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Soul Winners Edition B - The Demonstration of Power

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In this episode, we uncover the difference between the power of God and the signs that follow, showing that true spiritual authority comes from obedience, understanding, and walking in His ways. Discover how pursuing the Word and cultivating purity makes you a vessel through which God’s power works quietly but unstoppable.

SPEAKER_03

Are you ready to learn something today? After all, that's why you're here. Amen. We're here to learn to take in this uh information that that God has for us.

SPEAKER_04

Thank you, you can take your seat.

SPEAKER_03

And I want to congratulate you for being steadfast in your in your church attendance. Amen. Some of you, since you have found the Lord, you made up your mind that nothing is gonna get between you and your church attendance. I'm a firm believer that your commitment unto the Lord, your first commitment unto the Lord is in is to his uh institutes. Do you understand? He has appointed us as his priests and his servants to train you into knowing how to do things his way. Amen. And what that means is you know that if you if you say you're committed, all right, then you'll stand on attending every time he says, I want to have a meeting with you. And I've dealt with those who say, but I can worship God at home. Just go back onto the podcast and listen to that podcast. The podcast, it will answer most of your questions, amen. There are many who worshiped at home, and the worshiping at home turned to eating at home, closer and eating at home turned into at home. Amen. So let's not be deceived. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for this opportunity. Thank you. I bless your name. I bless your name, thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to minister your word today to your children with precision and power. I take a hold of the atmosphere and I preserve our integrity, our territorial integrity. Let your angels begin to secure the area and the airspace against everything that's fashioned against us. None of the weapons of the enemy will work is cancelled. In the name of the Lord Jesus. So I wanna you know, I said to you on Thursday that we'll talk about the demonstration of power today. And so we're still on our soul winning edition series A.

SPEAKER_04

Amen.

SPEAKER_03

Um, all year round we're gonna be dealing with um soul winning all year round. So I want us to go to Matthew, the book of Matthew, Saint Matthew, chapter 22, verse 29.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Matthew chapter 22, from verse 29, says, Jesus answered and said to them, You are mistaken, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Amen.

SPEAKER_03

That's where I want to start from. The Bible says you err in your ways. You err in your ways. Amen. You err in your ways because you don't know the scriptures, nor the power of God. You don't know the scriptures, and this should be held very close to your heart because he's the person who's talking is Jesus himself, and Jesus himself says, You are making mistakes, you're constantly making mistakes, you make a lot of mistakes because you don't know the word of God. The scriptures are available, but you don't know the word. The scriptures are there. I've said to you many times, some of you have Bibles at home, you have the Bible app on your phone, but you haven't given it attention. So he says that you keep making errors, you keep making mistakes, you err in your ways because you don't know the scripture. But what he says that is more interesting to me, he says, know the power of God. So he separates them. He says that you don't know the scripture, nor the power of God. I would like to think that if I saw the power of God, even as a civilian, I would know what the power of God looks like. Amen. I would like to think that if I saw power, I would know what power looks like. But when I read that, and then I kept on going through the scripture, I realized that, and I was studying and studying and studying. Um, I came to the realization that the power of God is not what I used to think it was. That's why Jesus said what he said. He said, You err in your ways because you don't know the scripture nor the power of God. And by the way, he wasn't talking to the Pharisees, he was talking to his disciples. These are guys that were with him. They saw him doing miracles as you've seen me do miracles, they saw him prophesy as you've seen me prophesy. Amen. They saw him lay hands as you've seen me lay hands, but he said, You still don't know the power of God. Amen. Blessing, can you read that one more time for me?

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Matthew chapter 22 from verse 29 says, Jesus answered and said to them, You are mistaken, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

SPEAKER_03

You are mistaken. That's the NKJV. Yeah. Okay. You are mistaken. My one says you err in your ways. You understand? You're making mistakes because you don't know. You're ignorant. You have no idea what the power of God looks like. You have no idea what the scripture says about the power of God. So you're living anyhow. Amen. So let me show you something first of all. The power of God is not what you think. Let's go to Mark 16. Yeah. Mark 16, 17.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Mark chapter 16 from verse 17 says, And these signs will follow those who believe in my name, they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues. Verse 18. They will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.

SPEAKER_04

Praise the Lord.

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Amen.

SPEAKER_03

It says Mark 16, 17. This is um uh when he's talking about the Great Commission when he's just about to ascend, he's about to go up. All right, he's about to go, and he says to the disciples, these signs shall follow you. Now I'm gonna open a quick um bracket just to help you here. Alright, he says, These signs will follow you that believe. Okay, and then he starts naming them. So we'll go through them very quickly, but this is not the nucleus of my message today. But we'll go through them so you understand. But I want you to notice something in that text. He says, These signs, signs is the word. This is not the power of God. Are you listening? So he says, These signs shall follow them that believe, and he says, In my name, you will do what first thing you you gotta do, okay, is cast out demons. He says, These are the signs that will follow you. There's no mention of power, you see. The way I'm breaking it down to you will also illustrate to you that this is not a thing you earn. You're way too quiet. To cast out a demon is not something you have to fast and pray about. It's not something that you earn, it's something that follows you by virtue of your belief. So your life looks the way it looks, and the signs that follow you are a testimony to what you've been believing this entire time. Yesterday I was watching a pastor whom I really respect, and this pastor said some years ago his wife died, and his children died. Okay, I think his wife drowned, and his children were in a car accident, something like that. And he said, When I was watching this, he said God told him that this would happen, so he knew. Amen. Then he said that God told him that that's the price he has to pay for the anointing that he wants. Amen. You know, when I was listening to him, I thought I thought to myself, I actually spoke to myself. I said, Pastor, you have to put a premium on what you believe, and put a premium on what you teach others to believe. He said, God said that's the price he has to pay for him to have the anointing on him, and he said he knew what day, and he knew everything, and all of that. He said, God said this will happen, and then he went into the story of Job. He said, Look, it happened to Job. And he says, for everyone, for everyone in the body of Christ, you must know that there's a daytime and there's a night time. And he says, night time is coming for everybody. Praise God. Try to follow me carefully, all right? Try to follow me carefully. What you believe will shape your entire life. Let me ref let me rephrase that. What you choose to believe will shape your entire life. And so when he was saying this, I thought I thought to myself, I said, okay, it's you you you may be right. There's night time and daytime. Amen. I said, some people sleep in the night and they have peaceful sleeps, whilst others are having nightmares.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So just because daytime but daytime has arrived, then nighttime has arrived. It doesn't mean it's bad news for me.

unknown

Amen.

