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Song we all know it, so please 
join us to sing this song, OK. 

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Rescue the perishing, care for 
the dying, Snatch them in pity 

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from sin and the grave. 
Weep all the hearing one, lift 

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up the fallen, tell them of 
Jesus the mighty to save. 

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Rescue the perishing, care for 
the dying. 

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Jesus is mercy, for Jesus will 
save. 

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Rescue, rescue the perish here, 
for the dive slots them in peace

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from sin and the grave. 
Weep or weep or the pariah live 

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top the folly. 
Tell them of Jesus the Mighty 

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to. 
Rescue. 

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Rescue that narration. 
Live for the dying. 

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Jesus is merciful. 
Jesus rescue the perish in 

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Matthew the perish in care for 
the damn him. 

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Jesus is merciful. 
Jesus will save the Lord. 

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They are slighting him. 
He is waiting, waiting the penny

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that child to receive. 
Lead with them and asleep. 

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Live with them gently. 
He will forgive if they are 

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liberally Rescue, rescue the 
perishing, care for Oh, Jesus is

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merciful Jesus. 
Rescue, rescue the perishing. 

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Care for the dying. 
Jesus says mercy for. 

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Jesus will say rescue, rescue. 
Apparently she care for that 

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lion. 
Jesus says Mercy for Jesus, 

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rescue the parishes, kill the 
parishes here for that day, and 

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Jesus is merciful. 
Jesus will say. 

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Delivering this morning, Sir. 
This morning, Sir. 

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Delivering this morning Salmon 
is no other person that our 

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resident minister in the person 
of Pastor Emmanuel or say Akosa.

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Shall we welcome him? 
With a club offering. 

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Praise the Lord, May grace and 
peace for our Father and our 

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Savior Christ Jesus be 
multiplied unto us all. 

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Oh I can't feel your Amen. 
Your Amen is a bit down now. 

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You have come to church. 
Amen. 

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We thank God for today and for 
this week. 

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This whole week is area week and
we are ending today and 

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throughout the whole week we 
have been looking at prophetic 

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grace and Christian living 
lessons from the prophets, Hosea

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lessons from the book of Hosea. 
And today as we end I want us to

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look at another sub team from 
that same bigger one. 

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Plow any unplowed land in your 
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Plowing any unplowed land in 
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to look at. 
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Greece and Christian living, we 
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book of Hosea. 
So read our texts as you have 

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seen there on the screen. 
Hosea 6 verse 6. 

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And then we'll go to Hosea 
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Jeremiah 4 verse 3, and then 
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Hosea 6 verse 6, Hosea 10 verse 
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and Isaiah 3215. 
So read from Hosea 6 verse 6. 

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For I desire mercy, not 
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God rather than bent offerings. 
Amen. 

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And move on to Hosea 10 verse 12
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Hosea 10 verse 12 and 13. 
Sow righteousness for 

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yourselves, reap the fruit of 
unfailing love, and break up 

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your unplowed ground. 
For it is time to seek the Lord,

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until He comes and showers his 
righteousness on you. 13 Please.

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But you have planted wickedness,
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eaten the fruit of deception, 
because you have depended on 

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your own strength and on your 
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They read from Jeremiah 4. 
Three. 

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Jeremiah 4/3 This is what the 
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and to Jerusalem. 
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and do not sow among tongues. 
Break up your unplowed ground 

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and do not sow among thongs. 
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So the Spirit is poured on us 
from on high, and the desert 

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becomes a fertile field. 
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a forest when we read from the 
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Let's take it from the NLT and 
let's see. 

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Until at last the spread is 
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Then the wilderness will become 
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field will yield bountiful 
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Amen. 
So Hosea, what we are looking at

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today, essentially Hosea's 
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is a call to repentance and 
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What are we going to look at? 
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time and read the entire book of
Hosea, which I would have wished

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that you take an hour to read 
and not celebrate, you can do it

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within a very short time, though
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things, how to comprehend it, 
but just read and you catch the 

