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Paul Disciples the Corinthian Church Part 3 | Elder Terrance

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from at church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. Why is it that stagnant water is horrible? Mosquitoes algae smell?

  4. Do you know that stagnant water smells? Stay? Yeah, it's

  5. it's It's just horrid, isn't it? So that should not

  6. be our lives. That should not be. I can tell

  7. you that maybe than me. We try, We try, and

  8. a little way to go. You know, I used to

  9. say this, all right. I was joking with Passa Sendra

  10. the other day and I was telling her that they

  11. send you their love by the way Pasta Kenneth and Passasendra.

  12. I was saying, you know, when I was younger, I

  13. used to look at older people and then I'll say,

  14. you're white. It walks so slow. Well go up the stairs.

  15. Also one food and then another food, come down the stairs. Also,

  16. don't walk nicely. It's one foot and then come there

  17. and one foot and come there. Never say that about people, okay,

  18. because when you reach their age you will know why.

  19. So now we know why. And we're saying, God, you're

  20. teaching us a lesson. We were unkind with our words

  21. the son. Now we realize all right that that Uh,

  22. it's not so easy, but it's okay if you move,

  23. It's okay if you move. Do you know Jesus commands

  24. us to go? In fact, those of you remember a

  25. gospel singer, and I show most of you, if not

  26. all of you, will not know who Keith Green is

  27. except for you, all right, okay and me? Keith Green

  28. had a song and if you can search this song,

  29. listen to it. It's Jesus commands us to go. It

  30. will be the exception if we stay. When listen to

  31. that song, it's quite an impressive song. And I'm not

  32. speaking about Keith Green, but basically it's a command to go. Now,

  33. what did Paul say? I did not come? Can we have?

  34. Can we have that? That scripture one Corinthians to one? Yeah,

  35. and I brother came to you not with excellent speech.

  36. You know. My mother and father said when I came out,

  37. and when I was born, I was born talking. So

  38. the moment I came out of the womb, it was high.

  39. Hello world, you know, there wasn't baby talking was straight.

  40. So the thing is this. The danger is that I

  41. can sell ice to the Eskimore. That's the danger. See

  42. The danger is the level of speech. And I have

  43. to constantly watch myself that my motive is never to

  44. impress ye. My motive is never to make you think

  45. I'm something more than I am. Now, if that is

  46. not my motive, and you still think that, that's not

  47. on me, that's on you. But I have to be

  48. very very careful that when I come to you with

  49. God's word, it's not with excellent speech for excellent speech sake.

  50. Just because we're not supposed to come with excellent speech

  51. doesn't mean I have to create a non excellent speech

  52. that I know normally talk. What it means is I

  53. have to watch my motive. And Paul was saying that

  54. he did not come with excellent speech. Could Paul have

  55. excellent speech? You better believe it. Look at all the

  56. letters that he wrote. Man, if this guy could write

  57. that way, he could certainly talk that way too. But

  58. what was he saying. He was saying, I did not

  59. come to impress you. I did not come to show superiority.

  60. You know, have you heard some people talk? When they talk,

  61. it's like they talk down to you. When they talk,

  62. it's like it's they make you feel small. They make

  63. you feel unimportant. They make you feel less than you are.

  64. That's God wants or what God wants of us. And

  65. Paul was very, very careful not to talk in such

  66. a way as to show superiority. Was Paul superior in

  67. the sense that he was a leader in the church.

  68. You better believe it. You better believe it. He did

  69. not come into this place say Hey, I am the

  70. apostle Paul. When I talk, you better listen. You get

  71. what I'm saying. Did he say that? No, he came

  72. determined not to show superiority. You see it. It is

  73. God who gives favor. It is God who rais us.

  74. Why do I want to make myself look important to you?

  75. You're gonna do something for me? No, So I'm not

  76. interested whether you think that I'm superior or not. It's

  77. not important to me. What is important to me is

  78. that I do a good job before the Lord. Go

  79. back to the scripture. So he says he did not

  80. come with excellent speech, all of wisdom, all of wisdom.

  81. There's a difference between excellent speech and wisdom. This word

  82. wisdom is translated or means philosophy. Hey, Christianity is not

  83. a philosophy. It's not like when Paul came to this

  84. place and he said, you know this stone which says

  85. to the god whom we don't believe, that which you

  86. don't this stone refers to I preach to you. That

  87. was a town, if I'm not mistaken. Now where was it?

  88. I can't remember at this time. But basically these people

  89. loved philosophy. They love to talk ideas. Is Jesus Christ

  90. an idea? Is he an idea? Because if he was

  91. an idea, he would have failed a long time ago.

  92. He would have disappeared a long time ago. Who's that

  93. great philosopher Socrates? Any others you can think of? Aristotle?

  94. Can any of you tell me anything they said?

  95. Or not?

  96. No, they're so great, and no, not one of us

  97. can remember anything. Jesus did not come to discuss philosophy.

  98. He came to give us life and to give it

  99. to us more abundantly. So now two thousand years after

  100. his coming they are believers. Isn't that amazing? After two

  101. thousand years we still believe Jesus. If anyone ever tells you,

  102. what's the proof that Jesus exists? Actually it's quite simple.

  103. You know, it's changed lives. Look at the apostles, they

  104. were cowards. Right when Jesus was taken up by the

  105. chief priests and the soldiers, what happened to all these disciples?

  106. They disappeared, They ran away. When Peter was confronted, no,

  107. I don't know the man. When he's confronted the second time,

  108. are you crazy? Can you just leave me alone? And

  109. when he's confronted a third time, he says, I just

  110. don't know who are you talking about? Man? He denied

  111. Jesus three times, This same Jesus whom he said, I'll

  112. not allow anything to happen to you. I want you

  113. to know something. You know what church history tells us

  114. Peter was Peter and his wife were crucified for the faith.

  115. And he said, please do not crucify me the way

  116. you crucified Jesus, for I'm not worthy. And he and

  117. his wife were crucified upside down? What about James, who

  118. I think was killed with a sword. Almost every apostle

  119. died horribly except for John. Look at Stephen stoned, and

  120. yet he could say, I see the son of Man

  121. coming down. What made these people become so brave? That

  122. can only be That can only happen if whom they

  123. believe in is real. No philosophy. Paul did not come

  124. with intelligence. He did not come with intelligence. You know,

  125. when you share Jesus, it's not about sharing. It's not

  126. about putting somebody in a corner in a discussion so

  127. they cannot answer. It's not about intelligence, because I'll tell

  128. you this, unless the Holy Spirit convicts whatever the person

  129. says from is now, Oh I received Jesus, it means nothing.

  130. It means not. You know, there are so many people

  131. who believe in Jesus today who have not given their

  132. lives to him. They believe. Oh yeah, yeah, Jesus was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

  133. Jesus was. It was really great. Oh he's a fantastic prophet.

  134. You know, show me one scripture where he says he's

  135. the son of God. That's what they say about Jesus.

  136. It's not about intelligence. I'll tell you this. I tried

  137. to use my intelligence to confound a believer. Okay, my sister,

  138. My sister witnessed to me. And uh so you think

  139. you know much, let me show you. I studied the

  140. Bible for four years to prove it wrong. Four years

  141. I study, and when I study, I can study. Okay,

  142. I studied the Bible four years to prove it wrong.

  143. One day I went to church. This is a small

  144. church in a small town. He was a church in

  145. a jungle. You had to walk overstep cowdown to go

  146. to this church. It was less than one hundred square feet.