SPEAKER_03

Do you understand that?

SPEAKER_01

Amen, amen, amen.

SPEAKER_03

Be careful. That's why I say to you, if you listen to my messages and then you go and listen to other men of God's messages, just be sure that we are teaching the same thing. Amen. If you haven't found one who's consistent with what we teach, I advise that you don't give your ear. You'll finish that book and end up in confusion. Your whole spirit will be like what I spoke about on Thursday. Tossed to and fro by the wind. I don't, just because someone is reputable, I don't give them my ear. I'm very careful who I give my ear to because the Bible says faith cometh by hearing. So no matter how strong I am, once I give someone my ear, he's infected me. I can think I'm superman, and no one will influence me. But the Bible is clear. Once I give someone my ear, that person has infected me.

SPEAKER_04

Praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_03

So when he was saying this, my heart, I felt so terrible. And I said to I said, even if I hadn't had met him and tried to talk him out of it, he's an older man, he's in his 70s. What you know, people in that position, because they have so much experience, it kind of uh stiffens them. Do you understand? And they may just overlook you because of your age and the fact that they have more experience than you. Amen. It was sad what I heard him say. Praise God. I could respond with so many scriptures, but it's not for this crowd. That's for those who are close to me. We'll sit down and we'll talk about it. Amen. Not everything is for everybody. Nevertheless, what you hear shapes your life, and all the things that have been taking place in your life up until now are signs of your unbelief or your belief. So the point I want to drive to you today is that signs and power are two different things. Amen. When you see the anointing of God on me or on you, and we're able to flow and move in the anointing on different levels, that's just due to maturity. I've been flowing in that current, in that power for a long time. So I know my way around. Amen. Now that same power is on you, thank you, Lord. You activate it by what you believe. And when you believe and start believing, you will see the power, but on smaller, in smaller currents. Does that make sense? And as you stay like I stayed, and you practice like I practiced, the power increases. Think of it this way before I go into the thick of the message. Think of it this way. Yeah. Um, I will give you two tiny short examples. First example I want to give you is uh is sometimes when you want to, you know, clean, all right. You want to clean something, clean a desk or whatever. You can take tissue, right? And and take dry tissue and try to clean. It may not have the same effect, right? But when you take that same tissue and you just dip it in water, there's a bit of a change. But the the things that you want to clean, if they're more aggressive, you've got to leave the tissue in the water for longer. Are you listening? So it becomes more damp. That's the difference between you and I. I've been in it for longer. So it's like it's like you season chicken and you leave it overnight. Is it fish that you leave overnight? Which one do you leave? All of them. So that so the more if you leave it overnight, is it more seasoned? Not really. It just gets inside. Do you understand? So you may eat the layer and it's seasoned, and you get inside, and you're like, this isn't this isn't it's not as nice as I thought. That's the difference with staying. As a minister of the gospel, when you stay, people people may see the beginning and think, oh, this is nice, and then they stay and they're like, Oh, mm-mm. Mm-mm. This guy's not ready. He's not ready for what he said. Amen. But when you stay with the Lord and you stick with him and and and you you're patient with him, as he works on you, it gets deeper. The power starts going through your skin, you know, into your character, you know, into everything. Praise the Lord. Alright. Let's get into what I wanted to show you. So I want you to mark Matthew 22, 29, because that's our chief scripture. Okay, that's the chief scripture. You err in your ways because you know not the word, nor the power of God. So Exodus chapter 32, I'm gonna show you the power of God now. So we'll step in it correctly. 32 from one, and we'll read.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Exodus chapter 32 from verse 1 says, Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us gods that shall go before us, for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. Verse 2. And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me. Verse 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. Verse 4 And he received the gold from their hand. And he fashioned it with an engraving tool and made a molded calf. Then they said, This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt. Verse 5. So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. Verse 6. Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Verse 7. And the Lord said to Moses, Go, get down, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. Verse 8. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf and worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said, This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt. Verse 9. And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people.

SPEAKER_03

Amen. I can't say a hundred days because the Bible doesn't say that. Amen. But God intended to spend more than 40 days with him. How do I know? Because God cut it short. He said, in the middle of communing with him, God says, Your people are doing something very strange down there. I want you to go down and check that out for me. And God said, This is a terrible thing that they're they're doing they're doing there. I want you to take go and take a look at what's going on down there. Amen. Now, just to give you a quick illustration on uh on what happened there, the Bible says that they've come out of Egypt. Amen. They've come out of Egypt through Moses as they come out of Egypt through Moses. The Bible also says that God says, Moses, you've spent enough time with the people. Alright? You've spent a lot of time with them. I want you to come on the mountain with me and spend some time with me. I gave you the power to get them out of there. So come and spend more time with me. As Moses is communing with God, he leaves the people behind, but he doesn't give them instructions. He just says, God has called me. I'm going up, I'll be down soon. Amen. So as he says that he goes up now. One month passes. Yeah? 30 days, nothing. That's their leader. So think of Moses as the prime minister or the president. And he's gone. So the people get frustrated after 30 days. They're frustrated. You can hear grumblings. Some people are saying, let's make a our own country. You know, there's different leaders have now had courage to rise up from different places. But when they were running outside of Egypt, no one was no one wanted to lead. Everybody was that that's the guy, we'll follow him. But as there's a calm, Moses goes up. One leader pops up there. Another one pops up there. I will I will lead Israel. Amen. That's 30 days. 40 days in, they all come together and decide. Amen. They all decide together that Moses is no longer our leader, he's no longer our leader. So let's make a God that's different to the God that Moses spoke of. Let's make a different God.

