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When life. 
Belongs you are Tempest or when 

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you are this kind of thinking of
is lost count your many 

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blessings in them once I won and
it will surprise you what the 

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Lord how's your blessings men 
them one by one how God blesses 

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men them one by one. 
How's your blessings? 

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And I'm one by one. 
How's your many blessings? 

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Do what? 
Go on when I like you, when you 

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are desperate thinking Lord is 
Lord, come your baby, bless his 

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name, come one by one and into a
praise. 

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You are the Lord of God called 
your blessed his name #1 by 1. 

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But your blessings see what God 
has your blessings man down 1 by

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1 cause your many blessings see 
what God has done how you every.

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Hello from here. 
Does that cross seem heavy? 

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You are called to how's your 
many blessings begging on the 

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fire and you will be singing as 
that days go by count your 

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blessings. 
Never come one by one count your

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blessings. 
You want to come as that, count 

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your blessings, bring down 1 by 
1 cause your many blessings. 

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See what God had done. 
When you look outside as with 

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your lies and God think that 
Christ has promised you his 

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world on top. 
Count your many blessings. 

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Morning. 
Come on by. 

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You're rewarding heaven or your 
home on earth. 

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Count your blessings. 
Let them one by one. 

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Count your blessings. 
You are called eyes down. 

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Count your blessings. 
Let them one by one. 

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Count your many blessings. 
She was gone. 

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Eyes down. 
May the conflict where the. 

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Great or small do not be 
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God is so far all come show many
blessings and just will I turn 

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help and comfort give you to 
your journey. 

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And come show blessings, name 
them 1 by 1. 

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Count your blessings, see what 
God are done. 

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Count your blessings, leave that
what my wife. 

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Count your baby blessings. 
See what God walk out your 

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blessings. 
Walk. 

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Out your blessings. 
Walk out your blessings. 

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Walk out your blessings. 
Touch your blessings. 

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Make them one by one. 
Catch your many blessings. 

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Be. 
What God has done, count. 

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Your blessings, Name them one by
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Count your blessings. 
See what God has done count. 

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Your blessings. 
Oh, give a clap off it unto 

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Jesus. 
Let's clap, let's clap, let's 

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clap. 
Yes indeed. 

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Today we are celebrating our CCA
anniversary. 

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I think this is today. 
I've, I've, I've, I've heard 

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something nice in my ears. 
Yes, oh, if you have also done 

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the same, yes, give a club of 
pronoun to our choir and we are 

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praying that as they have 
started, their encomium will be 

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something extraordinary. 
Oh Hallelujah. 

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And as you have seen them 
wearing their encomium shirts or

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their T-shirt or lacos or 
whatever, if you don't have 

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yours when we close, please sit 
them and get yours so that that 

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day we all go and support them 
and give praise unto Jesus. 

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Hallelujah the day. 
Today is the day that the Lord 

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has made and Bible said we have 
to rejoice and be glad in it. 

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We are clamacing our local week 
and also our six years 

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anniversary in the house. 
We are so fortunate and we are 

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so grateful to have our daddy 
and our mommy in our meets. 

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Oh. 
I said I'm a kind romantic. 

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I said we are fortunate to have 
our own mommy and our own daddy 

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in our meets. 
Yes, we have our father, Pastor 

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Emmanuel and our mother, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Jose Acosta in our 

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midst. 
Let us all give a clap of 

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finance to them. 
Let us all welcome them once 

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again. 
You are welcome Daddy. 

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And now leave the podium on to 
our father. 

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Let's give up a clap of finance.
Our daddy mounts the puppets. 

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Oh praise the Lord. 
We thank God for today and we 

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have every cause to be thankful 
to him. 

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Today we are celebrating God's 
goodness. 

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Six years. 
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recount that we need to thank 
God that six years we have our 

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own place where we worship God. 
That alone we should thank God. 

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Some locals have been in 
existence for 50 years and they 

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don't have a place of worship. 
So if we are blessed to have our

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own space and we are blessed to 
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need to celebrate God for that 
and the many things that the 

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Lord has done, we need to thank 
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Six years is not a little 
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It is God's grace which has kept
us as we thank God and we end 

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the week, we have in our midst a
servant of God, a minister of 

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our church. 
I mean CEOP, he is currently 

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stationed at the Dion Qantas 
area in a district called Bro 

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Sankro moving in Anka Bro Sankro
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one story of a building long ago
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story building over there. 
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Kruna Bro Sankar or not, but now
they have multiples, they have a

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lot of them there. 
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location is from in between 
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Tepa. 
So it's a very they're almost 

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now almost messed with it 
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And he's here to visit us. 
Oh, I said he's here to visit us

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and when I when we had a call on
phone, I told him that he was he

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will preach and he said, yes, 
you, you preach. 

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So church, I am happy to inform 
you that we have Pastor Solomon 

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Quay CUNG in the house and and 
he was called from Medina area 

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in Accra here. 
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So he is a boy from Accra now a 
very strong man from Accra. 

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So church, I will now humbly 
hand over to Pastor Solomon 

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Yenchi and as he's LED. 
You preach. 

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Unto us. 
But today you were late and 

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today I don't know what Spirit 
is telling you to come late. 

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There are still many of us who 
are still on the way, but we 

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can't wait for you. 
We have to go on. 

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So listen to the wet weather. 
You minister in wet and you also

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minister in prayer. 
Put your hands together as you 

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see Pastor Solomon. 
Praise the Lord, you can do it 

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better. 
On to the Lord. 

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Hallelujah, this morning we are 
so blessed to be here and we 

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thank God so much for the space 
and opportunity granted us. 

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Honestly blessed be the name of 
the Lord. 

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Hallelujah. 
I also want to thank Pastor and 

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Mrs. Hakosa for the space to 
come into your midst to 

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fellowship and let us bless them
for us. 

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I was with Mama throughout the 
week at BCC for a certain 

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assignment about God's grace. 
We finished yesterday. 

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My in law stays around, she 
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assemblies up there. 
So we had a family funeral, my 

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wife, my wife's uncle, the wife 
passed. 

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So we had to come around and I 
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Pastor was my area secretary 
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and he's a very good friend and 
boss. 

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So I called him and I told him 
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So he requested that we come 
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I'll be leaving for Thanksgiving
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Church or something. 
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So he told me about coming to 
join you and we accepted because

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it's been about 3 months since 
they left us and we long to see 

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them again. 
So this morning we will be 

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ministering. 
The word of God. 

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And I have titled my message 
sacrifice that honest, Sacrifice

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that honest as per the directive
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So I've shared the slides with 
them will be projected very 

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soon. 
I want us to sing this song and 

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the choir can help me. 
My lifetime. 

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I will give God my lifetime, my 
lifetime I. 

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Will give God my lifetime. 
If I give God my life. 

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I want you to sing it in faith. 
Oh. 

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He will take. 
Care of how many of us believe 

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this? 
Oh, he will never ever let me 

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down. 
Oh, I will give God blessing 

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once again. 
My lifetime, Oh my lifetime. 