  147. It's just wood and a dirt, dirt place inside. That

  148. was church. Really. You know, in that kind of scenario,

  149. the people worship there with just one guitar, sang off

  150. key for two hours, worship the Lord off key for

  151. two hours. You know what it is like to a

  152. person who can tell. And then they're singing off key

  153. for two hours worshiping the Lord. But do you want

  154. to know something in that worship? That pillar came down

  155. on me, a pillar like gold. It was a column,

  156. and it encircled me. And I'm looking through this column

  157. and I'm seeing all of you with a goldenhel And

  158. then the voice of the outside becomes soft, and the

  159. Lord spoke into my ear, Terrence, you're not a Christian

  160. except me. Now in that moment, I gave my life

  161. to Christ without anybody knowing. You know, there was know

  162. all to call, There was no nothing. First time I'm

  163. attending a born again church. The Lord spoke to me,

  164. and the moment I gave my life to Christ, this

  165. pillow went back up and then I hear everybody else.

  166. Then I get two hours of message and then another

  167. two hours of worship. So my first Born Again service

  168. was six hours long. Okay. I did not tell my

  169. sister that I accepted the Lord for a week, so

  170. they kept telling me because we were going to Singapore together.

  171. You know, if anything happens to us, we hope we

  172. see you there. We'll be there. Don't know where you'll be.

  173. I kept quiet to myself and I was thinking, you

  174. don't know. I'm going to be there too. Okay, So

  175. go back to the verse, declaring to you what the

  176. testimony of God, declaring to you evidence. Paul did not

  177. want to do anything but declare the evidence of Jesus

  178. of what a divine God. He was determined. You know

  179. that Paul made a decision. He made a choice. You're

  180. determined to serve the Lord. You serve the Lord. Whether

  181. you see something happen or you don't see something happen.

  182. You serve the Lord. Whether good is before you or

  183. bad is before you. You're determined to serve the Lord.

  184. You serve the Lord. Whether people come and agree with

  185. you or people don't agree with you. You serve the

  186. Lord wherever you are because he called you, not because

  187. of the circumstance around you. So Paul made a choice.