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import of it. 
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God has a desire to restore. 
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bring judgments. 
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trying to say that He will 
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they were just doing something 
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were far away. 
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mercy, not sacrifices. 
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Him personally and relate to 
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represent something. 
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the issue of sewing, plowing, 
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So that is what we want to look 
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So let's start from Hosea's 
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Hosea lived in a very chaotic 
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His time was very bad. 
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chaotic time. 
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Jeroboam. 
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cools, there was instability and
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very bad. 
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bad spiritually to Israel had 
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were they had a form of worship 
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they had picked other things and
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they were worshipping bow and 
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and we were worshipping all 
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So he leave he was called in a 
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Leadership had filled, priests 
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kings trusted others. 
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Egypt instead of seeking help 
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happened in the northern 
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By this time Israel had been 
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formed the northern Kingdom. 
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book, you'll be seen God 
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because it was their capital. 
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because it was the most 
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north and it was level 2 down. 
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Judah. 
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themselves the real Jews because
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The northern tribes after Hosea,
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God banished them and they were 
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failed to listen to God. 
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ease. 
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to himself. 
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priests to the worship, to the 
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crumbling, everything was upside
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And that was the time that the 
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grace came upon Hosea. 
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him and he was told to go and 
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God wanted to talk to them. 
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that grace came upon Hosea to go
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people of Israel who were living
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So God's response to the chaotic
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prophetic grace. 
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a response to what is happening 
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God intentionally raised some 
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and declare his way that that 
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And that grace is what we are 
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May God raise us up so that in 
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will be the mouthpiece of God at
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So as you evangelize, receive 
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will not only evangelize, but 
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anointing. 
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So the prophetic grace came in a
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In a time of mess, God gave a 
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mess. 
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the prophetic mouth of Hosea. 
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prophetic messages to a messy 
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So there was so much chaos and 
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unleashed His prophetic grace to
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So the prophetic grace we are 
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would know God's intention. 
It was revealed so that they 

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will have a better life and 
direction for themselves. 

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So now they were doing 
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They were doing it anything, but
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to what God wanted. 
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faithful God, He didn't want to 
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Because when you read the book 
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just and at the same time being 
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So he says that he deserves 
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to destroy them. 
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sit down on concern while they 
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So he he called the the grace of
the prophetic grace came to warn

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them that if you don't stop, I 
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So as a father, anytime he sees 
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messy, he intervenes. 
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his intention. 
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mouthpiece to tell them that 
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So if you would change and come 
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you. 
May we be the mouthpiece of God 

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in our time. 
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Goma, a promiscuous woman, an 
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In fact, of all the minor, of 
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Cole, from Joel up to Malachi, 
it was only him who came from 

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the Northern tribe, and he was 
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man. 
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world, God didn't ask him to 
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promiscuous woman. 
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began to speak through Hosea, 
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him, Go marry a promiscuous 
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this man is guilty of 
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So God wanted to let the world, 
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feel how he felt. 
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dramatize his feelings by asking
a righteous man to get marry a 

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very evil and evil woman. 
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your relationship, I'm going to 
use you to demonstrate my 

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faithfulness and my mercy onto 
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So that woman to receive mercy, 
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went about following other men 
to the point that Jose had to go

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and pay half a price of a slave 
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Go told him, Hosea, go and pay 
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bring her back to your home. 
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And he went and paid about 15. 
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but he went and paid to redeem 
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That evil woman, she had 
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slave. 
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a slave, yes. 
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of silver and about a Homer and 
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That amount there was half the 
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So she had degenerated her to 
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wealth was half a slave. 
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bring her back. 
That was the sense which God 

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wanted to demonstrate love unto 
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So go there. 
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And that was the message, mercy 
towards Goma, who did not 

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deserve that mercy. 
But God told Hosea, go and 

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redeem her and bring her back. 
And that whatever word, the word

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that Hosea told her, that now 
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left alone. 
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also do to His nation, Israel. 
So through that grace, God 

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demonstrated his love towards 
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May God's love for us be seen 
through and through our lives in

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Jesus name. 
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prophetic grace, the first 
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repentance. 
Repentance. 

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So Hosea himself had to repent. 
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towards Goma in order to marry 
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Repentance. 
When you receive the grace, your

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ministry will work on you first 
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If your ministry does not affect
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Will be shallow. 
The grace of God upon you will 

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have to affect you in the same 
way we have been called, we have

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So the calling of God upon your 
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you before we can try or attempt
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unto the Lord. 
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grace transforms both the 
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Unfortunately, in the case of 
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transformed, but the nation was 
adamant to ghost call to repent.

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May we not hide under I go to 
church. 

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Sorry, I am a member of this and
still do whatever you want to 

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do. 
May God's grace upon you produce

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repentance. 
Hallelujah. 

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Hosea's message were just simple
and two return and know that the

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Lord of all the sermons he 
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read, these two words are key. 
Return to the Lord and know the 

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Lord. 
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knowledge of God. 
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Israelites was that they are 
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Their backs were now facing God 
and God was saying that repent, 

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come, come to me and then let us
sit down together for you to 

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know me and know me well. 
If you are one mile apart from 

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God, God is saying come back to 
Him. 

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If you are here and you need to 
return to God in prayer, return 

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to Him. 
You cannot survive if you go 

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alone. 
If you drift and drift and drift

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and drift and drift, a time is 
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You will lose your way back. 
Then coming to this hall will be

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the most difficult thing in your
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Coming to church will be like, 
hey, carrying a log of wood 

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because you have drifted and it 
comes subtle, slowly. 

