# BEAUTY FOR ASHES WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN

An episode of [Apostle Joshua Selman.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1767664136), 25 Jun 2026, 2 h 12 min.

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HONOURING A LEGACY OF LIGHT — HAPPY BIRTHDAY APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN! “The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.” Numbers 6:24–26 Some men are remembered for their accomplishments, some are remembered for their influence. But there are a rare few whose greatest achievement is that they make Jesus impossible to ignore. Today, as we celebrate Apostle Joshua Selman, we celebrate more than a birthday. We celebrate a life that has become evidence. Evidence that God still calls men, evidence that God still anoints men, and evidence that God still transforms ordinary people into vessels of extraordinary impact. Through your example and sound doctrines, you have consistently reminded us that the greatest pursuit in life is not success, influence, or recognition; it is knowing God and making Him known. Many found purpose through your teachings. Many found healing through your prayers. Many found courage through your example. Many found Jesus through your obedience. Through Koinonia, God has used your life to build people, raise worshippers, leaders, revivalists, kingdom ambassadors, and witnesses across nations. And perhaps your greatest message has never been spoken from a pulpit. It has been your life. A life that reminds us that God is still looking for men and women who will believe Him completely, follow Him wholeheartedly, and represent Him accurately. Thank you for showing us what it means to love Jesus sincerely and serve Him completely. As you celebrate another year, our prayer is that your voice continue to bring light to nations. May your labour continue to bear fruit across generations, and may your reward be great in time and in eternity. Happy Birthday, Apostle Joshua Selman. Thank you for being living proof that God still makes men. The Koinonia Global family loves you, honours you, and celebrates you greatly! #AJSBirthday2026 #CelebratingAJS2026 #ApostleJoshuaSelman #KoinoniaGlobal Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/apostle-joshua-selman--6281221/support. Please subscribe to support the work God bless you 🙏

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
[0:11] Speaker 2: Point a place of encougions with the foolish spirit and
[0:18] Speaker 2: transformations by the principles of God's skin, and bless his
[0:26] Speaker 2: name for his wisdom rearicularly for the many who are
[0:31] Speaker 2: now connecting online. Distance is no barrier in the spirit.
[0:36] Speaker 2: Send your word, Send your word for my lifting, send
[0:41] Speaker 2: your word for my transformation, Send your word for salvation,
[0:48] Speaker 2: for deliverance, send a word of hope. In Jesus' mighty
[1:00] Speaker 2: we pray. Amen. I want to thank everyone for connecting.
[1:09] Speaker 2: It would notice that tonight's service was designed to be
[1:13] Speaker 2: a virtual service. So we have a few people within
[1:17] Speaker 2: the auditorium here, mostly workers. And to all our precious
[1:21] Speaker 2: workers and to those who have made the time to
[1:24] Speaker 2: be here, thank you very much for your sacrifice in
[1:27] Speaker 2: the name of Jesus. Amen. For those of you who
[1:32] Speaker 2: have been following events around our nation, we decided to
[1:38] Speaker 2: make for a virtual service tonight so as to allow
[1:42] Speaker 2: our people the liberty to enjoy security until we assess
[1:48] Speaker 2: the situation and we see it fiting off. We trust
[1:51] Speaker 2: that by next week we should be back. So this
[1:54] Speaker 2: is only for tonight, but that does not hinder your transformation.
[1:59] Speaker 2: God is still in the business of changing you. In
[2:01] Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ, please be seated. For those
[2:04] Speaker 2: who are in here and for the many who are connected.
[2:07] Speaker 2: Please call your friends and your loved ones, everyone who
[2:12] Speaker 2: needs to connect. Tell them the word of God is
[2:14] Speaker 2: about to come Callnonia is beyond a place of worship.
[2:18] Speaker 2: It is a school in the spirit, the school of
[2:20] Speaker 2: the spirit. Where we are built, where we are established.
[2:25] Speaker 2: And I know that tonight God has a very definite
[2:28] Speaker 2: word for someone. And so let me your attention and
[2:34] Speaker 2: get everyone who needs to connect online right now, so
[2:39] Speaker 2: that we are edified, we are strengthened in the name
[2:43] Speaker 2: of Jesus, allelujah. I was almost tempted to ask, my
[2:50] Speaker 2: dear people who are in this auditorium, it doesn't even
[2:52] Speaker 2: look like a virtual service. I was going to say,
[2:55] Speaker 2: what are you doing here? I mean, I said, stay
[2:58] Speaker 2: at home, and many of you refused. In the name
[3:02] Speaker 2: of Jesus, always glad to fellowship together. Tonight's message is
[3:09] Speaker 2: dedicated to those who are currently in a season of
[3:16] Speaker 2: hopelessness and despair. Tonight's message is dedicated to people who
[3:21] Speaker 2: have cried and are crying, have bled and are bleeding,
[3:26] Speaker 2: people who have been asking the question God, where are
[3:30] Speaker 2: you you would want to listen to what I have
[3:31] Speaker 2: to say? By the Spirit, I believe that the Lord
[3:34] Speaker 2: gave me this message. It's beyond the Cononia family. This
[3:39] Speaker 2: is a message that is dedicated to the Body of Christ.
[3:43] Speaker 2: It is an attempts by the Spirit to make sense
[3:46] Speaker 2: of hopeless situations and to show you the theology of
[3:52] Speaker 2: perpetual victory, even in the midst of storms, in the
[3:56] Speaker 2: midst of prevailing circumstances. The Bible shows us that victory
[4:02] Speaker 2: is the believer's heritage in Christ and should be an
[4:05] Speaker 2: expectation at all times, regardless conditions. And I want to
[4:11] Speaker 2: show you by the Spirit tonight how believers emerge in
[4:15] Speaker 2: spite of any and everything at all. Are you ready
[4:19] Speaker 2: for tonight? Beauty for ashes? I'm teaching you tonight on
[4:27] Speaker 2: this subject, hoping to give an answer to the subject
[4:32] Speaker 2: of hopelessness and despair. And please, I want you to
[4:36] Speaker 2: lend me your attention. This message is first for your
[4:38] Speaker 2: edification and then that you become an extension of comfort
[4:44] Speaker 2: to many who are confused right now asking questions that
[4:48] Speaker 2: science may not be able to answer. The Lord give
[4:51] Speaker 2: us understanding in Jesus' name, Isaiah chapter sixty one. We're
[4:56] