Sermon
Fruitfulness 31.07.23
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Oh, tell them, I see the glory of God all all over.
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You. Tell them again, I see the glory of God all all over
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you. Amen, tell them, I'm glad to see you once again in
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the presence of God. Amen. Please be seated in the presence of the
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Lord. Hallelujah on behalf of our Father and the Lord. The Archbishop Nicholas,
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uncle Williams. This morning. You are welcome to church. Amen.
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I mean if you know that church is the best place to be, because
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there is a blessing in church that you will not get anyway. Amen.
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Even if you go to Dubai, you won't get that kind of blessing.
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If you go to Paris, you won't get that kind of blessing. Go
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to California, you won't get that kind of blessing. Go to Los Angeles,
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you won't get that kind of blessing. Go to Las Vegas, you
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will not get that kind of blessing. Go to Cassa, you won't get
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that kind of blessing. Amen. Go to a party, you won't get
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that kind of blessing. At the more, you will not get that kind
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of blessing. Amen. But there is a kind of blessing that you get
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in church when you come to where the children of God are gathered, simply
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because the presence of God is here. Can I hear an? Amen?
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And can we celebrate the Lord Jesus for being in our presence this morning?
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Amen? Amen? Is there anyone here worshiping with us for the very first
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time? If today is the first time you're worshiping with us, would like
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to acknowledge you. Amen. There's some people when I see them one and
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I see them again three months later, they're running shifting cultivation like some people
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I'm seeing over here. Where have you guys been hiding? You want to
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be by? Where did you go? You didn't go anywhere? You're not
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crying here? Hey, please say hey? God will help us. Amen,
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hallelujah, And so congratulations to all of you were able to give us
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the recap of the reading assignments that I gave to you. Amen. It's
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very important that you take the reagion assignments seriously because that is the only way
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you will sit down and read the Bible. Outside of that, you won't
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read the Bible for yourself. Amen. So please, when we give you
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a reading assignment, pay attention to it, learn something from it. Amen.
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Like I said last week, God wants to have a relationship with all
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of you on an individual level. But how you can develop that relationship is
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when you spend time with God through your quiet time. Amen. And so
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shout out to all those who don't have the acquiet time, they're not going
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to have a relationship with God. Amen. But those who have their quiet
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time be assured that if you are consistently having your quiet time, not very
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long from now, you begin to hear the voice of God. Someone came
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to tell me last week that when she's there, she hears her name,
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she hears someone calling her name, and she's going to ask her mother.
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Oh, either one calling me, And she said, no, nobody is.
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And I said to her, God is getting your attention. Because if
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you've done your quiet time, and you know how God spoke to Samuel,
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it was a similar way God drew Samuel out. Amen. And so as
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you keep having your quiet time, God will begin to talk to you,
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Amen, and you begin to hear the voice of God. You begin to
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know the voice of God. Amen. So thank you all for those who
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did the reading assignment. Amen. And from Acts chapter one to Act chapter
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three, the general of the assignment I gave is on fruitfulness because after you
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had received, after they had received the Holy Spirit, the outcome of the
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power they received was that they became witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
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the effect of that was that their church multiplied and became they became a multitude.
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So there was fruitfulness on every side. Amen. And so today I
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want to speak to you about fruitfulness. All right, and tell your neighbor
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God requires you to be fruitful. Amen. Please tell your other neighbor God
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requires you to be fruitful. Amen. Let's look at our foundation scripture from
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Genesis, chapter one, verse twenty eight. Genesis, chapter one, verse
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twenty eight. Helps department are looking dashing at the back in their all black
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with the aligning yards. They are looking like diplomats at the UN conference.
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Wow. Amen, such a blessing. And the Bible says that, and
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God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and multiply fill the earth
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and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
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over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on
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the earth. And so God blessed Adam and Eve. And the effect of
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the blessing was that be fruitful and multiply. Please tell your neighbor be fruitful
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and multiply. Amen, be fruitful and multiply. So in today's teaching,
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I want to share a few thoughts with you that will help you realign yourself
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to the fact that we are not islands of our own. Please ask your
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neighbor are you an island? What is an island? Geography students, Yes,
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a small mass of lance wounded by your water as small. Please,
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all those who haven't traveled before, did you understand what you're saying? She
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speaking American English, She's from America, she said, a small mass of
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land surrounded by water. So islands are secluded. They are by themselves,
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they are divided from the mainland. You understand. But because you are not
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an island, you belong in the Kingdom of God. We are in the
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Kingdom of God. We are part of a kingdom. Amen. And you
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are a citizen of that kingdom. And because you are a citizen of that
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kingdom, you are denied every right to be an island. Say amen,
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and so nobody should be an island by themselves, because you are in the
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Kingdom of God. Amen. And so in Matthew chapter thirteen, the Lord
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Jesus spoke about the Kingdom of God. He spoke many parables about the Kingdom
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of God. And your reading assignment for next week is Matthew gonna read the
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whole chapter. It talks about the Kingdom of God. Jesus spoke many parables
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about the Kingdom of God, all right, And from last week we dealt
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with this parable in the Gospel of Mark, because the same thing is in
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the Gospel of Mark, and the Bible says, that's saying. Day Jesus
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went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Next verse. Hey,
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these people, they've taken us foul, I said Matta chapter thirteen,
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verse one. We finished verse when we are going to verse two, and
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a great crowd of great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into
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a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood on the beach.
