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Cry. Just like you were lifted, holy forever. The angels cry. And the angels cry.
A Christ-centered teaching on marriage emphasizing love, grace, wisdom, and spiritual unity in the covenant of marriage.
Key Takeaways
- Marriage is a sacred covenant centered on Christ and sealed with blood.
- Love in marriage requires patience, kindness, and grace toward each other's imperfections.
- Spiritual leadership and mutual respect between husband and wife are vital.
- Prayer and wisdom from God are necessary to sustain and enrich the marital relationship.
- Believers are called to stand firm in faith and give glory to God in their marriages.
Summary
- The video is a worshipful and prayerful teaching focused on Christ-centered marriage.
- It highlights the importance of love, patience, and grace as foundational in marriage.
- Marriage is presented as a covenant sealed by blood, not merely a cultural or contractual agreement.
- The role of husband and wife is discussed with emphasis on spiritual leadership and mutual respect.
- Wisdom and prayer are essential tools for nurturing a healthy marriage.
- The video encourages believers to stand in faith, giving glory to God for His love and provision.
- It addresses the need for understanding imperfections and extending grace within the marital relationship.
- The teaching includes scriptural references and declarations about love and unity in marriage.
- There is a call to receive God’s word and be spiritually prepared for the challenges of marriage.
- The video combines worship, teaching, and prophetic prayer to inspire couples.
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All creation. Holy. You are lifted high. Holy, holy forever. Oh Lord, oh Lord, thank you. Can we just thank Him for a minute?
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You are wonderful in all your ways. You are beautiful beyond description. So marvelous for words.
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So wonderful, like nothing ever seen. Who your infinite wisdom, the depths of your love.
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You are beautiful beyond description, majesty enthroned above. You are beautiful. You are beautiful.
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So marvelous for words, for words. So wonderful, like nothing ever seen. Who can grasp your wisdom?
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Who can fathom? Who can the depth of your love? Oh, you are beautiful beyond description.
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Majesty enthroned. Oh, I stand, I stand in you, Father. I give you the glory.
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I stand. Holy God, to you the praise is due. We stand in honor of you, Father. Take all the glory of you.
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Let the church say we stand. We stand in you. We stand. We stand in you. Holy God, to you all praises.
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I stand in, I stand, I stand, I stand in you. I stand, I stand, I stand in you, holy God, to praises our praise.
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I stand in you. I can never thank you more than enough for all you've done for me.
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I can never, I can never thank you more than for all you done. All you've done for me.
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I can never thank, I can never thank you more than enough for all you, for all you've done for me.
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I can never thank, I can never thank you more than enough for all you, all you've done for me.
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I can never thank you, Lord. I can never thank you more than enough for all you've done for me.
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For me. I can never thank you. Thank you more for all you've done. All you've done for me, you gave you someone like me and love me as I am.
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Jesus, you came. You came. You came for someone like me and love me as I am.
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You came for someone like me. You came for someone like me and love me as I am. I can never, I can never for all you've done, all you've done for me.
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I can never thank you. I can never thank you more than enough for all you got.
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You came, you gave, you gave, you came for someone like me and love me.
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I am. You came for someone like me. You came for someone like me and love me.
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I am. I want to thank you, Lord my God. I want to thank you, Lord God, for all the so you, for all the all the so you. I want to thank, I want to thank you, my God.
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I, I want to thank you. I want to thank Lord my God. For all the so, for all the so, so things you've done for me.
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For all the so things you've done for me. I want to thank, I want to thank you, Lord my God. Lord my God, I want to thank you, Lord my God, for all the s of things you've done for me.
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For all the s of things you've done for me. I want to thank, I want to thank you, Lord my God. I want to thank, I want to thank Lord my God for all the souls, for all the souls of things you done for me.
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For all, for all the souls of things you for. I said I am far.
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I said I cry. I said I will cry. I sang Christ.
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I sit on, I sit down. I s. Why am I? Why am I any singing?
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Hallelujah. We will sing hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We will sing. We will sing.
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Hallelujah. Sing. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We will sing. We will sing. Hallelujah. Every knee will bow.
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Every knee will bow down. Every tongue of thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Every knee will bow down.
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Every knee will bow down. Every tongue confess and hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We will sing.
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We will sing. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We will sing. We will sing. Hallelujah. Every knee will bow down.
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Every knee will bow down. Every tongue confess and shout. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Every knee will bow down.
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Every knee will bow down. Every tongue of hallelujah. Every knee will bow down. Every knee will bow down.
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Every tongue confess and say hallelujah. Every knee will bow down. Every knee will bow down. Every tongue confess and hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Now unto the one upon the throne. We raise the sound. We raise the sound for He is God and God alone.
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He is God and God alone. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Come on.
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My, my Christmas. Christmas that you are. I Messiah is one.
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Oh, I man. One man. Thank you, Father. Yeah. Come for you.
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Yet you come for you. Thank you. Can't come for. Now when you are my soulmia. Honey was S. I said yet th. Oh, yeah.
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Fire is your. What are you? As, oh as you said I head of thy church, triumphant, we joyfully adore thee, till thou uphill. My meers here shall sing like those in glory.
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We lift our hearts in voice with blessation and cry and give to God, to God the praise of our salvation.
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We lift our hearts and voices with blessings. We cry out loud and give to God.
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Head of thy church are thy everlasting shore. We lift our hearts and our hearts together.
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We bless until we receive. We love to go the praise of our salvation.
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Now thank all our God with hearts and hands and voices. Who wondrous things have done.
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In whom this world rejoices, who from our mother has us with countless gifts of love as his heart.
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Now thank we all our God. I'll thank thee all our God with hearts and hands in wondrous things have done, things in whom this world rejoices. From Father have blessed us on our way.
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Blessed on my way with countless gifts of countless gifts and still is. Sing it together. I think we are our God. I'll let people with heart.
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Wondrous things are done with my son. In whom this world rejoices, blessed us on our way, on our way with countless gifts of love and still desires will give. I am, I am my soul.
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I am. I am. I am. He. I am. He. I am.
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I am. Yeah. Bear my soul. Yeah. Bear my soul. Yeah, my soul. Yeah, my soul. Yeah, my soul.
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My soul needed to soul. My soul. Yeah. My soul. Yeah. My soul. Yeah. My soul.
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Yeah. My soul. Yeah. My soul. Yeah. My soul. Yeah. I am for him.
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I hear from him. I hear from as I him for him. I for your know your man.
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Yes. Thank you, Father. Know your name. Know your healing. Yes, your name. All your name.
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For cry. Come on your. Who is wonderful? It's Jesus.
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Who is wonderful? It's Jesus. Who is wonderful? It's Jesus. Who is wonderful? It's Jesus. Who is wonderful is Jesus.
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Who is wonderful is Jesus. Who is wonderful? It's Jesus. Who is wonderful is Jesus.
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Say who is powerful is Jesus. Who is powerful? It's Jesus. Who is powerful? It's Jesus.
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It's Jesus. Thank you, Holy Ghost. Yana all your. Yeah.
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Yeah. If you're following. Oh, thank you Holy Ghost. Round him.
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Hity. Yes. I said your morning. Walking in her walking walk in. We rise.
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We raise a sound. We raise. We raise. We raise the sound. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. His kingdom stretches from shore to shore.
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My God Jesus, we give you the service and said no say Jesus shall reign. Jesus shall reign where the
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His son.
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His kingdom stretched from shore to shore. From shore to shore, till sun shall rise.
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Till sun shall and no more. Till sun shall rise. Shall the Lord Jesus shall reign wherever the sun shall rever his success in from his kingdom strength.
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From
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Morning sacrifice. [Music] people and removes [Laughter] [Music] love with sweet tong [Music] in that voices shall proclaim.
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Thank you, Lord. Now joyful [Music] sing [Music] his name like sweet him like sweet perfume shall rise with Every morning sacrifice.
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Every morning sacrifice. Now thank all our God with hearts and hands and voicees. Wonderous things have done in whom this world rejoicees who from our mother's arms have blessed us on our way on our way with countless gifts and love
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countless gifts. of love and still is ours. [Music] Now thank we all our God.
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Now thank we all our God with our hearts and wondrous things are done. Wonder in whom this world rejoices.
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This world rej. from absor [Music] have blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love [Music] and sh [Music] with countless gifts of life.
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and still is us today. [Music] One more time with countless gifts of life. We honor you, Jesus, and still is ours today.
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his eyes today. Oh, may this consious God to all our lives be near us with ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to share us and keep us in his grace [Music] and guide us when her bless and free us
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from our free us. [Music] Obey this conscious God. May this conscious God through all our lives be near us.
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[Music] With every joyful heart, joyful heart and blessed peace to keep us. [Music] Keep us in his grace. us and guide us when the place us and free us from his [Music] all praise and thanks to God The father
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now be given. The father now be the son and him who reigns. We honor you Jesus with him in highest heaven.
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[Music] Highest heaven. The one eternal God. The one eternal [Applause] God [Music] and heaven.
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For this was is now is and shall be ever more and shall be ever.
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All praise and thanks to God. All praise and thanks to God. The father now be given.
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The father now be [Music] the son and him who reigns with them in highest heaven.
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We honor your presence, Jesus. The one eternal God. First in heaven adore. Heaven. For thous is now and shall be ever more. and shall be ever.
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For those is now it was is now and shall be shall be ever. For th it was is now. for the s and shall be ever more and shall be ever.
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Give the Lord a shout of praise. Hallelujah. Oh, give the Lord a shout of praise.
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Praise God. Praise the Lord. Can you lift your hands to the Lord? [Music] For us, [Music] Father, we thank you for your love.
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We thank you for your favor. Thank you for all the good things you have brought to us.
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Thank you that Lord. It pleased you that through the foolishness of preaching, we shall be saved. That means every time we sit under the word, you are transmitting salvation deliverance protection wealth, health, abundance. It seems a very relaxed
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activity just receiving. But through it you have ordained that the transmission of life will reach us. What a God. What a blessedness.
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No wonder Paul the apostle said, "Oh to the glorious according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which is committed unto my trust." What a blessedness.
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Thank you Lord that you love us not because we are good. You love us because you choose to. Thank you for this blessing even in Jesus mighty name.
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Every saint child of God here give the Lord a shout of praise. You may be seated. Hallelujah.
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Amen. Now please let it be known that family life um God is God is giving us grace. Amen.
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So one day you will come to Ephesus and you will come to the Ephesus complex and we'll finish family life morning conference. Then we'll have afternoon picnic and afternoon games and bouncy castle and swimming competition.
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[Applause] [Music] Hallelujah. Uhhuh. So that whatever you heard in the morning in the afternoon you go and pair with your wife. You and your wife will sit down you converse and say we are team. We are team. Praise the Lord.
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Is it not powerful? Amen. I I believe that you know because of what Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter 60 that your daughters shall be nursed at your side and your son shall come from afar.
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One of the blessings of the premillennium experience before the Lord comes to his church, there's going to be the revival of family love, the revival of because you see, he said in the last days when Timothy was being
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spoken to, there shall be perilous times. Men shall be lovers of self, boastful proud you know, seekers of their own agenda.
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without natural affection and and two two sessions ago that's two years ago we learned that natural affection is aus without family love we have a generation that people find it cool to have children without being married something has happened but thanks be to
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God that through this wonderful initiative of the Holy Spirit um you are not just hearing this but we are also writing exams who who has written some family life exams here.
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Well, the Holy Spirit, I should tell you this this message is examinable. Examinable. So, make sure that you don't miss it for anything. And thank God that this week we did some recap.
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We listened to last year's message again this week so that we can be ready to receive. Amen.
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Amen. Amen. Amen. Are you excited? [Applause] So what is coming to us is the blessing of the glory of God.
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And that blessing we we see it in 2 Timothy 3. Can you show it for me? 2 Timothy 3 the verse number 15.
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2 Timothy 3:15. He said that all scripture is God breathed and is useful for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness.
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So the word of God is needed for your training, for your correction, for reproof, for doctrine in righteousness. Is somebody here? Yes sir.
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So what I want to say is this that I want you to receive today's teaching.
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Uhhuh. Receive today's teaching and some people please remove the harm for us. Okay. Yeah. Verse 16. I want you to receive today's teaching. The next verse. I want you to receive today's teaching not because God is judging you. Not
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because we are saying you didn't do something right. Now the teaching is coming to you for correction for doctrine. Doctrine is what founds or gives you basis to live your life. How you live your life is a product of the
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doctrine you have. For reproof the word is allegos which means conviction. What are your convictions and for correction and Bible says instruction or training which is pedia training a child in righteousness.
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Amazing. So I want to say to you that God does not use bad events to correct you. God does not use a divorce to teach you a lesson. God does not use sickness to teach you a lesson. He says he uses all
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scripture. Someone say all scripture. All scripture. So if you want to be corrected in life, it is in all scripture, not all events, not bad circumstances. God uses all scripture to correct. So don't say that, oh, I dated a bad guy. He broke my
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heart. God was teaching me a lesson. It's a lie. That's not how God teaches.
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God teaches with all scripture. Are you here? Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Uhhuh. And and and I think that you've all understood what we've learned in Isaiah 54 the verse 9. God is not what angry God is not angry at is God angry at you?
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Are you sure God is angry at you? Yeah. So, so when you are hearing the word of God and it comes like diced pineapples and watermelons and lemon juice, just drink it. Is God is correcting you in love. It's not God is
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angry. Sometime when you are hearing some things, you know people think that the way the message was coming is blasting. It's not that God is not angry at you.
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Amen. Amen. If you are even struggling with that, God has also told us in first 2 Timothy 1:1, you know, 1 Timothy 1:11, you know, according to the glorious gospel, you know, of the blessed God, 1 Timothy, of
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the blessed God which he has committed onto my trust and the word blessed day is the word mario, which means happy god. I the lord told me to say this because sometime when we are teaching and we are speaking about you shouldn't
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have done premarital sex before marriage, you know, you know yeah or the basis of your dating the purity will determine the so as soon as you hear it and say I was not pure before I married that's why
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that's why you knowh remember suffering or so if if you say that oh that's why then you are choosing suffering when there is offering uh yeah you can decide that the consequence will be on Jesus Christ if you keep saying that oh that's why
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you are accepting to suffer but choose the offering So, I choose the offering. So, today when the message comes and it's cutting you now, this one, hey, I shouldn't have kissed the guy.
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Just lift your hands and say, Jesus, I choose the offering. I I didn't try, but the kissing is on you, Jesus. Tell the Jesus that the kissing is on.
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Hallelujah. Are you excited today? I want you to receive the word of God. No, you know sometime when we are preaching someone just h that's we don't want you to send me back to the original sound.
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Daddy likes good sound though. So I want you to be very sad for him. If you didn't notice usually when I come the reason why they bring the pop because I'm come to introduce him. But the Holy Ghost said let him enjoy the songs more.
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That's why I left him so that he'll be I know he likes hymns. So I said let him let daddy enjoy the himself. Every episode when he comes back we just put him up. Nowadays daddy have changed.
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We'll let you enjoy worship more. Amen. Amen. My God is happy about my [Music] joyful.
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He is happy. My body is Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat.
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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Happy happy happy.
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Are you happy? He's happy. Happy. Give the Lord a shout. Praise God. God. Praise God.
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Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. You may be seated. So, what God is planning today, what God wants to do today is he's setting you up for you to enjoy his joy.
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Amen. All right. So, we are going to put daddy up. Last I realized that the spirit of the lord took over and there were some prophecies coming.
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Yes. So today so we want to we want to give daddy the mic early in case the holy I said in case. So don't be looking at him and say man of God finish so that they can give me a
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word. They need to tell me where my husband is found. Please [Applause] [Music] hallelujah.
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Amen. Are you happy? God is happy. I told you when you wake up with a bad dream, you wake up down and depress march to your bathroom like this. Happy happy happy you understand don't go like hey know one day someone told me that you
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know prophets there I don't know how people see us. One day somebody call a prophet you visited me. I said where? He said in my dream I said how the way you were wild and the next day I saw you
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were smiling I felt you are pretending I said I said my sister I was asleep.
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No don't listen to this. Amen. That the prophet I'll come to your please. It's not me. It's not me. Let me give you disclaimer. It's not what me.
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Probably the Lord use my face for an angel or whatever. It's not me. I was in my bed. was asleep.
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Sometime the time you tell us you were dreaming, I was watching a movie. It was I was not even praying.
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So please the next time you see that somebody is blasting you prophet is angry you like you saw me and I was in front of your gate in Vatlas.
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So when you came to church you were like one day somebody that day somebody told me a dream and I said the way I was wowed on her in the dream. The next day they saw me they didn't want to laugh
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but I said hello. I said h I'm pretending because this this hello it's like I was the first person she met hello said I I know something I don't know anything.
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Amen. So when you wake up from a bad dream remember happy happy happy happy girl.
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Oh happy happy happy happy happy. When you wake up, you had a bad dream and you are scared. He's happy with you because that's what we learned in righteousness. There's nothing you do that will change God's mood about your
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life. Now, by the blessings and favor of God, every year when daddy is coming, a wonderful team follows him.
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And if you check the scriptures in the book of Acts chapter 4, the way their answer came, you could tell it was the quality of people that were praying.
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In Acts chapter 13, certain teachers and prophets were praying. So sometimes the quality of the people praying their understanding their revelation of God gives faster answers because everybody so when pastors are praying because they all have understanding the results are different
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from when you you know when you are leading members you have to now help somebody's I came for fire but the way you are talking there's no fire what you are saying it's like you have to stare people before the main subject is
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preached or prayed about but when men of God meet we understand the business back amen so often times When God sends us his servant and other servants of God join, it affects how he presents the message.
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Cuz if you are not responding, he sees their faces say you go deeper. You understand? So we able to get the full blessing of the gospel cuz look at your face and you are not getting it. We we come down. But sometimes the people
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who are here because of them we stay where we are supposed to stay. If you don't get it, forget about it.
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But in Christ don't forget about it. Tell your neighbor go back to it. Go and listen your room. You'll get it.
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Hallelujah. And year after year since I think he came to Ara um our dear brother Pastor Enit and his dear wife.
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Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining us again.
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And one of my brothers who came to us healing who was here for healing service.
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It was a serious thing. Yeah. Two days ago I got um one of the healings that happened in April from um one of my sons in the MBA. He called and says when prophet Benji turned to the screen spoke about somebody's wife who
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just delivered a spinal pain. He says it's my wife and says since April she has not complained of any of this the wonderful wife of the anointed prophet is called Mama D. This is the another mama D. Pastor Das is also here.
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Thank you so much. Hallelujah. Amen. And this is authentic uncle. The next person I come to is authentic uncle.
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Yeah. There's a he's a powerful prophet. And you should see his heart. Yeah. One of the things about the hearts of men is that they are ready to go where God wants to go.
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And no matter how they are, they are ready to choose what God will choose.
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And I'm excited that such a person is someone I know. And not not I I met him also 2006.
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So I've known him for a long time. H yeah, his name is Prophet Kof.
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Hallelujah. Do you remember last year? Leg bell leg bell. Leg bell. She's a doctor in the US.
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Yeah, she's a doctor in Harvard. So it was a very serious prophecy. She she called and she's Nigerian. That's why she's leg bell. So very proud.
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Amen. Amen. And daddy has a an apostolic council he comes with. Some of them are uh on their way. Some of them are also behind the scenes. But the ones sitting in front are the ones I can introduce cuz these
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are the ones I can see. Uh so his personal assistant executive secretary pastor Michaels is also here.
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very serious man of God, Apostolic with his wife, Lady Victoria, who celebrated her birthday just this Monday.
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Oh, man of God. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And then my own brother from another mother, Ata.
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[Music] This this my twin, the black twin. He's the black version of me. He's the only person who can make me talk bang bang bang bang bang. Nobody on earth can do that. If you see me talking freely,
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he's the first the first I'm talking to. His name is Pastor Michael Aia. Can we celebrate him?
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Hallelujah. Can we also celebrate Mama righteousness? The woman of God, my wife. [Applause] Daddy call her mama righteousness.
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Everything is righteousness. She's been a wonderful woman of God though. What do you think?
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[Applause] Me, I don't like, let me be honest with you. My natural natural natural self, I don't like human beings.
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What do I mean by that? I like to avoid people because sometimes ch the stress of dealing with people is a lot. Thank you, sir. Oh, thank you. Thank you.
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Yeah, that's the tomb brother movement. It's normal. Hallelujah. And I mean sometimes I just see myself as a prophet. You know when you're a prophet it's easy. You give a prophetic word you move.
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Whatever you do with it is up to you. If you like pray for like don't pray. We have told you what God has said. We our own was that we were accurate and we said what God said we should say. What
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you do with it is up to you and Jesus Christ. But when you a pastor, a pastor, you have to be there. When they cry, you are there.
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When they disobey, you are there. When they break their heart, you are there. 2:00 a.m. they are there. Recently, I had three people give birth in 2 weeks.
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All of them as part of delivery process. We in the hospital. The baby's not coming. Prophet, we are pushing. I say it's going to work. Keep pushing.
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Father, I release. That's why I on releases no release. I said I release. He said I'm still pushing daddy. He said the baby is still too. I say it's coming. He said they said we should cut.
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I said go ahead because this is not your time to use faith. I said my sister cut now. Cut.
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You should have used faith long ago. It's not delivering them. You say should I cut or should I cut that? So you so you can see that your emotions I I I now understand that you get more tired emotionally. Emotions can
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make you tired faster than physical exercise. You don't know. So when pastors roller coaster time today you happy tomorrow today this one is morning tomorrow this one is giving birth and it's like sometimes you even turn between emotion
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in the morning went for funeral in the evening you have to come and do reception and some when you're even dancing you're wondering do you really feel my pain cuz you why are you laughing like that?
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That's why I don't like pastoring. If there's anybody I say, man of God, you are a chief pastor is bishop with me. I don't have that spirit cuz sometimes, you know, as a pastor, why are you some delivered? I'm like, should
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I come to the hospital? Should I not come? What should I do? I'm confused because I just finished preaching. So, if I come there, I'm preaching again in two hours.
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But my wife will say, "Man of God, you a pastor. You a pastor. And recently I've accepted my office of a pastor.
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Uhhuh. So I'm international pastor of the Ephesus people. Any invitation? I'm a prophet outside the invitation. I am a pastor.
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Hallelujah. Can we celebrate my wife again? Yeah. Whether she like it or not, I'll celebrate. It's good. But and by the grace of God, the hour has come for the son of man to be revealed through the message. Hallelujah.
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Now, when we went last week, by the grace of God, we're privileged to be at a celebration which commemorated 30 years in ministry.
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Yeah. So if you are watching online please if if you have a sister a brother you have a family page please send the send the link now go to episodes gatherings worldwide YouTube send the link now wherever they are the things
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And when we had the 30th year anniversary, of course, time failed us to say what his impact has been in our lives.
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But I realized many people were saying I didn't know he's a man of prayer. Some of the people I brought they say I didn't know he prayed so I said you don't know you don't know I didn't know he used to fast the whole
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year they somebody said he introduced him to a certain book and I said hey righteousness hallelujah but the long and short of it was that I we all could testify that someone was ready to journey with God no matter what
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it costs. If God says left it is left we are going. If God says right, it is right you are going. And I like what my brother Dr. Na said, I'm sure he'll be joining us soon. He said something
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powerful that we are not careful to follow you. Thank you Jesus. It affected some of my people sir. So one of my leaders text and said prophet I'm sorry for being careful in following. Sometimes pastors when we say
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things you think you are wiser or you have heard some popular preacher who is saying it better than us. So you are careful in following but we we are not careful to follow.
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We are not cry we are not at all and it's been such a blessing. One of the great blessings of Dr. George is the family I have the people who are around daddy very serious guys bishop pastor Michael
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pastor Benji very powerful family and you don't get that type of family anywhere. Yeah. Do you understand? you get some family somewhere. So at that meeting something dawned on me. In fact a holy all fell on me.
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I came to understand many things and I came to appreciate the servant of God.
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When they said he never gives up, I was encouraged that that stubbornness that God has given me grace small in not to also give up is because of a father I probably have that trait.
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So I want to tell you today that someone has come to share with us a mighty mighty mighty mighty truth from God.
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You see the precious things of Jesus Christ sometimes they look very simple but they have weight especially in family life. Sometime you want mysteries. Seven things to do to attract your spouse.
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Dealing with the spirit of Jezebel against marital destiny. You have killed all the Jezebels. You are still broke and you are still single. It's not Jezebel that's your problem. Cuz Jezebel can die. Italia will come.
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So the problem is not the enemy. The problem is you you have to allow God to work on you fully. And today I'm excited to receive to this wonderful pulpit this wonderful stage the servant of God.
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God himself loves his old messages 2006 to 2010 was deemed the beloved apostle. under his small laptop.
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Today, we are receiving God's beloved. I believe he's one of God's favorites. And he knows it and he's aware of it.
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Can you be excited with me? With the happy god. Let's receive daddy Dr. George Wilfred Arthur. Hallelujah.
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And daddy, um, the Holy Spirit told me to do this. said sound. Is this the new one? This is the new one. Nobody has touched it. It's in the box.
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The Lord told me that when we are done, please take it home in. Amen. So, um so that when he's traveling, he has a receiver, he can connect. Then you have your special mic, sir.
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Hallelujah. God bless you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, brother. Thank you so much. Wow. We are grateful.
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Thank you. Hallelujah. Prophet has said many wonderful things and I know you are all wonderful people.
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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Lovely people. [Music] Some years ago, I had a message entitled uh the [Music] beautiful people of a beloved country.
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Yeah. So you you people are beautiful people. Hallelujah. Belonging to a beloved country. Hallelujah.
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Amen. And I'm telling you that all the time you are investing receiving from God concerning family life is just going to improve on your family.
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Amen. Yeah. It's going to reflect. So none of these will ever be in vain.
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It's a great investment. Praise God. Hallelujah. Want to thank prophet Edm for such invitation.
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Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Hallelujah. Mad, God bless you. Hallelujah. Are you ready to hear from God?
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Yeah. I think Pastor Moses also joined us. Pastor Moses. Yeah. God bless you. Yeah. And Abigail is also here.
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[Music] Pastor Emanuel is here. Then uh Bennis is also here. I also came with Bennis.
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Hallelujah. Oh, to God be the glory. It's good to see you, man of God. Good to see you, man of God. Woman of God.
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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Can you lift up your hands and just glorify God? We give you glory for all you are to us.
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Thank you, wonderful Jesus, for who you are to us and all you are to us.
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For of him, through him and to him are all things. Thank you for setting the solitary in families.
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Hallelujah. Thank you for family blessing that it was your determined intention, original intention to put us in families. And thank you for what you've done. We give you glory. We give you praise.
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This meeting is in your hands. Blessed Holy Spirit, rule among us, have your way and have preeminence amongst us. Oh, we thank you. Can you lift up your voice in a minute or two and glorify God and oh glorify his holy name
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like unto him. Oh, glorify him. Oh, magnify the Lord with me. Magnify his holy name.
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Oh, magnify the Lord now like unto him. Dear Jesus, we worship you. You are all together lovely.
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Thank you for your efence, your magnificence, your splendor. Oh, you are all together lovely. Thank you, wonderful Jesus.
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Oh, thank you. Thank you Lord. We give you all praise and all glory in Jesus name the son of God. Amen.
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Amen. Can you please be seated now? Contend with me to the book of John chapter 2 11.
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John chapter 2 11. I want to speak on Christ centered marriage. John 2 vers 11.
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It says this beginning of miracles did Jesus encounter of Galilee and manifested forth his glory.
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This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Canaa of Galilee and manifested forth his glory. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now in this chapter we are told about our Lord Jesus's invitation to a wedding and this is how it concludes that this is the beginning of miracles. The beginning of miracles the Jes Jesus in Cana of Galilee. Now
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the word for miracle that is mostly used in the New Testament is the word dunamis. Okay. dunamis.
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So sometimes it is used for power then it's also used for miracles. But in the book of John all the miracles in the book of John the word uses the word seion.
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Seion literally signs. Seion is a word for sign. Sign. So in other books of the Bible you see dunamis a lot for miracles. But in the book of John all the miracles in the book of John are signs
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because in the book of John the word miracle is that is used is you see the word seon they are all signs. All the miracles in the book of John are signs.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. And when we say a sign you know a sign point to something beyond itself. Is that not true? It's not so.
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Yeah. If you see a sign board, it's not pointing you to itself. The sign board is pointing you to something beyond itself.
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All right? So the story that was given us is actually a sign though it's a miracle. So it is pointing to something just beyond what happened in Canaa of Galilee.
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So it's a sign beyond what happened. So I personally believe that the miracle, the first miracle recorded in the book of John that happened at Cana of Galilee is a sign. It's a sign for all marriages.
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It's a sign for of what Jesus can do in marriages if you will let him.
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Because at this wedding, which was day one in someone's marriage, um the wine had run out.
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There was no wine. The wine was gone. In those days, wedding feast took seven days. So I mean you need to get a lot of wine.
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It was a whole celebration. So the wine eventually ran out. Say and when the wine is gone, it affect the celebration.
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You know in a Bible wine is the symbol of joy. If wine is gone it means joy is gone. Wine is symbolic of joy. So the wine had run out. And I'm telling you that there are many marriages
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without joy. You could be married and your marriage is just merely existing in this ecosystem.
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But the joy of the union is gone. The merryntment is gone. The happiness is gone. The peace is gone. The amusement in a marriage is gone. So the wine has run out. So you are married.
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You can say that you are you are merely h existing under a roof like a roommate but the beauty and the glory of the union has run out.
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So if you are in such a state, I mean what's happened here is a sign to you.
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Hallelujah. It's a sign. It's a sign for every marriage. And blessed be God. The first miracle recorded here is the miracle of of priority. Of all the miracles he could he could have that could have been listed first. The miracle at someone's
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wedding was the first recorded miracle. That speaks of the priority of miracles. The miracle God want to give you is actually your marriage.
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Yeah. Yeah. That is better than every kind of miracle. Yeah. Yeah. Miracle of a good marriage is the best because every good thing will line up.
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Hallelujah. Yeah. If you're not married yet, that should be your greatest desire. A good marriage and everything will line up.
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Yeah. Better to have trouble outside and peace within. That to have trouble within and peace outside.
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You can't sleep home. Aha. When you go somewhere and they give you two days to sleep in a hotel, you will extend it to 5 days because you wouldn't want to come home because there is no peace home. But
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when there is peace, you can't wait. When they give you two nights, h you want to make it one night because your home is so sweet and so wonderful, you can't wait but to go home.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. So, if your wine has run out or is in the process of running out, don't worry.
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That's why you are here. You're going to have a a a resurrection, a turnaround, and a restoration of your union.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. All right. Let's see verse one. John 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Canaa of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there.
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And the third day there was a marriage in Canaa of Galilee and Jesus was there.
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[Music] Very interesting. Very interesting. Now, strictly speaking, what happened in chapter 2 was the fifth day, not the third day.
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It was actually the third the fifth day, not the third day. You want to let's go to chapter one and you see the proof of it. And I'll show you why he said third day instead of fifth day.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. Okay. John chapter one, let's start from verse 29. Verse 29. Hallelujah.
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Okay, I want you to follow. It says, "The next day John seeth Jesus coming and saith, behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world." When we say the next day, the next day means the second day. True or
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false? The next day is a second day. Right? All right. Verse 35. Verse 35.
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again the next day after John stood and two of his disciples. So the next day after that time, so that is what the third day. Verse 43.
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Verse 43. The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee and father Philillip. So the day following after the third day is what?
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Then you go down. It's the chapter ends. Then we come to chapter two. the third day. It should have been the fifth day.
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Are you following? It should actually have been the fifth day. But the reason he said third day was because whatever is told us is a sign.
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Is to signify something. Because number three in the Bible is a number of resurrection.