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Before you say, Jack, you are 
one mile apart. 

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May we return unto God in 
prayer. 

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Remember your first love, your 
first love. 

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The day you first believed how 
you were you were yearning to 

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fellowship with God. 
How you you, you used to pray 

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read the Bible. 
The day you don't even read, you

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feel like something is missing 
with you and check today with at

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you and see if you have gone 
off. 

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God is saying that may we return
unto him. 

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Return in your faith. 
Some of us, if we don't take 

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care. 
The world can spin you. 

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This world, it can spin you. 
Because from the day from 

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morning, from dawn to dusk. 
Obeyashi true of us. 

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Everybody make wild. 
Hey, everybody, you in a car 

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crowd. 
Yeah, it'd be too serious. 

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Because don't know your your you
open your eyes and plants, 

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inquire plants from the home. 
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mother. 
Dear. 

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Deionia Manhunu. 
What dear, dear, where's how to 

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cook? 
You know you are tired and you 

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have to carry yourself up, take 
care of the small ones and take 

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care of the mountain before you 
move out. 

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You are late to to even make 
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Traffic, the horns everywhere, 
fatigue, but in this time to God

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express us throughout that 
relationship with him. 

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So if you are drifting, come 
back to him and may we repent. 

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So God's repentance, he wants it
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He doesn't want superficial 
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He wanted them to return unto 
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genuineness of hearts that will 
reflect in their daily life. 

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God, you wanted them to to show 
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You wanted to see that they have
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And that was when God used the 
example of plowing, sowing and 

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then reaping. 
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came, God used a lot of things 
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But we are just picking just one
that God wanted to communicate 

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to the heart that what they are 
doing will end in West things. 

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It will end in wickedness, in 
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Instead, they should turn around
and begin to sow righteousness 

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so that what he desires as 
mercy, they will reap it. 

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So let's just now turn and go 
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agriculture and the call to 
repentance. 

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One of them is ploughing. 
That's go and plow. 

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In the same way you may think 
that in our time to what do we 

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have to do with plowing? 
What do I have to do with 

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agriculture? 
We are just using that one as 

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the imagery that God used for 
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were all into farming. 
In fact, it was the most 

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abundant thing that they used to
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So we'll look at that one and 
then try to bring it down, down,

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down, down to 10. 
So plowing then God meant that 

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they should break their hard 
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Before you sow a seed, the 
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It shouldn't be compacted. 
It shouldn't be a hard ground. 

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Otherwise they cannot gain much 
strength to go through and to 

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gain roots. 
So follow grounds. 

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So before we look at what you 
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unplowed grounds or fallow soil.
It is simply a ground or soil 

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which has been left unplanted 
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In other words, fallowed land is
a land that has been left there 

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for a while. 
So the NIV calls it on plowed 

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grounds and the King James and 
GO calls it fallow grounds. 

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They are the same words. 
So it is a land that could be 

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used to produce good things, but
has been neglected, has been 

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left idle, has been left 
untilled. 

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Though it can be tilled to 
produce many things, it has been

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left for whatever reasons known 
best to them. 

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So for it to be planted again, 
it has to be broken, it has to 

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be prepared, it has to come back
so that it will be useful for 

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that which has to be done. 
In the same way, God's Word came

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to them to break up the fallow 
ground of their hearts. 

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Their heart now had been 
hardened. 

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Nyameka Shia. 
Their song will be Yentiobia 

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Yentiobia. 
In fact, when God speaks, they 

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don't even hear. 
It was strange. 

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They didn't even they couldn't 
even comprehend what God was 

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saying. 
So God needed them to draw the 

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attention that just as before 
you plant a seed, you work on 

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the ground to make it loose and 
soft. 

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You to your heart, your your 
your heart is adding and 

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therefore my word as a seed 
cannot gain grounds there to 

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produce seeds and fruits that I 
desire. 

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That was the the thing that God 
was was saying to them. 

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So there are two things that we 
want to show to you about how to

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plow a plowable land. 
The first thing is that the 

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follow grounds someone has just 
seen is that the grounds though 

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is unusable. 
It's not used. 

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It can be used, but it has 
become unusable because of the 

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occupants on the grounds and the
fellow grounds had also been 

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left to be there. 
And that was what how Ralph, 

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please see if you can go to the 
slides that have what is sparky.

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It is there. 
So Ralph Wilson is the man who 

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identified it from the book that
follow. 

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Ground is unusable because it is
hard. 

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God could not use them. 
God could not use the the nation

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for his glory because their 
fellow ground was unusable. 

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They needed to break it up 
before God could allow them or 

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before they could sow things. 
So fellow ground is unusable 

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because it is hard. 
You cannot put a grain of maize 

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on this street as fats and 
expect it to grow. 