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Next verse, and he told them many things in parables. That many things
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he spoke to them about, primarily was about the Kingdom of God. And
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so he said to them a parable saying, as so I went out to
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soul. We spoke about this last week next verse and as he sowed.
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Some seats fell along the path. Some seats fell along the path, and
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the birds came and devoured them. Next verse, other seats fell on rocky
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ground where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprung up since
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they had no depth in the soil. Next verse, but the sun rose
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and they were scotched, and since they had no roots, they withered away.
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So last week we dwelt on shallowness as a condition of your heart that
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God wants to deliver you from and make you deeply rooted. Amen. So
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you become a deep Christian who is deeply rooted in the things of God,
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who is not just shallow like the sea that fell on the rocky ground.
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Shallow Christians are pretenders. They are actors. If we take them to Hollywood,
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they will win Grammys because they can really act. They can pretend to
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be Christians when they come to church, but outside of the church, certain
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there is nothing to show that they are Christians. So this parable Jesus spoke
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about the Kingdom of God. He said, the Kingdom of God is like
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a soul who went about casting c And he spoke about the four conditions of
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our hearts. Amen. And so in the Kingdom of God. They are
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all these people in the Kingdom of God. But the preferred choice for you
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from God is that you become fruitful because He wants you to be a person
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or a Christian with a heart condition that receives the word of God. That
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the word of God as a seed benefits jo understand that the word of God
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takes roots in you in your heart and springs forth as a tree and bears
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fruit. So God wants you to be fruitful. Please tell your neighbor.
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God wants you to be fruitful. Please tell your neighbor again. God wants
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you to be fruitful a man. And so in the fruitfulness that God requires
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from us is in twofold. There's the vetical fruitfulness or the fruitfulness that has
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to do with your relationship with God, which is vertical. You see,
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when you look at the cross, the cross is not X, is a
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T with an extension upwards. So there is a vertical aspect of the cross,
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and there is a horizontal aspect of the cross. You understand, the
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fruitfulness God requires from you has to do with both your vetical relationship means your
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relationship with God and also your relationship with others. And so God expects you
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to be fruitful in dealing with Him. As a child of God, God
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expects you to be fruitful in living your Christian life. God expects you to
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be fruitful in all areas and in all aspects of your life. Because you
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are a representative of Him God on earth, and because God is fruitful,
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God expects you to be fruitful. Amen. And so let's look at someone
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best one to five. But before then, the requirements for developing a vertical
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relationship with God is that a man came to Jesus and asked him what is
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the greatest commandment? And Jesus said to him, thou shall love the Lord
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your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
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mind, and with all your strength. So their requirements for developing a hundred
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percent fruitful relationship with God requires all of you. Amen. Please tell your
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neighbor God requires all of you, not just a percentage of you, Amen,
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But God requires all of you. That's why last week we dwe out
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on shallowness. People who are shallow or shallow Christians don't give their all to
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God, you understand. And so you have some who love God ten percent,
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Some love God five percent. Some love God three percent, Some love
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God one point five percent. Some love their phones more than God because on
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their phone they can see funny videos, they can see latest trends, they
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can watch movies, they can watch pornography, they can do all sorts of
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wild things, and so they love their phone. When they are sleeping cried,
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they are holding their phone like this, you put your phone here and
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to sleep. When they wake up, the first thing they die they look
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for is where's my phone? They look, where's my phone? I know
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somewhere. The peasants sleep the best holding the phone and sleeping. The phone
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is like this, always on, and the pasants and sleep the phone run.
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I'll be looking at the person. They love their phone more than God.
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Amen. But you see, to develop your vetical relationship, you need
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to put God first. You need to love God hundred percent. There are
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some of you here. If the light goes off for one week and there's
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no power in your house and your phone dies, it's like as though you
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have died too, this guy, because you love your phone, telling you
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love your phone. One day I was driving around their Crownall area, and
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then I think a pickpocket or a thief stole some girl's phone, and I
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was driving. I'd roll down and I heard the girl at the bus stop.