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The number three is a number of resurrection. So the whole thing is a sign pointing to something beyond itself telling us that I am telling you if your marriage is dead or if your marriage is dying if you
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allow Jesus to be the center of the marriage there can be a resurrection if the wine your union is gone out or is run out there is no joy there is no beauty there is no glory in your
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marriage he's saying you can experience your third day your third day is a day of joy it's a day of restoration the day of restitution the day of recovery it will be come back.
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Are you here with me? Yeah. Three is a number of resurrection in the Bible. But too many times even in the Old Testament, it speaks of of three as a resurrection. The third day is the day of resurrection. Yeah. So whatever
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is dead can come back to life. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Why? Because it is a sign. It's a sign.
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It's a sign. It's a sign. I'm telling you. You know, with the Lord a day is a thousand and a thousand is one day.
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Yeah. You know that the Bible says that after two days he shall revive us in the third day he shall raise us up and we shall live in his sight. So a day with is with with the Lord a thousand
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years. After two days, 2,000 years. Yeah. He shall restore us. Israel shall be restored after 2,000 years. In the third day, he shall raise us up and we shall live in his sight. That's the millennium.
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That's the millennium. Yeah. Praise God. Hallelujah. Christ and the church will be married in the third day.
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Wow. Hallelujah. So all of these are are signs. All right. And the third day there was marriage in Canaa of Galilee.
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There was a marriage in Canaa of Galilee. Now in the Bible the word Cana, the name Cana means to acquire.
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To acquire, to get something to acquire. And Galilee means circuit. Something is in a circle or circuit. So can of Galilee literally means to acquire in a circuit.
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To acquire. You know what it means to acquire a circuit? It means to get it one step at a time.
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To acquire a circuit, you get a solution one step at a time. The answers come one step at a time. And I believe it's a sign to restore marriages. I'm telling you that God God may not give you
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outright. You may not see outright turn around, but you may see it could be a process. You know, the Holy Spirit will prompt you to do something one step at a time to win your spouse.
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Yeah, it is always in circuit one step at a time. So sometimes you you realize why is my marriage not working? He may prompt you that start saying you are sorry.
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You've been proud for too long a time. Start saying you are sorry. Yeah. Some men could hardly say they are sorry.
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Yeah. You don't have to say sorry merely because you are wrong. Sometimes you have to say sorry to bring forth peace because sometimes we can really acknowledge our faults when there is restoration and peace.
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So God may it could be prompting by the Holy Spirit little by letter you acquire in a circuit. He may prompt you that leave work a little earlier than you do and go home a little earlier to spend
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time with your spouse. Yeah. because you are too busy and you come home at 9:00 p.m. and you sleep. So for a long time there is no intimacy, there's no fellowship, there's no So he may prompt you that ah it's time to go
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home earlier to spend time with your spouse. One step at a time. One step.
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One step at a time. Yeah. You know the Holy Spirit could prompt you that you know check the tone of your voice.
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The way you speak to your husband you are right but the tone your tone is wrong. That is why he's not accepting all that you say. You are right but your tone is wrong. The Holy Ghost may say
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check your mood. You are always moody. You don't bring sunshine to the home. You you are bringing darkness and gloominess to the home.
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I'm telling you, one step at a time. Yes, sir. Prompting by the Holy Ghost. Prompting.
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He may prompt you that he may prompt you that you are nagging too much.
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Always nagging. Always nagging. Criticizing him too much. Just allow me and I'll take over.
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One step at a time. One step at a time. Praise God. Hallelujah. Cana of Galilee. It means to acquire in a circuit. One step at a time. And I believe that all of these things are arranged prophetically. They are all
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signs to the restoration of your marriage for the recovery of the wine to enjoy your marriage. Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord. And when I think about this story, it's so amazing. You know, Mary told the servants, "Whatsoever whatever he tells you to do, do it." I'm tell that's what will make your marriage work. Whatsoever he tells you to do,
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do it. And God is an expert in using things that doesn't make sense to give you a miracle.
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He's expert in using things that doesn't make sense to give you a miracle. Now by the way the servants had to fill six pot the Bible says in quantity it was two or three fckings.
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One fcking is actually actually 10 gallons of water. So three fckings is 30 gallons of water. So I mean it was a lot of work filling the pot with 30 gallons of water.
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Then Jesus said, "Go and draw it out to the the governor, the chairman of the reception." That has to do with a lot of faith.
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Jesus didn't tell them that if you draw it out, it will turn into wine. He didn't tell them.
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He didn't tell tell them. He just told them to go and draw it out. So these servants, I wonder what was happening in your head. But Mary had told them that whatever he tells you to do, do it.
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No question. No question. I I'm sure in your head they were saying hey what is it this now let me explain to you those spots the six spot they were not for drinking if you check the scripture if you go
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down they were for purification so when you are entering the house these spots are in front of the house and it is used to clean your legs so it is actually unclean water dirty water dirty water to clean your feet to clean
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your hands it was not water for drinking it it was for the purifying of the juice.
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It was for, you know, washing your hands and washing your leg and the dirt before you enter. That's what it's done. It's not for drinking. It's dirty water, unclean water. Yet Jesus said, "Hey, let it out and go and serve the governor of the
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feast. It doesn't make sense at all." But they obeyed. Jesus didn't say if you pour it, it will become wine. He doesn't tell you everything at a goal because he needs faith response from you.
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Hallelujah. So I'm telling you that for you to enjoy marriage, whatever he tells you to do, do it. Do you know that as you pray, there are sometimes for you to enjoy a marriage, I mean James 15 is key. If any
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man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You can ask for marital wisdom. Wisdom to to to run your home. Wisdom to take care of your spouse, your wife, your husband. And the Holy Spirit can prompt you to do something that doesn't
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make sense at all. What he want, he want just just these guys, they just did the possible and he came in to do the impossible.
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Hallelujah. They just did the natural. He came to do the supernatural. They did the ordinary and he came to do the extraordinary. Now he will tell you to do the ordinary but I'm telling you that he convert the ordinary to
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extraordinary and he'll change the water into wine. He'll change the water into wine. That's what Jesus did.
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So I'm telling you that sometimes if your marriage is not working the Lord can prompt you that spend a little time quality time with Jesus.
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You are wondering how can spending time with Jesus improve upon it will. Yes sir.
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It may not make sense but whatever he tells you to do do it. Sometimes maybe you need to you are not giving well you may wonder how does giving reflect my marital life.
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Whatever he tells you to do I'm telling you do it. Hallelujah. Yeah. Do it.
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Do it. Yeah. He may tell you to do something unusual but it will affect your marital life.
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There was this couple they married for two years and from honeymoon there was daily fight.
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They fought every day. So to them there was no moon at all. There was no it was bitter moon. There was no honeymoon.
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So that's what they were. There was no enjoyment. There was no life. Nothing happened for two years.
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Welcome man of God. And you know I heard a story. Let me finish that one. I'll conclude with this one that um there's this couple that said that since they got married for 50 years, they have fought only once.
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[Applause] You know why? Because after the honeymoon when they started fighting it has never stopped.
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[Applause] has never stopped. It was one unbroken fight. [Laughter] So this cop after two years they just heard a word about the authority in Christ and they began to take the authority and declared their peace and to nullify the schemes of darkness after
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using the authority in Christ to deal with their situation. That's all their marriage was heaven on earth.
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Hallelujah. That there was a foreign force that was actually attacking the union. So in that case you can do everything right but nothing is happening.
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So you just have to be sensitive to the Holy Ghost and whatever he tells you you to do it. So this beginning of miracles in Canaa of Galilee and manifested his glory. I'm telling you he can restore the wine of your union and manifest his
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glory in your marriage. Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Christ centered marriage. You know that there there are two aspects when it comes to marriage. There's the cultural marriage and there is covenant marriage.
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Cultural marriage and covenant marriage. Culture marriage is is is worldly marriage is contractual marriage is based on contract culture.
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Then there is covenant marriage. All right. Can I have five people for illustration to make it easier? I I need five people.
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Yeah. Prophet, you're also coming. Okay. So, all right. I need a lady here and a man here. Prophet, are you sure?
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Okay, that's good. Okay, that's good. No, you two face each other and you stand here.
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Praise God. All right. So, cultural marriage is a union between two people. In cultural marriage, two people are involved.
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Okay. But when it comes to covenant union marriage, the covenant is not just between two.
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There's a third party involved in covenant marriage. The moment you married by covenants on the grounds of faith and Christianity, a third string was added to it because a covenant was ratified between three parties. You, your husband and God. So
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covenant marriage involves three but cultural marriage involves two. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So there is two and there is what?
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Three. Now in cultural marriage if he offends you you are affected. Yeah. If he offends you, you are affected. That's what happens. You are the one one affected. It affect you. It may even affect your flow with him and
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your fellowship with him. You are affected. But in covenant marriage, if he offends you, he offends her.
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She's not just the one who is affected. God because God is involved in a covenant.
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So what it means is that there is an offense here. It affect for want of what it affect your fellowship with God.
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It affect your fellowship with God. Meanwhile, you offended her. But because God is involved in a covenant, he's there there's there's something there's an effect.
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Now, it doesn't destroy your fellowship. You as his righteousness, your acceptance in Christ, nothing is is not affected. But let me show you what is affected.
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1 Peter 3:7. 1 Pet 3:7 Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge giving honor unto the wife as unto weaker the wicked vessel and as being hes together of the grace of life that your prayers being be
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not hindered. You see it says you are together of the grace of life is the same word for joint hes claronomous joint hes. So now there's an offense but now your prayer is your prayer is hindered.
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So there's a third party that is affected. Your prayer is hindered. It is not that God does anything wrong to you. God will never harden his heart towards you. But you can be hardened towards God.
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Yeah. What it means is that it will affect you receiving from God. The flow of life, the flow of blessing from God is affected because you are in offense.
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You are in bitterness and unforgiveness. And you know that faith workketh by love. Faith workketh by love. Now you are in offenses. You are in bitterness, unforgiveness. So it's not working.
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It's not working. You are using your faith but nothing is happening. Something is affected. Obviously not from God but offenses and you've allowed offenses and bitterness therein. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. Because s together of the grace of life the word joint hes. No the moment you marry you know what happens.
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Now the word joint hes is like a joint signature to an account. So whatever you are receiving she must consent and it will come.
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That's what happened in in those days. Yeah. If I received a package and the one who is a joint signary, who is the joint hes who is a joint he does not consent to it, you can't receive it although it is
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yours. Ahu. So she is hardened and she is embittered and you are what happens is that it affect your life.
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So check any kind of marriage that has bitterness unforgiveness offenses their finances are affected.
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It affect your finances, affect the peace in the home. It will affect the smooth running of the home. The wine will run out.
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Yeah. That is why actually I believe that for your marriage to work, you have to work in daily forgiveness.
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Keep forgiving your spouse. I I'm telling you every now and then it could could be in the kitchen you have to forgive in the bathroom you have to forgive in the bedroom you have to forgive constant forgiveness everywhere
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in the car I I'm telling you and sometimes when it is heavy on your heart verbalize it I forgive my wife she's forgiven in Jesus name because if you know the word you you would never have these things in your heart
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because I want to walk in faith and I want to receive good things from God daily and once I know this secret ah even if I don't want to forgive for the scripture sake I'll have to forgive praise God
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so you can be praying can you imagine your prayers are hindered Malachi 2:13 Malachi 2:13 and this have you done again covering the altar of the Lord with tears with weeping and with crying out in so much that he regarded not the offering
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anymore or receiveth it with good good will at your hand. Verse 14. Yet he say wherefore because the Lord this is the reason has been a witness between thee and the wife of your your youth against whom thou has dealt
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treacherously. You have dealt unfaithfully. Uh the word treasurously means breaking breaking the terms of an existing agreement.
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You've dealt treacherously yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. So assuming you know what the Bible is saying. You are passing by and you can see some prayer warriors crying on the altar praying praying with tears
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and agonizing and groaning and travailing and they are worthy of emulation. You go like these guys can pray what they can pray on the altar but all you know their prayers are hindered that that prayer life that is so worthy
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of emulation. That's what he say they have filled the altar with crying and with tears but it's not working. Not that God is not making it work because you yourself faith work by love but you are in offenses against the wife of your youth.
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You are you are embited. You've not forgiven your wife yet you've come to cry unto God. It doesn't work.
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That's Christianity. You've not forgiven your spouse yet you've come to cry unto God. In Christianity relationship precede worship.
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He said first leave that gift and go and reconcile before you come and offer your gift unto God.
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Hallelujah. That is why if you don't want to, you know, marriage is not by force by force. It's not by force. If you're not willing to forgive and just remain where you are, we can confer on you the gift of
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celibacy. You know why? Let let me show you this reason. You know in a in the Bible every covenant. Now one difference between a covenant and a contract is that contracts are written with ink but covenants are made in blood.
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Covenants are sealed in blood but contracts are written in ink. Yeah, because covenants are always based on promises, but sorry, contracts are always based on promises, but covenants are based on oath.
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So all the biblical covenants were ratified with blood. God's covenant with Noah came with blood. God's covenant with covenant with Abraham was with blood. God's covenant with Moses, the Senite covenant or the Mosaic covenant was with blood. The new
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covenant was with blood. So all covenants are ratified with blood. They are sealed with blood. What does it mean?
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What does it mean? That means without death, a covenant cannot be ratified. Blood speaks of death. You see blood spilled on the ground, it means death has occurred. So when a covenant is ratified in blood, it means it is sealed
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in death. Praise God. Hallelujah. So there is blood and there is death in the covenant. That is why that is why your marriage actually is your funeral.
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What a statement. Your marriage is a funeral. Yeah. Your marriage is the funeral of your pride.
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Your marriage is the funeral of your ego. Your marriage is the funeral of your will.
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Your marriage is the funeral of your interest. You enter into marriage not to get your way out, but you enter into marriage to lay that way down.
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Now the truth is that until you die, your marriage dies. But once you are dead, your marriage leaves because until there is death, the covenant is not ratified.
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[Laughter] So either you live and your marriage dies or you die and your marriage live.
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So die to your pride, your marriage will work. You know we've handled marriage couples and some of the situations we marry, some of the circumstances we hear and the stories that comes to us sometimes they go like this one is just a matter
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of laying down your pride. If the man can lay down his pride, this marriage will work. But he realized that he has decided never to let go his pride. So me I will never she is wrong and I am right.
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Yeah. So once that's it. Once you hold on to your pride you lose the union.
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But if you can bury the pride in humility your joy will escalate. Your joy will come back.
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Hallelujah. Yeah. So some of those of you who are not willing to to enter into this funeral, you can be celebrate all your life.
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Yeah. And in a contract, in cultural marriages, what happens is that your actions are reactions to his in contractual marriages. My actions are reactions to yours. So his actions are reactions.
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His actions are reactions to his. You understand? His actions are reactions to his. What it means is that if you treat me right, I'll treat you treat you right.
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People do that. If you are available to me sexually, I'll be available to you financially.
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Yeah. It happens. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If available to me sexually, oh, I'll be available to you financially.
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Once you're not available to me sexually, my finances never So that that's not Christianity.
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So my actions are I'm responding to what you have done. So if you don't do right, I'll not do right. So if you treat me right, I'll treat you right.
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If you serve my food well, three hot meals, you know. Oh, I'll be available to you and I'll make time for you. We'll go on another honeymoon.
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Yeah. So, you do me good and I'll do you good. The natural unbeliever, the ordinary person, the unbeliever can do that.
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So, what distinguishes the unbeliever from the believer? This is the lot of the unbeliever. Do me good and I do you good. But believers are practicing the same thing that if your spouse does you evil, you want to
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retalate with evil. That's not Christianity. That's why our marriages are not working. Simple practical Christian life.
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Yeah. But here in covenant marriages, although there has been an offense and let's say she has offended you big time and you feel like slapping her or even strangling her.
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That's why I said it's a feeling. It's a feeling. And so our feelings are not redeemed yet.
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So I mean you feel like slapping her yet when she comes you hug her and give her a kiss.
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Not because you want to be a better human being. But because Christ does not allow you to do it, he doesn't allow you because he's not allowing.
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So in a covenant covenant marriages, my actions are respond to Christ are in response to Christ. But this one, your actions are reactions to hers, but your actions are in in response to Christ. So that if she has
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offended you, instead of reacting on the basis of the offense, you respond to what Christ want you to do.
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Do you understand? Yeah. What what is Jesus saying? Someone said, "But if I'm angry at him, I'm have to let it out. If if I'm embited and angry and and I I treat him nicely, I'm being a hypocrite."
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That's what some people say. Actually the opposite is true. If you are angry and you want to burst out out of your anger and you do it rather you are hypocrite because that's not the real you. The real you is a new creation.
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I'm telling you you are a new creation. Your spirit is born again. All the fruit of the spirit are in your spirit.
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The fruit of the spirit are all in your spirit. Ah you can have the effect of the fruit in your soul.
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You know your feeling tells you where you are whether you are in the flesh or in the spirit. If you are feeling depressed, you are feeling down always.
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You are feeling anger, embittered, you are in the flesh actually. But the real you.
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So don't think you are being hypocrite. If you don't respond to your feeling, your feeling is not redeemed.
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Your soul is not born again. So you are not your feelings. Yeah. So all those feelings you don't have to respond to. You have to respond to Christ.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah. So, we are in a covenant marriage. The Lord bless you. The Lord bless you.
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You are blessed, prophet. God bless you. Thank you. Hallelujah. So, our union is not cultural or the worldly type. It's based on covenant.
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Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Say hallelujah. Say it's based on covenant. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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All right. Turn with me to the book of Proverbs, chapter 12, verse four. And I want to show you the role of the woman because the Bible always begins with the woman.
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Yeah. Paul began with the role of the wife before the man. The f my first point is that the virtuous woman or the excellent woman is a crown to a husband. So first of all, the woman is a crown. The wife is called to be a
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crown to a husband. A crown. You must be a crown to your husband. A crown.
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Normally we say the woman is the is the the man is the head and the woman is the neck.
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Someone said I don't it doesn't matter if your husband is the head you are the you are the you are the neck you can influence you see the way the neck can influence the head.
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It doesn't matter if he's the head and he has authority. You can influence the head.
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But you see, the woman is not the neck. The woman is a crown. [Laughter] Yeah. Because the neck speaks also of manipulation.
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You are not called to manipulate your husband because the manipulation is witchcraft. There's one person in the Bible who manipulated her husband. Jezebel by name. The name of her husband was called Ahab. Manipulating her husband. You are not the neck to manipulate him. You are
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the crown to be his glory. Hallelujah. The Bible says the excellent woman or the virtuous woman is a crown to a husband. A crown. You're not just a crown on the head. You are a surrounding crown around his whole being.
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Yeah. But she that maketh shame or she that maketh ashamed is rottness in his bones.
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The word here is a word for cancer. Yeah. So ask a woman by your side, are you a crown or cancer?
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Now if you're sitting by your wife, declare that your wife is your crown, not a cancer.
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Now don't ask your wife whether she is cancer. She's she's a crown. Even if she's not, declare by the word of faith.
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[Laughter] Yeah. Can you imagine that a woman can be rotteness in the husband's bones?
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That's how some marriages are that your wife can be like a cancer in your bones.
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That's the Bible say that she that maketh ashamed. That means that you're always cautioning shame. Now crown speaks of glory. The opposite opposite of crown is shame. You are a wife but you're always cushing shame. You know how to cause shame.
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You are always criticizing your husband. You are always nagging. You are always manipulating him with tears.
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You are always withholding sex from him. Yeah. Withholding tax. Some even use sex for as a means of payment. You do this for me, then I'll pay you by either in cash or in kind.
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Yeah. Blaming your husband publicly. I mean wrong actions publicly. Ah the way you address him, belittling him before your children. These are all this these things causes shame.
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Causes shame. And the Bible says it is rottness to the bones. You know when the bones is rotten one one one of the effect is that it gives what is called impaired mobility.
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You can't even move well. Impaired mobility. So that's the result. There are some women if you marry them, you have impaired mobility.
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You can't have the liberty and freedom to fulfill your assignment on earth and your calling on earth and and to do what you have to do. Don't be that kind of woman.
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Don't be cancer. Be a crown to your husband. And crown speaks of honor. And now listen, you don't have to honor your husband because he is he deserves it.
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If you're waiting for your husband to deserve the honor, you may wait forever. [Music] You don't honor your husband because he deserves it. You honor your husband because you are honorable.
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Do you understand? You are not honoring him because he deserves it. You are honoring him because that's who you are.
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You are honorable. There's this woman who was working with a husband and at that time the husband was a millionaire and they saw their old mate their old classmate and the husband said are you not privileged to marry me I'm a
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millionaire but actually the old classmate was actually struggling making ends meet so when he saw their classmate the husband said, "Are you not proud to marry me? Are you not privileged to marry me? Look at the money I have now." The woman said, "No,
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I'm not privileged to marry you." You know her answer? She said, "If I had married him, he would have been a millionaire.
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[Applause] It's somewhere." But actually, she knows who she is. Yeah. She knows her self worth, her worth in Christ. You have to know your worth in Christ in such a way that you are not honoring him because he deserves
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it. But because you you you are honorable. That's who you are. Uhhuh. Yeah. Alexander the Great was with his men and they met a poor man at the gate and the poor man asked for arms. You know when poor people ask for arms, we
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give them leftovers. Is that not so? We give them coins. Nobody would take a $100 and give to a poor man on the street.
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But Alexander the Great stood and took large sum of money and give to the poor man.
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His men objected and said, "Ah, sir, what are you doing? This is not good." He turned to them and said, "I'm not giving to him because he deserves it.
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I'm be I'm giving to him because I am royalty. I am royalty because of who I am.
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Yeah. So, honor your husband not because he deserves it. Honor him because of you are honorable.
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That's who you are. You're honorable. Ruth Graham, the wife of Billy Grahamham, made a powerful statement and she said that it is our job to honor our husbands.
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It is God's job to make them good. Now, it is not your job to make him good. So Ruth Graham says it is our job, speaking of women, to honor our husbands, but it is God's job to make
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them good. So do your part and God will do his part. Yeah. Do your part and God will do his part. Actually, when you start honoring your husband, you are using God's master key to open his heart.
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What it means is that if you keep honoring, if you don't speak down on him, instead of speaking down on him, start honoring him. And I'm telling you that something will begin, a cord will strike in his heart. Something will
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begin changing. Something begin changing. You may not see it out outwardly immediately, but in his heart, something begin changing. You know why?
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Because you have met his primary need. You have met his prim a man's primary need is respect. Once you've met his primary need, just a matter of time he's going to change. Yeah. Except he's a wizard.
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I know you are saying, "Man of God, my husband is a wizard." No. Yeah. You keep honoring and respecting, something is happening. Something will happen. Praise God.
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So, you are the crown of your husband. You are your husband's glory and keep honoring your husband.
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You are not cancerous to cause shame but to break honor. It will affect your home. Hallelujah.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. Okay. Secondly, a wife is a builder. A wife is a builder.
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A wife is a builder. Proverbs 14 verse one. Every wise woman buildeth her house.
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Now a good woman actually a wise woman. Now this is speaking of wisdom. Wisdom.
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Every wise woman built her home not just her career. Now if you're a wise woman, you build your home.
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Many are building their careers at the expense of their home. But biblical truth is that your primary focus must be your home. Your career, your secondary focus.
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That's a biblical path. So except you're not a wise woman because the Bible is saying that every wise woman if for a wise woman you build your home because of the the trend of modern life.
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If we don't take time you become too busy to give attention to your home.
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But the home as a mother as a wife is actually your primary calling. It's very important. The hustle and the bustle of the day and the business of the day can cause you to lose it. But we must always
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use the biblical pathing. Now I want us to see 1 Timothy 5:14. 1 Timothy 5:14.
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This is what Paul is saying. How therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house.
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You marry, you bear children, you guide the house. Now what does it mean to guide the house?
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The idea is not just guiding. He used the word oo despo despotio. Two words joined together.
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Actually literally the head of the house. The woman is the head of the house.
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Yes. The woman is the head of the house. Despite means either either headship or rulership. She heads the house and she rules the house. The woman is the head of the house but the man is the head of
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the woman. Yeah. Are are you following me? You know, I'm not trying to take the man's place.
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So, the woman is supposed to, it's amazing, not just guide the house, but rule the house.
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So, the house must be your primary focus. You may lose your career. You may even change it. But your house, you can't change it.
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Your household is yours. You can't change it. It's yours forever. And that's what God has given to you.
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Because women have the inherent ability to be homemakers. Yeah. To be homemakers. The power to manage their homes. You have something men don't have.
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Now, it is a historical fact that no nation arises above its motherhood. Yeah, in actual fact, let me rephrase it.
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Well, yeah. So, no nation rises above it family system and a family system does not rise above it motherhood.
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So, the mother motherhood is very essential. Yeah. Mothers actually what they do is that they control the atmosphere of the home.
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Your home is your empire. Your husband and your children are your loving subject. Yeah. When a woman's mood goes wrong, the household goes wrong.
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It affect everyone. When the woman is happy, everyone is happy. But you see the work of mothers in the house is very, let me use the word tedious.
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In 2018, studies were made in America and it came out that mothers working in the house or at homes, the work they do in their various homes equals two and a half full-time jobs.
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Yes. Two and a half full-time jobs. Yeah. So, I'm telling you, women working in the house, that's a lot of work.
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The work in the house is even beyond what you do in your offices. I'm telling you.
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Yeah. I'm speaking by experience. Yeah. Yeah. Study shows that it equals two and a half full-time jobs.
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Yeah. Yeah. Praise God. Hallelujah. So what it means is that um it is better not to get an extra work as a woman.
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Let me rephrase it. Spending quality time with your children and raising your children is far better than getting ex extra work to get more money.
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You want extra work to get Oh, I'm telling you. Yeah. Extra work to get more money is far less efficient than being at home and improving upon the quality of your home.
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I'm telling you to me I feel if there should be more work it should be on the man.
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Yeah cuz studies also showed 2018 that mothers or women who spend time at home what happens is that I mean their presence at home increases the quality of the life of their children.
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Chances are that if you don't intentionally make time you allow culture to raise your children.
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Especially in the present day world, culture will raise your children or their teachers at school will raise your children for you because you don't have personal time for them.
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So personally I would say that if you're going to get married now as a woman um especially if the family is increasing you must believe God to get the kind of work that will not take all your time
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and focus from the house. You have to use your faith to believe God for such work so you can spend time enough time home to also invest in your children and even your husband. Yeah.
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The man must have more faith to get more money to supply for the home.
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That's right. Originally, that's how it was. The man must get all the money to to supply his wife so his wife there less stress on your wife so she can run the home for a while. But now all the stress is also
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coming upon the woman because we need more money. So you Christian husbands must enter into kingdom financial secret.
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I'm it's very important to get more money so that you can relieve your wife from much stress so she can take more attention give more attention to the home and you are even supplying her.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. Yeah. There are times when even children have come children are within the context of the marriage and it's very difficult. Yeah. It can be so wealthy to keep your wife around for a while and be
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paying your wife monthly. [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's very important to pay your wife monthly.
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Yes, sir. Very important because what your wife is doing at home is two and a half.
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So calculate and give to her. Two and a half full time job. Two salaries.
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Uhhuh. Two and a half. And give to her so she can do it well.
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So she knows she's not losing. It just it's it's transitional. Yes sir. After a while she'll go back and she knows she has not lost yet. She has invested on the on the life of the children in the life of the children.
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Praise God. This is simple but is very important. Yeah. So financial wise you husbands must believe God kingdom financing to get more money so that your wife wouldn't have to go through all the stress you must go through.
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Yeah. So she can keep the home. I'm not saying you are absent, but she's more skillful there than you.
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Hallelujah. Praise God. So the woman is a builder. You are called to build your home. You are the head of the house. The man is your head, but you must rule the house. Yeah. So don't be so engrossed in career that you
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have no time for your your husband and for the home. so engrossed misplaced priorities.
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Yeah. Yeah. Praise God. Hallelujah. Thirdly, the woman is is a helper. The Bible calls him help meat.
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Helper. Helper doesn't mean inferior position. Normally if you are in a house and you have helpers almost like you you are better than them or higher than them. Is that not so? That's the idea because maybe they are helpers. I mean
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you are the real deal and they are helping you. But that's not the biblical understanding of the word helper. The woman being the helper because the word helper is used 21 times in the Old Testament.
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The word for the woman being Adam's helper is used 21 times in the Old Testament and 16 times it is used for God.
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Yes. 16 times it is the word is is Z E R. 16 times it is used concerning God.
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So the woman's helping ministry to the man equals how God delivered his people in the Old Testament.
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The help God gave to Israel by delivering them in the Old Testament, that's the same word.
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When God says he's your help in the book of Psalms, Psalm 1:1, God being your help, it's the same word for the woman being a man's help.
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Can you imagine? So, I hope you understand you are not in an inferior position otherwise God must be inferior.
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But the word help literally means military ally in the Hebrew military ally. military ally, an experienced teammate.
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Now, Issa in the Hebrew means one who has resources the other does not does not have. One who has resources the other person does not have. One who has resources the other person does not have. So, your wife has resources you
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don't have. And your wife is your ally, an experienced teammate. Yeah. Now on the keyboard on the piano, the B flat key is different from the G.
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Is that not so? But they are different. The B flat key is different from the G. But when you put them together, they form a harmonious chord.
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You and your wife, you are different. But together, oh, there is perfect harmony. There's no discord. She is different and you are different, but there shouldn't be any discord. There should be a harmonious God.
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But I like it. The Bible calls that helper suitable for him. And that has a lot to do with your choices before marriage because not every helper is suitable for you.
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Because the Bible says I'll give you an help suitable. So that's your beloved. Is she suitable?
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And the word is is she befitting. You know when I was a student, I wanted to go out with a certain lady.
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[Music] Yeah. Because whenever I get to see her and we are chatting, it's like we're clicking [Applause] because her challenges in life seem to be similar to my challenges in life.
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[Music] So we seem to be clicking, clicking, clicking. Then one day I started becoming serious. I I I felt I had to pray and inquire from God if she was the one.
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So I as I began praying at that time I was doing national service. So I I told Dr. Boy let's let's pray. So we spent half the night praying.
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Wanted to know God's mind actually. Yeah. But God helped me. So all of a sudden, you know what God show showed me? I was making a journey and they brought me the necessary um items I require for my life's
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journey. So they brought me a shoe. See, I wear size 42. So in case you want to give me a shoe, my size is 42.
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So I knew my size but the shoe they brought me was size 32. 32.
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So I I put my leg inside I was trying trying. So I asked them that this is a a long journey. Why are you giving me this shoe? I can't wear it. And they told me that's the wife you want to choose.
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[Applause] 32 you know. 32. May God deliver you from 32. Size 32. Meanwhile, you are size 42.
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So, you could see she was suitable for someone else. She She's a good person, but she isn't suitable for me.
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Yeah. Yeah. So your choices must be very other than that you have to fight a lot of battles in your union.
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Yeah. You have to believe God more than the average Christian. Yeah. And don't just accept someone because uh uh someone people have suggested because meaningful people have suggested the person to be good.
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It's not enough. I read a story by Kennehigan of Blizzard Memory. He went to pastor a certain church and as a pastor the elders of the church were concerned for him that you have to be married. You can't be
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pastoring all these girls are around and they are watching you and you're not married all the sisters. So the elders of the church sat him down and and actually proposed a a girl a lady in the church and said the lady's very decent
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very holy well-mannered and uh they were wanted Hagen to marry the lady. He said outwardly everything was fine but inwardly there was something scratching with him. So they invited him to preach and he stood at the podium took the
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microphone all of a sudden you know he's a prophet. God opened his eyes and saw the lady entering into a hotel with a guy to go and sleep with a guy.
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So he saw in the spirit and looked around physically and the lady wasn't there.
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The elders actually don't know her real character. My god. So if Khig had married such a woman maybe a lot of the impact would have gone yeah so it must be the help that is suitable.
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Yeah. It's not just because someone suggested her or someone suggested him. Not because he's in ministry.
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Not because he can pray well. Not because he can dress well. Not because he can speak with the flowers of eloquence.