SPEAKER_04

Praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_03

As this is taking place, God is watching. Now I want to ask you a question. Do you think that God knew that that would happen? Do you think he knew? But yet he still sent Moses on the mountain. That's something I want you to write down because it will become relevant later. Now, blessing, I want you to jump to verse eight for me. Yeah. There's something profound there.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Exodus chapter 32, from verse 8, says, They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf and worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said, This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

SPEAKER_03

Amen. Verse 8 says, Yeah, they have turned away quickly. Now, when I was reading this text, the Lord said to me, This is where my power begins. And I'll show you throughout the scripture. The power of God is not in the supernatural. The power of God is in his ways of doing things. If you want to flow in power, it's in his ways of doing things. Now disassociate power. Yeah. Are you there? Disassociate power with the supernatural. The supernatural are signs. Power is in his, you know the word fashion, you know what fashion means? In the manner in which he does things. So on a micro level, that could be that God, you you decide to speak to someone in an aggressive way when you're angry, but God says, talk to that person kindly when you're when you're angry. God says that's power. Tell your neighbor the power is in his ways. Not the supernatural. And I'm using the word supernatural just for you to understand what I'm saying. Are you listening? The power is in them in the in the way in which you carry out what he's asked you to carry out. God knew that Israel would turn. He knew. But he expected them to do things his way. I mean, it's very normal. Alright? Imagine, I mean, to even today, alright, the service went a little bit over. I came a little bit late. Some of you are thinking, who's this guy think he is? Just strolling in anytime. He made us wait. You're even looking at the clock, you're like, you made us wait. You know? Some see the protocol, you know, around when I get here, they see the protocol around my car. Like, who does this guy think he is? Why is the he has people around his car? Should he not be humble? Should it should should he not be more humble? Follow me. The power is in his ways, the power is in the way he does things, the manner in which he does things. That's where the power is. Now, I want to paint something for you. God said, Yeah, to me as a human being, I mean, if you leave me for 40 days, even as a as a woman, you're in a relationship, as a woman or a man, you're in a relationship and you don't hear from your partner for 40 days. It's either this guy is mad, one, two, he's dead. Or three, he's been kidnapped because there's no way I don't hear from you for 40 days, and you think we're still in a relationship. Am I talking to you or am I making this up? 40 days. The leader's gone. There's no visionary. Everyone the leader is gone. God, but in God's mind, God says they turned away from me quickly. Ah 40 days is quick. So that means the way God sees things and the way you see things are very different. I think this is too mature for you. I saw the word quickly. I had to, you know, sometimes you see the word and you say, God, whatever you say is final. Because you're the boss. I answer to you. But can we discuss this? No, because I had to say, Holy Spirit, you're the boss. You know, He is the boss. So I approach with caution. Say, but can we this can we talk about this 40 days? And I start I started telling him, Oh, Holy Spirit, even me as a man, 40 days, ah, 40 days of no communication. So, can you explain to me how this how they turn from you quickly? Explain that to me. Amen. One of the things the Spirit of God brought back to my remembrance is what I taught you on Sunday, I believe, or Thursday. Thursday, I think it was Thursday. No, Sunday, when I spoke about Lot. It was that Sunday, Sunday. And the Lord said, First, you must understand that I am a gentle being. I'm a gentleman. When he was trying to save Lot, he said, Lot, go on that mountain. He didn't have to market it to Lot and say, Lot, there's food there, there's angels waiting for you there, there's good things waiting for you. He didn't have to do that. God sent angelic beings, two of them. And he said, and how I knew those angelic beings were actually God Himself, is because when they spoke to Lot, they said, We would tear down this place. They didn't say leave now. God would they said we, us two. So what you saw from that was happening, all the fire and the brimstone that came down on Sodom and Gomorrah was those two. They told him, they said it was it's us. We'll tear this place down. Hurry up. You're holding us up. We're here for business, man. Amen. So those two beings said to him, Now, us, we're gonna tear this place down. So we're gonna send you to a place of safety. Go to that mountain. Lot says, I don't want to go to the mountain just in case I die there. I don't want to go. He forgot that they're saving him from death here. Why would they send you to death there? He forgot. So Lot decides that he wants to do things his own way. Are you listening? So God being gentle, he said, okay, no problem. Go the way you want to go. Let me open a bracket for you that is going to be very difficult for you to understand at this stage, but I pray you get it. Okay? The supernatural is temporary because it comes from above into this physical realm. Power is consistent. The supernatural is temporary. Amen. When I release the supernatural on you, what keeps it is the power. What is the power? The manner in way in which you do things. So I can lay hands on, and healing hits her. Bam! That's the supernatural. She says, I'm healed of cancer. And then she leaves here and carries herself like a Mormon. The power's gone. Why? Because of what the Mormons believe. Oh my goodness. Are you hearing me? I can lay hands on you. I can even speak a I can prophetically tell you tomorrow. Alright? Listen, I've I've I've done it. I've said to someone tomorrow, just be just be aware, tomorrow, someone with green trousers will bump into you. Make sure you have a conversation with that person. I didn't tell you what time to wake up. I didn't tell you what to eat. I didn't tell you any of those things. Amen. And you leave here. And you get offended at some someone or something out there. Praise the Lord. And you go out there and you live anyhow. Between now and tomorrow. Remember the scripture I gave you. It says you err in your ways because you know not the scripture. The scripture says that you must go to war with your prophecies. You're too quiet. So when a prophecy is released, you must go to war with them. You use those prophecies as weapons to ensure that the thing that was spoken comes to pass. So you go out there and you just you're just coasting, you're just living anyhow. The following day, the person passes you. Amen. And it's the it's the actual guy that was prophesied, but he's wearing blue trousers instead. But the guy passed you. You didn't discern it, you didn't pick up on it. For you, it's but I was told that he will have green trousers. I didn't see anyone with green trousers. But the guy walked past you with blue trousers because you didn't go to war. The word is released. You have a spiritual responsibility. Christianity is not for lazy people. So I say, tomorrow you receive a call for a job, and you go, you leave here, you say, I've received that call, I'm waiting for that call. And you go home and you're strolling, you're going home normal. I didn't make the rules. He did. And he said, You must do things my way. My way. There's a way I want you to do it. Praise the Lord now. It it blew my mind. See, every time I study the scripture, I say, God, you're you're so fascinating to understand. I'm trying, I try to wrap my head around how you do things and how why you carry yourself the way you do. You're so interesting. Amen. So these children of Israel, they decided that they will not only make a different God, but they will attribute what God did to that new God. They said, Oh Israel, this is the God that took you out of Egypt. Is this God here? Do you know that God knew that you'd be here today? Are you aware of that? Are you aware that he knew that something will irritate you today as you come in here? Are you aware of that? Someone said, Pastor, I was on my way to church. It was it was raining. As it's raining, I'm on my way. One car just hit the puddle and it hit me. Why would God allow such a thing? God knew you were on your way to church, and he allowed the guy to drive recklessly for that puddle to hit you as it did, expecting you to press on. Think about it. Alright, with you, I'm God. I'm building my relationship with you, right? As I'm building my relationship with you, I would want to know that you are loyal from time to time. I would want to see that when I'm teaching you, you're applying it from time to time. Are you listening? So, of course, I will send you into places that will test our relationship to see if truly you love me the way you say you love me.

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That's right.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, since I became a Christian, things have things have become very difficult. Of course, they've become very difficult. Press on, brother. Press on. Name me one thing in this life that came easy that was worth having. And if you can, that thing is not worth having. I'm telling you. Even from a government perspective perspective, you know. Alright, if you want to be a civil servant or you want to go and even get a driver's license, they'll put you through some things. So you gotta study, it takes some time. Who here now, raise your hand if you got your driver's license in one week? You're a fraud. Here, you are a fraud. You didn't get that license from here. That license came from somewhere else, not in this country. Because it's basic, it's basic human lessons. We know as as you grow and you study psychology, you study people, you know that what they work for, they value. Amen. And someone one day understood that the most valuable thing in our entire life is time. Even if you are not wise enough to realize it, we'll teach you the hard way. That's why they created prison. They created prison to teach you if you don't value your time, we do, and we're gonna take it. You're gonna sit down for 10 years. Everything bad that you do, we will attach a price, and the price will not be us lashing you like we used to, killing you like. We used to because we don't we don't know if we kill you now, you may go and enjoy. We don't even know what's down there. So we want you to pay here. So the best way for you to pay is for us to rob you of your time. Are you listening? It's your time. And God also understands that. So God says, I want to know if you and me are really as tight as you claim we are. I want to see your person, your personality. What will you do when it looks like I'm not there? How will you behave when it looks like I didn't come through for you? Can I give you more scriptures? Let me give you more scriptures. Take a look at this for me. Yeah? Thank you, Holy Spirit. Judges chapter 6. We'll come back to Exodus 32, because there's more to unpack there.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Judges chapter 6 from verse 1 says, Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years. Verse two And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds which are in the mountains. Verse three. So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up, also Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them. Verse four. Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey.

SPEAKER_03

Amen. Now, before you adjourn that, I want you to jump to verse twenty. We'll come back to verse one, okay?

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Judges chapter six from verse twenty says, The angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth, and he did so. Verse 21. Then the angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread, and fire rose out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread, and the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. Verse 22. Now Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord, so Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God, for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face. Verse 23. Then the Lord said to him, Peace be with you, do not fear, you shall not die. Verse 24. So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it the Lord is peace. To this day, it is still in Ophrah of the Abysarites. Amen.

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I will explain. Now Judges chapter six, verse one says, And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Medianites for seven years. Amen. And the hand of Median or the Medianites prevailed against Israel. And because of the Medianites, the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains and the caves and strongholds. Now, I want you to pick up on something there that I found very profound. That the Bible says that God delivered his children to the opposing country for them to oppress them because they sinned against God. Not to kill them, but to oppress them because they sinned against God. Now, what I found as I was reading this, as I went through that story, I found that God didn't deliver them to the Midianites as a punishment. Listen, the tough times make you more powerful because power is in character. Power is in the way you see things, in the way you do things, and the way you carry yourself. When you find yourself, you know, going through the hardest of hardest times, don't feel sorry for yourself. Say God is making me more powerful. He's increasing the power levels. Yeah. Listen, if only 10 pounds is coming into your hand every week, make that 10 pound act like a thousand. Did you hear what I said there? I said make the 10 pound behave as if it's a thousand. Only a powerful person can do that. Are you listening? Oh pastor, since you're not in this relationship, you know, we all we are arguing all the time, we are clashing all the time. Alright. I understand. But you know what? A powerful person does a powerful person seeks for wisdom on how to change the passion that causes us to argue into passion of love. God's job is not to dope you, he's not here to give you something for you to be high on and then you run back to him again. He's not interested in that. His goal is to turn you into him. And one thing that I know about God is that he doesn't change. God doesn't change. His personality has been consistent. If you go and read Hebrews chapter 13, it will tell you that. His personality has been the same since the very beginning. You can trust his integrity. He will not change on you. Say, God is consistent. So must I be. Say, God is trustworthy. I must be trustworthy. God doesn't give up on me when I'm behaving a fool. So I will not give up on him. When it looks like he's behaving a fool. Yeah, say it. Say it. Make the confession. I didn't say God is behaving a fool. I said it looks like. Pay attention to words. Say, I will stay loyal and faithful. I will stay loyal and consistent. I will be loyal and consistent unto God. I will be loyal because he's been loyal to me. When I've acted a fool, so I will be loyal to him when it looks like he's acting a fool. Let me show you a scripture because I understand your hesitation. It's because you know not the word. I'll show you the I'll show you the scripture. Amen.

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Thank you, sir. First Corinthians chapter one from verse twenty-seven. Thank you, sir, from verse twenty-seven says, But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.

