give expression to your praises, give expression to your thanksgiving.

Amen. You can't say we are saying thank you God, I love

you Lord for your mess. And you've done your face like Charlie. We

can't even qualify how you've done your face. Eh, how can you express

I love you to somebody and your faces can't pay serious level? The two

don't go together. Amen. So if you are giving expression, express your

thanks the way it should be. Amen. I've been to services where people

are thanking God. Or you don't even need to. You don't even need

to go to the service physically. You just see the pictures from the service

and he says that, Ah, this guy astremely worshiping God because you see

the expression on their face, how they've lifted at their hands. On thirty

first, I was a young guy on the on the field. He was

praising. His shirt was wet. He was wet, not with water,

with sweat, The shirt was wet. He was praising God. You you

didn't even shared one sweat for God. Since generally to desay, not even

one sweat my God, not even like you're praising God and even do this

never or you are praying and you are sweating and you do this. Hey,

God has even he say one sweats this year? We have to change

Amen, because we are understanding sacrifice and the key of sacrifice. Amen.

Amen. And so David said that all that man will give thanks to the

Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works, to the children of men.

Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving. Please us go back to Some

one oh seven, verse twenty two. Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving.

Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving. Amen. Let them sacrifice the

sacrifices of thanksgiving. Because when you are thankful to God, the presence of

the Lord is with you, because you easily enter into the presence of God.

Amen. And if God is with you, then who can be against

you. If God is with you, all your needs will be met.

God will meet your daily needs. Amen. If God is with you,

you will not have anxiety, pranks, you will be chill, You'll be

just fine because God is with you. Amen. And so learn to be

thankful and learn to offer thanksgiving to God. Amen. So in this year,

instead of sitting there and watching kum Kumbaja and be laughing, go to

your room and say the Lord, I've come to thank you. Say to

the Lord. Let the words of my mouth, the prayers I'm offering us

times. Let it come before you as incense, and let attempt great things

for God by lifting up your hands to God. Amen, attempt something you

attempt. Lift your hands up to God and say, Lord, I am

offering up to you an evening sacrifice. And just as you are pacing in

your room, don't please, don't sit on your bed or lie in your

bed, you fall asleep, pace in your room. Just say thank you

Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Lord. I'm grateful for life. I'm

grateful for your mercies. I'm grateful for all that you've done for me my

family. I'm thankful that giving me life. I'm thankful that I have good

health. That I who was on admission last year? Anybody, yes you,

God delivered you. It doesn't count because God has held you. You're

on admission last year, but this year you will not be on admission.

The name of Jesus, who learn to thank God and you are. I

didn't see a lot of funds. You're on admission last year. This year

you're not be on admission. You know nobody will will be on admission this

year. Do you believe it? Say Amen? And so if you were

not on admission, give God thanks. Even if you're on admission. Many

went on admission and they didn't come home, but you came home. God

saved you. So just learn to give God thanks. Amen. Just bless

his name, give him praise, sing a song of praises as he sacrificed

to him. You realize that gradually the presence of God would be your habitation.

Amen. And you see that your life will begin to change on a

level you don't understand. Because see, if Jesus is in your boats,

your boats will not drown. It can never drown. Amen. Whether you

go through storms, hell or high water, Jesus is in your boat,

you won't drown. You go through troubles, but you come out with a

smile and a testimony. I told you that before the year ended, my

wife was ironing some clothes. She finished and she forgot, left the ion

on and went to bed. I saw it in the morning that the but

God contained the heat. The heat did not go beyond the ion. Do

you understand. We came to church on Christmas, We finished nice Christmas.

We got on there was a gas leak in our house. Those gas smell

everywhere and just imagine if we said, oh, let's do something, let's

rise something, boom, it'll be like boom. But guess what God preserved

that. Oh, we just sang a song and we opened the windows,

We opened all the sliding doors. We put on all the fans, We

blew all the gas out. Finito, we put on their conditions. We

are fine. Do you understand when Jesus is in your boots, eh,

you will sail through life with ease. Amen. So it doesn't matter the

persecution you go through, It doesn't matter what you are facing your life.

You will go through life with ease. Because God is your peace, Amen.