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Not because he can teach with exagetical ex exigences and homalical perfections. You don't have to look at the external stuffs and the outward stuff.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You must consider it physically, spiritually, prayerfully, by friendship. I taught all of those stuff last year. Yeah. Friendship, your pastor must be involved.
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Yeah. Cuz it's a lifelong journey. Lifelong journey. Yeah. Your pastor must be involved. Cuz some relationships the person may be good, all right, but it may not work.
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For there must be intellectual compatibility. If you're not intellectually compatible, it will not work.
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The companionship will not work. Uhhuh. Because you finish first degree but your husband to be finished GSS.
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Not that it's bad but your level of communication. I mean there'll be problems except she's he self educated.
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There are people like that. They were no school but they themselves if you stand with them they are even more informed than you yourself.
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Yeah. Because companionship and communication is a lot. So even intellectually you must be compactable.
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Yeah. There must be social affinity. Yeah. If his social class does not accept accept you there'll be problems.
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If you are not accepted in his um social group ah it will affect the marriage.
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Yeah. You must be spiritually congruent. Yeah. Yeah, that's your values and the the same faith. You're all Christians, but it's not enough for all of to just marry a Christian. Yeah, your belief system must be the same.
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I know a sister who married this man and the man doesn't believe in speaking in tongues.
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And this sister, we used to call her sister Oja cuz she could pray. She was on fire.
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Now there's a problem in the home. So how the children must speak in tones and the man doesn't believe in tonesues and she would have to fight all her his life or she would have to use her faith
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to believe that the husband would now come to believe what she believes. But that may come after 10 years of struggle. So you must be spiritually congruent.
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The help must be suitable. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The woman can be the right helper. I mean a good woman will help you spiritually, will help you spiritually, will help you physically, will help you emotionally, will help you financially.
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A good woman, it's amazing. That's we have to keep praying for our wives and men. We have to listen to our wives.
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I started prospering financially when I started listening to my wife on finances and she gave me a secret in the key. Uh it it is working. It works. The woman is a helper. Sometimes when I prepared my message, I get somewhere there's no
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flow. I sit with my wife and she just say something and it opened me up.
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I said, "What is this?" Oh, it's true. I'm always amazed because it always happens. Then I understood, oh the health meat, the health meat is suitable.
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If I are not married, God will give you a suitable mate. [Applause] Yeah. You are meant to live a happy life.
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You are meant to live a happy life. Yeah. Happy life. Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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Now, let me come to the husbands. the husbands, the role of the husband. Let's go to a popular verse of scripture. Ephesians 5 verse 25.
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also love the church. Now, I remember a certain story that was told by one pastor in America.
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He's called a I think it's a blessed memory, Harry Ionside. Harry Ionside. Now he said a man a young couple not not the couple but the man the husband a a young guy came to him and said pastor I think I'm committing idolatry
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idolatry so the pastor his pastor asked him what what what is the problem why why do you say you are committing idolatry and he said I think I'm loving my wife too much I'm loving my my wife too much I suspect
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fact I'm entering into idolatry cuz my love for her is too much. It's as if he's taking the place of God and he says worship no other god beside me. I don't know whether my love for her has entered
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into worship. I love my wife. It has gotten to my mind, my heart too much.
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You know what his pastor did? His pastor turned to Ephesians 5:25 and said, "Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church." So the pastor asked him, "Are you loving Christ just as Christ loved the church?"
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I said, "Oh, pastor, I don't think I'm there yet." Wow. So he thought he he he was over loving his wife. But the scripture is not saying love your wife. There's a standard and there's a measure. How should you love your wife? As Christ
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loved the church. So when the pastor pointed to it, as Christ loved the church, are you there yet? He said, "Hey, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm not even there." So we have to love our wives as Christ loved the church. That's a
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serious love. That's deep and profound. Husbands love. Jon Ostein. You know Jon Ostein is this um the father of Joel Austin Lakewood Church.
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Yeah. That the name of his wife is I like his wife's name. Dodi. That's a Dodi. Dodi. Austin. Austin.
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I like the name Dodi because in it's a Hebrew name. Song of songs. It was a communion between the man and the woman. The man was called beloved. Beloved. The one was called love. The word for beloved is
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doi. Dodi means boiling in love. Yeah. So you can nickname your beloved doi. Boiling in love. Boiling in love for me. Boiling in love.
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Boiling. [Laughter] So now Jon Austin said when he married when he married his wife his wife couldn't cook his wife couldn't cook.
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Can you imagine marrying a woman who cannot cook? So he had to be ordering for food.
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Every now and then he was ordering food, place an order, boat food. Sorry, there was no boat and constant order.
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And he said morning by morning his wife would try to fix breakfast and every morning there was a vent offering.
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[Applause] And in the Bible the vent offerings were every morning, you know. continual burnt offering.
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Every time she tries toast his bread for him, there'll be a bent offering. But that's the woman he loved.
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But he said he had a lot of patience for her, a lot of patience, and she was still with a wife and they still enjoyed heaven on earth relationship.
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May I call that love. Now if you tell your woman, your wife, oh honey, I love you. I I'm asking you a question. Are you sure you love her?
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Which kind of love are you professing? Because the first characteristic of love is that love suffered long.
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Love suffered long and is kind. A newer version says love is patient and is kind. So to say I love you actually you are saying that I am willing to be patient with your weaknesses.
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Honey, I'm I'm ever willing to be patient with your weaknesses. That's what it means. I love you.
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Do you love your wife? Are you willing? Yeah. And that's what John did. It worked out.
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The Bible says, "Husbands, love your wives." Now the word love in the Greek is in the present continuous tense.
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So it's literally keep loving your wife. So yeah continuously it's in the present continuous it's in the present tense in a continual fashion in the Greek. So you can't say oh I loved her.
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I used to love her. No love her constantly day by day. In the Greek, it is also in the imperative tense. So, it's a command.
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It's not suggestive. It's not an opinion. These are the commands in the New Testament. You are being commanded, whether you like it or not, to love your wife.
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If you are sitting by a man, point to the man and say, "You are you are commanded." Yeah.
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No, I'm not saying that men should speak. The woman should tell the men you are commanded. It's a command. It's imperative.
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So you know it's it's in the present tense. So constantly command under constant command to be loving. Loving love and loving whether she's feeling or not. Love love.
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Let's go to verse 28. Verse 28 of Ephesians 5. So ought men. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. So ought men.
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And I like the word ought. Ought. The word ought is the wordio. If I know you were you you've been taking classes, but so the wordio should ring a bell.
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What is ailio? Prophet, your people wrote the exam to pass but they forgotten. Now when I spoke of Jesus washing the feet of disciples, it says if I then being your master have washed your feet, then ye ought to. And I said the word is
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ailio. That means that you are in in indebted. You are in debt. Ofio means to owe someone to be in debt.
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Aha. You are owing someone. You are in debt. So actually the word so ought men to love their wives. What it means is that the man is owing his wife love.
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The man is indebted to his wife when it comes to love. So you are owing your wife love.
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You can't say okay okay you may say I've paid my my dues. I've paid my debt.
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Now so ought men. The word ought also is in the is in the present progressive tense. It's an unending. That means it is a debt you cannot fully discharge.
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What it means is that today you've done all that your best to love your wife.
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What happens is that you've paid your debt today. By the next morning, the debt is renewed.
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The debt is renewed. You have to re you have to pay. It's a debt you can never fully pay. So once you pay, you are owing again. So there is there are dal renewals of debt, daily renewal of debt. So you pay the
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next day you are owing again. So this is a kind of debt you cannot fully discharge. When you discharge it, there's another debt. So husbands constantly say, "We are to love. We are to love. We are to love. We are to love.
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We are to love. This is the divine pattern. As Christ loved the church, we are to love. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. We have to love as Christ loved the church. Now go to verse 23.
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Ephesians 5 23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he's the savior of the body. Let's go on verse 24. Therefore, as the church is subject to Christ, unto Christ, so let
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the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Then it says, "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church." So when it comes to the husband loving his wife a lot of men love the verse that says that the
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husband is the head of the woman but it it is a different kind of headship. We know headship describes authority but the headship here is quite different because when he spoke of for the husband is the head of the woman.
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How is the husband supposed to exercise his headship in context? If you read in context it will amaze you that all of his headship is to be exercised in loving the woman.
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Yes. Because in context, he's the head. He didn't say he's the head and so he must rule over the woman. He's the head and so he must dominate the woman. He's the head and so the woman must No,
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in context when he said he's the head in context he says the man must love the his wife as Christ loved the church. So you exercise headship authority to love.
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Praise God. I'll come back to it. And love is more than the way men understand love is quite different from the way women women understand love.
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Uhhuh. Because love is not merely material provision. Love is beyond material provision. Yeah. The man must surely provide for his house. It is very foundational, fundamental. In fact, in 1 Timothy 5:8, if if a man the Bible says that if you
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don't provide for your own household, if but if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Now, it doesn't mean he's no more in Christ. No, he has denied the faith. He's speaking of the longheld time-tested teaching of scripture handed over to us.
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You are not living according to it. You have abandoned it. You are going your own way.
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So fundamentally or foundationally you have to provide for your household. Praise God. Hallelujah. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't provide for your household, unbelievers even provide for their household. That's what he's talking about. That means you have gone worse than unbelievers because they
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provide for their household. If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children. Even unbelievers who are evil, they know how to give good gifts to their children. Is that not so?
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Your parents may be unbelievers, but when we were growing up, they lavish wonderful gifts on you. And if you are a believer and you don't do what is good and what is right, providing for your home, it says that you are doing what
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even unbelievers will not do. That's what he's talking about. And that's not not what we are taught in the faith. You are denying the teachings or the doctrines brought to us. You are denying it. You set it aside. But a lot of men, this is our
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problem. When you've been able to provide for your wife, you've provided for your children. You pay for their fees. You give your your wife good money. You cater for her hair.
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You cater for her her dress or her jewelries. Whatever she needs, you supply. There's no luck in the home. And you know, you are working hard from dawn to dusk. You are laboring to bring money home. So men interpret that as love.
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My wife must be proud of me. The truth is that those who don't see that as love.
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They see that as your responsibility. [Laughter] Yeah. So you are wondering I'm doing my best but this woman is not grateful.
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No, she's grateful but what she interpret as love is different from what you are interpreting as love.
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Yeah. So you have to go beyond what they call love is giving them attention.
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What they call love is spending quality quality time with them. is caring for them, being with them, giving them focus and attention, giving them affection, sitting with them, hearing hearing from them. That's what they call love.
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Okay. If you're a woman here, am I speaking the truth? I'm speaking your language.
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Yeah. But voice of the voices. Hey, praise God. Hallelujah. So they interpret love not just by your presence but by your presence.
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Husband, love your wives as Christ loved the church and give himself. So you give yourself to your your your family. You give yourself your presence.
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Hallelujah. Let's go to Ephesians 5. Ephesians 5. And I want to read verse 28.
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Ephesians 5:28. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.
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What is the apostle telling us? He said men should love their wives as their own bodies.
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Now, if you're a man, I want you to beat your body and tell it to say, "This is my body." Let me ask you a question. Do you know that? Now, listen. Do you know that you don't always like the shape of your
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body? [Music] The prophet says, "Very, very true." Now you may not always like the size of your body.
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Three of us. You feel like you should be a little slimmer. But all that you try and try and try and try. But the chocolate, oh the chocolate, the sweet life is good. You have to enjoy yourself.
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So you may not like your body. You may not like now you may not like the shape of your body. You may not even like the form of your body. You may not even like the size of your body. Your body may
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even be disturbing you because you have a boil. And this troublesome boil is troubling your peace.
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Yeah. There may be some rashes on your some hidden part of your body that is threatening your peace.
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Yeah. You may not like your body fully because your body becomes frail, fragile feeble weak.
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So despite the fact that you don't like your body, I'm telling you that you give good treatment to your body.
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Yeah. You eat three hot meals a day. Yeah. When you want to take a hot shower, you don't take a cold shower. If you have the take hot shower, Yeah. Look at the kind of cream you apply on your
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hair. Very expensive. Yeah. Like prophet hair. Expensive cream. [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Look at what you put on your body.
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Expensive shoes. Expensive suit like prophet suit. Yeah. You give your body nice treats. You may not like your body, but you treat your body well. You make sure you have good sleep. He makes sure you have good food.
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True of false. Listen, the Bible says the way you don't like your body, but you treat your body good. You say that's how you should treat your wife.
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There are certain things about your wife you may not you don't like it. There are certain things she does, you are not happy with it. There are certain things you wonder when she will change and she's not changing. There are some
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things you see you go like why why it never changes. Now God is telling us just as in your body there are some things you don't like and it's still there yet you treat your body nicely. So in such manner treat your wife
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so he says love your wives as your own bodies the way you love your body and you take care of your body. Love your wife and take care of your wife.
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Do you understand me? Yeah. Love is love on your wife. Take care of your wife.
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Now next time when your wife is troubling you, remember your body troubles you at times.
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You don't deny your body of it comfort. You don't deny your body of the good things it needs. You still lavish your body bountifully with those good things in like manner the way you treat your body. Treat your wife.
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Treat your wife. Treat your wife like that. Hallelujah. The next verse. No man ever yet hated hate his own flesh.
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You see? So, you don't hate your flesh. You may not like it, but you don't hate it. Look at the the analogy and the the language the Bible is using, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
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To nourish is to feed. You feed the body. You don't hate your body, you feed the body and you cherish.
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The word cherish means to brood in the Greek to brood. It is a word for when a hen a hen incubating her eggs with great cost of time and comfort.
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Look at the hen sitting on the eggs. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of comfort. I mean there's a great loss of time and comfort. The head could have been elsewhere but she has to sit on the
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X that is literally telling us how to spend time with our wives by sacrifice.
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Yeah. Have to spend you have to cherish your wife. Yeah. You have to nourish your wives and you have to cherish your wives. Cherish. Give them time and comfort at the expense of your time and comfort.
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Wow. And we we learn every day when a preacher is preaching about marriage, never think that the preacher is perfect.
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You understand? For this preacher is is marriage is 100%. No, it's an illusion. We are also learning every day. Every day we are learning every day. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. But the word in your heart will give you success. It will give you victory. Victory.
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Yeah. The more closer you are, I'm telling you that you the more closer you are, the more you see the person's imperfections.
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True of us. Yeah. Most people who ending up in divorce statistics show shows us that when they marry again it also most of them actually divorce again.
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Yeah. Not everybody but mostly it happens. Yeah. Sometimes you feel this person is not good but you find out that the next person was even is even worse than the previous person.
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Yeah. It may go like this. Wow, this person is so nice. Just wait and get closer and leave with the person. As I'm standing here, whether my mouth is smelling or not, you cannot tell.
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But just get closer to me. Then you can prove it. Aha. I'm telling you, two human beings, human beings, spirit born, uh born of God, but uh their bodies are not yet glorified.
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and they are still maturing when you put them together that little little problem problems here and there. So you may see a lot of imperfections in your spouse because you yourself you are imperfect.
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Yeah. You yourself you are imperfect. So those imperfections should not shouldn't let you turn away. Yeah.
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So I like it when the Bible uses the analogy of our bodies. The way you feel.
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You don't like your body but you treat keep good treatment to it. Now say treat your wife the same way. The same way.
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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Now let's go to verse 23 of Ephesians 5. It says that for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body. I'm showing you
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another responsibility of the man. For the husband is the head of the wife even even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body.
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Now if you read this verse the idea of this verse this verse is not saying let me show you what this verse is not saying and what this verse is saying.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. Now in context the savior of the body here is not Christ.
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Although Christ is the savior. You understand? Christ is the savior. But in context now the subject of the verse is the husband.
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The sub subject of the verse is the husband. Now the one who is the savior of the body here is actually not Christ.
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He's talking about the husband in context. Now the word savior, the word savior is used 24 times in the New Testament. 24 times.
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This is the only place the word s is in lower case. This is the only place the word s is in lower case.
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[Laughter] Now if you like type the word savior anywhere they are all capitalized. Everywhere in the new testament is capital s. They used 24 times. This is the only place in the whole of the new testament where the word savior is in
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small small case. Yes. Why? because he's referring to the husband [Laughter] and in the Greek it has the same idea.