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Why? 
Because the that ground, it is 

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sealed. 
It has not linked to the soil, 

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it is hardened and you need to 
break it before you get access 

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to the real soil. 
And it can produce fruits in the

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same way. 
Their hearts were so hardened 

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with sin that they could not 
even hear God when He was 

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speaking. 
So follow grounds on you. 

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Please go back when we compare 
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Otherwise I will tell you to 
move when it is so the seed 

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could not get access to gain 
roots. 

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So God's Word could not get 
access into their hearts and 

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they needed to break it. 
And fellow grounds you have to 

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before you work on them. 
You need to remove stamps. 

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You have you you all of you grew
up in Accra and see how you draw

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a palm. 
They don't see it, but you, you 

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let me show you a very simple 
way. 

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If you buy your own land and you
want to build your house, you 

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need to go and hire a nuclear 
honor friend and say a machine 

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to go and clear the whole space.
That's act of clearing is what I

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am referring to, breaking up the
ground so that it will make way 

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for you to do whatever you want 
to do good. 

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In the same way, whenever you go
to a ground which has been 

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abandoned, left for a long time,
you need to go and clap the 

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whole space, remove stumps, 
break up rocks, dislodge them, 

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gather tongues and bend them 
before you can get access to the

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soil. 
So the nation had brought many 

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things on their hearts except 
God. 

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And for God to get through to 
them, He was warning them that 

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clear your hearts, get over 
everything which has occupy your

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hearts and break it up so that 
my way can produce what I 

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desire. 
Also follow. 

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Grounds are unused. 
They are there. 

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You cannot just go and stand 
there and throw seeds there. 

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It cannot grow. 
It is, it cannot grow. 

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I pray that if anything has 
occupied our hearts, may we 

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clear them off Hallelujah. 
See, when you leave Bible 

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studies, devotions, your own 
one. 

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If you leave it for a long time,
if you want to go back, look at 

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how difficult it is. 
If you have become prayerless 

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for a long time and you want to 
go back, hey, their struggles, 

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it means that you are breaking 
through. 

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The struggle is part of what 
breaking through whatever you 

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have left in this church. 
Anything that you used to do for

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God and you have left, God is 
saying return on threats and do 

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it for Him. 
Hallelujah. 

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Also, if you constantly allow 
any land to be idle for some 

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time, gradually it will become a
fallow ground in your Christian 

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work. 
Whatever spiritual discipline 

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you live for some time will 
become your fallow ground. 

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Prayer, evangelism. 
When was the last time you went 

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out to preach to somebody that 
Jesus says God loves you for God

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so loved the world because you 
have not been doing it. 

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Now that area of your Christian 
work has become fallow. 

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Break it up. 
You need to go and clear all the

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weeds, the cobwebs, everything 
on that ground and occupy it. 

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If you fail to do it, you become
numb to God, especially in your 

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work with the Holy Spirit. 
At first probably used to hear 

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his voice, but you started 
drifting, sinning, small, small.

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When he convicted you, you 
refuse. 

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And so now when he speaks, you 
don't hear because your, your, 

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your spiritual sharpness has 
been clouded by the cobwebs of 

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sin. 
You need to remove them, break 

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it up so that when God speaks, 
you hear. 

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If you don't take care and you 
become numb, then you get to a 

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very serious state of apostasy. 
Why? 

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Why? 
There is no way coming back to 

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God. 
May God help us so that we did 

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not go to that point. 
Fallow grounds too. 

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Another thing is that fallow 
grounds, they have nutrients and

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they have unwanted things. 
So as you live your Christian 

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life to become fallow, your 
potentials in you are trapped 

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and weaknesses are also 
abounding in you. 

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So breaking up your fallow 
ground is a way of harnessing 

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your potentials and working on 
your weaknesses. 

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There is a gift in you, but you 
have allowed it to follow for a 

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long time. 
Every believer you have a gift 

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of God, you have gifts. 
Some of us, we have multiples, 

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but whenever we are praying, God
gives the Holy Spirit deposits. 

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He deposits good things in us, 
but because you have left it to 

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follow, now you think that you 
don't have anything. 

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But if you will break your 
fallow ground, if you will go 

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back and clear all the unwanted 
things, God will work with you 

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again. 
Hallelujah. 

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Don't justify your weakness. 
Anything you have left to 

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follow, don't justify them. 
Allow God to work on them. 

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Don't do what? 
Justify them. 

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Next one please media team, next
slide. 

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Don't justify your weakness. 
There is something great in you.

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Until your your ground is 
broken, your land is 

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unprofitable to God. 
Until you break your heart for 

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God, you cannot bear fruits of 
repentance. 

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Thank you. 
So break up your fellow ground 

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and May God help us. 
Hallelujah. 

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Oh, I said Hallelujah. 
So without repentance there is 

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no restoration. 
Next slide please. 