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She shouted, oh, my phone, my phone, like her world
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had come to an end. My God, because maybe, well, I'm
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sure the phone said, is no proper phone? Bia, probably some some
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song words yesterday nighty or something hey by. See, some people love their
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phone more than God. But you see the requirement of being fruitful your vetical
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relationship. God requires you to love him with all your heart, all your
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mind, all your soul, your emotions. What is taking the substance of
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your affection? Is it God? Or is it some boy that when you
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see Charlat your heart skips a beat boosh? Or is this some girl that
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Charlie. When you see her braids, Oh my God, you see her
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glasses, then your heart begins to do You need to love the Lord with
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all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. The
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thoughts you think David often who said that, Lord, I think about you
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when I consider your wondrous works, When I consider the heavens and the earth
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and how beautiful you've made them, When I consider the birds that fly.
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When I think on these things, I see that, Oh God, you
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are great indeed, and so David became a man after God's own heart because
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his thoughts were always on God. Amen. But Charlie, some of you
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your thoughts where it goes, my God. If you take a microscope to
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see the things in your head. We were going fast for three weeks because
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they are wild things going on in your head, by ze. In order
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for you to be fruitful, God requires you to develop that vertical relationship.
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Amen. And in developing that relationship requires you to love the Lord with all
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of you. Amen. Let's look at someone verse one to five, and
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the Bible says, remember Genus eight, and God blessed them. Don't forget
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that. Let's go back to someone vers one to five, and the Bible
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says that blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the wicked.
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So you can remove man there and put your name there. If your
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name is that Joa puts blessed is that Jua who walks not in the council
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of the wicked. So for you to be blest as God blessed them in
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Genesis after one vest to any aid, you need not to walk in the
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Council of the wicked. Now, the counsel of the wicked is the mindsets,
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the agenda, the popular culture of the wicked. The wicked are any
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group of people who don't believe in God. They say there is no God.
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But if you consider all that God has created, and you can still
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sit down and say there is no God, then I wonder for you,
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because then the Bible qualifies you as a fool, because this is only a
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fool who's say in his heart there is no God. You understand, And
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so for you to be blessed and remain blessed, you don't need to walk
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in the council of the wicked. Amen. There's a lot of craziness going
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on in the world now, and very often the things you hear educated people
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who are in government talk about even as little to you that you want to
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did this person go to school? I mean, is the person's mind working
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correctly? Is he high on something cheap? Do you understand easy? Maybe
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he's a healing carousine. You never know that they and they will put forth
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things that people will subscribe to. So blessed is he who walks out in
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the council of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners? How
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many of you have friends here who are not Christians? Give the Lord a
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wave or give the Lord awave and shame the devil. You have friends who
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are not Christians? Amen? And how many of you are here and your
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friends? If I shout out to you because you are prone to peer pressure,
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give the Lord away he give the Lord awave and shame the devil you
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are You are prone to peer pressure. If you are a victim of peer
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pressure, you're a victim. You are prone. Not you, some people
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are. They are victims of the peer pressure just needs to appear, and
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they are following you understand. It says that blessed you see who stands not
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in the way of sinners? So away, it's a place where they come
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and go. They pass here to go. So blessed are you if you
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don't stand in the way, where do you come in? Pass and say,
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oh, chalie, Johnny, let's go. Or because you see them
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going in a group, because you don't want to be left out, you
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follow them, Johnny, Johnny Walker, and you're Johnny walking after them.
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You understand, So blessed you see who stands not in the way of sinners.
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So as a child of God. If your friends who are not Christians
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are influencing you, if your friends who are not have power over you,
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you're born again a character. Amen, And so as a child of God.
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But God expects you, in order for you to be blessed and to
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be fruitful, not to stand in the way of sinners. He also expects
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you not to sit in the seat of scoffs of scornness, people who scorn
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and make fun of the things of God. Amen. There are some people
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when they come to each do only come and mark the pastors English. He
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said, Amen, five thousand times. Somebody want to accuse me that I
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say too many amens when I'm preaching. But to them they can go to
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hell, because I'll say Amen, Oh somebody shout Amen, shout glorious.
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Amen. Amen, we will say amen, shunto Jesus comes. There's nothing
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you can do about it. You understand, And so blessed are they who
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do not sit in the seat of scolness. They sit down and they discuss
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to let the pastor today he's preaching, wasn't nice, crowd? Did you
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see his shoes? And they will make fun of the things of God.
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When he was spraying cry the thing wasn't working Jali's worship. His voice was
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as they are squeezing his neck. And they make fun of the things of
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God. And so those people, they will say that, oh, church
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is boring. Why why will you go to church? Why will you go
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to church? You get it, church is boring. Let's sit down,
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watch Netflix. There's something happening on Netflix. You see nine things you see.
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But as a child of God who is growing and becoming fruitful, you
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need to ask them, do you know the holy ghosts? Have you met
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Jesus? Do you know that Jesus of the Bible? You tell them,
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do you have joy in your heart? Ah? Then you display to them
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Cardo shados Do you know what Cardo Shadosh is? How can you say church
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is boring? Church is not boring because God is here and there is a
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blessing here. So church cannot be boring because I will leave blessed than I
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came, Amen, And so blessed is he who sits not in the seat
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of scorners. If you're happen to be in a place where people are talking
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about church and they are making fun of church, and they're saying that,
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oh, when they are praying to do cabra cabra, cabra, or what
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is that? Cabra cabra? What is cabra cabra? I didn't matter what
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is going on? Cabra cabra. When you, when you're happen to be
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in such a situation, run away because you are denying yourself a blessing.