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The word is sot s o t e r s o o t r s.
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So if you're a husband here, you are the savior of your wife. [Laughter] You are the savior of your wife if you're a husband here.
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Now the word s means to rescue from harm, from danger and from loss. Sut to rescue. You rescue from danger.
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You rescue from harm. You rescue from loss. The second definition of sot means to keep in a safe condition.
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To keep in a safe condition. The husband being a savior of his wife means he has to keep his wife in a safe condition.
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In a safe condition. Understand that in the Old Testament there were people who were called saviors.
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Yeah. Yeah. Nehemiah 9:27 God the Bible says that he gave them saviors. The judges were called saviors. The Bible says he gave them saviors.
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and saviors shall come upon Mount Zion and shall judge the mount of Esau and the kingdom shall be the loss. Obediah 121. So in Nehemiah 9:27 the Bible says that he thou givest them saviors. I want to just let you understand that when we
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say savior it has other applications. Thou give us them saviors. Okay 121 also says saviors will come on top of Mount Zion. By the way oath was called a savior. God raised up for them a savior. Was a savior. Ahood was a
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savior. God raised Ahood for them as a savior. Ahu. So these were mighty warriors. But you the husband, you're also a savior. You are called to save one person, your wife.
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[Music] You are not called to save multitude. You are called to save. But that one person can be more than a multitude.
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[Laughter] Yeah, I believe you have to save her. You should be her savior spiritually, emotionally, physically. Yeah, spiritually you should your wife.
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Husbands must pray for their wives. Yeah. Pray for their wives. Yeah. Sometimes, let's say, I'm just my wife just goes out from the gate. I say she just left. I say she didn't pray. Yeah. I just stand at the corridor and just cover her. I do
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that often. Yeah. I know she's forgotten. She's so busy. Just cover her. Pray for her. She doesn't even know. But husbands, we must protect them and pray for them. or you sense that your wife is so busy that the time she
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doesn't I mean legitimately busy she's not being able to spend quality time with the Lord and it's not happening instead of trying to first of all as a husband I first believe I believe that you must first pray for her yeah pray
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for her first before you you talk to her don't just say ah these days you are not you have to do that no she's trying her best and she can I mean she she's forcing and it's not working Yeah. So
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you pray for her first. Just pray for her. And I'm telling you that if if there is a necessity or there's a need for you to talk to her, God will create environment for you to talk to her in a
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very loving way. Yeah. Yeah. It works. Or she's not spending time in the word.
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And you realize that her fellowship, just pray for her. Pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation. It will happen.
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It happens. It works. Yes, sir. Pray for her first. Yeah. Pray for her first.
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Pray for her. Pray for her because you, the truth is that you, the husband, you are going to be the beneficiary.
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You pray for your wife. You are the first beneficiary. You, you will reap the harvest. Yeah. You must save her emotionally. You see, she's down. She's downcast. She's not happy. She's depressed. Something's not working well or she's too stressed.
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You just have to make time for her. And she's not said anything. Her actions are louder than words.
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Just design and just make time for her and talk to her. One word will stir her up. Yeah. Yeah. You just have to save just anything you design that is not right. You are the savior of your wife.
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You have to save her emotionally and save her physically because maybe the house choice are too much. You are her savior. Relieve her.
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Relieve her. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Sweeping with sweeping will not take your will not um exterminate and uh reduce your title. Uh-huh. Sweeping the house doesn't affect your mantle.
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[Applause] Yeah. Yeah. At all. I mean, you know what will happen? It it will increase your emotional account. Your emotional bank account or your love bank account.
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You know sometimes your bank account you know when I say bank account your wife has a bank account for you it's a like a love bank account emotional bank account and by the way you are living towards her it is running
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dry you you have you've become bankrupt but with those little little movements you are increasing you are adding to your you are making deposit very soon it's going to be full and she's going to be all over you
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the kisses around you be too much to bear. So you can relieve her physically because you can see that no she's she's not said she need help. She's not complained. But you can design this thing is is is too burdensome.
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You can just relieve her to rest and to relax. You are her savior. You see our responsibility as husbands.
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You are the savior of your wife. You are the savior and Christ is the prototype.
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The way Christ saved the church, that's how you have to save your wife. You have to give her automatic redowns.
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But look at the verse. It says that you see the husband is ahead. The the it the Bible is speaking figuratively.
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The husband is ahead. Okay? and she must be the he must be the savior of the body. So figuratively just as Christ is the head and the church is the body in in figurative terms the husband is the
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head and the wife is the body. So your wife is like your body. It's not as literal as Christ in the church but it's figurative. He's just given us some understanding. So instead of saying savior of your wife he says
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savior of the body. The reason is that the head all the nourishment of the body comes from the head.
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Colossians 2:1 19 is there. The nourishment of the body receives spiritually it flows from the body and not holding the head from which all the body all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered. So he says that from the head the nourishment
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of the body comes from the head to the bones and to the joints and being knit together increase with the increase of God. So Christ who is the head supplies life to all the members of the body. So
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the husband you are the head to do what? To supply nourishment to your wife who is figatively the body.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You have to see you know all the movements of the body is governed by the head.
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Wherever you want to go all the movement of the body is governed by the head.
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That is how the wife shouldn't make decision take decisions independent of the husband. The husband must approve of it. Approve of it. That's how God has made it. You live together.
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So the the the husband as the head takes the leadership but he supplies nourishment.
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He supplies life. That means you have to supply encouragement, encouragement to your wife. You have to supply peace to your wife. Supply hope to your wife. Share the word. You are the priest of your home. Share the word.
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Encourage her. You are the savior of the body. Lift her up. Stir her up. Prop her up. Hallelujah.
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That's your responsibility. That's your calling. That's your duty as the husband. You are to be the savior of your wife and the savior of the body.
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So whatever Christ is doing is what the hus whatever Christ is doing to the church is what the husband must do to his wife.
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That's it. That's it. Christ is the prototype. Christ is the template. Whatever Christ is doing to the church, which is his body, the husband must do to his wife, to his wife.
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Yeah. And all of these things comes you, the husband must stay with the Lord, be nourished in sweet fellowship with the Lord, receive him. You can't give what you have not received. As you receive from the Lord, you can give. You are
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enraged by the Lord. Quality quality time with the Lord, spending time with Jesus, you can give. Yeah. You come from your fellowship with Jesus, you are smiling, your smiles become contagious.
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Your wife receive an impact from that smile. Your whole day goes well. Yeah. Sometimes you come from work and um your wife doesn't get attention she needs just because you either too stressed or something happened at work. So now your
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wife becomes a victim of all your problems and troubles at work. Aha. She doesn't receive the smile she deserves. But you behave some way and it affect the home. It affect the atmosphere of the home. It affect her
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mood and everything just because of something you smuggled to come to the house. I'm telling you that you must let the word you must be ruled by the word. You must be governed by the word. Live by the word. I'm I'm telling you. And when
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you live that way, it will affect your home. It affect your home. It will affect your home.
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Say, "I'm the savior of the body." If we're husband here, lift up your hands. Let them see.
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Praise God. Yeah. If your husband, can you please stand? I want us to pray for the husbands. Actually, I I'm not saying husbands to be.
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Husbands to be. I'm not saying aspiring husbands. Aspiring husbands or husbands to be. Praise God.
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Yeah. So these are the husbands. Oh my my I want those who are not husbands to pray for the husbands here.
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Hallelujah. You are praying. You just want to open your mouth and pray. Releasing grace. The grace of God. The wisdom of God. Husbands with a difference. Just like Christ himself.
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Just like Christ himself. No man can do these things with a strength. You can't do these things by your strength.
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that their love will abound more and more in all knowledge and in all discernment.
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See, love abounds by knowledge. Love abounds by knowledge. The more you know, the more you can love well and by revelation. There's a love of Christ that passeth knowledge Sunday.
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I want you to you lift up your voice and pray for every husband in Jesus name.
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They are to bind the house. They are to bind the house. Rama shabala vandala sandi.
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Every husband every husband imbalas the grace of God the wisdom of God. The power of God.
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Wisdom to lead. Wisdom to lead. Wisdom to lead. Every husband here. Every husband here.
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Every husband here. Whatever he tells you to do, do it. Whatever he tells you to do, do it.
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Whatever he tells you to do, do it. Receive revelation. Receive revelation. Receive light and receive insight.
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Whatever he tells you to do, we are praying James 15. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
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God giveth to every man liberally and upgrade not and it shall be given unto him wisdom.
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Wisdom to be a savior. Wisdom to handle the home. Wisdom to rule the house.
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Wisdom to rule to lead your wife. Wisdom to be the head over your wife. The wisdom of God. The wisdom of God.
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The wisdom of God. There is grace here. Grace is supplied. There is the supply of the spirit. The supply. The supply. The supply of the spirit. The supply of the spirit. The supply of the spirit. The supply of the
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spirit. The supply. The supply. The supply. The supply. Grace. Great grace, grace, supply of the spirit.
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Supply [Music] the supply, the supply of the sea. Receive the wisdom. Receive Rama. Receive.
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Your home will be heaven on earth. Your home will be heaven on earth. Receive it. Receive it from heaven.
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There is the bestower of grace. [Music] For he himself knew what to do. For he himself knew what to do. You will know what to do. You will know what to do.
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Your family life is going to be enhanced. Your family life is going to be enriched. There is an enhancement.
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[Music] You are the savior of the body. The savior of the body. The husband is the savior. The savior of the body. Wisdom to be the savior of the body. Sunday. No man ever yet hated his own body, but
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nourisheth and cherisheth even as the Lord the church. So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies.
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Loving your wife as your body. Loving your wife as your own body. Loving your wife as your own body. Your own body.
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The lights, the revelation, the insight. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Oh to him alone be glory.
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Oh sh Thank you father. Every husband here receives grace because know there's a special grace for husbands here.
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Encounter this grace. Unusual wisdom. Amen. It will just drop. It has just dropped. And you will go home.
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It will be stress free. Stress free. Where you are struggling, there's the flow of oil.
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Without friction, everything will be flowing by the power of God. Father, we thank you. There is peace. It is done in Jesus name.
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The son of God. Husbands, can you be seated? And I want the wives also to rise. Want to pray for the wives.
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I want you to be in the mood of prayer. [Music] You want to pray for every wife who is standing.
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Every wife who is who is standing. You see the wisdom to be a builder. To be a builder. Every wise woman the Bible says build her house not just your career.
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Every wise woman will build her home not just her career. Every wise woman will build her home not just her career.
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Thank you Jesus. You are supposed to be a crown to your husband. Not a cancer.
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Not a cancer, but a carrier, but a crown. A crown of glory and of honor because you are honorable.
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The daughter of Zion. You arely the daughter of Zion. You are supposed to be the helper, the suitable helper. Come and release the grace of God.
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[Music] command Sunday. Thank you, Jesus. The wisdom for the wives to be a homemaker.
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The wisdom for the wife to guide your home, to rule your home. The wisdom for the wives. The wisdom of Zapora. The wisdom of Zippora. The wisdom of Abigail. The wisdom of Abigail.
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Knowing what to say at any given time. The wisdom of Abigail. Knowing how to say in which tone, in which tone, in which mood. The wisdom, the wisdom, the wisdom of the matriarchs, the wisdom of Sarah. Omar Shanda in subjection to her
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husband Abraham calling him Lord whose daughters he are if he do well and are not afraid with amazement now the wisdom of Rebecca the wisdom of the matriarchs the wisdom of Rael the wisdom of the ms the ms in Israel
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you'll be a homemaker, you'll be a builder. You be a mother, you'll be a mother.
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You don't have to honor. Let the grace of God rest on you. Let the grace of God, the riches of his grace will rest on you. The wisdom of God, the knowledge of God, the power of God is
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that come on you strongly. [Music] A different kind of wife. A different kind of wife. A different kind of wife.
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A different kind of wife. A different kind of wife. A different kind of wife.
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A different kind of wife. Whatever you have desired your home to be, you are receiving grace to go manifest it.
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Whatever you have desired, your home will be days of heaven on earth. Your home will be days of heaven on earth.
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God is multiplying your days as the days of heaven on earth commander. All things are possible to him that believeth and blessed is she that believeth. For there shall be a performance of those things which were spoken of the Lord.
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It will manifest. It will manifest. You are that virtuous woman. You are that excellent woman. Your price is more than rubies. Mama shamb wife is from the Lord. You are that brillant wife. Mama s horses and riches and the inheritance of
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fathers. But a pregnant wife is from the Lord. You are that brilliant wife. You are that excellent wife.
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that come. Likewise, ye wise be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they may also without a word.
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[Music] Your chase conversation coupled with fear. Grace upon grace. Grace upon grace. You will excel. You will excel. Whatever he tells you to do, do it. You will excel.
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There is no restoration. Sweet wine. Sweet wine. Sweet wine. The wine will not run out. Sweet wine. The wine will not run out. Sweet wine. Wines on the lease. Sweet wine. Sweet wine. There is a restoration. This is a third day.
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There is a revival of every marriage, of every union. Every revive, every union, revival is happening in your homes. The ambience of your home is changing. The atmosphere in your homes are changing in the name of Jesus Christ, the son of
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God. It is changing. It is shaking. It is shaking. Mama will take authority over your homes. In Balasa, the enemy cannot rule. Every darkness is dispelled. Every darkness is dispelled.
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We break the power of darkness. You are loosed to be in peace, to be in joy, to be filled with life and with harmony and tranquility and equanity.
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[Music] Thank you Jesus. Father, thank you for the wives. They will replicate the holy matriarchs that walk the earth and their union will be days of heaven on earth. Thank you for the wisdom you are imparting to them. They will never
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lose it. They will just know what to do and it will work. They will know what to do. Whatever must be changed, they will know it. Intuitively, instinctively, they will know it. You have the solution. God has given you the master
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key. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. And let those who are not married also stand up and let's pray for you.
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Thank you, Jesus. We are praying a suitable helper, befitting helper. Horses and riches are the houses and riches are the inheritance of others.
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But a prudent wife is from the Lord. The Bible says a faithful man who can find. Most men will proclaim according to their own goodness. But a faithful man, the Bible says who can find. And the Bible says a virtuous woman who can
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find. So we are praying that the Lord himself will give them the befitting partners as the Lord prepares them to meet their partners. We are praying that even there are people here in wrong relationships.
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It should be apart. Yeah. If they in wrong relationships, we ask for God's mercy to separate you.
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Then wherever your husband is, we call them to come. Yes. Wherever your wife is, we call them to come.
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Yeah. If you believe it, lift up your voice and let's pray. Any relationship that will not help you, may God deliver you from it. God deliver you from every relationship that will not help you in Jesus name.
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[Music] [Music] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Mama, God is the matchmaker. God is the matchmaker. He is the matchmaker. He's the matchmaker.
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God is the matchmaker. [Music] Thank you, Jesus. [Music] Aonda Ramanda. He's a prayer answering God. He's a prayer answering God. He's a prayer answering God.
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[Music] Divine direction. Divine direction. The efficacy of divine guidance. The efficacy of divine guidance. Divine guidance.
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[Music] What is the man that fearth the Lord? Him shall he teach in the way he shall choose.
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[Music] way. The meek will he guide in judgment. Divine direction. Divine direction. Divine direction.
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The direction of God. The Lord deliver you from wrong associations, wrong partners, redirection. Whoever will not help you fulfill God's eternal purpose for your life, may you be forever delivered.
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Be delivered in Jesus name. Be delivered in Jesus name. The Lord lead you like the servants of Abraham.
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He be the way the Lord led him. Subata. Oh, thank you Jesus. Oh, thank you Jesus.
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Oh, thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Hand it over to God. You got to hand it over to him. Hand it over to him.
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Hand it over to him. He's willing. He's able. You don't have to stress. He's willing and he's able. You don't have to stress.
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[Music] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Santa. Oh, thank you Jesus.
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Oh, thank you. I want all of us to bless and praise his name and worship God with thanking him for answering that prayer of yours. Every prayer has been answered. You just want to worship him with thanksgiving.