SPEAKER_03

He uses foolish things to do what? Are you listening? He uses foolish things to do what? Yeah. So there are times in your life where God, what God is doing, will look very foolish. You look and say, Ah, what's what's what's going on? What's going on? Let me give you some some wisdom. Alright, let me give you some wisdom. When you most of you have been in some of you have been in the church for a very long time, but you've come here and you're learning how to do things differently. Amen. Years ago, a wise man said to me, When you enter a new environment, keep quiet, use your ears more. Learn the ways. Amen. Learn the ways. You're not going in there to add. In the beginning, no, you're going in there to soak it all up, to learn. Become what they speak about. Then you can add. Are you listening? So as you've come into this new environment and God is doing a work in your life, take a step back and say, you know what? I'm gonna do the best that I can to learn. I will learn. Don't be the loudest, dumbest person in the room. Amen. No, don't be that person. I've been in rooms where no one is under 60. Everyone is 60, 60 years old plus. So effectively, everyone there is double my age. What on earth? What business do I have speaking in such a room? Even though I know that God has given me much wisdom, that it comes from the scripture, and I know that I can contribute. Here, what do I do? I keep quiet and I learn. Let me learn how they do things, why they do things the way they do it. So I can you know speak the same language as them. Praise the living God. Tell your person beside you, tell them use your ears more than your mouth. That's why you have two of them. Second Samuel's second Samuel chapter six.

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Thank you, sir. Second Samuel chapter six from verse one says, Again, David gathered all the choice men of Israel, thirty thousand. Verse two, and David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baal Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the name, the Lord of hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. Verse three, so they set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. Verse four, and they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, accompanying the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark. Verse 5. Then David and all the house of Israel played music before the Lord on all kinds of instruments, of furwood, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cistrums, and on cymbals. Verse 6. And when they came to Nashon's threshing floor, Uzzah put on his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. Verse 7. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God.

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Amen. Did you hear that? Some of you didn't understand, so can I illustrate? Very short story. They were moving. You see this thing? What's this called? Yeah. So they were moving something of like this. Maybe not as big as this, but at that time the presence of God was on it. And that's how God chose to appear to his people. Okay? It was on the ark of the covenant, and his presence was on it and in it. And God had made rules about how to deal with that ark. He said only priests and prophets can touch it. So, so effectively, as bad as King Saul was, as corrupted as he was, if he had touched the ark, he would not have died. You understand that? Alright. So this thing was being transported. Yeah, this thing was being transported, it was being moved. Now it was on top of an oxen. What's an oxen? Like a cow. Yeah, this thing was on top of an oxen. Now the Bible says, Yeah, the cow, the oxen, stumbled. As this animal stumbled, this was gonna fall on the floor. And of course, it's it's made of something you know physical. So the there's a certain man now that was guarding it, his name was Uzzah. He looked and said, This thing is gonna fall. So let me let me hold it so it doesn't fall on the floor. So as it was as the oxen stumbled, he grabbed and went for it. Amen. Now you following as he grabs it in his heart. He says, I'm gonna be blessed. I've done such a good thing. He said, I've done a wonderful thing. The presence of God is on the ark, I saved it from being broken. I should marry into the king's family for this, and all my taxes should be of you know avoided. I saved God's ark, but he didn't know God had other things in his mind. God had his ways of doing things, so he went for it, he saved it, he said, I did it, I did it. But he didn't know that what when he as he laid hands on that thing, the Bible says the anger of the Lord was kindled. God got angry, and the Bible says God struck him dead the same minute. So I can imagine he was probably rejoicing in his spirit. He was rejoicing. I saved it, I saved it, and then he felt, wait, what's going on? I'm going. I'm going. Where am I going? Bang! He died. Now the Bible doesn't tell us how he died, heart attack, we don't know what, but it says that God struck him and he died. Now, if you continue reading, it scared everybody. What happened? Because they came to a revelation. Can I tell you what that revelation is? They realized that this God was serving, we actually don't know his ways. We thought we knew his ways, we don't know him. We don't know him because we know not the scripture. You thought you were doing a good thing when you found out maybe you came from another church or another place. You found out the pastor's having an affair, and you thought, I'm gonna blow it up. His wife deserves to know, the church deserves to know. I'm gonna go and tell everybody. I'm gonna make a YouTube channel and tell everyone. You had no idea that God's anger was kindled against you. You thought in your spirit, you're convicted. You said, I'm doing the right thing. How can this man be preaching? All that you know, he made us fast. We were hungry. He's telling us don't don't don't fornicate. And he was ah, he was doing it. I will make a TikTok today. We must we the people must hold him accountable. So you thought you were doing a good thing, you rose, and you know, there there's always some followers, you know, that people that don't think for themselves and that don't go and fact check what you're doing, so they follow you in your ways. What you didn't know is that you stood up against God. Now, some of you are new, you don't know what I'm talking about. How am I standing up against God if I'm calling out a man for doing something wrong? The question is, is he your man? Listen to that. Did you employ him into that place? Were you the one that called him when he was 12? You said from the burning bush, you said, Come, let's have a conversation. Did you call him for you to call him out? When God called him, you were in the world, even shaking a leg and other things. So you put it on yourself as a responsibility. I would I will show people that this guy is not genuine. Listen, let's say this to your neighbor because this is a very serious message. Say God's ways. Look at your neighbor, God's ways are not your ways, and God's ways are where the power is, not in the supernatural. The power is in the path, that's why in the scripture, Christianity is called the King's Road, Le Chem de Roi, the King's Road. It's the King's path. Yeah, it's the King's path because the power is not in the person, the power is rather on the path you've chosen. Now, once you walk that path, the currents are following you because I've chosen to do things God's way. God says, That's my guy. If you cover him, you cover my listen to what God says. You cover that guy I called that's making mistakes, you cover my nakedness, not his nakedness, God's nakedness. Because God chose to call him. Are you listening? Is that resonating with you? This is not uh democracy at all, at all. You vote did you vote? Did you vote me in here now? When did you make did you did you put a ballot in for me to stand here? You didn't vote me in. So you can't vote me out.

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Come on now.