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I will give God my life, my 
lifetime, my lifetime, Oh my 

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lifetime I will. 
Give. 

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God my lifetime or if I give God
my life. 

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He will take care of. 
Me. 

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He will take care of Hallelujah.
He will never ever let me die. 

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I will give God my life. 
Thank you so much, God bless 

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you. 
Oh this. 

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This song often gives me 
nostalgia because I remember 

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singing it all the time during 
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I come from a very deprived 
background and looking at the 

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sentence per the fee that I had 
gotten, my only trust and hope 

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was God. 
So I always sing the song and I 

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had that confidence that God 
never thinks, God never fails. 

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If there is someone to testify 
to you this morning, that 

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testimony is right in front of 
you that God never fails. 

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Wherever, whenever you commit 
your life to Him, you give him 

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your all. 
He's going to repair you. 

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So this morning, sacrifice that 
honest. 

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I want us to take a team text 
from Second Samuel chapter 24, 

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verse 24. 
Second Samuel chapter 24, verse 

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24. 
Then the king is sent to Aruna. 

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No, but I will surely buy it 
from you for a price, nor will 

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Ioffer bent offerings to the 
Lord my God with that which 

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costs me nothing. 
So David bought the threshing 

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floor and the oxen for 50 
shekels of silver. 

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So there's a spot of the theme 
text that we were given. 

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There's a story of happening in 
Israel where David, after going 

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against the Lord by numbering 
the people of Israel and God, 

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had become so angry with him. 
And in the punishment he gave 

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him three options. 
Either he was going to cause 

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there to be a famine. 
He was going to make David flee 

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before his enemies for three 
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Then the last one was that God 
himself was going to handle him.

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Then he he told God that God, 
men are wicked, and if you allow

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men to deal with me, I'll die. 
Let me fall in your hands and do

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whatsoever you want to me. 
So in God's own wisdom, the 

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punishment was that he was going
to allow an Angel come and he is

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going to go through the land and
struck the people down. 

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So the Angel started from 
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killed 70,000 people. 
It tells you how merciful God is

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sometimes when you look at the 
things we do and the things we 

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engage in sometimes human 
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Are lawless so lawless and. 
For some of us we are overly 

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stubborn that it is only God who
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So when God leaves us to the 
angels, they would have killed 

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all of us. 
So from morning till noon 70,000

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they were gone. 
Then God looked at the Angel and

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what he was doing. 
In that short space, 70,000 

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people, if I don't stop this 
Angel, he's going to cause 

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havoc. 
Then God told the Angel to 

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restrain his hand, and David, in
his bid to thank God for his 

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mess, wanted a place to 
sacrifice. 

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So he went to this man called 
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He had a treashing floor where 
he used to trash his wheat. 

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Then he told him that he should 
give the place to him. 

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So he could sacrifice to the 
Lord. 

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Then Aruna, being a native of 
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on, offered to give his trashing
flow and everything that it 

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consisted of. 
To David for free so that he 

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could sacrifice to the Lord. 
Then in David's statement, 

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that's where we read from. 
He says that please, I will pay 

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you. 
Because for me, doing something 

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for my God has to cost me. 
It has to, it has to touch 

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something. 
It has to bring me. 

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It has to bring me to the point 
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So I will not allow you to 
sacrifice or offer anything to 

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the Lord that will cost me 
nothing. 

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So the Bible says that David 
bought the treasure. 

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Floor and the oxen everything 
that he had for 50 shekels of 

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silver. 
I want to submit to all of us 

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that one. 
The meaning of sacrifice is that

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it is an act of devotion or 
commitment to a supreme being or

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deity where 1 is where one let's
go of his interest and benefits 

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at the expense of a higher 
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It is when someone let's go of 
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But when we talk about 
sacrificing, it will get to you.

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You are going to lose something.
You are going to let go of 

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something. 
You, you, you have to do without

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something. 
Something that brings you 

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comfort, something that brings 
you that kind of joy and peace 

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that you always wish you have. 
But when it comes to sacrifice, 

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you have to let go of something.
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letting go of your resource. 
Letting go of your skill, 

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letting go of something that is 
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devotion. 
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determines the magnitude of your
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Let me state that again. 
How devoted you are determines 

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the magnitude of your sacrifice.
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little sacrifice. 
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sacrifice. 
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generation are unable to 
sacrifice holy because their 

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devotion is not deep. 
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cannot give deep sacrifice. 
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Abraham to you. 
Abraham was a man. 

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Who was 75 years when he was 
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Then at the time of a scholar, 
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In today's world, if you are 75 
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means that you can never you you
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age of childbearing. 
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called them, he made them a 
promise, and they placed their 

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hoop on their promise. 
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while, about 14 years, the Bible
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The reason why you can deduce 
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came to him. 
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period, the 14 year period when 
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given or he had taken his wife's
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with her. 
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He had not spoken to him for a 
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Then he made that mistake of 
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With her then after 14 years at 
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God appears and tells him that 
Abraham I am the Lord, walk 

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before me and be blameless. 
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intent, telling God, telling 
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forgo my covenant. 
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with the problem. 
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promise I have made. 
To you that you give birth to a 

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child by Sarah will come to 
pass. 

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It still stands. 
Hallelujah. 

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pass. 
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takes. 
Sometimes. 

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Maybe you have received the 
prophecy and it seems like the 

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the trajectory of your life does
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this thing can happen. 
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God never thinks he is good and.
He is kind. 

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And He will always keep to His 
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The Bible says that He does not 
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I told my wife one thing some 
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I told her that God has never 
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not start with me. 
Little me, who am I? 

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What is my background? 
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reputation to lie to me. 
Same applies to you. 

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Whatever promise, whatever 
revelation, whatever profess 

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that you have been given, I 
stand here as a servant of God 

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and on the authority of the Word
of God that it will come to pass

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Hallelujah. 
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Abraham after all these years 
when his wife had given birth at

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the age of 90 and he was 100, 
God knew that there was going to

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be a challenge. 
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First of all, in my opinion, I 
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Then Sarah, I believe strongly 
that God stirred that up in her 

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spirit, because according to 
God's promise, the Son who was 

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to take over from the Father, 
and it's a typology of Jesus 

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Christ, was Isaac, not Ishmael. 
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observe that Ishmael is going to
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Then she starts troubling 
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Let. 
This boy go. 

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Now when you when you carefully 
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to Sarah, but Ishmael is related
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So for Sarah, she can freely say
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Abraham. 
It is his son. 

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And what will be your response 
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She is protecting the sons 
inheritance, but for the father 

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they are booth his sons. 
So Sarah keeps troubling 

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Abraham. 
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every day. 
And he I don't believe he would 

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have ever heeded her petition. 
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equation and tells Abraham that 
Listening to your wife. 

