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0:06Now we're studying how to maintain what?
0:10Intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Number
0:12one, to maintain intimacy with the Holy
0:13Spirit, you must create time for
0:16fellowship.
0:18Nobody has time. People create time. If
0:19the Holy Spirit is already in your life
0:21and you want the anointing of God to
0:22grow in you because the more your
0:26relationship with the Holy Spirit is
0:28intimate, the more the power of God will
0:30manifest.
0:31There are people that will speak to
0:32problems and they will bind and cast and
0:35lose and nothing happens. Don't let
0:37people tell you that once you are born
0:38again, we on the same level. We are not
0:39on the same level. Even the Bible says
0:42because thou has loved righteousness and
0:44iniquity, therefore God even God has
0:46anointed with oil of gladness above.
0:47[screaming]
0:48Some people are more anointed above
0:50some.
0:51>> Hebrews 1:9. Don't let nobody lie to you
0:53that all of us is the same level. We are
0:54not the same level, sir. By salvation,
0:57you are on the same level. But by
0:58covenant, there are higher dimensions.
1:02Are you getting something?
1:03>> Yes sir.
1:04>> Create time deliberately create time for
1:09God for communion with the Holy Spirit.
1:12That is why the devil today what the
1:13devil is doing the devil is creating
1:15different avenue to take our time.
1:19Every day there is one new discovery in
1:21technology. If is not Facebooking it is
1:24youtubing, it is Tik Toking, it is to
1:27going, it is WhatsAppapping.
1:33>> What?
1:35>> Snapchatting.
1:39>> Tapping. What's tapping?
1:42>> [laughter]
1:44>> Okay, you understand what I'm saying?
1:47Because Satan wants, you know, Satan
1:49wants us to keep getting distracted.
1:52That is why we are seeing less power
1:54now. How many people can go off their
1:55phone for 3 days and they won't feel it.
1:58You can't. You are so consciously
2:00attached to your phone. Even when you
2:02wake up at night, but there are people
2:04that can go their phone for one week,
2:07they don't care.
2:09There are people when their phone is
2:10ringing they'll be looking for know
2:11where they kept it but there are some
2:14people their phone their phone their
2:16phone
2:18their phone
2:21like I always say they spend more time
2:23on the phone than the throne
2:27Luke 22:49 he said tar in Jerusalem what
2:31does it mean to t stay
2:35when a person is a worshiper for example
2:36you want to come lead worship don't just
2:38come into worship with the anointing of
2:39the consciousness of I am a good
2:40worshipper. When you have spent time
2:43alone, woripped, woripped, woripped,
2:46worshiped. Let's say you are leading
2:47worship on a Sunday morning and the
2:48whole of Saturday you are two three
2:50hours worshiing. By the time you come,
2:51you are carrying the presence that you
2:53have generated.
2:54Before you sing a song, the power of God
2:56is everywhere.
2:59You don't you there is no emergency
3:01manifestation of grace. It's the
3:03anointing you generated that you
3:04manifest.
3:07Spend time.
3:09Learn to go off your phone. Learn it.
3:11Learn it. Tell your neighbor, "Learn.
3:13Learn.
3:14>> Learn it. Learn it.
3:16>> Learn it."
3:20>> Some things you want from the Lord. The
3:21Lord listen. Let me show you something.
3:23Do you know they stayed for 40 days, 120
3:27of them in the upper room, and the Holy
3:28Ghost came. Right?
3:32They didn't need to do that. Jesus was
3:33teaching them the act of spending time.
3:35Before Jesus left, he already gave them
3:37the Holy Spirit.
3:38>> Read John chapter 2:20. He say, "Receive
3:40you the Holy Spirit." Did they receive?
3:42He start to make them go and wait.
3:46John chapter 2022.
3:49Bring it up. John 20:22.
3:52John 20:22.
3:53John 20.
3:56Are you seeing it? Can we read it loud
3:57loud and clear?
4:01He he breed and said, "Receive ye.
4:04Did they receive it that day?
4:06>> They still had to go to the upper room.
4:09>> What he had released, they had to spend
4:11time to receive.
4:14>> He had released it, but they had to
4:16spend time to receive it. They now went
4:19to the upper room. And Acts chapter 2,
4:21the Bible says, "And when the day of
4:24Pentecost was fully come,
4:29was fully come."
4:32They were one accord in one place, they
4:33spent time and the Holy Ghost fell on
4:35them. So what was released in John came
4:37in Acts.
4:40God wants you to spend time.
4:42>> The more you spend time with the Holy
4:44Spirit, the more you become like him.
4:47>> The more you are used to him. Now, now
4:51if you're married,
4:53I don't know, not this generation.
4:56If you're married
4:59in the '9s, no 2000, 2010, 2015, 200
5:0610 backwards
5:09up 2010. If you're married, you can say
5:11I know my partner. Is that true?
5:14>> But not now. Not marriage now.
5:17Civilization has spoiled everything.
5:21Social media has spoiled everything.
5:25How do you know a partner? Because you
5:27have spent time with that partner. There
5:30are things a wife will say and they tell
5:32the husband say my wife can't say that.
5:35Why?
5:37Why?
5:39>> That's why this is the Holy Spirit.
5:42When you are you walk with God, there
5:43are things you can speak and say this is
5:44not the Holy Spirit. And people like hey
5:47you you're not judging because you know
5:50you know
5:53when I say
5:55I just tell this not the Holy Spirit
5:59I don't need because the Holy Spirit is
6:01not is not annoying it's not irritating.
6:05Hey [screaming] what is that?
6:11Are you follow I'm talking about the
6:13Holy Spirit is orderly. It doesn't it
6:15doesn't scare you to give you a message.
6:20How did Gabriel come to Mary? Mary Mary
6:28pray.
6:34Amen.
6:36So when you have walked with the Holy
6:37Spirit, the more you spend time, develop
6:40time. I got testimonies today. I got
6:42some yesterday. people saying that they
6:44are learning how to walk with the Holy
6:45Spirit. The more you spend time with the
6:48Holy Spirit. Give time. Take one eye.
6:50The Holy Spirit I come before you.
6:54Spend time in God's presence. He said,
6:56"Try ye in Jerusalem until ye be
7:00endued."
7:02When Elijah was speaking in first Kings
7:0517:1, he said, "Be the Lord before whom
7:07I stand, not whom I visit." In other
7:10words, I am always with him
7:14before whom I stand. I'm always with
7:16him. There shall not be rain or due. You
7:19know, you don't pray, you don't spend
7:20time with the Holy Spirit or spend time
7:21with God today. Then like next two weeks
7:24again, you come to his presence,
7:28next 3 months again, you come no Psalm
7:3063:1.
7:32Oh Lord, thou art my God. Early will I
7:34seek thee, for my soul tested, and my
7:36flesh long for thee in a dry and tested
7:38land where there is no water to see thy
7:39power and thy glory. Verse two, as I've
7:42seen thee in the sanctuary. So God wants
7:45you to spend time. Tell your neighbor,
7:47spend time with God.
7:49>> Spend time with God.
7:51>> Say it again. Say, "Spend time with
7:52God."
7:54>> As the message is going on, there are
7:56people looking at their wrist watches
7:58because they believe that they have to.
7:59The Bible say your time is in his hand.
8:02This time is not in your hand.
8:05Psalm 31:15. He say my times are in thy
8:09hand.
8:10Deliver me from the hand of my enemy.
8:12Psalm 31:15. He didn't say your time is
8:14in my hand.
8:16So when you are before God,
8:18you don't give God time.
8:21Ah,
8:23I'm going somewhere. I'm going so fast.
8:26No, because he owns time.
8:31is bigger than time.
8:35Spend time with God. Create time.
8:39Oh, I'm busy. You know, I'm doing this.
8:41I'm doing that. Everybody, you are busy,
8:44right? You are very busy. Do you go to
8:46the restroom?
8:47>> Yes, sir.
8:47>> Do you go to the toilet?
8:49>> Why are you not busy?
8:53>> Are you busy?
8:55>> Are you busy?
8:56>> Yes, sir.
8:57>> Do you use the toilet?
8:58>> Yes, sir.
8:58>> Why?
9:04Are you busy?
9:05>> Do you eat?
9:07>> No,
9:10>> you eat.
9:11>> So that tells you that whatever people
9:14value, they create time for. Hold on,
9:17hold on. Whatever people would benefit
9:19from, they create time for.
9:22>> Whatever makes people happy, they create
9:25time for. When something's no more
9:27making people happy, they won't create
9:28time for it.
9:30When a husband is taking a wife out,
9:32they go out, they do this, they do that,
9:34they do this, they do this. When the
9:35woman begins to annoy him, the same man
9:38that had time, we no more have time. Not
9:40because the time is not there, but
9:41because he's no more happy.
9:45Are you I'm talking about sir.
9:46>> So when you hear a man say to his wife,
9:48you don't have time for me. A woman say
9:50you don't have time. Before you say
9:51there's no time, what did you do that
9:54killed the joy?
9:57So when God you want to enjoy the Holy
10:00Spirit you have to create time intimacy
10:04with the Holy Spirit begins on the
10:05platform of creating time in his
10:07presence. Say, in the name of Jesus,
10:09>> in the name of Jesus,
10:10>> by the help of God,
10:11>> by the help of God,
10:12>> I will create time
10:13>> I will create time
10:14>> for fellowship
10:15>> for fellowship
10:16>> with God.
10:17>> Acts 3:1, let's see something. Acts 3
10:20and verse one. Acts 3:1. Now Peter and
10:23John went up together to the temple at
10:26what?
10:29>> At what?
10:31>> Being what?
10:33>> The ninth hour. What is nine? Nine is
10:37what is nine? Fruitfulness.
10:40The hour of prayer being the ninth hour.
10:44The hour of prayer being what?
10:45>> The nth.
10:47>> The hour of prayer being what?
10:48>> Ninth hour.
10:49>> So what is nine?
10:50>> Fruitfulness.
10:50>> What is nine?
10:52>> The hour of prayer being what?
10:54>> Ninth hour.
10:55>> The hour of prayer being the ninth hour.
10:57If nine is fruitfulness. So the hour of
10:59prayer being the fruitful hour. So any
11:02man that gives time to prayer will be
11:05fruitful.
11:07The problem we have is that many people
11:09do not know how to spend time. You see
11:12for you to spend time with God there are
11:13two things to amongst others. You must
11:16intentionally eliminate distractions.
11:20You can't spend time with God when you
11:21are distracted. You must intentionally
11:24eliminate
11:26distractions.
11:29You must eliminate idols. First John
11:325:21, little children,
11:35keep yourself from idols. Idols will not
11:37keep itself from you. What's an idol? An
11:39idol is anything that takes the place of
11:40God. Anything that takes your time.
11:42Anything your many of you, your iPhone
11:45is your idol.
11:48>> The way you carry that iPhone, you even
11:49have a pouch for it.
11:53You have a pse.
11:57When you wake up, you look at the phone,
11:58you clean it, you charge it.
12:02Even as you came to church now, there
12:03was no light in your house. You are
12:04looking for a charging spot.
12:07Is it the way you're woriing the iPhone?
12:09But as I'm talking to talking to you
12:11now, you don't have a pen. You are not
12:12writing the Bible you brought to church,
12:15your younger sister's home.
12:18You saw it on the shelf. You just
12:20carried it up.
12:23As I'm talking now you're just
12:26but if your phone is ringing
12:29ah he said keep yourself idols will not
12:33keep themsel from you. You will keep
12:34yourself from idol to eliminate
12:36distraction. You need discipline. It
12:38takes discipline. And if you walk with
12:40the Holy Spirit one of the things the
12:41Holy Spirit will teach you if you listen
12:42to him is discipline.
12:45The Holy Spirit will teach you
12:46discipline.
12:52Listen to him.
12:57There are some things the Holy Spirit
12:58will tell you.
13:01One day I was in the house. I was
13:03praying. I didn't want anybody to. It
13:07was a brother's house. I didn't want
13:08nobody to disturb me. So I was praying,
13:09praying. First day,
13:12second day, I was still praying and the
13:13Holy Spirit said to me, "Step out. Tell
13:14them to clean the room very well."
13:18sir physically not be waiting dirty they
13:21clean. Yeah they are clean the room that
13:23morning he said tell them to clean the
13:25room very well.
13:30So I was just I was woriing there was no
13:33I wasn't praying for the room.
13:36I wasn't there was no prayer for the
13:37room. I was just worshiping the Lord. He
13:38said step out tell them to clean the
13:41room very well. I said okay. As I was
13:42about telling them he said there should
13:44be three in [clears throat] number a
13:46room and if you see the room
13:50some things they arrange some things
13:51here arrange some things he arranged
13:52some things and I said the holy spirit
13:54said they should clean the room. They
13:55started laughing. They said but we clean
13:56this morning now. And the holy spirit
13:58should clean the room should be three in
13:59number. It's okay. And they began to
14:01clean the room. They were laughing. They
14:02were cleaning again. I said, "Very
14:04well." So they were arranging some of
14:06the things they put together. One of
14:08them screamed. There was a snake.
14:10Screamed,
14:12"Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
14:14Come on." And they killed it. As they
14:16were taking it out, he told me said,
14:17"This is why I said they should clean
14:18the room because that snake would have
14:20crawled to you."
14:22[applause]
14:24As they held it and they were taking it
14:25out, I was just looking like that. He
14:26said this is why I said they should
14:28clean the room because this snake would
14:29have crawled to you
14:33probably when I was praying I know that
14:34it could have just crawled because my
14:36eyes are shut. So he say step out tell
14:39them to clean the room very well. If you
14:41accept there's a snake he knows I will
14:43not enter that room again.
14:46[laughter]
14:50There is nothing I'm not scared of
14:52snakes. I mean what's a snake?
14:54The consciousness of you see where
14:56something takes you unaware
14:58if you know this where this thing is you
15:00won't get to kill it but when you are
15:01not aware whether it's coming from here
15:02it's coming he said no let me just stay
15:04outside so he didn't tell me that he
15:06didn't tell me there was a snake there
15:08just said tell them to clean the room
15:09very well and I stepped out so you see
15:13that but if I didn't give time to listen
15:15to him and we hear that
15:18the Holy Spirit can tell you some of the
15:20most tiny things there are some of you
15:22some things have happen. You are
15:24praying. You are praying. You are
15:25praying. Something just you thought it
15:26was a thought. It flashed through your
15:27mind. At the end it happened. Say, "Hey,
15:30hey, this thing when they point and they
15:32pray, has it happened to you?"
15:34>> That thing is already in you. The seed
15:35is there. As you spend time to develop
15:38it, it becomes a voice. What you are
15:41feeling now is a witness. That you feel
15:42is called witness. It says that the
15:44spirit bear witness that we are the
15:46children of God. You are still a child.
15:48That's why you say something be tell me
15:51you are a child now. something but you
15:53as many as are led they are the sons. So
15:57children live by witness, sons live by
15:59leading. Sons can say pass sayaeth the
16:03Lord. Children can say something is
16:06telling me. [laughter]
16:10Are you getting something today?
16:12You can pray, pray, pray, pray. You just
16:14hear a voice. Somebody say it's like
16:15pray this accident pray. See I don't
16:16know one thing is telling me less than
16:18few moment you hear there's an accident.
16:20Say oh God when I was praying I was
16:23Yeah. If you can spend time, it will no
16:26longer be something. It will become you
16:28are now used to that voice.
16:32Are you listening?
16:35One day we came back from a vigil. Will
16:38I call a vigil?
16:41I don't know if you close 3:00 a.m. Is
16:44that a vigil?
16:45>> Yes, sir.
16:46>> It's a video, right?
16:47>> Okay.
16:51Some some people go to some fun night.
16:52They pray and pray till 2:30. They now
16:55sleep. They together they not sleep. No
16:57prayer point, nothing. So we finished by
16:593:00. We drove and we packed the car and
17:02the Lord told me to tell the brother to
17:04take that car and go to the neighbor's
17:06house, knock there. They should park it
17:08because it's the house is gated. So I
17:12told him, I said this car
17:15the bed, knock, let them pack it inside
17:17the place that is gated. He said I don't
17:18understand. This is where I park my car
17:19before. I know I don't want anybody see
17:20finish. That's the word he used. I said,
17:23"Go there. Pack it like that." He said,
17:24"No, no." Went to sleep. When we came
17:26out in the morning, the car was gone.
17:29No, no, the car was not gone. The car
17:31was taken.
17:33Those that needed the car more than us.
17:37He said, "Hey, hey, hey." I said, "But
17:39he told us." He said, "It's not You
17:41didn't tell me Holy Spirit said. You
17:42said
17:46I should leave this thing." I didn't
17:47tell you Holy Spirit said. I said, "Who
17:48else will say? Who else will I just on
17:51my own tell you to go and park? Why?
17:53This is the first time I'm coming to
17:54your house for him me to tell it's
17:56because he told me and next time if you
17:58want to you want talk something talk
17:59well talk well say say only [laughter]
18:05you want to say something say holy
18:06spirit told you how will I disobey now
18:08do you know even the holy spirit said he
18:10would have still argued
18:12>> he was only reacting that way because
18:13the car was gone and they didn't find it
18:15was gone gone gone gone I'm not tell you
18:18after a week they the car was gone gone
18:22not like they found it later. Say, I
18:24will spend time.
18:25>> I will spend time.
18:26>> Come on, talk to me. Say, I will spend
18:27time.
18:28>> I will spend time
18:29>> with the Holy Spirit.
18:30>> With the Holy Spirit.
18:30>> So I said the first key to spend the
18:32first way to spend time is to do what?
18:35>> Eliminate track. Number two, get a
18:37convenient place.
18:40People don't know that location matters
18:41in the place of prayer.
18:43You can't be praying in a
18:48everywhere is upside down.
18:51Why do you think Jesus will withdraw to
18:53a mountain to pray? A mountain is not
18:55necessarily an elevated spot. There are
18:59attributes of a mountain. A mountain is
19:01a deserted place. A mountain is a lonely
19:03place.
19:05It's very important. When you discover
19:06your house is so noisy, you can move to
19:08the church premise and just spend time.
19:10Location is important.
19:13It's very important
19:16because the devil, one of the thing the
19:18devil would do, why do we close our eyes
19:19when we pray? There's no way in the
19:20Bible that say close your eyes and pray.
19:22It's not in the Bible.
19:24Are you following me? There's no way in
19:26the Bible that say close your eyes and
19:28pray. The reason we shut our eyes is to
19:30avoid distractions.
19:34There are people today who say they are
19:35praying and their mind is wandering.
19:37You've not seen that. When you are
19:38praying, Satan can get your mind busy.
19:40You just
19:42as a stew stew stew in the fire in the
19:44fire. You now pause now carry phone.
19:47Hello. Hello.
19:50I beg. I beg. Check my stew. Check my
19:51stew. Check my stew. You drop it. You
19:53keep it shant.
19:56The will just come your clothes. Look at
19:58the weather. It's almost raining. You're
20:00close. You're in church. You say your
20:02phone
20:04ABC
20:07park pack.
20:10You think it's the Holy Ghost that
20:11reminded you that thing. It's not the
20:12Holy Ghost. In case you think
20:16are you following what I'm saying this
20:19you can have control. I'm going there.
20:21I'm going to talk about that. So Satan
20:23is giving you all kinds of that's when
20:24one call is coming to your phone. I see
20:26people that they they praying and they
20:27re
20:36They are praying and they are chatting.
20:39Raaga in fact when they want to act like
20:41they are spiritual ra I am praying call
20:47me
20:50you're not praying
20:54so the prayer that's why we get the
20:55place people don't believe there's a
20:56place of the closet. Matthew 6:6,
20:59"Go into thy closet, for thy father
21:01which seeth in secret." Here the Bible
21:03say, "But thou, when thou prayest, enter
21:05into thy closet, and when thou has shut
21:08thy door, pray to thy father which is in
21:11secret, and thy father which is in
21:13secret shall do what?"
21:16>> Yeah. Yeah.
21:18You must have a place.
21:21Have a place. Luke 6:12 tells us how
21:23Jesus withdrew himself
21:25to pray. This was before he chose 12
21:30disciples. He would bring himself to the
21:32mountain to pray. There are times to
21:33just take a day, take them hours, go to
21:36church, get a a a spot, just spend time
21:40with God.
21:42Why I don't even advise people to go to
21:44physical mountains anymore is because
21:46most of those mountains have become
21:47polluted. That's why I don't advise
21:49people to go to physical mountains
21:52because if you go there, you see people
21:53will come with candles. I'm not against
21:55that. I mean people do what they want to
21:56do but I wouldn't do it and candles and
22:00incense on the same mountain you have
22:02come to see the face of God.
22:04>> So spirit because all of those things
22:06attract spirit. All the incense and
22:07candles attract spirits. You don't know.
22:11And incense and candles do not attract
22:13the Holy Spirit.
22:16>> The Holy Spirit does not come through
22:18candles and incense.
22:19>> Candle and incense attract demonic
22:22spirits. Yes sir.
22:25Hello.
22:26>> So any church where candle and incest is
22:28what they practice and they tell you
22:30that without candle and incest you
22:31receive the holy spirit. They are lying
22:33to you. It's a demon. Now you say
22:35apostle b my child my child was sick
22:39when I used candle incest. My child
22:41became okay. You are not smart or they
22:43just use your brain. Let me tell you
22:44what they did to you. Let me [laughter]
22:46let me let me tell you what they did to
22:48you. The demon that is attacking your
22:50child is a junior demon. They just gave
22:52that demon an instruction. say please
22:54leave the child alone. Stop oppressing
22:55the child. Start oppressing the finance.
22:57So as soon as your child became well,
22:59your finances were blocked. You now went
23:01to them again to burn another incest.
23:02They burn incest. Your mother fell sick.
23:05You follow what I'm saying? They lose
23:06one, they tie one. They lose one. So as
23:09far as you are concerned, you keep going
23:10to them. They want to make you neck deep
23:12inside.
23:15Are you follow I'm talking about the
23:18Holy Spirit does not come through
23:19candles and incense or oil. is a free
23:22gift. If you have to burn candle and
23:25incest then it's no more a gift.
23:27Anything you have to listen to get is
23:29that a gift?
23:30>> What is a gift? A gift is something you
23:31did nothing to get. Are you listening to
23:33what I'm saying?
23:34>> So if I have to burn candle I said so
23:37I'm saying so any place where they burn
23:39candles or they burn incense if they say
23:43they burning candle because Nepa took
23:44light
23:47then we we we forgive them. If they
23:50burning candle because there is no
23:51light, we forgive them. If they burning
23:53incense because they want to change the
23:54aroma of the place, we forgive them. But
23:56if they are doing all of that because
23:57they say spirits or the spirit, of
24:00course, demonic spirits. But if they
24:02said the holy spirit and if you have
24:04ever been to a place where they burn
24:05candle, burn, you received the
24:07anointing, you don't receive anything.
24:10You receive strange spirits because
24:12that's not the holy spirit. Hello.
24:15Hello.
24:17So location matters.
24:20Spend time. Luke chapter 9:28.
24:24Luke chapter 9 and verse 28. Luke 6:46.
24:28Luke 9:28 says, "It came to pass about
24:31and 8 days after these sayings, he took
24:33Peter and John and James. And went
24:35where?" Up
24:38the mountain to pray. To a mountain to
24:41pray. To a mountain to pray. Luke 6:48
24:49or 46. Sorry.
24:53Luke 6:46. Go to 48. Go to 48.
25:05Luke 6:12. Oh, sorry. Luke 6:12. Luke
25:076:12. He withdrew to a mountain all
25:10night in prayer. But there's something I
25:11saw. People tell us that um you don't
25:14need to go to church. Church now mind
25:15the day,
25:17>> right?
25:20You see
25:22the body of Christ. The church is the
25:24body of Christ. The church is the body
25:26of Christ. Yes, sir.
25:28>> It's a complete body of Christ. That's
25:29the church.
25:30>> So when we're talking about the church
25:31is the body of Christ is the body of
25:34Christ.
25:35The body of Christ has different parts.
25:37The choir is part of the body. The
25:40ushers are part of the body.
25:42The instrumentalist are part of the body
25:44I mean the body of Christ. So when you
25:46say you alone you are the church and
25:48church is in your mind. Where is the
25:49choir?
25:54You are laughing. Where is the usher in
25:56your mind? Where is the protocol in your
25:59mind? I need to know because this church
26:00is in the mind. I want to know.
26:06So our standard is Jesus. Was Jesus
26:10going to a physical place?
26:14See it in the Bible. Luke 4:16.
26:18Luke 4:16. Was Jesus going to a physical
26:21place? Can we read it loud and clear?
26:25>> He came to Nazareth where he had been
26:27brought up
26:28>> as
26:33>> as
26:35>> what did he do?
26:37on.
26:39>> So Jesus was a committed church member.
26:43>> While he was here, he was going to the
26:45physical synagogue. So when you not stay
26:48at home, who are you copying?
26:50And he says in Hebrews 10, he said,
26:52"Forsake not the assembly of yourselves
26:53together as the manner of some is
26:55because he knows some people become
26:57arrogant and say, "No, no, no, no me,
26:59I'm staying at home." In fact, now the
27:00days of social media, they say, "I watch
27:02I'll watch live service.
27:07Praise the Lord. Are you getting
27:09anything today?
27:11As he show you he was a committed church
27:12member. The next thing number two I'll
27:14tell you and then I'll just pray is to
27:17maintain intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
27:19I've told you create time. I told you
27:22two things to do that will empower your
27:23timing. Eliminate distractions and be
27:26careful and get a good location if you
27:29want to maintain intimacy with the Holy
27:30Spirit. The second thing guard your
27:32mind.
27:34Guard your mind.
27:38Guard. Not guide. Guard. Gu U A R D.
27:42Guard. Protect
27:44your mind. Protect it. Protect it.
27:49Protect it. Protect it.
27:52Protect it. An attacked mind can affect
27:56intimacy. A polluted mind can affect
27:59your intimacy with God. Protect your
28:02mind. People who are not saved, who are
28:04not born again today, it's because the
28:06devil has attacked their mind. 2
28:08Corinthians 4:4 said, "The God of this
28:10world has what? Blinded the minds of
28:13them which believe not. Lest the light
28:15[screaming]
28:15of the glorious gospel of Christ, which
28:17is the image of God, should shine on
28:18them." God God wants them saved.