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It's as blessed is he who sits not in the seat of scorners, So
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do not be part of them. That was all for my brother. You're
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welcome. Let's go my hands for my brother. Amen. Next verse verse
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two, and the piper says that, but his delight is in the law
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of the Lord. Please someone find for me the definition of delights. Yes,
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please say so that your friends can here. Tell them great pleasure and
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something for those of you don't have additionary delight means to have great pleasure in
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something. Please ask your neighbor where is your pleasure? What gives you pleasure?
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Is it you know the things we know? Or is it the word
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of God? So someone, where's one coming down? Blessed is he who
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delights in the law of the Lord, who delights in reading his or her
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Bible, who delights in having a quiet time, who delights in fellowshiping with
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God, who delights in having time to pray to God and on his law,
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he meditates day and night, who meditates on the word of God.
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Like David said, I would think of you, I will think of the
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things of God. I would think of what God has created so that I
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will bring praise out of me for me to thank God. Is that what
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gives you pleasure? Or isn't Netflix that gives you pleasure? For some of
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you? Is yes, Instagram only Instagram gives you pleasure day Hey, Instagram,
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YouTube, Facebook, those things thread then you on the straits he gives
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you. You are on it and you are scrolling and you're laughing. I
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was at the Mechanic show. I was doing our Serving my Charter show,
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She'll be one of these days Saturday for about two hours, and some guy
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was sitting by me. He was on Instagram and he was just scrolling funny
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videos and then you scroll, like, hey, so it's just hard the
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whole day, the Holy day, ha ha ha. There he scrow and
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I was like, Tally, is this guy an unlimited bundle or something?
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Because the way he's just scrolling, scrowling, scrowling two hours straight. That's
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where his pleasure is. And so he cannot be blessed of God. Amen.
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He cannot be fruitful because to be fruitful and to be blessed of the
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Lord requires you to delight in the law of the Lord. It requires you
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to meditate on His Lord day and night. Next verse. Please, And
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in doing all of this you become like a tree. Remember the soul.
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The power of the soul was so in seed. The outcome of any seed
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is to bring forth a plant, And the outcome of every plant is to
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bring forth fruit. Any plant that is not bringing forth fruit is not fulfilling
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its purples as a plant. And so it says you shall be like a
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tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and
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its leave does not wither. And in all that he does, he prospers.
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Amen. So if you want to prosper in all that you do,
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you need to develop your vertical relationship with God. You need to develop it.
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You need to have your quiet time. You need to develop a relationship
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with God in order to develop, so that your way will be made prosperous.
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Joshua, chapter one, verse eighth. Give me that scripture Joshua chapter
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one, verse eighth. Most is his admonition to Joshua. He said to
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him that this book of the Law, which is the Bible, the Word
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of God, shall not depart from your mouth. But you shall meditate on
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it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to
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all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous.
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Then you will have good success. Amen. So shout out to all
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the bombs of exam nations. You are missing out this great secrets to be
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a success and to be prosperous. Amen. So if you're in that category
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of bombers who bomb your exams every exam you're writing since you were in kindergarten,
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you bombs, please go to having a quiet time, develop your relationship
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with God. You begin to see success, You begin to see fruitfulness all
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around you. Amen. Before I got married, I moved to my ancle's
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house. All of our I just watched. This is the greatestimony I want
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to share. I moved to my ankle's house as spin takes, and he
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had a pear tree in his house that since they planted that pet tree had
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never borne fruit before and was very big behind the house. So when I
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moved in at night, I'll just be praying around, going and be praying
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under the pear tree, you know, just praying worshiping God. That year
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order I was there, the fruits are there bading and it started bearing fruits.
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And my cousin was telling me that tree since hours since I left,
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that the tree hasn't born fruit again. That year, the fruit born nice
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pear fruits that the neighbors will come and collect. While it was in season.
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There was always fruit on needs. And then I moved to Kabena the
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property as it was a big yard. They had plenty mango trees. There
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was no fruits a year after being there. That year we were distributors of
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mango. We distributed mango and it started boring fruits. And I realized that
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Charlie, this word of God is true. It works because everything around you
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will be fruitful. Even the mango trees are in your house, they'll start
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bearing fruits. They understand. Even the chickens are having laid eggs in they'll
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start laying eggs because the fruitfulness virus would watch them. Do you understand.
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And in that same house, I was a young boy. He used to
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bomb, bombing in school. He was a bomber. He bombs r The
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woman who was paying the scuomi he said, I won't pay your scubbies.
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I said, madad, you relax. So I met him outside one time
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and I was annoying. So I said, Michael, left your hands,
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put your hand on your head. I laid my house and I prayed,
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and I said, the name of Jesus, from today you are becoming fruitful.
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Anything you that causes you to bomb is canceled forever. Any foolishness in
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your blood line, I cuss it and I reverse it. You are becoming
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a success now in the name of Jesus. As I say, amen,
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He said amen. Guess what He went to rite BC. He passed distinction
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and you see it didn't end there when he applied. I said, what
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university do you want to go to? He said, oh, I want
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to go to Lego. The woman who was sponsoring paying the scowfies said,
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oh, Charlie, he's a bomber. I don't pay. I said,
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oh, come, I'll give you. I gave him money to pay his
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first scoofies. He got a mission. He's studying government. He's in level
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four hundred now and every every every semester when the result he texted to me
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and he's in the ace and b's a plus B plus category. Amen.
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So you see, if you are if you are bombing, if you are
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a bomber, I'm telling you this scripture will help you. Please put the
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scripture Joshua needs. It will help you. You need to develop your relationship
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with God. Say amen, hey, oh the bombers in the house say
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amen. Amen. So you see there are some bombs around. Amen.
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And so God requires us to develop our relationship with him. Amen. Who
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I said? Amen? Amen. So let's look at Galatians chapter five's twenty
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two talking about our horizontal relationship. Amen. Galatians chapter five, we's twenty
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two. So as part of the relationship, as part of the fruitfulness relationship,
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God requires you to have Amen. He requires you to grow in the
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things of God. Amen. And he requires you to grow such that you
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affect all the people that you come into contact with. You understand, God
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expects you for your fruitfulness to affect them so that they also become fruitful.
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And the Bible says Incalitions five twenty two. But the fruits of the spirit
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is love. So before you became born again, you are a hater.
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You just hate people. Some who they say that I don't like people.
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I just don't come and sit by you because they don't know you from anyway.
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But they hate you. They don't know you from Jack. You've never
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met them before. They don't like you, like the sight of you annoys
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them. You understand who has been in that situation before that You mean somebody
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you don't know them and they say they don't like you or you are that
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witnesses When I went to secondary school, so my senior house master he didn't
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like me and I I never met him before, I didn't know him from
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Jack, and so as someone to go and find out why he doesn't like
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me, and he says I changed sneakers too much, so because of that,
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he doesn't like me. So I decided that one semester I wasn't going
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to take sneakers. I took only one sound out to school, and even
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that semester he punished me. He made me going weird because he didn't like
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me. Do you understand? But guess what all those who don't like you
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can go to hell. God likes you, Amen, Or he didn't hear
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me. I said they can go to hell. God likes you if he
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likes you very much. Do you understand, Amen, And so you bear
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the fruit of love. So if before you didn't know how to show love
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to others, by growing in the things of God, you develop the fruit
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of love. Amen. That knowing who you are, the selfish you that
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you are, that if there's only one apple in the house and everybody's hungry,
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you go hide in your bathroom and eat the apple. But because you
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develop the fruit of love, you'd want to catch your apple and share.
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Amen. You share your apples. You show love towards one another. You
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consider the feelings of others more than yourself. You understand. You develop the
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fruit of joy. When you're coming to church. When you wake up Cardos
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Chicados, you'll be jamming by yourself to the Holy Ghost. You don't wait
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for anyone to jam up. You jam yourself up in the Holy Ghost.
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You ring joys and strengthen yourself up in the Holy Ghost. Amen. You
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have a you have alway in your heart. There's a holy spirit that gives
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it to you. It's a fruit of the spirit. And so they see.
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There are some people when they wake up, they frown their face as
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though somebody has meeting them. Their faces from con quas are and they will
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end. And so you see many of them. They will not get married
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anytime soon because their faces always come quick. But when they start to develop
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the fruit of the spirit called joy, when you see them, they'll give
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you a nice smile. They always have warmth. You always want to say,
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oh, hello when they are coming to don't come with their frown face
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as though they're not eating. So they're hungry and they're coming and like some
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people like no, but you come with joy. As you're coming. You
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are singing in your presence. I am content. You are singing to the
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Lord in your presence. I am content. You are singing to the Lord.
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In your presence. There is expressions of your and revelations of your power
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and mind. You are singing to God a love song because you have the
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element of joy in your heart. Amen, you have peace. The oldest
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WEE will give you peace in the midst of challenges. You will have peace
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of mind. Amen, there will be goodness and kindness in your heart.
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You will learn to you show goodness and kindness to others. You show kindness
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to others that when you show it to them, they will be surprised because
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you know, people don't show kindness anymore these days. Yes, people don't
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show kindness anymore. So sometimes I can show someone kindness and the person is
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flabbergasted, like they don't know what to do to themselves because it's it goes
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beyond their wildest imagination. As someone will just meet you and show your kindness.
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In this ganna, God will help us. You will be faithful.
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Amen, You'll be faithful. You'll learn to be faithful in little things because
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you've developed the fruit of the spirit. Can I hear an? Amen?