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Then, because Abraham is a man 
of such great devotion, early in

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the morning the Bible says that 
he prepares Hagar and Ishmael 

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and sends them off. 
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when you send someone off, you 
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Sending them off means that 
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dissociating him from 
everything. 

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But God gave him a promise that 
because he is your lineage, I am

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also going to make him great. 
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thing because that was the last 
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eyes on the boy. 
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Then the long and short of my 
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God, after some years, comes 
back to tell Abraham one morning

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that Abraham take your son, the 
one you love at that. 

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Point per my investigation, 
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years. 
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age to Abraham's age. 
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around 1:40. 
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Sacrifices this boy. 
When again is he going to give 

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birth? 
When again is he going to 

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nurture the boy? 
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This is a tough request, but 
like I submitted earlier, a man 

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of great devotion is able to 
make great sacrifices. 

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Hits to God's voice. 
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premised on sacrifice. 
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sacrifice, God's love for the 
world and the subsequent 

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offering of his only begotten 
Son. 

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So the Bible says in John 316, 
next slide, he says that for God

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so loved the world, for God so 
loved the world and he gave. 

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So the Christianity we are 
enjoying, the liberation we 

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have, the peace that we have, 
the hope that we have is 

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premised on someone's sacrifice.
How many of us will be willing 

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out of your three or four 
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For a cause. 
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How many of us? 
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so loved the world that he gave 
us only so it tells you that God

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was not ready to withhold. 
The Bible says that He made Him 

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who knew no sin to be sin for 
us. 

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So God freely gave his Son, so 
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have what we have. 
Hallelujah. 

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I often tell my friends and 
those who are close to me family

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that maybe for our generation we
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the the things our grandmothers 
and our grandfathers went 

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through. 
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and you ask of your background, 
you will see that God is good. 

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God is good. 
One of my friends was telling me

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that for him, he had a privilege
to come and meet his great 

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grandmother and she tells him 
that she was such a great 

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priestess in their their 
hometown and for her when she's 

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in the spirit. 
She's taken by the fetish 

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spirit. 
What they do is that they start 

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preparing fire so that she can 
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they prepare the fire, she jumps
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springboard. 
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the fire, then she jumps up, 
then she begins to walk on the 

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rooftops. 
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a distance from about here to 
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Then after the Spirit has left 
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realization. 
Maybe she stays here in this 

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vicinity. 
Then the spirit will live there 

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at in Cocoa. 
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The mother or the father or the 
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Then he would have inherited. 
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torment you, who will save you? 
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But for Christ, the Bible says 
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Thanks. 
Be to God. 

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Because he has given us Jesus 
Christ who always gives us VV 

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over the devil, so we are able 
to say no. 

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Growing up, I saw my aunties 
when there is time for a 

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festival in my hometown, we 
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They go and fetch the festival 
by a spirit and when they come, 

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I witnesses. 
I witnessed it first hand. 

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And my aunties, my aunties, my 
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They will be carrying pots, 
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Then you see that they are 
possessed by spirits. 

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And my grandmother herself used 
to be feeding the gods in my 

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hometown. 
So from my generation to hers is

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not that long. 
The only person who is 

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intermediate is my father. 
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for Jesus Christ, but God so 
loved the world and he. 

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Gave his only begotten Son. 
Christianity is premised on 

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sacrifice. 
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that Jesus acceptance and his 
subsequent obedience to the 

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latter. 
So Jesus also accepted. 

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So God gave him, but he also 
accepted Jesus. 

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He freely decided that I am 
going to give myself for this 

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task. 
If Jesus had not given up 

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himself, it wouldn't have 
happened. 

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So when you read the Bible in 
Luke chapter 22 verse 42, the 

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Bible says that and he said, 
Father, if it is your will, take

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this cup away from me. 
Nevertheless, not my will, but 

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yours. 
So it tells you that he freely 

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gave himself. 
The Bible says that he lays down

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his life. 
While we were yet sinners, God 

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showed forth his life. 
So Christianity is premise on 

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sacrifice. 
That's Christianity we are 

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enjoying today. 
Even the. 

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Church we have today, the Church
of man is premise on sacrifice. 

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Those who who who pioneered this
mission, James Machion. 

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When the foreign missionaries 
came, they were just dying, and 

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a prophecy came that Machion 
should live the United Kingdom 

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and come to a place in Africa 
called goggles and come and 

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propagate the gospel. 
Pet the history and what they 

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were hearing. 
Reading one material, they were 

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saying that even for some of the
missionaries, when they were 

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leaving, they add their caskets.
They add their caskets because 

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they know that for this. 
Mission. 

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They won't come back. 
So Christianity, the one we are 

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enjoying today, is premise of 
sacrifice. 

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Apostle regular to Addison was 
saying that in in their time 

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when they go for evangelism, 
sometimes they'll be walking 

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through thick darkness. 
And maybe they would have had 

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cuts and scratches on their feet
and other parts of their bodies 

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because of that thick darkness 
and the zeal and the adrenaline 

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flow of blood in them because of
fear. 

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They will not realize till they 
get to where they are going. 

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Then they realize that they are 
going through things. 

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Praise the Lord. 
Now I want to talk a little 

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about features of sacrifice. 
When we talk about sacrifice, 

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what does it entail? 
1 Sacrifice always involves 

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making a choice. 
So when it comes to sacrifice, 

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we are, we are saying that you 
have to make a choice. 

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Their choice is always with you.
In sacrifice there is the 

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subordinate and the higher 
authority, the one making the 

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demand and the one being 
requested of, but it is always 

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dependent on the one responding 
to the request. 

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So when God told Abraham that I 
want you to bring your son, if 

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he had said. 
No, that would be the end. 

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So one again and at that point 
the choice of Jesus to 

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accomplish his tax despite the 
great distress he faced. 

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So I want to use Jesus example a
little when you look at the 

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distress he faced. 
Let's read from Mark chapter 14,

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verse 33 to 35. 33 to 35, Mark 
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He took Peter, James and John 
along with him and began, if you

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can give me NKJV, I'll be, I'll 
be glad if you have that good. 

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And he took Peter, James and 
John with him and began to be 

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troubled and deeply distressed. 
What this means was that he was 

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not comfortable with what was 
going to happen and what he was 

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going to go through. 
He knew it. 

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I tell people that for Jesus 
before he came on earth, they 

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read their manifesto, they give 
him a description of everything 

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he was going to go through. 
He knew it. 

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So when that time came here, so 
you realize that after he he had

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chosen his disciples, after a 
little while he started telling 

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00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,240
them of his death because that 
thing was, was a bedding on him,

455
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,720
was a bedding on him. 
And at this point that thing had

456
00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:18,240
become so close and it felt so 
real. 

457
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,760
And sometimes when you are going
through certain things, people 

458
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,760
don't get you. 
You are the one facing the 

459
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,520
danger and that and the 
troubles. 

460
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,720
And sometimes it feels like your
spirit has even left you. 

461
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:36,080
Then the Bible says that he 
began to be troubled and deeply 

462
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,080
destroyed. 
This is Jesus, this is Jesus. 