And because he's the Prince of peace, you'll give you peace at all

times. Can I hear better? Amen? And so let all men give

thanks and offer sacrifices of thanksgiving to God. Amen. I can see if

I'm talking there. I'm bringing you the mic very soon, Amen. And

let our prayers be onto God as incense and then lifting up of our hands

as the evening sacrifice. Amen. Now quickly write down these points. Ten

principles of prayer according to Daniel. Ten principles of prayer according to Daniel Daniel

Chatter six vers ten Daniel, Chapter six, Verst. Ten. The first

point is that prayer is very important. Prayer is very important. We make

time for things that are important. Amen. Can we say together? We

make time for things that are important. Amen. Things that are not important

to you, you won't make time for. Amen. When I was in

university, I had friends who used to drive five hours to go and see

a girl and drive five hours back ten hours on the road because it was

important to them to understand. If coming to church is important for you,

you will get ready mentally, physically, psychologically, spiritually before Sunday. You

won't wait till when your daddy is in the car and honking pa pain.

That's why you are ironing your trousers. Amen. We make time for things

that are important, So you need to make time for prayer. Amen.

There are eight watches in a day. There are four watches when there is

light, and there are four watches when it's dark. Amen. And so

you need to pray. The minimum time you should pray as a child of

God is one hour every day. You should be able to pray one hour.

Amen. How many of you want to be challenged to pray for at

least one hour? Join us online Saturday, eight pm to nine pm.

We'll put a link. Join us, you learn how to pray for one

hour at least. The more you join, the more you pray, it

becomes a part of you. Amen. So the first principle of Daniel's prayer

is that prayer is important. Amen. And so now when Daniel knew the

writings were signed, he went home and in the upper room, with his

window open towards Jerusalem, he knelt down, kneeling down on his knees three

times a day. So Daniel prayed three times a day. And guess what.

Daniel was a prime minister. He was a government official. So you

can't tell me you are more busier than Daniel. Are you busyer? Don

Daniel? You can't be. He made time to pray three times a day.

Amen. Are you busier than the archbishop? He prays many times a

day. Amen. And he prayed on that day and prayed and gave thanks

before God, as his custom was since early days. So since he was

a young man, giving thanks and praying, kneeling down and praying to God

was his attitude, and he had grown with it. Amen. Number two,

No one is ever too busy to pray. Too blessed or too stressed

to pray. You can never be too busy to pray. You can never

be too blessed to pray. You can never be too stressed to pray.

Prayer should be to you as a because breathing in and breathing out is important,

So prayer as a child of God should be important to you. Amen

asked the first of well, how many of you can go without food for

seven days? I saw some hands at the back. Amen. This is

the way food is important some of you. If you don't eat once a

day, Charlie, you'd be like something like your body will function well,

you have spasms, your body will just be shaking on its own accord.

Prayer is important as well, Amen, so place emphasis on it. Number

three, Prayer is the source of our power and our protection. Prayer is

a source of our power and our protection. Until you pray, the situation

will not change. You can't wish situations to change as a child of God.

Amen, this one is not a Sarah Sarah. Whatever will be will

be. You can't wish your situations to change without prayer. Because as a

child of God, you are a priest. You offer sacrifices onto God.

You can offer prayers as sacrifice to God, and your situation would change.

Amen, Your situation would change. And there is no situation that God cannot

change. Amen. God is all powerful and he can change all situations.

Can I hear an Amen? Number four, Prayer is important in acquiring and

sustaining the blessings of God. Prayer is important in acquiring and sustaining the blessings

of God. So write this down. By prayer, we can draw blessings

from God. By prayer, we can draw blessings from God. By wisdom,

we can maintain the blessings of God. By thanksgiving, we can multiply

the blessings of God. By prayer, we can draw blessings from God.