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Oh, he's so good. You have received the answer. Not that you're going to receive the answer. You have received the answer.
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I want you to be filled with gratitude and with praise in your heart. Gratitude and praise in your heart.
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Oh, thank you, Jesus. [Music] Oh, thank you, Jesus. Hallowed be your name. Oh, we worship you.
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Oh, come on, praise the Lord. Come on, praise the Lord. You have 5 minutes to praise the Lord.
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Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise his holy name. The Lord is good.
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Oh, the Lord is good. Praise his holy name. [Music] Oh, [Music] shabor. [Music] The Lord has answered you.
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The Lord has answered you. No more worry. No more worry about your husband. No more doubt about your wife.
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The Lord has answered you. Just praise his holy name. Lord, thank you Jesus. You are beautiful beyond description.
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[Music] So marvelous for words. So wonderful for coming [Music] like nothing ever seen or heard.
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Who can your infinite wisdom? Who can the depths of your love? You are beautiful and just a throne above.
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Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.
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Heat. Heat. standing we Jesus be honor you holy God to whom all the praise is draes I stand I stand in all Let the church say I stand I stand I stand I stand all of you Jesus I stand
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I stand sweet Jesus holy God to whom God to all the praisees I I want us to pray.
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You see there is I want us to use our tongue. [Music] There is someone here who who is struggling with a marriage.
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But you know what? There is something you spoke because we prostrated and those words registered in the spirit and the effect and the consequences are what is happening in your union. You spoke and the effect is what you are
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seeing. The Lord want us to reverse every wrong word spoken in your union to your spouse or about your spouse. Even your frustration when you were he she wasn't or he wasn't around.
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Everything under your breath, everything you spoke, you want to reverse it. Then you want to speak into your marriage.
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Speak into your marriage. Whatever you want to say, you want to see, begin to speak it. Lift up your voice in the name of Jesus.
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Now reverse every negative word you have ever spoken. Then reframe your world by your words. Reframe your marriage. Come on, begin to speak well about your wife. Speak well about your husband. Speak well about your union.
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Speak in the name of Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Speak the word. Speak the word. Speak the word. Speak the word. She is not difficult. She is not difficult.
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He is not difficult. She is not difficult. He is not difficult. She is not difficult. He is not difficult.
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She is not difficult. And he is not difficult. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
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Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
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[Music] Thank you Jesus. Can you give me 1 Corinthians chapter 13 in amplified from verse 4?
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1 Corinthians 13 from verse 4. from vers 4 to 8. APMC 1 Corinthians. Thank you Jesus.
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Now we are going to make a declaration with this verse. Wherever you see love, you put yourself there.
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Yeah. You are declaring it. It has you. The love of God is in your heart. It is you.
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You understand? It is you. In the context of your marriage, you are going to confess it from verse four.
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All right. Are you ready? One. Go. No, don't say it's you. Now let's repeat the last one. The last part One more time.
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One more time. All right, let's go on. One more time. All right, it's up to verse seven.
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Hallelujah. Let's go back to verse seven. I want us to repeat verse seven. One go.
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and I want you to pray this with your spouse for one week when you go home.
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How many of you will do it? One week with your spouse and put your names there and confess it as yours. Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord. Now open your mouth and forgive your spouse whatever she he or she has done against you. Every offense you can remember forgive him and forgive her. Just forgive him and forgive her.
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I don't want anything to be affected. You are releasing your faith. You know faith without love. Faith work by love.
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He is forgiving. She is forgiven. Thank you Jesus. I see liberation in the atmosphere.
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There's liberation in the atmosphere. Yeah, she's forgiven. Now begin to release finances into your union.
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Release health into your union. It's working. [Music] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Your spouse is blessed. Your spouse is not difficult. Your spouse is loving. Your spouse is obedient.
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Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord.
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Your home is the nearest thing to heaven on earth. [Music] Thank you, Jesus. Come on, continue to be in the spirit.
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Prophet, can you join me? Just be in the spirit. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Jesus. [Music] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
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Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Are you seeing the picture of your home?
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Your wife is a fruitful vine. Run about your house. Your children are olive plants. Run about your table. Do you see a peaceful home?
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Full of love, full of peace, full of riches, full of kisses, full of romance, full of every good thing.
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Come on. It's your signature. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. [Music] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Please lift up your hands. Your home is blessed. Your home is blessed.
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You shall be found by the right man and also by the right woman. Your heavens are opened and the glorious light of God shineth upon you.
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The Lord will do you good. I said the Lord will do you good. He will cause you to smile.
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He will cause you to smile. And you will rejoice. Ro, [Music] [Music] the Lord is releasing answers.
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The Lord is releasing answers to prayers, to requests. He is releasing answers. He's just be in the spirit.
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He's releasing. He is releasing. [Music] It is a family life conference. But I see signatures being endorsed on documents that that that people ought to be promoted. All delays in promotions are receiving visitations right now.
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Promotions are being released right now in the name of Jesus. Reelh [Music] [Music] father be glorified in the lives of your people.
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Be exalted in the lives of your people. Be exalted in the lives of your people.
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Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. There is a spirit. You know it. My gateway to the heavens.
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The connection with the father. My worship brings me face to face. And I will share the word upon until [Music] Can you help them sing it?
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[Music] Until I am changed until I am changed to save. Hallelujah. Lord, [Music] if you're a match born here, raise up your hand. March match match bonds.
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Oh bro. Match bonds. I have only two two two two things to see. The first is for match bonds. If you are between the 10th to the 27th, raise your hand. The rest, if you're not within that range, please drop it.
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Let me see the hands. quickly. If you are from the 20th to 27th, raise your hand.
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Daddy, please bear with me. Daddy, please bear with me. Oh my mama. Okay. Be in the spirit. I beg you.
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[Music] [Music] If you are 25th, let the hands go up. If you are not, drop it.
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[Music] Come. [Music] What do you do? [Music] This is the word of the Lord to you, Daddy. I see a door open and within the door there is another door opened and from the way the Lord is ministering
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to me the the second door and the first door are connected. They are really connected. The opening of one would open the other one. Yes. And I see somebody preparing a document based on a word another person gave to
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that person recommendation. The Lord is telling me to minister to you this word. Somebody has spoken to you to another person. You have been recommended and the person you were recommended to some way somehow which I can't explain
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thoughts of you are impressed on his mind and I see them I see him decide they are going to actually open up recruitment and employment for some people. You are not part of the people they are looking for, but you
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shall be served a letter also. [Music] You shall be saved. The Lord is going to Thank you, Holy Spirit. The Lord is going to open an employment opportunity for you.
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The interesting thing is that what you will get, you don't qualify for, but you will get it.
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You don't qualify for it, but you will still get it. Please come and let the prophet pray for you. My last word, so you have to be in the spirit.
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[Music] God bless you, daddy. Prophet Alex ministered to me last year when I was here after the service. He ministered to me.
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He stood with me just here and he gave me a word. When he gave me the word he was saying that some of the government officials I'll be connected to present the current government some of the officials. In fact me I'm a prophet
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so I don't joke with prophecies at all. But when he was telling me he's a prophet when he was giving me the prophetic word that I did say that God is my witness.
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Surprisingly from family life, I don't know how it happened. I had an all night service went to minister there. Then God mentioned the name one Mr. Eric So and so I won't add the rest.
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It's quite a huge church. So I I asked open it up because by the are saying, "Eric, you might end up getting about 20 Erics coming forward." I said, "Who is Eric here?" Amazingly, there was no Eric in the
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church. No Eric. So, but but who is connected to any Eric in this church? Guess what was only one person like all of us here and only one person is connected to an Eric.
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I was like are you sure you are not lying or for all of you here only one person said yes okay so then what followed was that the word wasn't for the it was a lady for the lady was for the man so I told
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the lady that she should convey what has transpired to the the the man and if he's willing I will talk to him by voice note she conveyed it and the man said no she he doesn't want to me to communicate
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through voice note. He wants me to come to you. So there was an appointment and I went there and guess what? Was an ND official.
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Yeah. I was waiting to share this at your place but since you are here I have to give you that testimony too. God bless you for the word. The rest is my affairs.
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But I was blessed out of that and I have a very strong bond with the man now. God bless you. and he actually suggested that hey proof I think that it's time that I connected you to my circles. So I know that very
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soon the connection will happen. But when I shook your hand, I heard a name.
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It's not your word, but I heard a name. F E L I X. W second time.
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[Music] Daddy, I actually rehearsed the song very well. You're laughing. I rehearsed the song because and you see daddy I had to learn the words well because I thought say oh mercy on my head Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign
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speech. [Music] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [Music] [Music] ground. Ground ground. [Music] Anywhere. [Music] [Music] [Music] said [Music] [Music] Fore!
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Foreign! Foreign! [Music] say [Music] [Music] around here. right here. [Music] Amen. And come mother.
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Wait. from now to the next 25 years of your life to next 25 years.
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Okay. Life as a son. [Music] Oh Jesus. Another [Music] [Music] [Music] Okay, [Music] [Music] very easy.
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[Music] Yeah, I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I I am I am [Music] I am [Music] yeah I am yeah I am I
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yeah I yeah high Yeah, I am [Music] I am [Music] I am I am I [Music] higher?
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[Music] [Music] But trustee homechain [Music] Emmanuel, you met me. You helped me. Come quickly.
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Yes. [Music] [Music] I figured I figured I figured I figing [Music] sector but because [Music] Although prepared blessing [Music] too early.
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Angels E S H U N Good evening sir. Felic [Music] hey. [Music] I don't know.
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Daddy one. Number two. Number three. Number four. Yes. Fifth one. [Music] Derek Prince. Prophet 30 years ministry narrative. Yes, sir.
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critical. [Music] Catch it up. But the mercies of the Lord has found you well and the grace of the Lord will beautify you immensely.
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Let's [Music] see. [Music] [Music] I am [Music] I am I am I am I am I I am I am I am I am I am I am I I am I am I I am.
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[Music] Thank you Jesus. Lift up your hands and glorify his holy name. Just wave your hands to Jesus. Glorify him. Oh, thank you Jesus.
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Oh, glorify his holy name. Thank you Jesus. He has done it for us. Thank you Jesus. Thank for fruitful marriage, fruitful union that will fulfill your purpose in our lives. Thank you Jesus.
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[Music] Oh, if you are doing it for Jesus, do it better. [Music] Hallelujah. Give the Lord a better shout of praise.
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Hallelujah. You may be seated. Amen. [Music] Are you excited you came? Have you been blessed?
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Wow. What a blessing. Christ centered marriage. Hallelujah. Amen. We are not taking questions today. But no. Yes. If you are wise, you know that all the things that were said.
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What are you going to ask again? It's just that some I want to hear your voice. Please.
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Um I just have probably two questions I'll ask daddy for him to emphasize something.
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Number one, it has to do with the matter of divorce. I realized that usually during marriage conferences and relationship conference um because of course we know that God hates divorce sometimes not addressed.
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But we also find out that because of modernity some women who are Christians want to keep their homes.
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Sometimes Some reasons reasons certain reasons cause it's like they can't just explain where this union is going to. We have a couple of people like that who have been with very unreasonable men and men leave them. We have situations
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where the men were widowed. So they seem to be starting again but they have children.
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Um sometimes you can see they feel empty. They feel alone. They feel that when they say marriage they are not part when they say single they are not really single. It's like a complex position they find themselves in.
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But this one is just it's not a question per what admonition you know as Ezekiel said in chapter 36 that in your old age you build houses still God has a restorative plan but what admonation do you have because some
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of them they didn't institute the divorce others too the men were killing them strangling them abusive beating them so they had to step away And because of the preaching of divorce and some still have the guilt and condemnation in their mind that they
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activated divorce, they had to step away. I had to do with a case like that.
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And when I reach out to this lady, she's not in the country. When I reached out to her, she said she was feeling condemned because um when they got married something the husband was in church but along the line the husband's friend
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or their friend died out of sickle cell and the man after four years was so hurt with God he's now an atheist.
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So literally for the past 10 years he's against her prayer. Doesn't want the children to go to church. Like if she prays is war. She shouldn't go to church. She shouldn't even do quiet time with the children. No preaching to the
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children. And this is a case where she was already married. An event of a loss that was not properly explained to the man led to atheism. So now you say is an atheist. There is no God and she's in a marriage. So she said,
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"Prophet, it's gotten to a point I can't freely worship God. So I have to step away." And he says, "I've had to do with condemnation because God hates divorce and all that." So daddy, especially for the divorce people, if you can kindly
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say something to us. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah. It's amazing. Now praise God. Hallelujah.
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You know we shouldn't find any reason to divorce especially in our modern day uh in marriages people threaten the marriage will divorce we divorce whatever happens. Hey I will divorce you.
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It shouldn't happen. Praise God. But there are certain critical situations that divorce is necessary as like the case uh prophet just told us. There are certain situations you either in it or you die. It's necessary.
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Uh people have lived in such situations and died because of inappropriate understanding of scripture.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. Of course, God hate divorce, but that's not the whole council of God concerning divorces.
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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Yeah. That's not the whole council of God. Are are you listening to me?
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Okay. I'll give you a number of reasons. Number one, God said he hate divorce, but there was a time God said he had divorced Israel.
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and he was asking for the deal the bill of divorcement. [Laughter] Praise God. All right. Number two, in the days of Ezra, they had married wrong wives.
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So they had to actually divorce their wives. So I mean it was allowed for them to separate because they've married the wrong people.
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Are you listening to me? Number three, in Matthew 19:3 concerning what Jesus said concerning divorce, people misinterpret it. Let's see. Matthew 19:3, King James, please.
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All right. This is okay. The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him and saying unto him, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his life, his wife for every cause?" Now listen, you have to read the
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Bible. Well, they said is it lawful? So Jesus answered them according to the law.
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He was interpreting the law because for every cause they were quoting the 24 because in those days I'm tell the phases had two schools of thought. One said that look you can divorce your wife for every cause. If she cooks the food
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and you want it hot and it's cold you can divorce her. That's the word every cause. Aha. So that's how they interpret it from the Deuteronomy is it 24 or something. So they brought those those understandings to Jesus and they were
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quoting from the law. Is it lawful? So Jesus answered them according to the law. Look at those who came to Jesus with the law. He answered them lawfully.
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But that doesn't mean that was a standard of orthodoxy. Praise God. Now let's see what Paul said concerning divorce. 1 Corinthians 7:27.
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1 Corinthians 7:27. Look at what he says. Thou bound unto a wife. That means are you married?
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Seek not to be loosed. He says if I'm married, don't seek divorce. Praise God. If I'm married, don't seek divorce. And he says, are that loosed from a wife?
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What does it mean? Are you divorced? He said, are you divorced? That's he said, seek not a wife. But look at the next verse.
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But if thou married that has not sinned. Hey there. That's it. Wow. Yeah. So in some cases divorce is necessary. In some cases remarage is necessary.
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In certain cases I'm telling you life and death cases like what you said. There was a case like that. They were married. The guy was 27. They had two children. The lady said I don't want you again. I don't want to serve. I don't
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want a marriage again. And the lady left for about a decade. Wow. But the pastor said you shouldn't marry.
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The Bible says you shouldn't marry. The guy after 6 years committed adultery. He kept himself after another uh two years too. The pastor said he knew that when he goes home, he will weep for the guy. But when he comes, the scripture
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says that don't stay. Yeah. But out of frustration, he said you should marry. But it was right for him to marry.
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Yeah. So there are special cases like that. Not for every case. Praise God. So how many points have I given you?
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Yeah. Hallelujah. God bless you. Hallelujah. Please. Is it a very satisfactory answer? Uhhuh. I I I had to because we are teaching righteousness and his grace.
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So you don't abuse it. You understand what is happening. So like he said, if it's a life or death situation, please step away and don't create that life and death situation subjectively.
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It's a please. Amen. Amen. So life and death is usually physical. Amen. It's usually physical.
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Uhhuh. And if it is constant threat, I will kill you. I will kill you please.
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Cuz when you are asleep, you don't know what is happening that day. Yes, please.
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I remember a pastor who wanted to divorce and we didn't understand him. So later on we got to understand what he was going through.