463
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,120
Next verse please. 
Then he said to them, My soul is

464
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,480
exceedingly sorrowful. 
So sometimes in making 

465
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,280
sacrifices, you'll be 
distressed. 

466
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,440
Praise the Lord. 
Oh respond, praise the Lord, 

467
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:03,360
you'll be distressed. 
Yesterday I was sharing a bit of

468
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,440
my my life story with one of my 
friends. 

469
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:13,280
I was telling him that what God 
did to me, I have not recovered 

470
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:18,160
from it even up to now. 
I decided to go outside to stay 

471
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:26,760
and to do for me my my mindset 
or my dream or my vision was 

472
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:32,320
that I wanted to become very 
useful to God both spiritually, 

473
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,640
physically, financially in every
aspect. 

474
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:41,160
So I had, I had wanted to go 
outside, steady work, do some 

475
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,720
establishments, come and do 
ministry, not ministry as in the

476
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:49,000
one I'm doing now, but the one 
Chairman Yamiche has told all of

477
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:56,840
us that we are involved. 
So as I, I, I envisaged this. 

478
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,600
He always gave me joy. 
So I prayed about it and I felt 

479
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:07,720
that it was a good decision. 
Then I told my wife we had 

480
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,360
before we had, everyone had the 
Aviki. 

481
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,560
We sold them the money we had, 
we gathered them, we made 

482
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,760
provisions. 
Then I had gone for a document 

483
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:23,240
that was going to assist me to 
travel, and that day I brought 

484
00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:27,560
it home, placed it somewhere 
safe. 

485
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Now it was time for me to take 
the document, go for validations

486
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,280
and make some two or three 
processes. 

487
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:41,440
Then I'll be through. 
Then I went to the place I I 

488
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,880
hardly misplaced things. 
I went to the police. 

489
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,640
I pleased it. 
Then I searched, I couldn't 

490
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,240
find. 
Then I asked my wife, have you 

491
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:53,520
taken this thing? 
She said no. 

492
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:59,960
Then I began, we have two girls 
and they are quite troublesome. 

493
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,480
Began getting angry with them 
because I thought they are 

494
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,200
taking it. 
I was giving everyone pressure 

495
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,480
in the house because it involved
a lot. 

496
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:12,680
There was a lot at stake. 
Everything I had I had worked 

497
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,440
for, I had done in life, my 
wife's own included. 

498
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,600
Gone. 
Then this thing is missing. 

499
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:25,440
Then one old retired minister 
called me one day and told me 

500
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,640
that God had told him that I am 
running away and that is not his

501
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:34,680
will for me. 
Then I sat down quietly and I 

502
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,320
was wondering so God, if you 
knew that you would not allow me

503
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,960
go through this, why do you let 
me sacrifice everything like 

504
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:42,480
that? 
Why? 

505
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:52,320
Why then after I prayed our 
prayer, in fact, since that time

506
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,640
whenever I was going to church, 
I was I was down spirited. 

507
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,400
Then one day I had clearly God 
told me that why are you 

508
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,160
trouble? 
I can use a minute to. 

509
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,480
Change your life around. 
Turn your life around. 

510
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:13,160
I can use AD to let you recover 
everything you have lost in 10 

511
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,200
years. 
I can use AD. 

512
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,080
Then that day upon hearing that,
I became encouraged in my 

513
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,560
spirit. 
Then the next morning my wife 

514
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:26,160
told me that one of her family 
members, we hardly engage with 

515
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,840
them, but she said that one of 
her family members one morning 

516
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,240
called and asked her that she 
need a car, a VQ. 

517
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,480
Then just like that, the person 
gave us money to go and purchase

518
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,000
a vehicle. 
Just like that. 

519
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,520
Just like that. 
So one of my troubles where I 

520
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,280
used to stay when I was in 
Accra, it's quite far from my 

521
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,440
workplace, my church place. 
So without a vehicle we 

522
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,000
struggle. 
My children's school then. 

523
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,520
We had a vehicle just like that.
Then the thing came together, 

524
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,880
pieced together. 
Then, interestingly, after I'd 

525
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,720
finished my Bible school or my 
ministerial formation, I was to 

526
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:05,480
leave for my station. 
The week I was packing that same

527
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,600
box, I placed the document I 
picked. 

528
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,200
The box here was the document 
and it had expired three years. 

529
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,160
I picked it. 
My wife was the one searching 

530
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,720
when she saw it and she 
mentioned my name. 

531
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,920
Where are you Come when we 
looked. 

532
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,480
At each other's face, she told. 
She just said that God took it. 

533
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:39,040
God took it because I can say by
what I knew, I searched. 

534
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:48,040
I searched. 
Praise the Lord, So sacrifice 

535
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,080
sometimes will cause you to be 
distressed. 

536
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,760
When that thing happened, that 
thing that I am talking about, 

537
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,520
it easily like that, the 
distress he gave me, I couldn't.

538
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:08,840
Sleep because more than 50,000 
was gone at that time. 

539
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:14,720
Even today, 50,000 is no small 
money at that time. 50 gone. 

540
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,920
Gone. 
So the Bible says that my soul 

541
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,240
is exceedingly sorrowful even to
that. 

542
00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:26,840
Stay here and watch. 
So he tells them for them, they 

543
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,600
don't have any problem, so they 
will sleep. 

544
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,680
Sometimes when we are making 
sacrifices, it's not just about 

545
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,520
giving offerings, monetary 
offerings, sacrificing your 

546
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:46,440
time, your skill, your, your, 
your, your ability, all these 

547
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,600
things are important. 
Some will be sleeping. 

548
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,480
So sometimes it seems like in 
this house that we have come, it

549
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,520
is our Father's house. 
But it seems that some people 

550
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,200
are more of God's children than 
others. 

551
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:08,000
So in this example, Jesus goes 
to pray, telling them his 

552
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:12,280
challenge, expecting them to 
bear him up, but they went to 

553
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,800
sleep. 
So sometimes we want to achieve 

554
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,280
a purpose. 
Maybe there is a project we have

555
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,560
been given a focus or a vision. 
Let's all gear up towards it. 

556
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,800
Once some are burden, some are 
asleep. 

557
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,680
Then he said to them, OK, next 
slide he went a little further. 

558
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,080
And fell to the ground and 
prayed that if it were possible 

559
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,200
that our might pass from raise 
the law. 

560
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:53,080
I will conclude very soon, 
Hallelujah, the choice of David 

561
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,560
to pay the cost instead of 
choosing to take it for free. 

562
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:01,760
So that is another aspect or 
feature of sacrifice always 

563
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,640
involves making a choice. 
So David could have said that I 

564
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,040
am the king, give it to me, but 
he choose. 

565
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:13,760
So in making a sacrifice, you 
always have that time or that 

566
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,280
free will to make a choice. 
So what choices do you make? 