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Praise the Lord Jesus. Some say I'm not happy with the way the pastor's doing things, so I'm not gonna give anymore. I'm gonna pull my givings away. What a terrible, terrible way of looking at things. It shows because the power of God is not on your finances. Trust me, I can do more with five pounds than a lot of people can do with five thousand pounds. Give me five pounds, you'll be shocked what I'll do with it. Amen. I'm after all, if you give me a five pound, the first thing I'll do is give it away. Even if I haven't eaten, once that five I could not have eaten for a week and I'm crawling on the floor in hunger. Once you bless me with five pounds, say go and buy yourself food. You see, you see, when you know God's ways, you don't fall for the traps of the world. The scripture teaches me that if I eat my seeds, I will never have a harvest. So if I'm a wise farmer, I will take the seed and put it in the ground. So that even if I haven't eaten for a week, you give me five pounds, I'll give it to the next guy that needs it, another homeless guy, finished guy. Yeah, no, because we may be in the same place, we're both homeless, but he's finished. I'm not finished, I've just started, I just begun my journey, brother. I take that five pound and say, brother, you need it. He's probably looking at me like you even smell worse than me, brother. Let's split it.£2.50 each. Keep the five pound. Because I put it in the ground. I know that as I put it in the ground, the harvest is always more than the seed. If I take one seed and I put it in the ground and it could be an apple seed, many apples will come from that one. It's a law of life, is it not? Is it not? Because I know the scripture and I believe the scripture, I know the ways of God, I choose to do things God's ways. Some of you ladies, God says, When your husband is talking, keep quiet. You say, Where's the scripture? Where's the scripture? I can I can show you narrative scriptures, but let's talk about not where's the scripture, where's your discernment? Let's talk about discernment for a second. The ladies don't like that. Your husband, God has made him your senior. Let me change it. He's made him your boss. Because we're in the West, you don't like that. Your husband is your boss. At least encourage me by clapping you guys. That's why you don't pick your husband lightly. You don't say yes to just anybody because you're desperate. You don't say yes to anybody. No. Tell the person beside you your husband is your boss. So the key word for you is compliance. No, because there are many non-compliant women. Non-compliant, they're ready to rebel at every time. Non-compliant. God says, God says, are you listening? God says in Ephesians 5. Humble yourself unto your husband. As unto the Lord. God said, did God say humble yourself unto your husband as unto the Lord? So what is is God your boss?

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Yes, sir. Well, oh yeah. Oh, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_03

Listen, the only entity in the entire Bible that God accepted for you to submit to it, like you submit to him, is your husband. God looked at Baal and said, I'll kill that guy. Don't don't don't think you can kneel to that God there. I'll kill him. God turned and he saw, you know, money. And he said, You can't serve me and money. You pick me or money. Did you read that in the Bible? But with your husband, he says, now you're talking. He said, What you do for me, do for him. You're too quiet now. So your husband is effectively your boss. Yeah. And if you can't accept that, just don't get married, brother. That's it. Don't get married. Leave it. Don't get married. It's not for you. Marriage serves more than just your pleasures. So God's way of doing things, He says, This is how I want you to submit. This is how I want you to carry yourself. And God says, There's power in the instruction, the things I ask you to do. There's power in there.

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Hallelujah.

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I'm going to give you one more scripture. We'll break it down quickly, or are you bored? Oh, these things I'm teaching you would change your life. If you do it properly, your life has changed as of now. Right now. Your life has already changed. Because you've decided I would do things God's ways. God's ways is the perfect way, is the best way. Sometimes he asks me to do things that even it challenges my faith. And I say, if it's his way, then I'm gonna do it that way. I'll do it that way. God sent you into this ministry because he knew that you needed what we are teaching. He knew that what we're teaching here, you need it for him to do the thing he wants to do with you. Don't you think God has gone through a lot with humans that came before you? Look at what he went through with Israel. He went through a lot with them. Do you think that he wants to go through that with you? What he went through with Israel? He had to push them into captivity. He said, You know what? Because of your stiff-neckedness. What is a stiff neck? That term came from a yoke you put on an animal, and you're trying to turn the animal, and the animal is resisting you. But the position of the animal naturally should be to move with the yoke. Do you understand? And he says, Israel is stiff-necked. I'm I'm trying to move them into my direction to dance with me, and they are stiff, stubborn, stubborn. And that is why you struggle with the supernatural in your life. It cannot be consistent with you. You know why it can't be consistent? Because you're stubborn, you're stiff-necked. You want to do things your way. Oh, I love it. I love it. The powerful man gives the other cheek when he's violated. That's power. The powerful man takes a step back and says, It's as well. I'll take the pain, I'll move on. I used to think power was calling everything out. You see it and you call it out. Hey, you yeah, you don't do that in the church. Hey, you as I started as I was following the master carefully, I realized that most things you overlook. Amen. Until you see that this thing has now become a mass problem. It's becoming a mass. If look, as he was on the mountain, yeah, Moses was on the mountain. If God had seen that one guy is creating one calf on the side, on the side of Israel, he left the camp and started creating his own camp, his own tent, and he said, I will serve this God. This God led me out of Egypt. God would have said it as well. No, no, it was the entire, it was everybody, it was over two million people. They all decided that we will serve another God. God said, This has become a big problem. Go down and handle your business. Your people are rebelling against me. Praise the Lord. So most things you see as you don't see. You see it. I've seen some wild things, even in this ministry. I heard some wild things, I've seen some wild things. In the spirit, sometimes I look at you and I see the wildest things you do, and I'm like, tis well, it is well, I'll overlook it. You know, in the walk of ministry, you're dealing with people. When you want to raise people, you don't focus on their bad, you focus on what's good about them, and nobody has nothing good about them. You don't believe that? Everybody has something good about them, and a good leader focuses on the good. You look at where they're powerful, and you tell them you are powerful, you are very wise, and then you raise them based on that, and you will find them abandoning all their disgusting ways, all the terrible ways they came with. Praise the living God. God met us, we were sinners. He didn't focus on how dirty we were, but he said, No, I will look at how beautiful you are. God said, You're very beautiful. He picked me up, he cleaned us up, right? And now he's using us. Praise the living God. I want to give you one last scripture. Alright, I'll give you one last scripture that you've read before, but did we finish this? I don't think we finished this. Did we finish it? Well, where did we end? Eight? Verse eight? Verse seven. Where? Okay. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah. And God smote him, smote him there for his error. What does it say there? Because of his word? What does your Bible say? Yours says, huh? Struck him for his error. There's another, do you have another version that says something else? It says God struck him. A man that tried to save the ark of the covenant. It says that he made an error. What does your say? Irreverent. That means, according to that rendering, that God interpreted that as disrespect. Amen. Praise the living God. I don't want you this year to fall into error that you get excited about. Like in your spirit, you're like, I did something really good. But God is like you erred in your ways because you know not the scripture. Nor can you recognize the power of God. Can I give you uh another illustration of the power of God? Then we'll close on that last scripture. When someone says, and you must recognize it, yeah, make it make it a uh spiritual and moral responsibility to recognize this amongst people. When somebody offends you, and the person says, I am sorry, recognize that that is power and congratulate, congratulate them for it. I know when I said on Thursday, there'll be uh I'll teach on demonstration of power, and then I will demonstrate. You were thinking fire will come down from the ceiling. This ceiling, there'll be fire. Amen. But you thought that because you know not the scripture, nor do you know the power of God. One of the characteristics of power is that it's quiet. Power is also soft. Amen. Yeah, oftentimes when when the power is being exerted on you, if it's real power, it will feel good. Let me explain. If you're under a president who is a dictator and what he says goes, yeah, and if you if you if you speak against that regime, you're afraid of death. That's not power, that's intimidation and control. And the Bible says that is actually witchcraft. But if you're under a regime where you can speak out as you will, but the way they do things causes you not to speak out for you to be patient with them and respect what they're doing, that's power. It's being exerted on you, but it feels good, and it doesn't feel like you're bound. That's power. Power is soft, it doesn't feel aggressive. So as I'm saying to women here that your husband is your boss, I'm indirectly talking to husbands now. Powerful husbands do not make make their wives feel as if they are in a box, as if they cannot uh express themselves. Amen. And this is something that we you must learn. This is my last scripture. I hope you're taking me in. Matthew 14.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_03