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Oh? Can I hear better? Amen? Amen? And so in developing
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your relationship, God requires you to develop your relationship upwards and on the horizontal
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plane, so that you become fruitful as He has instructed it to be.
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Amen. And so why must we be fruitful? Why must we be fruitful?
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Amen? Let's look at Second Quarantine chapter five or seventeen. Second Quarantine
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Chapter five or seventeen. Why must we be fruitful? How many of you
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know that God paid a great price to save you. Maybe some of you
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didn't hear me. I said, how many of you know that God paid
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a precious price to save you? Amen? You know wonderful. So why
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must we be fruitful? Because God's plan is that every child of his should
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be fruitful. The reason why we need to be fruitful, according to second
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Contiens, after five but seventeen, is that Bible says that therefore, if
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anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation. The old has passed away.
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Behold, all things have become new. So God has made you brand
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new by the saving grace of His son Jesus. Amen. Next verse second
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Conthiens. Please, all this is from God. He, through his son
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Christ, Jesus, has reconciled us to himself. What is the definition for
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reconcile dictionary meaning for reconcile, reconciled? Anybody reconciled? Yes, google it,
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reconcile, Yes, sorry, together, come together? That's an aspect
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of reconciliation. Yes, who else another definition of reconciliation? Yes, please
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repeat? Tell them the restoration of friendly relations, the restoration of friendly relations.
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To come together, as our sister said, to come together. So
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how many, ever, remember that after Adam and Eve sinned, their relationship
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with God was broken. But through Christ Jesus, God has reconciled as back
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to himself. A and he has not just reconciled us back to himself,
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but in honor for us to be fruitful, he has given to us the
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ministry of reconciliation. So now you are an agent of reconciliation. You understand
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God has made you an agent of reconciliation. So your responsibility now, as
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a child of God, is to reconcile people back to God. How many
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of you have friends who are not born again? You have friends who are
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unbelievers. Please lift your hand. It is your responsibility to reconcile them to
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God. Can I hear an? Amen? It is Please tell your neighbor
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it is your responsibility to reconcile your on born again friends to God. Amen.
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And so by reconciling them to God, you become fruitful. Janasan,
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there's a testimony I heard about a young man who is not too old from
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your age, and he usually go out to tell people about Christ. You
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witness to people, and you know he was. He was young, so
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he didn't have a lot going for him. But one day one of the
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people he had led to Christ was sick and in the hospital, so he
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went to visit him in the hospital and the person he had won to Christ
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there was nothing going for him, so even hospital builds if he couldn't pay.
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So the guy went to the little money in his pocket and paid part
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payment and was negotiating with the hospitals that oh, you release him. This
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is my phone. It's not the best, but Chali, you take you
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see someone who loves God more than his phone was able to offer his phone.
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He said, you take my phone. I will come back with the
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balance. And while he was negotiating, I was this man who was sitting
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there who had come to visit someone. He had it and he was like
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this guy the way he's it really likes this guy. So he went and
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said how much is the balance he mentioned? He said, I'll pay for
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you. He paid it, and when he was leaving, the guy was
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also leaving and he asked him can I give you a lift? And he
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said, oh, I'm going this way. He said I'm also going there.
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While they were driving, the lord said to the man who paid offer
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to pay, he said, give him a house. The guy was into
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real estates. He had many houses. He said, give him a house.
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So he drove straight to his estates and said, God said, I
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should give you a house. This is the house, this is your key.
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I'll bring you the papers tomorrow. Do you understand? And you see
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it didn't only end there. When he was on his way out, God
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said, give him a car. Listen, you are here. You've been
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taking to be fruitful so that God will say give him a car. Give
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her a car. Just imagine driving a Mini Cooper. Hey, you're driving
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a landing to change. You have your own goal four and you are driving.
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You have to think Hi. You understand. So in one day that
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guy became a property owner and he the man told him that there's a garage
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across the estates. Go there and choose any car you want to come and
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pay for it. You understand. So by saving God, developing your relationship
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upwards and being fruitful and developing its sideways, and touching the lives of others
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and being an agent of reconciliation, fruitfulness will come into your life even when
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you don't ask for it. Because I don't think the guy was praying that
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God give me a house. I'm sure you was even probably praying for like,
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God help me so I can pay my rents in the coming month.
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But guess what, God give him a house and give him a car in
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one day. Amen. So you see, you not need to deceive people
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and be a four nine frost start to buy a messdes beans. God will
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help you. Amen. And how many of you know that the blessings of
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the Lord are without sorrow. There's no sorrow with the blessings of God.