567
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,480
What choices do you make? 
We are going for environmental 

568
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,560
care campaign. 
Someone would say that all 

569
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:29,400
throughout the week I've been 
working, I'm tired, I want to 

570
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,040
sleep. 
But it is part of the vision God

571
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,680
has given us. 
You see someone too. 

572
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,680
He's the Czech tankers he will 
become. 

573
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,720
He involves making a choice. 
All right. 

574
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:51,240
Another choice that sacrifice is
involved with is the widow. 

575
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:56,160
So our text Mark chapter 12, 
verse 41 to 44. 

576
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,920
Well, I'm still on sacrifice 
involves making a choice. 

577
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:04,560
So I'm giving you illustrations.
The widow pair our theme text 

578
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,440
again. 
So offerings are being given in 

579
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,680
Jerusalem and Jesus well goes to
stand by the offering book. 

580
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,000
Then he looks at all of them. 
Then let's read now Jesus said 

581
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,520
opposite the treasury and saw 
how the people put money into 

582
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:24,840
the treasury and many who are 
rich pretty much so look at the 

583
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,880
the the weddings many who are 
rich putting much so to them 

584
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,120
they are sacrificing. 
So most of the times. 

585
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:37,600
We all assume that we are given 
a sacrifice, but Jesus is 

586
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:43,080
observing. 
So in this church, Jesus always 

587
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:47,760
observes. 
And before you make the step, he

588
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:52,120
knows your heart and he knows 
the motive. 

589
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,200
Always remember this, Always 
remember this. 

590
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,640
We gave up. 
An offering About six months 

591
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,560
ago, I had given offerings. 
I had gone around giving 

592
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,520
offerings, invitations, my own 
church and in my area. 

593
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,680
Then we we wanted we wanted to 
do a project. 

594
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:18,080
Then that day was fundraise. 
Then my my wife asked me how 

595
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,760
much are we going to give. 
She supposed that because I've 

596
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,400
been given offerings I didn't 
have much. 

597
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:24,920
And it's true I didn't have 
much. 

598
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,720
I didn't have much. 
Then she suggested an amount to 

599
00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:30,360
me. 
Then I laughed and I told her 

600
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:34,160
that God had told me to give 
this and she looked at my face 

601
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,280
and she was shocked. 
But I told her that God knows 

602
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,840
that I don't have, but He's 
requesting of me when I went to 

603
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,320
prayer. 
That is what He is impressing on

604
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,640
my heart. 
So what do I do? 

605
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,320
I don't have to give any excuse.
The one who gives. 

606
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,800
Seed to the sewer and bread to 
the eater. 

607
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,920
He will take care of all these 
things. 

608
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:01,480
So when it comes to offerings, 
when it comes to sacrifice, 

609
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:06,480
Jesus is always watching. 
So he saw how they're rich. 

610
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,360
So I always tell. 
People, when it comes to Titan 

611
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,920
offering, making sacrifice, it's
not about the abundance. 

612
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:21,320
Now let's continue. 42 Then one 
poor widow came and threw in two

613
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:26,640
mites. 
So per physical standards, if it

614
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,120
were the presiding of this who 
were observing, they wouldn't 

615
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:34,120
regard this woman. 
No, no, no, no, no. 

616
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,080
Yeah. 
Near brave we are. 

617
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:41,680
We are serious looking for or 
targeting 100,000 and you bring 

618
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,560
5 CD. 
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 

619
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:49,520
no no no. 
We won't appreciate it, but. 

620
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,920
She threw in two mites which 
make a quadrants. 

621
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,920
So it means that even quadrant a
quadrant. 

622
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,640
She struggled before she could 
get and she had to get that 2 

623
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:09,600
mites. 
Two mites were the lowest of the

624
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,080
denominations in those days. 
It is like. 

625
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:19,200
One pesua today, and to get, 
let's say 2 pesua or five pesua,

626
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,360
she has to put that 2 together 
and bring it. 

627
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,840
So she dropped two mites, then 
43. 

628
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,560
So he called his disciples to 
himself, and said to them, 

629
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,600
Assuredly, I said to you, This 
poor widow has put in more than 

630
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,200
all. 
Who have given to the. 

631
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:40,000
Treasury more. 
Why is he saying he has given 

632
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,760
more for us? 
We will argue Jesus is not true,

633
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,880
but Jesus is not looking at just
the substance. 

634
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,160
He is looking at the heart. 
He's looking at the motive. 

635
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,240
He's looking at the. 
Intent. 

636
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,680
How do you sacrifice? 
Do you sacrifice out of your 

637
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:03,240
luxury? 
So I remember when we were in a 

638
00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:08,160
crowd, one lady told me that 
people you can't force them 

639
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,960
because they have chosen to 
serve God and they are doing 

640
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,160
their best. 
And I said, who told you that is

641
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:20,120
not Christianity? 
Your sacrifice must be out of 

642
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,680
distress. 
It must cost you. 

643
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:29,200
You must lose something, praise 
the Lord. 

644
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,160
OK, so another feature of 
sacrifice main point. 

645
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:42,200
Sacrifice must be willing. 
It must be willing. 

646
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,480
One must not be cajoled or 
manipulated for some people 

647
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,240
before they sacrifice the. 
Convincing you have to do 

648
00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:54,480
sometimes. 
My ambassador told me that the 

649
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:58,960
most the most complicated 
assignment on earth is to work 

650
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,880
on people. 
Because you are trying to help 

651
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,480
the person. 
The person also has his own 

652
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,440
mindset. 
And you are convincing the 

653
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:10,000
person to help the person. 
If you ignore them to problem 

654
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:16,200
sometime you have to cajole them
then. 

655
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,960
So I find it hard when let me 
use monetary offerings. 

656
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,960
We are giving offerings then 
they will have to be using many 

657
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:29,600
methods if come and pay for 
insurance. 

658
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,560
Give offering on the head of 
your children. 

659
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,040
Meanwhile, you have the money 
there, so we have to be cajoling

660
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,920
you, so you'll be bringing them 
1 by 1. 

661
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,720
Sacrifice must be willing. 
It must come out of the depths 

662
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:46,640
of your heart and the recesses 
of your spirit. 

663
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:51,040
You must decide that I will give
this and I'm not looking back. 

664
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:53,360
It doesn't matter what it cost 
me. 

665
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,960
It doesn't matter how distressed
I will become. 

666
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,800
I am ready to give it up. 
I had a young man in one of my 

667
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:05,320
locals and he he is an 
electrician so he was asked to 

668
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,200
fix funds and he was engaging 
the local church like a 

669
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,520
professional. 
Then I was told about it. 

670
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,760
That time I left that look up 
and I called him. 

671
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,080
Then I asked. 
Him for you, you that I knew you

672
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,480
don't give any good offerings. 
You don't give your time for the

673
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,080
service of God. 
You you are not doing anything 

674
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,960
to impact the look up. 
Now you are in the church and 

675
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,960
there is this opportunity to 
save God with the skill He gave 

676
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,760
you. 
Then you want to engage the 

677
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,000
church professional. 
Then I told him that you have 

678
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:42,120
challenges if you continue like 
this because Jesus is watching. 