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I want to take you to the fellow
grounds in the parable of the 

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sewer. 
So let's go to the parable of 

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the sewer and let's read from 
Matthew. 

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00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,840
OK, let's go to Luke. 
What Luke gave us is what I 

452
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:03,280
like. 
Luke 8/11/50, 11 to 15. 

453
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:10,680
Luke chapter 811 to 15. 
Let's take it from the NLT and I

454
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,240
will try to end with the parable
of the sower. 

455
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,440
This is the meaning of the 
parable. 

456
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,280
The seed is God's word. 
Next verse. 

457
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:26,080
The seeds that fell on the 
footpath represent those who 

458
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:35,360
hear the message, only to have 
the devil come and take it away 

459
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,720
from their hearts and prevent 
them from believing and being 

460
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:40,560
saved. 
Next verse. 

461
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,840
The seeds on the rocky soil 
represent those who hear the 

462
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,880
message and receive it with joy,
but since they don't have deep 

463
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:53,640
roots, they believe for a while,
then they fall away when they 

464
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,920
face temptation. 
The seeds that fell among the 

465
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:05,120
thongs represent those who hear 
the message, but all too quickly

466
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:10,800
the message is crowded out by 
the cares and the riches and the

467
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,760
pleasures of this life. 
And so they never grow into 

468
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:18,800
maturity. 
And the seas that fell on the 

469
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:23,160
good soil represent look at the 
words he used there. 

470
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,760
Represent honest, good hearted 
people. 

471
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,160
Who hear God's word and they do 
what? 

472
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:41,400
Cling to it and patiently 
produce what a huge harvest. 

473
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,680
That is what I want to link up 
to time now. 

474
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,720
So we have 4 different kinds of 
hearts there. 

475
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:59,760
Those 4 soils there represent 
the conditions of our hearts. 

476
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,960
The first hearts is the 
footpath. 

477
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:10,880
It is hardened and exposed to 
the enemy, so they also hear. 

478
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,440
They only hear and they lose 
their word easily. 

479
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:20,920
The footpath is a hardened land,
constantly trampled by men and 

480
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:27,400
animals, so birds easily notice 
the seeds because that's ground 

481
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,600
is exposed and the devil had 
access to their hearts, so he 

482
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,800
just came there to steal it. 
The hearts are exposed to the 

483
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:42,080
devil's spray for the devil to 
pray on the precious seeds. 

484
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:47,760
So when your heart is hard, you 
cannot receive the word, it will

485
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:52,120
be stolen. 
The second group is the rocky 

486
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:57,800
hearts, the rocky soil, They are
shallow, they are enthusiastic, 

487
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:04,000
but which they come to church. 
So as we speak now, whenever we 

488
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,120
preach the word of God, 25% of 
us will produce fruits. 

489
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:17,600
I don't know about you, whenever
the word is preached, 75% will 

490
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,840
not end up in bearing fruits, 
only 25%. 

491
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,040
And the reason is that the first
one is that the footpath group, 

492
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:36,760
their heart is hardened. 
Urban women, we've got a bouncy 

493
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,600
off. 
I pray that may we come to God 

494
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:46,000
with a softened heart. 
The second group is that they 

495
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,920
are enthusiastic. 
They hear the message and 

496
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,400
receive it with joy. 
Oh preach, oh, preach preacher, 

497
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:55,000
oh glory. 
And and they will start them 

498
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,000
doing. 
I'm not saying that those 

499
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,760
preacher almost sorry, you know,
preach preacher. 

500
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:07,920
I'm not good, but they are 
enthusiastic, but they are 

501
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:16,200
shallow, very, very shallow. 
They don't have deep roots and 

502
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,800
they fall away when there is 
what temptation. 

503
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:23,360
So they are enthusiastic, 
shallow and weak. 

504
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,440
They receive with joy. 
Hallelujah, are you this one? 

505
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,760
But the moment they go, this 
time I won't drink again. 

506
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,600
They will cry and weep. 
But the moment they go home and 

507
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:52,040
they see the star with that 
sweat and so here, baby, next 

508
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:52,880
one. 
I'm Emre. 

509
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,560
They always call this the spirit
is willing. 

510
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,400
But Oh God, you know that the 
flesh the flesh is weak, 

511
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,000
enthusiastic, but they are weak 
in the when they attempted. 

512
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:09,920
No, they given the third group 
is the thorny 1 the thorny soil 

513
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,080
that one, their heart is 
occupied with thorns. 

514
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,840
They are crowded. 
They receive they to the hill, 

515
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:24,440
they hear the word. 
They to the here they hear the 

516
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,200
word. 
They hear the word, but too 

517
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:34,080
quickly things crowd the word, 
and then they lose. 