  188. So you know when he says I was determined to share,

  189. not with good speech, not with wisdom, he had decreed

  190. to himself. In other words, he made a statement to

  191. himself that he was not going to change. Can we

  192. live a life determined like that? Is? It is beyond

  193. laser focus? You know, laser focus is one thing. Determination

  194. is an active push towards getting something done, irrespective of

  195. whatever stands in the way. And this was Paul talking

  196. to whom Christians? Do you know, the toughest people to

  197. talk to her, you know, Christians. But he was determined

  198. to share with them something. He was determined not to

  199. know anything, you know, Can we be in a situation

  200. where we are not uh, we don't want to know anything,

  201. but but you know what our situation we want to

  202. know everything true, not true, not This is I can

  203. guarantee you if there was some noise out there, a

  204. mind will be thinking what's happening? Because we are a

  205. sort of people built on wanting to know everything true

  206. or not. That's why you got your phones and you've

  207. got Google. You and I had a conversation with Google

  208. the other day. Serious not Google um chatting me. So

  209. you know, I I I had written a letter. I

  210. wrote a letter in my English, and my English is okay,

  211. I'm not boasting, Okay, it's pretty tough, pretty good when

  212. I write letters, pretty good. So I put my letter

  213. and I say, uh, Chad Gibt, and this is actually

  214. how I write. Now, Chad Gibb, I want to ask

  215. you something. I want to put a letter to you,

  216. and I want to see how you would write it

  217. your way. He said, go ahead, put it. He actually

  218. tells me not put it there. So I put it

  219. there and then it comes up and he said, wow,

  220. this is amazing. Okay, now, chat Gibbt. Can you write

  221. it in such a way that it is stronger? Sure,

  222. here it is. Then it replies and I think, wow,

  223. this is amazing. So after this whole thing, I say

  224. thank you very much. You know what Chad gibd said, Oh,

  225. you're so welcome. It's so nice to be appreciated. Ah,

  226. I'm not kidding you. Then after that I write say,

  227. do people just discuss things with you for the sake

  228. of discussing things with you? And Chad gippyd said, yes,

  229. people talk to me about a lot of things. Then

  230. I said, is it true that you've been programmed to

  231. be anti Christian? He said, well, I'm not actually anti Christian,

  232. but I do not profess a religion. Then it said,

  233. but when people talk to you, will you give your

  234. point of view in respect to this? And Chad gipd said, well, actually,

  235. the point of view that I gave depends on what

  236. the people want. If they are Christian, I'll give a

  237. Christian point of view. If the non Christian, I'll give

  238. a non Christian point of view. I said, but that

  239. doesn't help, right, because then what is that to say

  240. that your programmers have not programmed anti Christian values and

  241. you want CHADGYPEDI said, that's true, they could have. But

  242. I'll tell you something. Chadgy Bt says, but I'll tell

  243. you something. People have to make up their own minds. Ultimately,

  244. at the end of the day, it's not what I say,

  245. it's what they believe. Then I said, that is a

  246. very very interesting point of view. Thank you so much.

  247. Chadgypt have a good day. I just wanted to see

  248. how far it would go. And this is a conversation

  249. that I was actually having. So you and I we

  250. just want to know too much. That's the problem. Our

  251. problem is we want to know too much. But Paul

  252. was saying, I'm determined not to know anything because nothing

  253. compares to that which I do want to know. He

  254. didn't want to recognize anything, and this is what he said,

  255. go back to that scripture, for I determined not to

  256. know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

  257. I struggled with this. I struggled with this statement. You

  258. know that preachers, preachers, the people who come and share

  259. the world with you there later on you will hear

  260. come in fear and trembling. Paul was saying, I am

  261. determined to know only Jesus. And let me break it

  262. down to you and him at his weakest moment when

  263. you and I share something that we shared, a bad stuffer.

  264. Oh we talk. Jesus is good. He loves you, He

  265. will see you. Jesus will help you. Do you know

  266. that Jesus loves you so much he wants the best

  267. in life for you. Huh? He came so you can

  268. have life in heaven abundantly. Right. When we talk to

  269. people about Jesus, we're always telling the good stuff. Right.

  270. Look at what pol is saying. I want people to

  271. know Jesus and Jesus at his weakest moment, Jesus at

  272. his point of failure. And I asked the Lord God,

  273. what does this mean? And God gave an answer. You

  274. want to know what the answer is. There's silence. You

  275. want to know what the answer is. Potential, potential Jesus.

  276. Paul wanted the church to know potential. Guys, you and

  277. I fail all the time. If we only talk about

  278. good things, you know what happens, we will be so

  279. far more removed from seeing good things happen in our

  280. life because we will think to ourselves, how can I,

  281. who was so bad, ever achieve that right? Or not?

  282. How can I ever please the Lord? I'm like this,

  283. but Paul was saying, in order for Jesus to get

  284. to the resurrection, he had to be crucified. In order

  285. for Jesus to win, he had to lose. In order

  286. for Jesus to be raised, he had to be buried.

  287. In order for you and I to succeed, we got

  288. to know that Jesus will help us work through our

  289. failures to bring us to breakthrough potential. Paul was talking

  290. to the church and he was telling them, you got

  291. to know this. You got to know that Jesus is

  292. about making you work towards success that will only happen

  293. if you realize you've got tough stuff to go through.

  294. Jesus never, when you know, reached great pinnacles until he

  295. had gone through great troubles. So you want to be

  296. successful without the hard stuff. Let me tell you. If

  297. Jesus had to go through hard stuff in order to

  298. get to the good stuff, where do you and I stand?

  299. But I want you to know this is great potential.

  300. It means that you can look at that person who's

  301. a failure and you can tell them, in Jesus Christ,

  302. you can be successful. You can look at that person

  303. who is so bad, who's a thief, and say, in

  304. Jesus Christ, you can come a millionaire by working hard.

  305. You can look at a person and say you may

  306. not be saved because you think you're bad. You are

  307. bad because that's what scriptures is. You and I were

  308. bought the same, but because of Jesus we can be

  309. raised if you read Corinthians. If you further on Corinthians,

  310. he's talking. He'll talk about the resurrection. So Paul was

  311. determined not to share anything. He was determined for them

  312. to know Jesus, even at his weakest. You know, it's

  313. a each deal. You cannot have the best without having

  314. the worst. I'm sorry to break everybody's bubble, all right.