679
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:50,560
Praise the Lord. 
I want to wrap up. 

680
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:57,440
So one must not be coerced. 
So you must not be cajo or 

681
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,320
manipulated for some people. 
Recently, as of our KUSA left 

682
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:06,440
us, we we held a prayer meeting 
and one, one woman came in. 

683
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,200
Her testimony was that she had 
she was having a challenge with 

684
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:14,080
a leg for five years and she had
done all she could, attended all

685
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,280
prayer meetings she could. 
And and someone suggested that 

686
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,400
there was a herbalist somewhere 
she should try him. 

687
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,720
And she went there and you had 
it. 

688
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:34,360
Then the herbalist told her that
bring thousand CDs and she said 

689
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:39,200
she negotiated I don't have 
1000, let's make it 700. 

690
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,520
And she give the herbalist 700 
CDs. 

691
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,040
And at our place when you look 
at some of the people and they 

692
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,600
are mentioning that amount, you 
will be shocked. 

693
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:56,640
And after the herbalist had 
administered the helps and all 

694
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,400
that he had on her, it didn't 
work out. 

695
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:01,080
Then she came for a prayer 
meeting. 

696
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,400
Just by one prayer. 
If you are sick, in the name of 

697
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,840
Jesus, may it go out. 
Then she said that from that 

698
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:14,880
prayer, she was who she didn't 
feel the pain again after five 

699
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,760
years, five years. 
Then after when she was given 

700
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:25,600
her testimony, one woman, an 
elderly woman, she's a dickness.

701
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:29,200
That day I was late. 
And when I sat down, she told me

702
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:35,160
that pastor, this woman, she has
given a testimony. 

703
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,960
She went to give someone 700 
CDs. 

704
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,080
Nothing happened. 
And she said that you, you 

705
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:44,920
prayed and she was healed. 
So she is owing you if you don't

706
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,160
take care if you the least you 
should take from her. 

707
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:56,760
Is 500 CDs the least. 
But as she told me that I I, I 

708
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:02,680
inquired that what amount of 
offering or how much did she 

709
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,520
give for offering and when. 
I will not mention the amount 

710
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:10,600
but when I had it, I was sad. 
Some people want to be 

711
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:16,280
manipulated, manipulated. 
Recently, a lady, one of a lady,

712
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:20,040
one of the ladies in one of my 
locals told me that she had gone

713
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,720
to the hospital diagnosed with 
HIV AIDS. 

714
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,080
She said she was. 
Weeping pasta. 

715
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,480
After I am not in contact with 
any man, I do nothing anymore. 

716
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:32,800
I don't know, I just went three 
times. 

717
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,640
They checked and it's confirmed 
that I have HIV. 

718
00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:40,400
Then before I prayed for her, I 
told her that if God heals, you 

719
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:41,920
don't. 
Hide this one. 

720
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:47,840
Testify about it. 
Praise him and make a great 

721
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,240
sacrifice for him. 
Not only monetary, but your 

722
00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:55,000
life, your time, everything. 
Then she agreed. 

723
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,160
I prayed. 
By the grace of God, she's 

724
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,080
healed. 
I'm just looking out that she 

725
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,480
will keep her end of the 
bargain. 

726
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,760
Please let us not sacrifice in 
this manner. 

727
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:13,200
Don't wait till you are cajoled.
Sometimes you see God measures 

728
00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:17,480
as He knows. 
Someone will say that I can't, I

729
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:22,880
don't have, but when issues of 
priority arise, the person who 

730
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,600
is saying that I can't, I don't 
have, they can't be, will have. 

731
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:32,680
True or not true Jesus? 
Is watched. 

732
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:40,600
Praise the Lord. 
Sacrifice must be cheerful, so 

733
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,120
you must give sacrifice 
cheerful. 

734
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:46,960
David found himself privileged 
to give to God. 

735
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,600
He says that what am I and what 
is my house? 

736
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,840
What are you and what is your 
house? 

737
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,840
My in law. 
She is very influential, but 

738
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,440
even in her influence, many 
people still don't know her. 

739
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:05,240
Many people don't know she was. 
She is the former director of 

740
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:10,680
one District 1 Factory, former 
director, very influential. 

741
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,880
But many people don't know her 
because when we come together. 

742
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:20,160
As a people, it is only a few of
us that are so important that we

743
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:21,400
are going to be given 
preference. 

744
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:25,720
But look, God, the creator of 
heaven and earth, everything 

745
00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:30,320
that it consists belongs to Him,
visible and invisible, and he is

746
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,640
requesting of you. 
Look at how small we are. 

747
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:37,000
Look at this building. 
It doesn't even occupy was the 

748
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:41,480
space of this this vicinity, and
we are in it. 

749
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:45,080
And look at where you are seated
and this big. 

750
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:46,840
God is requesting something from
you. 

751
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:53,360
Shouldn't you be happy if the 
president request of you that he

752
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,760
give, he puts a call through 
that tomorrow. 

753
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,560
He wants you to come and do an 
assignment for him. 

754
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,560
I bet you everybody will hear. 
Everyone will hear. 

755
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:09,040
Everyone we, your family, your 
friends, everybody social media,

756
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:13,320
everyone we hear. 
So sacrifice must be cheerful. 

757
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,880
You offer us instructed not as 
intended. 

758
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,840
So when you are being requested 
of the Bible says that, I 

759
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:29,440
beseech you, brethren, that he 
says that we should, we should 

760
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:37,400
offer our all, offer our all 
besieging us, that we should 

761
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,160
offer our hope. 
So God requests that your 

762
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,520
spirit, your soul, your body, 
everything you give it out to 

763
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,840
him. 
So I want to ask of you, how 

764
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,600
many of us throughout the week 
spend time every day? 

765
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,840
With the Lord, it is part of 
their sacrifice. 

766
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,200
You are very busy, but your 
sleeping hours. 

767
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:01,000
You are not going to truncate it
for anything because it's 

768
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:07,960
important to you. 
Hallelujah, you offer as 

769
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,160
instructed, not as extended. 
Exodus 25 as to speak to the 

770
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,600
children of Israel, that they 
bring me an offering from 

771
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,000
everyone who gives it willingly 
with his heart. 

772
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,760
You shall take my offering. 
So God is saying that I am 

773
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:28,360
requesting they should bring me.
So like I told you, you are not 

774
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,040
the one who determines the 
sacrifice. 

775
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:36,600
God is always the one who places
the demand in conclusion, your 

776
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:41,040
sacrifice to God, material and 
immaterial is an it's an 

777
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,000
opportunity to show reverence 
and Anna to God. 

778
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,760
So whenever you are sacrificing,
it is an opportunity for you to 

779
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:55,200
show God that God I respect you.
I Anna God says infer some more 

780
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,000
that those who Anna me, I will 
Anna. 