By wisdom, we can maintain the blessings of God. By thanksgiving, we

can multiply the blessings of God. And Number five, for prayer to be

effective, in be habitual. For prayer to be effective, it must be

habitual. So take one more point. For free prayer must continue both in

trouble times and in times of peace. Amen. Can we stand on our

feet everybody, I believe today you have something, some knowledge about the key

of sacrifice. Amen. And for the next sixty seconds, we are going

to offer to God sacrifice of thanksgiving. Amen. And if you can,

dare, dare to add the lifting of your hands as the evening sacrifice and

send to heaven a sweet smelling incense. Amen. Can you just open your

mouth and begin to offer, as a priest a sacrifice of thanksgiving? On

to go, Let's sed be your name, Jesus, la kovalahas savileb and

deliblimin of us alamah raym alocados velika millis aunt lamaay. Believe it. Father,

we give you thanks. We give you thanks, Jesus, We give

you thanks. Jesus. You are worthy of all our thanks, you are

worthy of all our praise. So we offer to use sacrifices of thanksgiving.

We offer to use sacrifices of praise. We offer to you the evening sacrifice,

Oh God, tonight, blessing your name and giving your praise in response

to your goodness, in response to your good work. So, as a

son of man, let's set be your name, Jesus. Let's set be

your name, Jesus. Let's set me your name, Jesus. You are

worthy, Lord, You are worthy, Lord, You are worthy, Lord,

Glory to your name, Jesus, my color bla blah, really believe

me my color blah blah bah. Don't let the drums pray for you.

Let the sound of your prayers, expression of your prayers go up. Let

the Lord hear you pray. Let's be your name, Jesus. Glory to

your name, Jesus, Glory, glory, glory to your name, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord, God Almighty, you are worthy. Blessed be

your name. We are thankful, Lord to you for how far you brought

us in response to your goodness to us. Because you have been so good

and Lord, we say thank you. We say thank you, we say

thank you, we say thank you, we say thank you, we say

thank you. Thanks a million, Oh God, ray my lord. Ba

lah cabal Olivia mimlo moschell lah blah blah blah. Thank you, Lord,

Jesus. Thank you, Lord, Jesus. You are great and you are

greatly to be praised. We bless your name, We bless your name.

We bless your name, We bless your name, We bless your name.

Thank you for your pray presence right here, right now. Thank you for

your glory right here, right now. Thank you, Lord, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord, Jesus, Thank you, Lord, Jesus, Thank

you Lord, Jesus. Ma lakamba silib for the smoke of your glory in

this place right now. Blessed be your name, O God. Lets it

be your name. Hold, let's set be your name, Ho Lord.

Let's set be your name, Ho Lord. Let's send be your name,

Ho Lord, Let's send be your name, Jesus, Glory to your name.

Jesus. Worthy are your Lord, God Almighty? Worthy is your name,

Jesus, Worthy are your Lord? Worthy is your name? Jesus worthy?

Are your Lord, God Almighty? Lest it be your name, Oh

God, Oh God, worthy you Lord, you are worthy of it all.

Jesus. Blessed be your name, Jesus. Blessed be your name,

Jesus, Blessed be your name. Jesus, You are worthy of our thanks.

We offer praises as a sacrifice of God. We offer to you a

Lord, thanksgiving as a sacrifice of Lord. Let our prayers, so,

Lord, come to you as incense this morning. Let our prayers come to

you as incense. The Father received the thanks of your people in Jesus' precious

name. Let a believers say an amen. How many of you felt a

change in you our we pray. Just give the Lord away. Amen.

If you have eyes to see, you see the smoke of the glory of

God all of this place. That is the very tangible presence of God.

Amen. And thanksgiving can bring you into the presence of God. Amen.

Let's bother our heads. If you are here, you are not born again.

You have not surrendered your life to the lordship of the Lord Jesus.

He's not lord over your life. We're spoken of our sacrifices, and we're

spoken of our oldest and he sacrifice that is not dedicated on the altar of

Christ's dedicated to something else. If you are here, you want to be

born again. You want Christ to be lord over your life. Wherever you

are, just left up your head. Lift up your heads wherever you are

if you want to receive Jesus as your Lord and your personal savior. Is

there any hand lifted? If your high is lifted, please come to me

in the front. Don't be shy. If your hand is lifted, please

come to me in the front. Amen. Let's say a prayer final call.

If your hand is lifted, please come to me in the front.

Amen. Father will give you thanks for you are good, and your messies

and your forever in Jesus' precious name. Amen.