518
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:40,040
They lose, they lose it. 
I pray that we will not lose our

519
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:44,040
hearts. 
May God give us a good heart so 

520
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,440
that we will always bear fruits.
So they they cannot grow into 

521
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,800
maturity. 
There is a competition, the 

522
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:57,400
tongues are competing with the 
seed for nutrients but the 

523
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,720
tongues were the first occupant.
So among when you need a Dada 

524
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,440
were full, Abuja said. 
And they have all these sharp, 

525
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,440
sharp things. 
So they would choke the wet, 

526
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,680
which is young, and they will 
kill it, and they will not grow 

527
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:14,720
into maturity. 
And the first one and the first 

528
00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:19,360
one is the broken and the plowed
land. 

529
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:25,320
That one, no tongues, no rocks, 
nothing. 

530
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:31,000
It is not hard, it is soft, it 
is loose, and they call it good 

531
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,760
soil. 
The reason why they are called 

532
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,280
good soil is that they are 
honest. 

533
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,240
They know that God, God, what we
are saying, I am at fault. 

534
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:47,480
Blessed are the poor in spirits.
So this group, they are poor in 

535
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,360
spirit. 
They accept that we don't have 

536
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,840
it all. 
So God help us. 

537
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:58,440
They know they need help. 
They are good hearted and when 

538
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,360
they receive the word, he says 
that they cling to the word. 

539
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:09,640
They are receptive and then they
patiently produce a harvest. 

540
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,120
May our hearts be broken. 
So there will not be like the 

541
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,880
first train, which is the which 
is the fallow ground. 

542
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,760
So by by what I have said so 
far, the first train, the 

543
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:29,240
footpath ground, the rocky soil,
the thorny soil, they are fallow

544
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,920
grounds because they are still 
occupants on it. 

545
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:37,480
But the first one is a good soil
because it has been broken, it 

546
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:41,600
has been cleared, all the bad 
things have been taken away, all

547
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,320
tongues are burnt. 
There are no rocks to interfere 

548
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:49,600
with, with with taking roots, 
and they are nothing but them 

549
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:56,040
except good soil which has been 
exposed to receive a seed. 

550
00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:01,680
May I have been broken in Jesus 
name, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 

551
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:07,600
So I want to ask you, what 
competes for your heart? 

552
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,560
What is competing for your 
heart? 

553
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:20,280
Are you hearing or clinging? 
Fruitfulness requires brokenness

554
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:24,880
and patience. 
Next one, next slide. 

555
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:30,600
Fruitfulness requires brokenness
and patience. 

556
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:36,840
James one. 
Let's see how James admonishes 

557
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:49,960
us as way of ending James 1. 
James 121 and 22. 

558
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:59,000
Get therefore get rid of all 
moral filth and the evil that is

559
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:07,120
so prevalent and humbly accept 
the word planted in you which 

560
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,320
can save you. 
Next verse. 

561
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:14,760
Please do not merely listen to 
the word and so deceive 

562
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:21,680
yourselves. 
Do what it's do what it what? 

563
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,280
Let's take the same text from 
the old man King James. 

564
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:36,000
I like how King James puts his 
wherefore lay apart all 

565
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:41,400
filthiness and superfluity of 
naughtiness. 

566
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:46,640
This guy has elevated its super,
just a super which is also 

567
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:50,240
fluid. 
It means that it is volatile, 

568
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:58,280
very bad until after Falcon 
naughtiness or size stubborn and

569
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:04,160
receive with meekness the 
engrafted Word which is able to 

570
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:10,120
save your souls. 
Be ye, but be doers of the Word 

571
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,800
and not hear us, Only deceiving 
your own selves. 

572
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:22,600
So if you don't break your 
unplowed guts, you are deceiving

573
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,320
yourself. 
May God have mercy upon us. 

574
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:34,480
May God help us to remove every 
filth and evil, even evil. 

575
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,120
Evil spirits cry when they get a
hat. 

576
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,640
They sweep the place before they
occupy evil spirit. 

577
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,400
God, this is the one. 
And evil spirit leaves a person 

578
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,040
at a point in time, it comes 
back to come and check if the 

579
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,880
stick of the hat if he finds 
that the place has been left 

580
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,720
that evils read I first found 
it. 

581
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,680
We'll see the place clean evils 
read cry, but no more open. 

582
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:05,480
How much more God and go and 
invite seven others more wicked 

583
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,920
than itself to occupy it. 
So if evils read, if you want to

584
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:15,160
occupy good hearts to operate, 
then our God deserve a much 

585
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,920
better hearts. 
So let us remove all fields and 

586
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:23,600
break our hearts. 
Whatever you have left idle for 

587
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:28,080
a long time, please go back and 
let the word of the Lord be sown

588
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:32,000
in your hearts. 
Follow grounds in COP are 

589
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,040
intercessory prayers now in the 
church? 