28:22But the glorious gospel of the image of
28:23Christ, the enemy blinded their mind so
28:26that that light does not shine in there.
28:28That conviction is when the light
28:29shines, you say the person is convicted.
28:34Guide your mind.
28:36Guide your mind.
28:39Guide your mind. Protect your mind.
28:44Proverbs 4:23 says, "Keep the heart with
28:46all diligence, for out of it are the
28:48issues
28:49of life." James chapter 1:8 says, "A
28:52doubleminded man is unstable
28:57in all, not some of his ways, all his
29:00ways." Jesus.
29:03No one,
29:06right? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.
29:11No one
29:13ever
29:15because he was 100% man. 100% God. No
29:18one ever manifested God like him. While
29:19he was in flesh, he spoke to the wind.
29:22He spoke to the sea. Uh-uh. He even said
29:25said go and lose a donkey. Donkey was
29:26waiting.
29:28They came and they loosened the donkey
29:30and they brought go to the sea you see a
29:32fish. What what kind of man was that?
29:34Powerful. But there was a key.
29:36Philippians 2:5. Let this mind.
29:40So what made Jesus Jesus was his mind.
29:44So if you want to operate the dimension
29:46Jesus operated, you must know how to
29:48handle your mind.
29:51Let this mind be in you which was in
29:56Christ Jesus.
29:58Your mind is important.
30:00Your mind is important.
30:02There is nothing you cannot do for God
30:04if you have the mind for it. Nemiah they
30:07built the wall in 52 days. The Bible say
30:10Nemiah 4:6 because the people had a mind
30:13to walk.
30:16If you have a mind to serve God, you
30:18will serve him.
30:20If you have a mind to become the best in
30:22your academics, you will.
30:25If you have a mind to succeed in life,
30:27you will.
30:29It takes the mind. The effort begins.
30:32How many of you know to to fail is very
30:34easy.
30:38You don't know. Very easy to fail. Yes
30:41sir.
30:41>> Just enter the hall, carry the script
30:44and the paper, tear it and just go home.
30:46You have failed. It's very easy. Or just
30:48carry pen. Just put one arrow. It's it's
30:51easy. As you are standing now, just
30:52release yourself. What will happen? You
30:54fall. It's easy. But to stand and walk
30:56takes deliberate intentional effort. You
30:59have to be be be be be be be be be be be
31:00be be be be be be be be be be be be be
31:00be be be be be be be be be be be be be
31:00be be be be be be be be be be be be be
31:00be be be be be be be be be be be be cons
31:01conscious of it say I'm going outside
31:02there what
31:06you are down
31:09to die is easy to leave is is is
31:12intentional to die now it's easy to die
31:19trailer is too is too it's too big
31:23people have bike accidents and die
31:26a man wants to leave a bike he's coming
31:28he jump. [screaming]
31:30It jumps the bike man passes by. It's
31:33intentional. Same way walking with God.
31:36Guard your mind. When your mind is
31:39polluted, the Holy Spirit cannot speak
31:41fluently to you,
31:43the things you watch,
31:46the things you see.
31:49Job 23:3.
31:53Job 23:13. He said, "But is one mind who
31:57can turn him. What is he so desireth
31:59even that which doeth once you have a
32:01mind that stayed and fixed?" Isaiah
32:0326:3, he said, "Thou will keep him in
32:05perfect peace whose mind is stayed
32:09on thee because he trusted in thee."
32:12Your mind has to be God conscious.
32:14Numbers 23, sorry, Matthew 237.
32:18Matthew 23:37
32:20Matthew 23:37
32:25Matthew not Malachi
32:27the difference is clear Matthew 23:37
32:35oh this guy needs help
32:39Matthew 23 Three,
32:52Matthew 12:33,
32:54Matthew 12:33, Luke 10:27,
33:00Luke 10, Matthew 12:33, Luke 10:27,
33:05Matthew 12:33, Luke 10, Bring up Luke
33:0710:27
33:09also.
33:12Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,
33:16with all thy heart, with all thy soul,
33:19with all
33:22>> thy mind.
33:24So you must love God with what?
33:27>> How do you love God with your mind? Your
33:28mind must continually be continually be
33:30occupied with the things of God. Those
33:32things you watch, images become
33:35pictures.
33:37Pictures
33:39become habits.
33:41Habits become character.
33:45Character becomes destiny.
33:48So it starts from image.
33:52What are you watching?
33:54What are you watching? What are the
33:56things you give attention?
33:59What are the things?
34:02Most people have issues with spirit
34:04husband and spirit wife. In fact, some
34:06people don't have one spirit wife. They
34:07are like four. They polygamous
34:08spiritually.
34:12Spirituality.
34:15How does it begin? It begins with the
34:17things they watch.
34:19You go on your phone and you subscribe
34:21to pornographic pictures. So you are
34:23watching those things. You watch them.
34:24You watch them. The next thing Satan now
34:26acts them. They come to they come and
34:30pollute your mind. Now there are people
34:32that don't watch all that and still get
34:33such attack. That's a deliverance case.
34:36You have to continually minister to
34:37yourself. 2 Corinthians 7:1, having
34:39these promises, let us cleanse ourselves
34:41from filthiness of the flesh and spirit.