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When God bless you, sleep and sleep well. Amen. And so God
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has given to us the message of reconciliation. Please tell your neighbor. God
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has given to you the message of reconciliation. So you need to reconcile the
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world back to him next verse quickly, please next verse verse nineteen. That
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is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself self, not
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counting their tresspasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
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What is the message of reconciliation? John three sixteen. For God so loved
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the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him
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should not perish but have everlasting life. It is time to tell your friends
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who are not born again John three sixteen. Yeah, it's just time to
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tell them your friends who this Sunday morning their home, they are playing pss
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PS five for PS seven. Ps five seven doesn't come. They are playing
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FIFA. They are watching Netflix. Some I've been watching pornography right now this
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Sunday morning. Tell them about John three sixteen. But you, as a
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Christian, you don't even know John three sixteen because you don't do quiet time,
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so you are unfruitful. How can you tell them about quiet time?
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And when you meet, you are all laughing together. Ha ha ha,
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you're laughing and you are laughing with them. To hell. He's going to
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hell. Oh my god. The guy is going to hell. Oh my
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god. And I also wanting him to hell. But see, let him
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not be a story that you have a friend who is who is not borne
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again, who is going to hell. Amen, lead your friends to Christ
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because Jesus has given you the message of reconciliation. Can I hear an?
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Amen? Amen? Back to my scripture Second Corinthians five. Amen, And
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he has entrusted us with a message of reconciliation. Amen. What does it
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mean to entrust to have trust in someone? So say for inside if I
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give this my wallet, it has all my bank cards inside, it has
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money inside, It has my identities inside, it has quite some number of
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things inside. If I'm to give it to you, it means I trust
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you that you won't go and you know still my identity and go to the
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bank, and when sign and take money from my account, and when by
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your camillo and enjoy with your friends. Do you understand? So God hasn't
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trusted us with a message of reconciliation. Please ask your neighbor can you be
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trusted? Can please ask them? Can God trust you with the message of
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reconciliation to reconcile people to him? Can God trust you? Amen? So
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if God can't trust you, you know yourself that God he can't trust you.
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Because your parents don't trust you. When they are traveling and you are
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the one only person, they will go to your auntie's house, will lock
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our door because they can't trust you. Do I have a witness? I
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can't see some people looking at me. Amen? So be trusted because God
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hasn't trusted us with a message of reconciliation. Next verse. Therefore we are
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ambassadors for Christ. Who are we? Who are we? We are ambassadors
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for Christ. Some people are not saying it because they don't want to take
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the title. But whether you like it or not, once you are in
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the Kingdom of God, God has made you an ambassador for Christ. And
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who is an ambassador. An ambassador as someone who looks out for the foreign
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policy and interests of a nation in another place, you understand. So as
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an ambassador, you represent Christ Jesus, you represent the Kingdom of God.
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And so let your friends know that you are a Christian. Some of your
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friends don't even know you're a Christian. When they hear you're a Christian,
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they will laugh because Jala, there is nothing to show that you are a
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Christian because the bad things they do, you do it with them. You
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are the last prefect of the bad things. You are flowing with them always.
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So they don't even know you're acquaints that you're a Christians. They won't
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believe you. But as an ambassador of Christ Jesus, you need to stand
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out. Amen. You need to stand out. Amen. And so God
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is making his appeal through you. God is making his appeal through you that
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people should be reconciled upon to God. Amen. And so we employ you
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on behalf of Christ Jesus. We beg you, I beg you me and
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Reverend we beg you on behalf of Christ Jesus. That would be reconciled onto
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God. So you can reconcile other people to God. Can I hear an?
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Amen? Amen? Am I talking to somebody today? Amen? Amen?
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And so the reason why we need to be reconciled ont too God.
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The reason why we need to be fruitful is that, according to Matthew chapter
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five, verse thirteen to sixteen. Matthew chapter five, verse thirteen to sixteen,
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the Bible says that you are the salt of the earth. By the
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salt of the earth. When you go to the chop bar or a restaurant
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and you see they save people and they put the fast food in their mouth,
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then take salt and they they will put salt and season the food properly.
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You understand. They will do some ten times season the food and then
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they'll eat. You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses
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its taste, please the si incidents. Is that a way to give salt
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back some boost to become salty again. Sorry, that's why. Unless you
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create new salts, unless you create new sALS. But in this case,
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nobody's going to recreate you. So you are done. For salt that is
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not salty is useless. It's not used for anything. How shall I,
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how shall it assualtings be restored? It is no longer good for anything except
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to be thrown out and trumpled upon under the feet of people. So they
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throw it away and people walk on it. So people walk all over you.
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So as the salt of the earth that has lost assaultiness that we can't
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even put you in a bank client for you to taste nice. You have
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lost your assaulting it. The only use is that they will throw you down
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and people will walk all over you. They will walk all over you,
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they will call you names, they will assault you. They will walk all
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over you, because you have lost your place assault of the earth. Amen.
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Next verse, you are the light of the world. The second reason
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is that you are the light of the world. You understand if in this
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place all the lights here goes off, everything goes off, and the only
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light in this place is this lights torch light on this thing, Let meybe
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and give you the second one. The only light you have is this one.