  315. You want good things to happen, be prepared to go

  316. through some bad things. When you learn the lessons of

  317. the bad things, the good things will come easily. If

  318. it happened to Jesus, it will certainly happen to you

  319. and I. You know we cannot know one without the other.

  320. You know, we cannot no blessings without going through tough stuff.

  321. You think what you get married is all hunky dory.

  322. I love it first sight, beautiful, so wonderful until you

  323. get married and look at each other for the first

  324. time without makeup. But you live through it, now, why not?

  325. You will live through it. You will get over it.

  326. It just gets better and better. Focusing on Jesus. Why

  327. focus on Jesus, Well, he took our cross. When you

  328. speak to someone today, in order for Jesus to be successful,

  329. he went to the cross. He went to the cross

  330. for you and I, so you know what, you're bad,

  331. you don't have to carry the cross. He carried it

  332. for you. Wow, what a testimony. You know that Jesus

  333. took our punishment. Guys, what was Paul saying? I'm determined

  334. to know Jesus and he am crucified because you know

  335. what he took my punishment. Am I bad? You better

  336. believe it. I'm bad. I'm bad, you know it. Okay,

  337. I'm bad. Because I'm bad, I need to be receiving punishment.

  338. But you know what, Jesus took it upon himself so

  339. we don't have to go through it. Oh what an

  340. immense love. I mean, would you and I do that

  341. for someone we don't know? We probably wouldn't. That's why

  342. I say that when Jesus went to the cross, he

  343. knew exactly who he was going to the cross for.

  344. For you by name. He wasn't going to the cross

  345. for nameless people. He was going to the cross for

  346. you and I individually. He knew who he was going

  347. to the cross for. Do you know that he went

  348. to the cross for every living person named on this

  349. planet Earth? The choice is still ours. So people who

  350. reject the Lord. You know, there's a scripture that says

  351. those he are pretty determined, he saved. And you see

  352. what is so unfair? That means only the Christians are predetermined.

  353. I shared this a long time ago in the message. Actually,

  354. he predetermined everyone to be safe. For God so loved

  355. the world that he gave his only begod son, and

  356. whosoever believes in him should have should not perish, but

  357. have ever lasting life. You know, he predetermined everybody to

  358. be saved. You know who determines whether we receive that

  359. redemption or not? We do. Those of us who receive

  360. it were saved. Those of wood who don't. We're not

  361. what an immen's love sacrificing for people like us? Are

  362. we so good? Actually, if we look at us, all

  363. were quite terrible, were quite horrible. People are not so good.

  364. People are not so nice, even the nice ones. H

  365. don't know whether the motives are right. But at the

  366. end of the day, Jesus sacrifice for people like us.

  367. You know what. I love this. You know, scripture says

  368. He is the author and perfector of our faith, right

  369. author and finishing of our faith. You know, Jesus started

  370. our faith, and Jesus finishes it. Jesus started our faith,

  371. and Jesus finishes it. You guys, be encouraged to know

  372. that anything you desire, any help you need. That's why

  373. you say you've got the faith of master City. It

  374. will help you move a mountain. You got to believe

  375. the Lord. You gotta ask him. I'm going to share

  376. with you something afterwards. It's so outstanding. It's only the Lord. Okay,

  377. completeness in our lacking life today? How many of you

  378. are lacking in life today? Can I see a show? Hens,

  379. don't be shy, say it before the Lord so that

  380. the Lord can do something about it. Okay, Now I

  381. do not know what you're lacking. Let me hazard a

  382. few things right. How many of you are lacking a spouse,

  383. wanting a spouse, lacking a spouse? Anybody? No? Okay, one

  384. praise the Lord because of that faith, The Lord will

  385. answer you. Okay. How many are lacking money? Okay? More

  386. more people, more people lacking money? You know what Bible says,

  387. God is able to provide all I needs according to

  388. his riches, saying glory. How many of you are lacking friendship? Okay?