781
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:02,560
So it's an opportunity when God 
is requesting something of you, 

782
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,400
maybe your pastor has called 
you. 

783
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,360
We need someone to do this or we
need help with this. 

784
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,760
You can do it. 
Then you see people giving 

785
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:14,000
excuses. 
I met a pastor in the beginning 

786
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,520
of the year and he was making a 
complaint to me and I was sad. 

787
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:21,320
I was sad today. 
When you are looking for people 

788
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:26,640
to carry out assignments you 
won't find and sometimes the 

789
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:30,080
church, you have to be engaging 
people professionally and and 

790
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:35,760
the monies that we are trying to
gather to help the cause of 

791
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:39,000
mission, then we will still have
to be using them. 

792
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,160
What do you do? 
What do you have that you did 

793
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,600
not receive? 
What do you have that you did 

794
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,160
not receive? 
So in conclusion, I'm asking you

795
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,360
this question when you go home, 
ponder over it. 

796
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,720
Paul says in First Corinthians 4
verse seven that for. 

797
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,240
Who? 
Makes you differ from another, 

798
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:04,920
so who makes us different? 
Look as look at us. 

799
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:09,000
I was saying somewhere that look
at us, we over 8 billion on this

800
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,400
earth. 
Today being the first time I've 

801
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:14,720
come here, I don't know, maybe 
pastor didn't inform you that 

802
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,560
anyone is coming. 
But if I'm going somewhere and 

803
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:21,680
they say, oh, a pastor is 
coming, you can imagine, 

804
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,400
envisage or whatever. 
But when I appear, you realize 

805
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,120
that you've never seen the face 
anywhere before, and the face 

806
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:32,880
looks different, is it not? 
Even your own sibling, you look 

807
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,640
different. 
You can resemble your mother, 

808
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,400
your father, your uncle, 
whoever. 

809
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:41,200
But you look different. 
And Paul is asking who makes you

810
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:44,760
different from one another. 
So as we are seated here, we 

811
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,440
know each other, but look at our
faces. 

812
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,520
Even for twins they are 
different. 

813
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,480
And his accent. 
And what did you do? 

814
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,000
Do you have that you did not 
receive? 

815
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:02,000
What do you have? 
Beauty, money, time. 

816
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,240
If God says. 
Today that from this evening, 

817
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:10,800
like the rich food, the parable 
he gathered into his bands and 

818
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:15,280
he was telling him, Oh my soul, 
rejoice for your years ahead is 

819
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,960
going to be glorious. 
But that time that he had, he 

820
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:20,840
forgot that someone gave it to 
him. 

821
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,400
That opportunity someone gave 
it. 

822
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:26,320
You have been able to go to 
school, gone through school, and

823
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,920
now you have an occupation and 
it is fetching you something. 

824
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:35,200
Who gave it to you? 
One, one guy I know. 

825
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:38,160
He's a secular humanistic 
person. 

826
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,880
Very, very strange philosophy 
that he has. 

827
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,920
He says that, oh, I'm the one 
who wakes up and goes to work 

828
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:50,400
and when whenever he's talking, 
my wake my OK. 

829
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:57,200
Now if you didn't receive it, 
why do you boost a sieve? 

830
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:00,160
You did not receive it. 
Why do you boost? 

831
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:05,400
Your sacrifice to God is a 
continuous proof or test of 

832
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:11,520
obedience and loyalty to God. 
So please your sacrifice, as 

833
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:15,800
long as you remain alive and as 
long as you are a child of God, 

834
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:20,520
God will still test you. 
At each point He will test you. 

835
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:25,120
So as you receive, be ready for 
tests. 

836
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,040
Praise alone and I have told you
that the deeper your devotion. 

837
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:37,760
The deeper your sacrifice. 
So between us, God will not give

838
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,640
us the same test or make the 
same request of us. 

839
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,640
He has every question. 
But you see, whenever God is 

840
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:46,760
requesting something from you, 
He tells you. 

841
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:51,960
And even if you don't hear 
through mediums that you can 

842
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:56,680
comprehend, He will tell you. 
So sometimes the persona and I 

843
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,640
will come and say something. 
God is talking to you. 

844
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:02,080
And for some of us, even when 
we're here, we pretend not to 

845
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:06,440
have had because you didn't like
what you had. 

846
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,840
Hallelujah, this one. 
I've never said it. 

847
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:13,600
Anywhere before, but I think I 
can see here because I'm out of 

848
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:17,040
my jurisdiction. 
We went for ministers and wives 

849
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:23,280
and for as pastors. 
It is by God's grace and your 

850
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,040
benevolence that we are 
sustained. 

851
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,880
Then as I was praying, I was 
going for one of the sessions. 

852
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:33,640
I was sitting in a friend's VK. 
Then I had God telling me 

853
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:38,160
clearly one of my locals, their 
structure had collapsed and God 

854
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:44,400
told me that I should give them 
a huge sum of money, a huge 

855
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,440
amount to help them in 
constructing their. 

856
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:52,840
I had it emphatically. 
So before Pastor came in a 

857
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,640
Javier report, I made a 
donation. 

858
01:03:54,920 --> 01:04:00,240
That was why I made that 
donation and sometimes I have to

859
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,480
gather all the money that I have
to go ahead. 

860
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:06,320
God is telling me I've had. 
So when I say that I didn't hear

861
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:09,760
it well, but if God had told me 
that I am blessing you, I'm 

862
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,680
bringing you a car, I am opening
this door, you will hear that 

863
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:18,040
one this morning. 
If you give him your lifetime, 

864
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:23,600
if you give him your all, he's 
going to take care of you. 

865
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,840
My challenge is that after 
hearing this message, it's not 

866
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:34,200
about feeling sorry, but it's 
about taking it in good faith 

867
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:40,760
and making a resolve that I am 
going to move in this step and 

868
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:43,160
let us see what God will do 
Amen. 

869
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:48,720
Let us rise up on our feet. 
Please lift your hands gently. 

870
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:54,240
I want to pray. 
What did God speak to you behind

871
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,000
the voice? 
You heard the human speaking, 

872
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,200
but I know that God was speaking
to someone. 

873
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:01,400
What did you hear God say to 
you? 

874
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:06,000
Sister, you have come to God, 
not to any man this morning. 

875
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:10,400
He requires greater sacrifice 
for you, deep devotion, deep 

876
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,520
commitment to Him. 
We want to pray in this short 

877
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,240
while. 
As you stand before God, I want 

878
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,840
you to go to him. 
God, help me, help me to fall on

879
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:23,960
the altar. 
Help me to give, to give me you 

880
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,720
my all. 
Help me so that I will let go of

881
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,800
my interest, my will, my 
desires, and pursue that which 

882
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:35,200
is yours. 
And out of that, God's divine 

883
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,480
grace and blessings will always 
look at you. 

884
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:39,680
Want to pray? 
Lift up your voice now. 