590
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,320
It's for himself, God for us. 
So you hardly hear anybody 

591
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,400
praying for others. 
Intercessory prayers has become 

592
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,000
a fallow ground. 
Commitment. 

593
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:52,120
Commitment in the church has 
become what a fallow ground God 

594
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,400
is calling us back to commit 
ourselves sacrificial giving and

595
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,080
paying of tithes. 
Some of us it has become a 

596
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:04,720
fallow ground and the most 
conspicuous fallow ground is 

597
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:09,160
evangelism and discipleship. 
As for this one will be anpe. 

598
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:16,200
We are meeting to go and witness
for yet yesterday night when we 

599
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:21,480
met here, we were harmony, our 
harmony 6. 

600
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:29,680
We have left it for a long time.
May we go back and clear the 

601
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:34,280
land of evangelism and let God 
deal with us. 

602
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:40,840
So by ending, we have seen that 
you need to break up your fallow

603
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:48,600
ground, let repentance lead to 
restoration and allow God to 

604
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:53,080
unlock the potentials in your 
fallow ground and allow Him to 

605
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:57,640
also deal with your weakness as 
you pray. 

606
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:04,320
We are using Isaiah 3215 to pray
shall be on our feet as we read 

607
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:14,640
it and pray Isaiah chapter 3215.
Let's move to the newly living 

608
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:20,040
one. 
NLT Yes, let's all reach 

609
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:24,960
together. 
Ready go until at last the 

610
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,040
Spirit is poured out on us from 
heaven. 

611
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:33,920
Then the wilderness will become 
Word, a fertile field, and a 

612
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:38,480
fertile field will yield 
bountiful crops. 

613
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:43,200
So we want the Holy Spirit to 
fall afresh on us as we 

614
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:48,480
contribute our path to break up 
any unplowed ground, the Holy 

615
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,560
Spirit who will help to break 
us. 

616
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:55,920
So we are praying unto God that 
oh God, whatever I have drifted 

617
00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:00,960
away from Indiana, my work with 
you for a long time. 

618
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:06,360
Father, forgive me as I repent 
and return unto you. 

619
00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:09,800
Let us talk to the Lord. 
You know whatever you have left 

620
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:14,400
doing for a long time, you 
yourself, you know anything that

621
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:19,520
God wants you to do for him that
you have neglected doing for a 

622
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,680
long time. 
Talk to God, that the Lord will 

623
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,960
be merciful unto us. 
Whisper a prayer to his ear. 

624
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:30,080
Pray, pray, pray unto the Lord 
anything that you have left 

625
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,760
undone as a child of God for a 
long time. 

626
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,880
We are praying unto Him the Oh 
God, bring me to the first, 

627
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,120
where I first believe, to the 
first relationship that I had 

628
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,240
with you, my first love, my 
first love. 

629
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:51,760
God is calling us to return on 
to doing the wax, the first wax,

630
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:56,720
and to the first love. 
Oh God help us, Oh God help us. 

631
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:01,600
Whatever we have left, any 
unplowed grounds in our 

632
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:07,880
Christian work, we pray that, Oh
God, bring us back, bring us 

633
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:14,400
back, bring us back, bring us 
back, bring us back. 

634
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,440
We repent. 
O God, forgive us, forgive us, 

635
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:24,880
forgive us. 
O Lord, forgive us. 

636
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:29,920
O God, forgive us. 
O God, forgive us. 

637
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:35,760
O Lord, forgive us. 
O Lord, in the name of Jesus. 

638
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,600
We want to sing this song. 
After that, we are committing 

639
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,960
our hearts onto the hands of God
that made the Holy Spirit help 

640
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:52,160
us to clean our hearts, any 
aspect of our hearts 

641
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,800
representing our relationship 
and communion with God, which we

642
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,200
have left to follow. 
We have left for a long time. 

643
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:04,680
We are not attending to them. 
We want to go back and ask God 

644
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:11,160
to clean every rock, every 
thong, every hardened part, so 

645
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,600
that it will be loose to receive
His word. 

646
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:20,080
I surrender all unto Jesus. 
I surrender unto Him. 

647
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:24,240
I freely give. 
I will ever love and trust. 

648
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:30,040
So we want to sing the song. 
Please sing with meaning. 

649
00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:45,760
Let's go. 
I will ever. 

650
00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:59,840
Love and trust in His presence. 
Daily I surrender I. 

651
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:17,800
Surrender. 
Oh. 

652
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,600
I surrender. 
I surrender. 

653
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:57,800
Oh. 
I surrender, oh oh, to be my. 

654
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:08,160
Begin to pray unto the Lord. 
Surrender your hearts, Lord, we 

655
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:12,520
repent of our sins. 
We repent of our sins. 