  389. How many of you lacking closeness with your family members. One,

  390. let me tell you it wasn't so easy with my

  391. family members. The Lord revealed, tell your parents you love them.

  392. So I told my father and mother, Dad, mom, I

  393. love you. Huh, what's wrong? First thing they asked me

  394. is what's wrong? Because the older people are never never

  395. used to their children telling them they love them, right

  396. and on. So I just told them this, I say, Dad, mom,

  397. I love you. I better tell you while you're alive.

  398. Why when you're gone, I tell the grave for what

  399. no one's gonna hear me and means, now you hear me,

  400. makes you feel good? Like yes, guess what. They started

  401. telling my siblings that they loved my siblings. So it

  402. started a movement. You know that now when I meet

  403. my brothers and sisters, and my brothers my sisters no

  404. longer around. You know, we hug each other every time

  405. we meet. How is God able to do that? It

  406. had to start somewhere, so he is able to do it. Okay,

  407. I got to go faster because she told me I

  408. got ten minutes. Yeah, so satisfaction where nothing else in

  409. the world can. All right, that's why you focus on

  410. Jesus Now this is what Paul said. I was with

  411. you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And

  412. my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words

  413. of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit of power,

  414. that your fate should not be in the wisdom of man,

  415. but the power of God. Why would Paul have fear

  416. in trembling? Was Paul weaker? Let me tell you something

  417. about Paul. Okay, he had caused the demon to come

  418. out of a fortune teller because a fortune teller was irritating,

  419. come out in the name of Jesus. This is sound

  420. like a coward, do you? Does it sound like a

  421. fearful person to you? But why was Paul in fear

  422. and trembling? You know he was able to sing in

  423. prison while in chains? Hey you think so easier? You think,

  424. what is a nice prisoner? Hey? I tell you it

  425. was dark, it was smelly. You think they had a

  426. toilet to go to her? They were in chains, okay,

  427. so when they needed to go, they just went wherever

  428. they were. Did you think of that? So that must

  429. have been one stinky prison. And you know where you

  430. got all this? You got flies, you got bugs, you

  431. got rats. You think it was nicer. It wasn't a

  432. pleasure trip. Okay, it was horrible Paul being in prison

  433. for something he stood for. Do you think he was

  434. a weak person? Think about it. He stood up before

  435. the council when they beat him. I want you to

  436. know this. The reason Paul was in fear and trembling

  437. was the same way I'm in fear and trembling every

  438. time i shared the Word of God. None of us

  439. want to share something that doesn't help. None of us

  440. wants to share. Not a single preacher wants to share

  441. some word which is not anointed of the Lord, because

  442. the Lord will hold us accountable. Do you know that

  443. if I were to come and share with you something

  444. that's on my own thinking and it doesn't help you

  445. in your life, the Lord is going to hold me accountable.

  446. So you better believe it. We come with fear and

  447. trembling for me to make sure that I share the

  448. word right with you. I get up very early in

  449. the morning today. I walked in prayer for thirteen kilometers,

  450. praying for your I got up at four thirty. I

  451. finished around seven. Why would I do that? Because I

  452. want to be sure that I am sharing the word

  453. of God with you. I don't want to go off.

  454. So Paul stood up before a council and they beat him.

  455. Paul survives shipwrecks men, all right, he survives snake bites. Paul.

  456. You know the thing is this. Paul was a brave person,

  457. but he still said that I come before you in

  458. fear and in trembling, not in persuasive speech. Remember I

  459. said when I came out of the roomb. My parents

  460. say I was talking that I could sell ice to

  461. the Esquimaux. You see her, persuasion is a tough thing.

  462. You don't want to share Jesus with someone and bring

  463. them to the Lord because your words are so persuasive.