Matthew 14 22, please.

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Yes, sir. Matthew chapter 14 from verse 22 says, Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. Verse 23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. Now when evening came, he was alone there. Verse twenty four. But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. Verse twenty five. Now in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went to them walking on the sea. Verse twenty six And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a ghost, and they cried out for fear. Verse 27. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I, do not be afraid.

SPEAKER_04

Praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_03

Can I illustrate this to you and then we pray? Okay, try and take the lesson from this. The Bible says this whole chapter was just after the death of John the Baptist. Okay, so John the Baptist was killed. Yeah, he was killed. As he's killed, the Bible says Jesus departed away from all his disciples and went to pray because that was a very serious thing. Yeah, John was very uh reverenced. So Jesus goes off to pray. As he goes to pray, he comes back, he constraints. My Bible uses the word constraints, that means he urged his disciples to jump on the boat and go to the other side. Praise the Lord. Question. Do you think that Jesus knew what the weather would be like when he did that? Question, do you think that Jesus knew that the workplace you'll be at will be turbulent at this time? Do you think that Jesus knew the relationship that you're in at the moment will be turbulent at this time? Do you think that the situation that you find yourself in right now, God knew will be turbulent at this time? Most of you have complained to me about your family members. You say, Sir, my family, I can't be the believer that I want to be with my family. They believe different, they act different, they're outside of the scripture. Praise the Lord. He picked that family for a reason. He put you there for a reason. Now, watch this journey. Yeah, watch the journey. Jesus, he's um he's put them on the boat, and the boat has gone into the middle of the sea. And the weather, this is over a couple of hours, the weather has changed. As the weather changes, the Bible says that they notice that this thing is getting serious. Our lives are at stake. Is that in your Bible? What does it say on that part? It says, What?

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Um Matthew chapter 14 from verse 24 says, but the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

SPEAKER_03

What go on? Continue.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, sir. Matthew chapter 14, verse 25 says, Now in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. Verse 26, and when the disciples saw him, walking On the sea. They were troubled, saying, It is a ghost, and they cried out for fear. Verse 27, but immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I do not be afraid. Amen.

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There's a few pointers I want to give you before we pray. First thing I want you to notice is as the boat was going to and fro, just like this, the weather had changed. From afar, they saw somebody walking. They were no longer worried about dying on the boats, they were more fixated on who is this ghost. So just imagine that the boat is going back and forward, yeah, like this, tossed to and fro. Yeah. I think you'd be more focused on I'm gonna get tossed out of this boat. I mean, I'm gonna die here. They were not focused on that. They saw this, they saw a man from afar walking, and everyone unanimously looked at each other and said, That is a ghost. From afar, and I'm gonna break down the image in the next few weeks to come that you guys have of Christ, and I'll paint a new one because Christ was not as quiet as you think, he was not as meek as you think. He was a very bold person, very loud person, but very gentle. From far, Jesus said, Be not afraid, it is I he screamed it whilst walking on the water, walking towards them. Now, what I wanted to drive to you is is the is the power, the power part. Watch this. As he's walking, Peter says, if it's really you tell me to walk on the water, and then I will do it as well. Are you listening? Alright. Now, Jesus says, Okay, come. That's all he says. He says, Come. Say come. Peter says, Yep, I got that word. He comes out, he starts walking as well. Praise the Lord. As Peter's walking and walking, the Bible says he spots like a wave coming towards him. Amen. As that wave is coming towards him, the Bible says he gets afraid. Are you listening? As he gets afraid, the Bible says he starts sinking. Jesus goes to grab him and says, Why did you doubt? Now, question: Where is fear embedded? Is it in the supernatural or is it in your character? When someone is afraid, is that fear penetrating their character? Or is it penetrating their mind? Think about it. It's not the mind. It's the personality of the person. It's an infiltration of the personality of the person. Because whilst Peter was sinking, Jesus wasn't. And Jesus tells us how he did what he did. He asked him, Why did you doubt? So the problem was one was doubting, one wasn't. You have a terrible character, it doesn't fit with power. Jesus was walking on the water. The same wave that Peter saw, he saw. Amen. All the ones on the boat saw the same wave. That wave was coming fast. Jesus saw it. He said, Ain't gonna do nothing. Peter saw it and got afraid. And he started sinking. Amen. I remember one time I was praying for you. I think I was praying for disciple. We had a prayer line. When you first came to ministry, I think you were in like three three to four months. Do you remember what was happening with your belly? She had some ter I mean it was terrible. Alright? Do you want to tell us a little bit about it? So I can illustrate what happened on my side. Because there's a lesson to learn here. Go on, tell tell us a bit a bit about it. What was you feeling?