656
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,200
We repent of our sins. 
We act. 

657
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:25,320
The Lord forgive us, Lord, 
forgive us, Lord, forgive us by 

658
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,160
repentance. 
They are heartbroken. 

659
00:57:29,960 --> 00:58:17,360
Hey. 
Listen, repentance is the one 

660
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:22,160
that actually breaks the ground.
Until you don't see the need to 

661
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,840
repent of what you are doing, 
you will continually do it. 

662
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:31,560
So today we want to repent of 
anything that we have been doing

663
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:36,080
of drifting away. 
Anything that you used to do for

664
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:40,840
God and now you have stopped. 
God is calling you to return 

665
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:45,040
unto Him whatever thing that you
need to return unto. 

666
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:52,440
Showing love to your spouse, 
showing love to your spouse, you

667
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:57,360
need to return. 
You need to return in tithes and

668
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:03,560
offerings. 
You need to return in loving God

669
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,760
with all your hearts. 
What do you have to return? 

670
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:11,080
In this morning? 
As we stand before God, may the 

671
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:17,360
Holy Spirit reveal unto us the 
state of our affairs and our 

672
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,120
work with Him. 
What do you need to return in 

673
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,520
Repent? 
May repent. 

674
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:34,320
May repent the nation after they
were adamant to God's call to 

675
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:38,560
repent. 
God eventually punish them. 

676
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,480
If you fail to repent, a time is
coming. 

677
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,920
God will punish you unless you 
repent. 

678
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:52,000
Unless we repent from doing the 
way we do church, the way we 

679
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,360
serve God, we don't have to be 
superficial. 

680
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,440
Serving God is not a Sunday 
affair. 

681
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:02,600
It is an everyday relationship 
with God. 

682
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:08,520
You need to return to your 
personal devotions, reading the 

683
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:13,880
Bible for yourself. 
Hours upon hours we spend on 

684
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,760
social media, but we don't 
spend. 

685
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:23,840
In the mirror of God checking 
how do we look before God this 

686
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:25,560
morning God is calling us to 
repent. 

687
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,040
If you don't eat and you 
continue to drift a time is 

688
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,640
coming. 
You never find your way back to 

689
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,840
God. 
Coming to church might be the 

690
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:38,160
bedding something to you if you 
don't repent. 

691
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:42,520
Now if we all of us, we need to 
repent every day. 

692
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:47,600
So as we are standing, let the 
Holy Spirit remind you, Lord, in

693
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:50,560
what do I have to repent? 
Asking you give you an answer, 

694
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,240
Lord, in what do I have to 
repent? 

695
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:58,680
Probably you don't even know in 
what do I have to repent? 

696
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:06,240
Talk to God, ask him, Lord, in 
what do I have to repent and 

697
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:07,880
hear the word that you give to 
you. 

698
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:13,000
God wants you to have a good 
heart. 

699
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:19,000
Let's please sit because of our 
time. 

700
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:22,560
I pray Father we thank you in 
Jesus name. 

701
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:31,600
Forgive us Lord for the times 
that sometimes we drift because 

702
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,080
of your grace. 
We think we can do anything we 

703
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:39,520
like, but today You have 
reminded us that there is a day 

704
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:44,400
that You will judge us and that 
You want to show mercy to us, 

705
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:49,880
and that You deserve mercy. 
Help us, O Lord, to get this 

706
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:54,720
understanding. 
Help us, O Lord, that as You 

707
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:59,320
have bestowed Your grace upon 
us, You deserve for us to 

708
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:04,280
conform before we perform on 
Your behalf. 

709
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:11,360
Help us to know that You desire 
our sanctification, not our 

710
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:15,240
sacrifice. 
Help us to break our fallow 

711
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:19,720
grounds that we have neglected 
for a long time and that is 

712
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,840
causing us to drift away from 
You. 

713
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:28,760
Lord, today we repent of our 
sins and we say that forgive us 

714
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:36,640
as a corporate body, church and 
as individuals, have mercy upon 

715
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:40,320
us. 
Bring us back to Yourself that 

716
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:44,960
we may know You, that we may 
know You and the power of your 

717
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:48,840
resurrection, that we may 
conform to the image of Your Son

718
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:54,440
and become like him. 
Lord, as we repent any fallow 

719
01:02:54,440 --> 01:03:00,320
ground, let it be broken. 
Make Your word take seed and 

720
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:04,360
roots in our hearts and produce 
fruits. 

721
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,400
We agree that Lord, we have 
weaknesses. 

722
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:12,720
Help us to diminish them, they 
are great things in US. 

723
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:16,960
Harness them for us as they come
forth to shine so that men will 

724
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,720
see our good deeds and glorify 
your name. 

725
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:24,880
Help us Lord, in Jesus name we 
have prayed our men.