885
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:43,200
Let us pray, Church. 
Let us pray as you had. 

886
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,920
Pray with faith in the name of 
Jesus. 

887
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,720
Lord, we pray. 
Lord, we pray help us. 

888
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:56,880
Let me ever be firmly grounded 
upon Thee, ever in thy works 

889
01:05:56,880 --> 01:06:18,760
abide ever in thy wounds recite.
Help me Lord, brother, sister, 

890
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:22,240
God is waiting on you. 
He expects you to come. 

891
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:25,480
He calls you. 
Come, come, come, come. 

892
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,480
Let us reason. 
Come, let us walk together. 

893
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:46,480
Kabai, MO. 
Shanda baa baa ba ba baa. 

894
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:21,680
To Jesus, that Savior, I 
surrender. 

895
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:36,160
I surrender. 
Hallelujah, I surrender. 

896
01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:01,200
Listen, recently God has given 
me this intuition that when we 

897
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:05,040
come before him and we hear 
messages like this and pretend. 

898
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:08,960
Someone pretend they don't like 
what they are hearing, but they 

899
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:11,560
will be pretending. 
When you pretend, Jesus sings. 

900
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:18,479
But I want you out of your 
spirit and a good heart and 

901
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:22,479
resolve that God help me and 
he's going to hold your hand. 

902
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:26,200
He's going to help you. 
God is telling me that for some 

903
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,000
of you He has greater heights 
for you. 

904
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:31,840
He wants to take you places, but
He's waiting for you. 

905
01:08:33,359 --> 01:08:35,960
Let's sing finally. 
Then we launch it to pray again.

906
01:08:36,439 --> 01:09:08,760
I surrender. 
Now let us go to God and pray 

907
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:10,680
once again. 
Pray, pray, pray. 

908
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:14,720
Tell him that I am surrendering.
I am surrendering my life. 

909
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:20,200
I am surrendering my time. 
I am surrendering my skill. 

910
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:25,880
I am surrendering my gifts. 
I am surrendering my resources. 

911
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:30,760
I surrender them all to you. 
Bye. 

912
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:38,840
None. 
I surrender to you. 

913
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:45,400
I surrender to you. 
I surrender to you. 

914
01:10:46,480 --> 01:10:51,160
I surrender to you, Lord. 
I surrender. 

915
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:59,840
I surrender. 
I surrender. 

916
01:11:30,640 --> 01:12:08,640
Yeah. 
Thy thy will oh while I am 

917
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:23,000
waiting, O you then, and still 
while I am waiting, O you have 

918
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:41,120
thine own way, Lord. 
And make me. 

919
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:04,920
Someone is contemplating how am 
I going to be able to do this as

920
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:12,960
a possible those who work in 
sacrifice work hand in hand with

921
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:19,280
God go told Abraham that now I 
know now I know we want to pray 

922
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:23,640
that after this encounter. 
May our lives be a sacrifice 

923
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:26,360
unto God. 
May we not turn back to living 

924
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:30,920
for ourselves, living for our 
desires, living for our own 

925
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:32,880
accomplishment, living for the 
world. 

926
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:37,200
But may we live for God, and the
heavens will be at our response.

927
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,320
Let us pray. 
Pray God have thine own way. 

928
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:43,280
Have thine own way in my 
occupation. 

929
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:47,640
Have thine own way in my family.
Have thine own way in my 

930
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:51,040
personal life. 
Have thine own way in the name 

931
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:53,840
of Jesus. 
Let me wake up in the morning 

932
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:58,520
always seeking to live a life 
that is sacrificial. 

933
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:04,120
Let me go to work always then 
with that mindset, living a life

934
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:08,520
that is sacrificial. 
Let me come to church always 

935
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:13,120
with the mindset of living a 
sacrificial life everywhere I 

936
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:15,680
find myself. 
Have thine own way. 

937
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:22,440
Mode me, Lord, Mode me take my 
fears. 

938
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:30,120
Oh Mashanda Basai da ba ba ba ba
ba. 

939
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:35,320
Lord, address my fears, Address 
my anxiety. 

940
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:40,080
Ha ba ba ba ba ba the 
uncertainty in my heart. 

941
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:46,720
Lord, deal with it. 
Ha ba ba ba ba. 

942
01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:50,400
Talk to him. 
Talk to him, you not return the 

943
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:54,200
same after this morning. 
May your life change. 

944
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,680
Have died on way. 
I am the friend, You are the 

945
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:18,880
brother. 
Have died on way. 

946
01:15:19,480 --> 01:15:22,040
You have a purpose. 
You have a desire. 

947
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:27,000
You have a design for my life, 
for my existence. 

948
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:29,120
Lord. 
Have died on way. 

949
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:45,280
Messiah. 
Humbly sing the song with me. 

950
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,760
Sing it out of the depths of 
your spirit. 

951
01:15:54,400 --> 01:16:00,760
Take my moments and my days. 
Let them flow with ceaseless 

952
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:16,000
praise. 
Take my life and let take my 

953
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:26,840
life, Lord, O God said. 
Great Lord, to thee, O take my 

954
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:48,000
more man. 
It is you we have come to. 

955
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:56,200
You have never failed, You have 
never disappointed, You have 

956
01:16:56,200 --> 01:17:02,840
never lied, and for your name's 
sake, you always keep us to the 

957
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:06,720
path of righteousness. 
This is the word you have given 

958
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:09,760
to us. 
We pray that it blesses our 

959
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:16,680
spirits, we pray that it causes 
an action in US, it ignites a 

960
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:21,200
desire and that we are able to 
take a stance. 

961
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:26,600
That from this morning we will 
no longer leave for ourselves, 

962
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:33,320
we will no longer exist for 
anything, but all we do will be 

963
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:37,080
to your glory. 
And in this we know that great 

964
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:39,560
gain and blessings will be our 
reward. 

965
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:43,720
We pray that. 
Let this word always remain 

966
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:48,320
alive in our hearts. 
In the mornings, let it minister

967
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:51,040
to us. 
In the afternoon, when we go 

968
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:55,920
about our duties, let it remind.
Us, when we retire to bed in the

969
01:17:55,960 --> 01:18:01,320
evening, may it come as a 
revelation and may you keep us 

970
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:04,280
in the spot always. 
We bless your name. 

971
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:09,600
We pray, pray that if there is 
anyone with anybody, if anyone 

972
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:15,720
is distressed, if anyone is 
inconvenienced, in the name of 

973
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:19,640
Jesus, may you bring. 
Liberation and peace to 

974
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:22,600
everyone. 
Here we pray that you make 

975
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:28,480
connections, you sought out 
every need, and you bring 

976
01:18:28,480 --> 01:18:32,800
responses. 
We thank you for a blessed time 

977
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:36,400
and an answered prayer. 
Jesus mighty name we have prayed

978
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:40,280
and then all the same shouts a 
big Amen. 

979
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:48,080
Three eyes together for the Lord
and what I.