34:43That's fitness of the flesh and spirit.
34:45You must minister to yourself. But when
34:48you start having such images, such
34:50pictures,
34:52such pictures, you are watching such
34:54things. You must gather the things you
34:55watch. Anything that does not add to
34:57your life, let me give you a
34:58recommendation of what the Bible
35:00scripturally commands you
35:04to watch.
35:05God gave a commandment. Philippians 4:7.
35:08You see, it's is a commandment. He said
35:10in this world you will have peace
35:14and that peace passes all
35:17understanding. Once your mind is stayed
35:21on God.
35:23Once your mind the peace that passes
35:27all understanding. Now go back to verse
35:31six. Then we'll come to verse eight.
35:35Be careful for nothing but in prayer and
35:38in everything in prayer and supplication
35:41request be made known unto God. Verse
35:44seven,
35:46the peace of God which passes all
35:47understanding shall keep your hearts and
35:48minds through Christ. Verse eight,
35:53finally, what is finally?
35:56What is finally?
35:58>> Conclusion.
36:00What is finally?
36:03Conclusion brethren, these are the
36:05things that God says you should get your
36:07attention. Whatsoever things
36:10most of the things you are listening to
36:12are lies. You're watching are lies. Most
36:14of the things are lies. I was watching
36:16TV one. I just got angry. I was in
36:17America. I was I forgot the state I was
36:19in. Then they were trying to advertise
36:21one drink like that. One mouse, you know
36:24this mouse, you know little rat, he now
36:26heard the drink, he now drank it. I
36:28boom, he became a lion. I just off the
36:30TV.
36:33What kind of lie is that one? Even my
36:36last child, you can. He just use one
36:38hand to hold a drink. It's an energy
36:41drink. A mouse. You know a mouse. You
36:43just had a drink like that. Go go go
36:45next. A lion. So if you drink that thing
36:49from being a mouse.
36:53So I said this is not whoever came up
36:55with this idea, they should fire that
36:57person.
36:59So we are seeing so many lies. Don't
37:01take that scripture off. Bring it up.
37:02Philippians 4:8. Whatsoever things are
37:04true.
37:06Whatsoever things are honest.
37:10Whatsoever things are just. What does it
37:12mean to be just? Fair. Fair.
37:16Fair. One side of a story is not a true
37:19story. Whatsoever things are fair,
37:21balanced, just. Whatsoever things are
37:24pure. Whatsoever things are lovely.
37:28Whatsoever things are of good.
37:32Somebody poured acid on somebody that
37:34good report. Why are you reading it?
37:39Why are you reading it?
37:42What about things? If any virtue, if
37:44it's something you can draw virtue from,
37:46if there be any praise,
37:48>> think
37:51these are the things that should take
37:52your attention.
37:53Good things. Somebody just got married.
37:56Wow. Thank God. Somebody bought a car.
37:58Wow. But do you know in the generation
37:59we are living in the reverse is the
38:00case.
38:02>> Yes. Yes. Yes. There are people we agree
38:05together now. They say you I'm going to
38:07insult you publicly. You insult me back.
38:08We'll fight so that we can get
38:12at traffic. So they'll do that. He come
38:16out. He will fight the person. He will
38:17insult the person. We cry and cry and
38:19cry and cry. And the person will just be
38:20quiet. By the time you have gathered
38:21enough, now you respond. It's not a
38:23game.
38:25Somebody was doing music and
38:30I don't know whether the person thought
38:31that was a gospel music because it was
38:33only one small Jesus inside. Some people
38:34believe that gospel song just one Jesus
38:39Jesus
38:40[laughter]
38:42just put they think they think gospel
38:44song is anything that has not Jesus
38:45inside you can be naked you can do it
38:47but so long you put Jesus. So she sent
38:49it to me. I listen. I kept quiet. I
38:50didn't say anything. And papa you have
38:53not it's powerful.
38:57I kept I said but the pictures why were
38:59you wearing all those papa? That one is
39:01to win the world. There are some people
39:04that do not like. So we are telling them
39:06that we are radicals for Christ. We are
39:08still Christian. I say okay.
39:11So what do you want me to tell you? Ah
39:13what do you think about the song? I say
39:15as by the spirit of God or as a human
39:17being. as a person.
39:21Say yes. I said, "Okay, what I will tell
39:24you, you the cameraman,
39:28the editor,
39:30all of you, you should block yourself on
39:33the phone.
39:35Don't greet yourself again." To put this
39:37rubbish together,
39:39guess what? In less than a month, the
39:42song was in places, place I never
39:44thought it could enter. So I called, I
39:46said, "How did this song go?" He said,
39:48"Daddy, we know the way they do." This
39:50person came online and quarreled with a
39:52top music promoter.
39:54The music promoter now got angry and
39:56said, "You didn't bring your song on
39:57time and all that." So they got traffic
39:59over the song. People never said, "What?
40:00What be the song?" They downloaded it.
40:03So it was the song became popular via
40:05traffic. Not that it was good. Because
40:08if you check the way most things are
40:09done today, when people sing rubbish,
40:11they promote it well.
40:13They promote it well.
40:15Because most songs that are all over the
40:17place, where's the sense? I don't want
40:19to be specific. Where's the sense in
40:20their song? No content.
40:24No content.