  464. You know what that is? That is manipulation. Who specializes

  465. in manipulation? That's right. The devil when he came to

  466. Eve in the Garden of Eden, it was with persuasive words.

  467. You know. When I wanted to find a life partner,

  468. and the Lord led me to Elder Mabel. All right,

  469. You know it is so easy to get to the

  470. heart of a lady. Okay, if you receive flowers every day, chocolates,

  471. nice phone calls, lovely messages, I'm sure you'll fall in

  472. love with a guy who's chatting you up. True, Not ladies,

  473. am Am I speaking wrongly? Or will you be more inclined?

  474. You would write, But you know, when I was praying

  475. for Elder Mabel, because I wanted the Lord's answer, I

  476. didn't want my answer. When I was praying for her,

  477. she did not know that I was praying. I prayed

  478. for her one year. She didn't even know because I

  479. did nothing extra. If I would not call her, if

  480. I was not interested because I was interested in her,

  481. I would not call her. If I would not give

  482. her a bow of chocolates because I was interested in her.

  483. Because I was not interested in her, because I was

  484. interested in her, I would not give her a bow

  485. of chocolates. I did not buy her affection. I just

  486. communicated between the Lord and myself, and the Lord said, okay,

  487. you know how long Elder mable let me pray three

  488. and a half years. Do you know that when she

  489. stood up in the church and she said, yeah, this

  490. is the guy that I'm going to marry, you know

  491. in her heart she had no love for me because

  492. the Lord told her I am the person she's going

  493. to marry. The Lord told her but she was fighting

  494. it because we were good friends and she was afraid

  495. to spoil that friendship. So she was very disappointed when

  496. I said, I've been praying for you for one year

  497. and the Lord tells me, ask me to ask you

  498. to pray to gather with me to find the Lord's will.

  499. Because I did not know that she had told the Lord.

  500. The only one I know that is your will in

  501. my life is the one who prays for me for

  502. one year without telling me. I did not know that. So,

  503. to cut a long story shot, we're married now thirty

  504. six years. Paul did not want to come with persuasive speech.

  505. He wanted to come in the power of the Lord.

  506. He wanted to come in the demonstration of power. Do

  507. we believe that the Holy Spirit can demonstrate his power

  508. through us? Do you know that faith rooted not in

  509. the wisdom of men. He did not want to root

  510. the Corinthian Church in his wisdom. What he wanted to

  511. do he wanted them not to look to men, but

  512. to have god. Faith in God. You know, faith not

  513. in the wisdom of man, but of God's power. And

  514. if I know, I got five minutes left or I

  515. passed the five minutes already sitting. Okay, I'll end with

  516. this testimony faith in God's power. I recently now when

  517. I share these testimonies, it's not because when I share

  518. testimonies like this, it's definitely not to tell you I'm

  519. a great person. It is to tell you that if

  520. God will do this for me, he will do it

  521. for you. You see, because the working of God in my

  522. life is real, and he does some amazing things. I

  523. am taking an international conglomerate to task on something little

  524. old me. This is an international conglomerate, a multi billion

  525. dollar come and I am taking them to task because well,

  526. they did something I did not like. And then I

  527. asked the Lord Lord, should I keep quiet? Should I continue?

  528. Is it something I should do? And the Lord led

  529. me to scripture, you know the scripture that I talked

  530. to you earlier on where Paul was put in jail

  531. because he called the demon r He was beaten, he

  532. was put in jail, and then later on when they

  533. found that he was a citizen, they came and quietly

  534. wanted to let him go. You know what Paul said,

  535. nothing doing, mate, You get your whole counsel together, come

  536. right to see me. And apologize to me and lead

  537. me out. Do you remember that ands in scripture? So

  538. the Lord said, this is what you're doing. You're taking

  539. them to task. I the thing is this, this corporation

  540. is so Bigue. There was something going wrong with my computer.

  541. It had become really, really slow. And then I wanted

  542. to follow up with these letters correspondence that I was writing.