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Um at the time it felt like millions of like stabbing pains in my stomach and around my menstrual era, and it was just getting progressively and progressively worse. And I think I remember actually begging you to stop because every month I would experience it, but not at that level, still an extremity. But in that moment, it was just bringing me to like sobbing and fear.

SPEAKER_03

When you was at home, that pain, how was it?

SPEAKER_01

It was excru excruciating. Um either when I was sent to the senior man of God or when I tried to come to service in those months, it just felt like an impossibility. Um it was something I didn't want to experience anymore because I knew the lineage that I came from.

SPEAKER_03

And it was this pain was only coming to you uh around your menstrual time. Yeah. And it was excruciating, you said. It wouldn't allow you to leave the house.

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Yeah. Hard to leave my bed, to do any like chores, anything that you know on a day-to-day basis you would do naturally. Um, you just want to sit and suffer. Well, you don't want to, but you have no choice but to. Yeah. Excruciating.

SPEAKER_03

And this is the experience of many women. A lot of women go through this. Amen. Now, when I I remember asking you, and you said it feels like pins.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

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Yeah. In your in your in your belly. Now, how consistent this thing was, alright? It caused for me when we were doing that prayer line, and this is why I'm telling you this illustration, it caused for me to ask God, how am I gonna deal with this case? Every week, I mean every week, we'll talk about this, and then at the end of the month, she would start crying about it. She'll text her, I can't come, I just can't leave the house. This thing is too, and it would last for how long?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, mine abnormally long, so sometimes it'll be a week, or they'll be irregular, so sometimes I'll come twice a month as well.

SPEAKER_03

So imagine sometimes twice a month, twice a month. You're not talking days, you're talking two weeks. Yeah, two weeks and a month, bedridden.

SPEAKER_02

Wow.

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Wow, wow.

SPEAKER_03

Alright? And sometimes it's one week. This is her testimony. Yes, sir. Amen. Now so when she came with this this case, I asked God in my spirit. I I remember I was praying for people and I was slowing myself down on purpose. I didn't want to get to her case. I was I spent too much time, and it would be a case of I'll lay hands on someone. I'm not even doing anything. I'm I'm actually talking to God about her, and everyone's watching me like, wow, this power. I'm like, hey, yo, I don't want to get there because I don't know what I'm gonna do. So I'm like, God, what do I do? So I'm looking at people's faces and I'm like, I got to move forward because this is gonna. So I'm taking steps forward reluctantly. Just imagine there's a prayer line, right? And there's people even after her, so I'm even feeling sorry for those guys. Oh, there's it was a learning curve. Anyway, I got there, laid hands, laid hands, and I got to the next person. I'm still asking God, I'm not hearing anything. By the time I got to the person before her, I start begging God. I said, God, I'm on my knees. Then I said, Actually, I'm not on my knees, but I'm I'm on my knees in my heart. You know, please, I need you to tell me what to do because I don't know what to do here. Amen. So I'm praying for the person before her, and then and this illustration of what happened with Peter came to my spirit and he was sinking. And the Lord said to me, You're sinking. It's better that you stop the prayer line. Just stop, you're sinking. Amen. When I heard that, I said, I will not sink. I will not sink. The problem was all her complaints over the time I was with her were embedded in my brain. So instead of focusing on the power, which is my character, I was focusing on her problem. And it caused for me to sink with her. So I may as well have dropped the mic and joined her in the prayer line and wait for the Lord Jesus to pray for all of us. But I said, No, no, no, no, no, I will not sink. So I prayed in my spirit, I repented. I said, Lord, forgive me because I I I let the devil in. I said, I will deal with that case. By the time I got to her, I didn't even know what I was gonna do. I just felt my hand tingling. Then it felt extremely hot. It felt like it was burning. Then I heard a soft voice say, pull the pins out of her belly. Do you remember what I was doing? I put my hand forward and I closed it and I pulled. How did it feel when I did it?

SPEAKER_01

Every time I was pulling, it was just getting worse and worse.

SPEAKER_03

It's as if she was dying. Who was there?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_03

I just went like this. I pulled.

SPEAKER_01

I think I was on my hands and knees at one point.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, she went on the floor. She said, This is too much pain. The more I would pull, she will make more. I said, I'm not gonna focus on that. God is saying that she's being healed. There's an operation going on. Amen now. After that, I sent her to my father in the Lord to pray for her again. She came back. Are you experiencing those things?

SPEAKER_01

Since then, never have.

unknown

Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_03

So when you leave here, don't fight oh, to be in the supernatural. Fight to have the character, the the way God does things. And the way to know that is if you go in the word, go into the scripture and learn it, learn his ways. Oh, yeah, that's it. And it starts with the little things that you do. If God says you're in a relationship, do not touch up touch your partner inappropriately, then start there. Yeah, start there. So God said I shouldn't do this, so I'm gonna I'm not gonna do this because I'm doing God's things, God's ways. God says if I'm hurt, I should forgive. So I'm gonna do God's things, God's ways. I will forgive. God says if someone impresses themselves upon me, I shouldn't seek for revenge. So I'm gonna do God's things, God's ways. God says I should love my enemies, so I'm gonna do God's things, God's ways. Amen. That's real power. And when you do that, the signs will follow you. Say after me, no one can hurt me. No harm can come upon me. I'm so filled with the Holy Ghost. I'm so anointed. There's so much power coming from me. Because I do God's things, God's ways. I'm so focused on God's ways. I want to do God's things, God's ways, I want to do God's business in the manner in which he asks me to, not the way I want to do it, but the way he wants me to do it. The power of the Holy Spirit is all over me, and it's leading me to doing God's things, conducting God's business, carrying myself the way God wants me to. Lift your hands and bless him right now. Thank you for listening to Pastor Max's teachings. Make sure to subscribe and for more information, find us at Faith and Victory Wallace.