40:27Whatsoever things are pure. So God wants
40:29you. All of those platforms you are
40:30following, that does not build your
40:32spirit. You don't finish sharing things
40:34and at the end you're like, "Oh, Jesus,
40:36I want to go and pray." Things when you
40:37finish watching them, you you get tired
40:40of Christianity. You get tired of
40:42church. You get tired of God. You get
40:44tired of everything and you are still
40:45following them.
40:52Unfollow them.
40:55And when I say unfollow such things, I'm
40:57not saying it because you know if you
40:58talk like that they say maybe they as
41:00they doing those things is getting to
41:02you. Get to who?
41:04Get to who? I had somebody say the
41:07pastors are they getting angry that what
41:09we are doing is affecting them. I
41:10laughed and laughed.
41:13Social media was not there when we
41:14started ministry.
41:17The only ministries that can close
41:18through social media are ministries that
41:20social media started.
41:24Only church on Facebook can close by
41:26Facebook.
41:28Whatever did not start on the media
41:29cannot close by be closed by the media.
41:31But I'm telling you for your spiritual
41:32life,
41:34there are some things you must not hear.
41:35Try it for one month. A pastor in Benway
41:37state you know was listening to all
41:39kinds of nonsense online and he was one
41:41of the he's one of our source of the
41:42prophet and he was listening to he was
41:43telling some of people say have you seen
41:44what they say about that pastor he said
41:46about this pastor said about this and he
41:48was having crisis one time so he decided
41:50to pray and the Lord used my form to
41:51appear to him I said the things you are
41:53watching and the things you are
41:55listening are the things polluting your
41:56spirit from having a relationship with
41:58God. As soon as he woke up, he
41:59unfollowed, unfollowed, unfollowed. He
42:01blocked, unfollowed. Even those that
42:03were sending links to him, he blocked.
42:05In few weeks, there was a revival.
42:08Because when the devil wants to take
42:10your attention, it doesn't come as
42:11Satan.
42:12>> No, it comes like the angel of light.
42:13That's why you see somebody working for
42:15the devil, they will tell you that they
42:16attacking the church to open the eyes of
42:17the church. Have you heard that before?
42:20We are opening people's eyes.
42:23They are they are blind.
42:26We are opening their eyes.
42:28They will make you make you believe that
42:30this is God they working for. So please
42:33guard your mind. If you want peace, you
42:36want to have an intimacy with the Holy
42:37Spirit, guard your mind. Romans 8:6, to
42:40be cannally minded is death. But to be
42:43spiritually minded is life and peace. So
42:46if you want life and peace, be mindful
42:48of the spirit, the things of the spirit
42:49rather, be spiritually minded.
42:52Guard your mind. Guard your mind. There
42:56are many things you are praying against
42:57today, many thoughts because it is
42:59picture and words that become thoughts.
43:03You see, there is no sin.
43:06No man will sin. Every sin is predicated
43:09on a thought. A thought
43:13for you to go and rob somebody. You
43:14think, you plan.
43:17Before you wor mask, you didn't think
43:19about it. Before you want put mask on
43:21your face, was that an accident? Do you
43:24wear mask by accident?
43:27You now put the mask.
43:30You now be silent.
43:32You take touch. All those are processes.
43:34[laughter]
43:36You take touch light now carry gun after
43:39you finish smoking. So that you forget
43:41about your sorrows.
43:43You now slept and you now woke up
43:45because robbery must have a time frame.
43:481:00 a.m. 2:00 a.m. where sleep is sweet
43:52to your victim.
43:54you those are thought process. You were
43:56told there's a back door. You didn't
43:58come from the gate. You now all of those
43:59things started from thought from the
44:01information you allowed into your
44:02spirit. And that's why the best way to
44:05arrest sin is when it's still in the
44:07thoughts.
44:08When the devil is wired in sit down,
44:09when the devil is wiring in the name of
44:11Jesus, I rebuke you spirit of God. Let
44:14my thoughts come under the control of
44:15the Holy. Once you can arrest it as a
44:17thought, it can't become an action.
44:21When you want to steal is a thought. You
44:25see it, you plan it, you wait.
44:29Huh?
44:32I remember [laughter]
44:34when I was young. I was like like six or
44:40so or seven, I can't remember. My mother
44:43sent me to go and buy something. There
44:46was money I saw on the ground. It wasn't
44:49one note. It was like three on the
44:51ground. So when I got there, I saw a
44:54boy. He was standing by the money.
44:59He didn't touch the money. So when me
45:02came, I wanted to touch. I suddenly
45:04looked at me. I now stood.
45:08So two of us were standing.
45:12He would look at me. I look at him. We
45:13look at the money. We stood.
45:15So there was a young girl that was
45:16coming. The guy came. She was about to
45:18just looked at her. She stopped. She now
45:19stood. So we had three
45:24now. We all of us we stood. When you
45:28want to move, we just stand. Everybody
45:30want to move, we'll stand. It was
45:32somebody who was smarter than us was
45:34just passing by. He was playing football
45:36was just enter just carry the money.
45:40the way all of us east is at the same
45:42time
45:44we started going back to where now
45:46that's to let you know that there were
45:47two that's two level of criminals there
45:50now
45:52there were amateur criminals that are
45:54still learning how to steal they were
45:56not criminals are you are you what I'm
45:58saying they still have some conscience
45:59so they're looking at the money but
46:01there was a professional
46:03let's rise up so we can pray
46:07hallelujah

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