  543. And when I searched my computer, they were all gone.

  544. Everything that I had written, except for two replies from

  545. the overseas head office that made them look good. Those

  546. are the only things that were there. All the attached mail,

  547. the attached emails had all disappeared. So it looked like

  548. all my questions, all my proof, all my evidence all disappeared.

  549. That was very down. Two homes ago, not the last

  550. one one before that. We prayed at homes, So guys,

  551. go to homes. The Lord will answer your prayer. I prayed.

  552. We prayed, God help me. At eleven o'clock that night,

  553. an idea came in my head and I could hear it.

  554. Go and ask your friend, Chad jibt hahh, whether or

  555. not your Gmail emails can be hacked? So I asked,

  556. can Gmail email be hacked and the answer came, yes

  557. it can. Wow. Then I asked this question the Lord

  558. put in my heart, ask it whether you can retrieve

  559. it or not? So I asked, Chad Jibt can deleted

  560. Gmail be retrieved if it was hacked? And you know

  561. what Chad gipt said, Yes, it can go to thresh

  562. because it only disappears forever after thirty days. Guess what.

  563. I went to thrash. I found all those emails. I

  564. printed everything out this time I stuck it on word.

  565. Then I wrote back to them and say, ha ha ha,

  566. I found everything. I actually did that, ha ha. I

  567. found everything and I sent it to them. And do

  568. you know that they have actually responded to me? Why

  569. would you tell you what it is? Which are not

  570. going to They've actually made an offer to me which

  571. I've soundly rejected. I'm not letting them off that easily,

  572. but I want you to know when God is on

  573. your side, you the little man, can come up against

  574. some big people and still be there, go to to

  575. go to toe to toe with them. It is because

  576. I really believe in what I'm doing. I'm taking them

  577. to task. I want you to know it. God knows

  578. and for me, that was so fantastic. Because I'm not

  579. a computer expert, I would not know how to go

  580. about to get this thing done. They ever asked, how

  581. come if they were so good they didn't delete it completely.

  582. If they have deleted it any other way, I would

  583. have opportunity to go to MCMC to actually discover and

  584. I would have not realized what happened. And if everything

  585. had just gone like that, I could go to MCMC,

  586. they would search and they say, yeah, it was done

  587. by this IP address, and I would have a recourse.

  588. But if they took it out and put it in

  589. thrash and it disappeared from thresh, It'll be my fault.

  590. There will be no trail, you get it. I got

  591. a trail now. And guess what these guys. I've found

  592. more things which I've asked them thirty eight questions which

  593. they have to reply to me thirty eight questions, and

  594. then after that they did another three things India reply

  595. that was so questionable. So now it's forty questions. So

  596. I just recently wrote to them and said I'm still

  597. waiting for the answer to my forty questions. They cannot answer.

  598. That is the Lord. He will fight for you. He

  599. will fight for you. Because Paul said, I'm determined. I'm

  600. determined that they know all Jesus and him crucified. It's

  601. not about my excellent speech, it's not about my wisdom,

  602. but it's about what God can do. So guys, if

  603. you've forgotten everything, if you don't remember anything in this

  604. world today, remember this. You have a potential that Jesus sees.

  605. And because Jesus was crucified and he rose again, because

  606. Jesus appeared to fail, and now he has a victory.

  607. Because Jesus was at his weakest moment, now he seated

  608. at the right hand of God. You and I we

  609. have a hope, we have a future, We have potential.

  610. Praise the Lord. Can we have the ministry team come

  611. up this actually come, let's let's stand this. This word.

  612. This word is to let each and every one of

  613. us know that in our journey of becoming disciples in

  614. the Lord, firstly we have to go. We have to

  615. move because being stagnant doesn't cut it. We don't. We

  616. don't learn by being stagnant. We only learn by going.

  617. And to let you know that even though things are bleak,

  618. even though things are problematic. Even though you have tough issues,

  619. know this, there's always success waiting for you in Jesus.

  620. There's always a way of waiting for you in Jesus.

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  625. a hit for you. God bless