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Everybody will come to the lights isn't also, because this will be the
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only lights. God is saying that you are the light of the world.
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Amen, you are the light of Thus please say to yourself, I am
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the light of the world. You are the light of the world. So
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God expects you to shine forth as light. Amen. As city set on
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a hill cannot be hidden, a city that is set on a hill cannot
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be hidden. Please shout out to those who have not been in a plane
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before. We are praying for you to sit on a plane very soon.
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When a plane is approaching a city, you get to see the lights.
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Amen, you see the lights. A city that is set on a hill
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cannot be hit. Amen. So, as a Christian, a child of
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God who is fruit bearing, you cannot hide that you are not a Christian.
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It would be impossible for your friends not to know that actually there's something
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unique about this guy or this girl. They will not bring some conversations your
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way. Amen, when you are present, there are some topics that they
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will not discuss because you are there. You will call them scripture. But
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if you are not the light of the world and they're feel free to discuss
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anything, then it means you are hiding yourself. As a city set on
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a hill. Can I hear an? Amen? And final, let's look
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at Isaiah chapter sixty, verse one to three. And God is telling you
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this morning that arise, shine, for your light has come, because you
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are the light of the world. Arise, shine, for your light has
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come, because you are the light of the world. Arise, shine,
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for your light has come. And the glory of the Lord is risen upon
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you. And so please tell your neighbor, I see the glory of God
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all over you. I see the glory of God all over you. I
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see the glory of God all over you, because you are the light of
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the world. And as you rise up and you shine as a light,
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the glory of God will be seen on you. Amen. Next verse.
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The reason why we need to rise and shine is that there is darkness in
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this world. Darkness shall cover the face of the earth, and thick darkness,
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thick darkness that when you are inside you feel as though you can feel
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the darkness. The people of the earth, there are people whose hearts are
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there's a light off in their heart. There is no light. Since God
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said let them be lights, there has not been light in their heart.
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And guess what they're your best friend. Hey, and you are laughing with
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them. We are going to hell. We are going to hell. Hey,
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repent. Jesus is coming shine forth as light because there is darkness and
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grows darkness in the hearts of people. Amen. But the Lord will arise
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upon you. Amen. Someone lives a right and say, Lord, arise
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upon me today. Amen. The Lord will arise upon you today, and
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his glory will be seen upon you. Amen. So as you begin to
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develop your relationship with God, as you begin to have your quiet time,
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as you begin to engage with everything, the Word of God says, you
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meditate on the world. You become fruitful. And by being fruitful, you
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will shine forth as a light. A man, You will shine forth as
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light, and men and women will run to your light so that they are
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saved. A man, a young man, was telling me in the first
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is that one of his friends is a Muslim, and the reason why he
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hasn't spoken to him about Jesus is that he's a Muslim and he goes to
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mosque. So I asked him, it's your Muslim a Christian? He said
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no, I said, as your Muslim friend, no, Jesus, does
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he know the Holy Ghost? Does he know about the Kingdom of God.
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Does he know about heaving and Hell? He said no, And I say
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yes, you need to tell him about it because he doesn't know. So
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tell him about it and let him make the decision, and pray for him.
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While praying for him, you'll be surprised. He himself will come to
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you and say, tell me about your Jesus. I want to hear about
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your Jesus. And because you are you are a quiet time addict who has
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quiet time to know the word of God, you'll be able to tell him
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about Christ Jesus as an agent of reconciliation, as the salt of the earth,
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and as the light of the world. Can I hear an? Amen?
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Please stand on your feet. Amen, you you ancient science. King
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Cardos, Cardos, my dear, you want to pray for yourself because you
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know yourself better than anyone else. You know whether you're being fruitful or you
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are not being fruitful. Only you know, Amen, So just close your
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eyes wherever you are and just ask the Lord to say, Father, help
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me. I want to be fruitful. I want to be salt of the
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earth. I want to be light of the world. Help me, Oh
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God, to be fruitful. Help me to develop my relationship with you.
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In the name of Jesus. Someone, open your mouth and begin to pray.
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Open your mouth and pray. Let the heavens hear your voice. Open
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your mouth and pray. Open your mouth and pray. Open your mouth and
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pray. Open your mouth and pray. Open your mouth and pray. Open
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up and pray, Open up and pray, Open up and pray, Open
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up and pray. We want to be fruitful of God. We want to
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be fruitful of Lord. So help us all over in the name of Jesus,
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Help us all over. Leave cadabah Sunday lab i Liba by Atolski Bandliba
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remedia told Sa la laba Help us, So Lord, help us. Soul,
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Lord help us, solrd help us, solrd help us solrd by your
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spirit. Help us delrd help us by your spirit or God. We want
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to be fruitful. We want to be useful to you, to your will,
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your purpose, your counsel. We want to be useful to your Kingdom
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of God. Help us. So, Lord, Jesus precious name. We
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pray with thanksgiving Amen, with our