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The wife wanted to be out of the marriage. He said he'll wake up midnight and his wife will be holding knife on him contemplating whether he should drop the knife.
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Yeah. Yeah. And we were there. It it it was life and death. Yeah. He had endured. Sometimes she will wash and while she's sleeping she would take the dirty water, the soapy water and pour it on him on the bed. And that's what he
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could be. The guy became so frustrated that the pastor started drinking alcohol. So the pastor would take a a black politan bag and take Guinness and wrap it. So so so no one could see.
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So he was using the alcohol to relieve his pain and the wife saw it and went to church to announce what the pastor was doing. But now he came to a place it was life and death.
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He escaped death many times from the wife. So he couldn't stay one night on the same roof with him. Sorry, with her because the light the wife his wife was threatening to kill him.
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I've not seen I've not heard from them again for about 10 years. I don't know what has happened but I know they are no more. So there are wild cases.
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So you have to walk in word of wisdom. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Amen.
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Amen. Now, that that's also information for you, too. When you see somebody going through a divorce, close your mouth.
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No. Yes. Like daddy said, you don't know what the person is dealing with. Amen.
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Amen. Um, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And we are also not telling you to divorce.
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We are telling you that um life and death. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Are you excited to come to church?
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Are you blessed by the prophet? I was telling my wife that it's so nice the way, you know, remember prophet the way he said the angels are say e su. I say it's so nice. You know sometime when
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we call names people think we know you already cuz he doesn't have that. I like that. Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Lift your hands to Jesus and Lord say Lord we thank you for your word.
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Jesus said you are washed. You are sanctified by the washing of water which is the word of God. The word has cleansed you. Works does not cleanse you. Is the word that cleanses you. And today because of what you have heard,
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something has happened to you. Because of what you have heard, something there's a shift in your life.
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The prayers you have prayed, you have invited the Holy Spirit. The glory of God is with us.
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I'm sure during the book of tongs, my wife will say something. But look, me may I use the things that he teaches. So trust me. Trust me.
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Don't do like you know. Trust me. I learned a long time ago that it takes strength for the two to become one. That means that if God is not a third party, the way marriage is designed, another thing will become the
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third party. Yes. Either your mother, your father, a side chick, something will become a third party. If you don't make God the third party. So don't say marriage is between just the two of us. That's contract. Holy Spirit marriage, the Lord
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must be part. And if the Lord is part, he has his representation on earth.
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So sometimes he will send the person who represents him on earth into your marriage to give you guidelines and solutions. And isn't it a blessing we have received guidelines and solution here. Amen.
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So listen next time before you complain bless and pray. In 200 was it 921 we were in Jos and Pastor Choli was preaching. Pastor Chuli was here in May and he made a very remarkable statement that scared me and what scared me was
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that he made a statement that a lot of husbands have subjected their wives to death without knowing it. And the way he puts the story was this that he said Satan comes to suggest to you what if your wife dies
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who will take her place? Then as your wife is alive, you are contemplating her replacement that oh if she's not there I think this one can do the bet the job better. She looks like she can handle you have
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killed your wife. Have you have surrounded her for an attack because Satan has suggested to you that what if your husband is not there and you're like, "Oh, my ex I think my ex used to love me. He's still single
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weekend." Yeah. So you'll be in the marriage but you have a replacement waiting. You're actually subjecting yourself to an attack. I mean that day I repented. I because it comes as a thought. It looks very subtle like yeah it's human
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thinking that oh you know succession plan but it's the devil playing you to to begin to attack your family in a certain way you can't understand so we we are not ignorant we are people of the say I'm a person of the word
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I'm a person of the word Ghana we like saying that that we are people of the word but it's because we like to hear mysteries we don't use it the people of the word use the word they are governed by the Everything they are
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doing, there must be biblical basis to it. Hallelujah. So if you came to church with an offering, daddy wants to say something.
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I want to say something about this verse. You know, there are some people who say they don't want to marry because when they married, they have trouble in the flesh.
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Have you ever heard it before? You know, I've heard people saying, "Ch, when you marry, you have trouble in the flesh." Paul said you have trouble in the flesh when you marry. So they married, they marry with the picture that there's
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going to be trouble in the flesh. I even had heard a man of God saying, "Oh, you are married, you have trouble in the flesh." So people marry anticipating trouble.
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But that's not what Paul was saying. Thank you. You have to get it in context.
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But if thou married has not sinned, and if an unmarried woman marries, she has not sinned. That that's what it means.
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Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh. You have to interpret the the verse in context.
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At that time, the church church was under persecution. Persecution. They were under intense distress. So Paul was wishing they would not marry.
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They remained single like he's single. Because you see, your spouse could die because of the persecution. Anything could happen and you have trouble. Now let let's see verse 26.
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Paul even mentioned the present. I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress.
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I say that it is not it's not good that it is good for a man so to be. Now go home take time and read. He wanted everyone to be like him because he was unmarried. Why? Because of the present distress. So if they
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marry in the present distress they will have trouble in the flesh. Not because he's not saying when you marry you if the flesh.
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Hallelujah. That's the blessing of a teacher. As for prophets will go jam jam jam. We have left you.
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But he wants to make sure that you don't interpret this. Isn't it a blessing?
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Can we celebrate daddy again? Oh, you are not celebrating. Celebrate him well. Hallelujah. Amen. That's why when you watch assassin movies and they find that you have somebody you like the is this a killer?
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Yeah. The protagonist. He will put you hey antagonist. He will put the girl in the room and take a video and say I have your girl.
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Then you see that the CIA will say don't go for the I will die for my love. Said what is death?
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Love is cruel as the grave. You see this mission is not sanctioned but he they have his girlfriend.
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Yeah. You die for it. So Paul said that because they can get your girlfriend.
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Don't have one. Hallelujah. Amen. If you give the judgment offer lifted to Jesus. Hallelujah.
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[Music] Ah, I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me.
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I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Even I am so glad that our father in heaven tells of his love in the book he has written wonderful things in the Bible I see this is the dearest that Jesus loves me
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I'm so glad I am so glad that Jesus Jesus loves me. He loves me.
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Jesus loves me. Jesus Jesus loves me. I'm so glad I am so glad that Jesus loves me.
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Jesus loves me. So every time God reviews his word and explains it in context, we're like, "Oh." He said that if someone by dire circumstance remarries, he said you have not sinned.
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Remove the condemnation. Enjoy life. Enjoy. Take it from me. If I'm telling you to enjoy life, you better bear.
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One day I travel somewhere on vacation. Do you know the Lord warned me? He said, "Make sure you don't waste your vacation." He warned me. He said, "Enjoy it. Stop what you're doing. Enjoy it." I say, "I will enjoy."
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Enjoyment. The seed of Abraham. Enjoyment. Offering to the Lord. Father, we bless every offering. We give it in love. We give it in excitement. It's our response of faith to your wonderful grace in our lives. We know that as we sow, we
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multiply seeds in our lives. We multiply the experience of being blessings to people. We know we are blessed. We multiply the effect of the blessing even in this act of worship in Jesus mighty name. Amen.
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That Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. He loves me. Jesus loves me.
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I am so glad. I am so glad. Thank you for loving me. Jesus loves me. I am so glad.
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I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me.
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I am so glad I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me.
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I am I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me.
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I am so glad I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus me. I am so glad that my father in heaven tells of his loving book he has written wonderful things in the Bible I see in the Bible I see
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this is that Jesus loves me Jesus loves me I am so glad I am so glad that Jesus loves me Jesus loves Jesus loves me Jesus loves Jesus loves me.
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I am so Jesus loves me. Lift your hands to the Lord. We are sons. We are daughters.
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Child of the Lord. No defeat. No retreats. Carry your power. I am a I am a [Music] I am a son. I'm a son. I'm a daughter child of the Lord. I know his grace and righteousness.
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I carry on. My car. I am a [Music] I am a I am a I am a son.
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I'm a son. I'm a daughter. I'm a daughter. Child of love. No retreat. I carry your power.
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I carry your power. I am I am I am I am I am I am say I'm a son.
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I'm a son. I'm a daughter child of the Lord. I know his grace and righteousness I carry on God. I am a I am a I am a I am I am I am power [Music] righteousness righteousness righteousness righteousness
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righteousness righteousness rightousness power Power, power, power, power, power, power. Rightousness, righteousness righteousness righteousness, righteousness. I'm a son.
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I'm a son. I'm a daughter. Child of the Lord. Glory. Glory feet. I carry I carry your power. I am I said I'm a sing [Music] [Music] car of God. I am a We are the head of the world.
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I am a son. I'm a daughter. Child of child of the Lord. I know his face and righteousness.
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I carry on. I carry on God. I am a I am a [Music] Somebody say power.
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Power [Music] rightness righteousness righteousness righteousness righteousness right power [Music] righteousness righteousness righteousness righteousness righteousness I'm a son of a son I'm a daughter [Music] child of the Lord. I know retreat.
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I carry my carry on power. I am a Are you an air of God?
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I am a I am a I am a I am a Listen. I'm a son. I'm a daughter.
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Child of the Lord, I know his grace and righteousness. I carry on God. I am [Music] I am.
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I am a Somebody say power. Power power power. Rightousness. Yeah. [Music] Power. Power. Power.
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[Music] Son, I'm a son. I'm a daughter. Child of the Lord. No defeat, no retreat.
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I carry all power. I am a name. I am a [Music] I am a [Music] lift your hands. I'm a son.
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I'm a daughter. Child of the Lord. I know his grace and righteousness. I carry on of God. I am a I am a We are joints of Christ. I am a I am a I am a I am a
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I want you to bless the Lord who has given us all things freely to enjoy by Jesus Christ. that because of Jesus Christ, everything we'll ever need according to his divine power has given us all things that pertains to life
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and godliness. Can you open your mouth? Begin to pray to the Lord right now in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus.
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[Music] Lift your voice. Lift your voice. Blessing You are an heir of God. We believe with faithful Abraham.
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As Galatians 3:7 says, "By faith we are also children." Oh, we are children of Abraham. Lift your voice. We are joints of Christ. As we learn there's a collaboration for the manifestation.
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Somebody lift your voice and bless him. Thank you for such truths. These things were not preached to us because they are far away from us. They are within you.
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The knowledge of his word makes it a reality in your experience. Come on, lift your voice and pray. So we thank God that through the tutilage of his word, our minds are renewed to experience a heaven on earth life in our
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families. That's what Deuteronomy said in 11 in the 11th chapter the verse 21 that your days the children of the days of your children shall be prolonged and even in the land which thy father swore to them. And when he said that your days
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there was something that was preceding it. He said you will write his word upon your doorpost. You will put his word in your house. It is by the word of the Lord we have the heaven on earth experience in our homes. And what better
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way for the word of the Lord to come to us. Begin to declare into your family.
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Declare into your future relationships that the past is gone. A new day has come. You are not your father. You are not your mother. You are after the order of Christ. Your marriage will be different from the family's marriage
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standard because God is manifesting himself like never before. They will point to your marriage and use it as a standard for the generations to come.
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Bless the name of the Lord. Remember yesterday when we prayed, we remember that the Lord said, "I sent Joseph." When a famine came, God has sent you. So all that you are dealing with, all that you are handling, you have been sent by
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the Lord to create a pathway of abundance for the family, in marriages, in children, in wealth, and in blessing.
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Bless, bless the name of the Lord. Father, we thank you. We honor you for all you have done. We give you praise.
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We honor you for the blessings. Favor upon favor is our portion even in Jesus mighty name.
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Just lift your right hand to the Lord. Lord want to pray for our daddy that every virtue that has come and every grace that he has dispensed to us that the Lord himself who has already been in supply
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will open up furtherance into the revelations of the mystery of God. Can we pray for him right now?
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Let's pray for our daddy. Blessed thou son Davidless. Just pray for him that God has used him as a shining and a burning light in our generation. We enjoy and bisque in the light that God is using him to show us.
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That more light, Lord, more light that the eyes of his understanding is flooded with more light.
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That Lord, any hindrance in him, Lord, by your enterprise of grace and the fullness of your love, every dam will be open that the fullness The strength, the capacity of the word will come.
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Wombs are open when he speaks. Eyes pop open. The experience of Christ as he spoke. Bible said a man began to manifest because as Jesus preached, the word of the Lord was present to heal.
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Thank you that your your word is present in his mouth to heal. Marriages are healed, bodies are healed, finances are healed, mindsets are healed. Lord, the miracle of transformation.
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Oh, more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more. Thank you, precious Lord. We give you glory. We honor you.
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Lord, we pray and we thank you for Dr. George's life that increasingly you have shown your hand that is resting upon him.
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Increasingly you have shown the influence you have over him that he's a man of your scepter.
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That right scepter, that scepter of righteousness, he is that man. Therefore, we thank you that Lord in the days to come. The fullness of the perfections of your work will constantly grow in him even until the perfect day.
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We pray that Lord, he's delivered from future errors. He is delivered from future slips. Whatever it may look like, the Lord today we stand and say by the time he enters tomorrow, he's devoid of error and mistakes and any trouble of
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any sort in the name of the Lord Jesus. The Lord, he is strengthened by might in his inner man to comprehend to the extent the fullness of the breath, the length, the depth and the height of your love that he might be flooded onto the
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fullnesses of God in all full capacity, nothing in his nature, nothing in his thinking will prevent the fullness of your overflow in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus. That in the days to come, we will hear him and say Jesus is talking
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literally. It will be the same experience of Jesus from beginning to end 100% in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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Thank you for watering Lord that your son has been a vessel to us also. May we also walk in the light of this truth even for your name's sake in Jesus mighty name we call it done. Praise the
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Lord. Hallelujah. Can you give God a shout of praise? [Music] So for God I need to just pronounce a blessing. I know that I told you God has blessed us with a venue now.
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So So if you go downstairs, you see that there's a there's an auditorium, there's a warehouse downstairs with a big blue gate. Uh God has given us grace to have that. So So that one when we come is the
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beginning of maybe two years. two years been there for a long time and and someone had a vision of our Epsos complex there was swimming pool there was event centers so not many years from now few years if
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the Lord tries if the bombing of Iraq and Israel holds for a while and the world war does not happen you will come for family life after that we'll do picnic we'll do games we do soccer after the preaching we'll become
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family. What do you think? So in view of that before daddy when daddy blesses us please get to know somebody. It's family life become somebody's friendh when you are becoming friend shared activity social affinity and spiritual congruence. Hallelujah. Receive the
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blessing from you don't know what may happen. Then you may meet your your wife here or your husband here.
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He that has an ear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the churches.
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Lift up your hands. I declare that your marriage is decorated. I declare your marriage is filled with life. All the frustrations and problems you were in, they are gone forever.
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Amen. Angels have been assigned to this union. Amen. And what you will see is peace.
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Amen. It's tranquility. It's light. Prosperity. Amen. Increase. Whatever was lacking your union, I declare you are complete in him.
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Amen. You are filled full in him in the name of Jesus. He that shutth and no man openeth and no openth and no man shutth. He will set before you an open door which no man can shut.
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And I declare if I are looking for a spouse, may he that has the keys of David upon his shoulder that openeth and no man shutth, may he open so no man can shut.
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Amen. In the name of Jesus. If we're in a right relationship, may the door be shut and not opened.
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Amen. If in a wrong relationship, may it be open and not be shut. Amen.
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May it be open for an exit. And may God establish your feet on a proper foundation.
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The right people, the right partner in the name of Jesus. Whatever you've seen in the scripture in the eye of your imagination as a picture concerning your marriage and your union, may it be may it be fulfilled and may it come to pass.
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You are so blessed. You are so fruitful on every side, full of laughter, full of joy.
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Thank you father that everyone in this place is flat tied inundated with your very life and blessing and they are carrying it and it's overflowing your marriages and their relationships. Thank you for what you've done. We bless you. You're grateful
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father. Thank you in Jesus name. The son of God. Amen. Amen. go in the blessings of God. Um, episodes meets here tomorrow exactly at 3 p.m.
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You can join us for service. Our message tomorrow is seed to experience it. So all that you are hearing, righteousness, blessing, the word of God, come and see so you can experience. Keep looking and you'll be blessed.
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All right. Please get to know somebody. [Music]
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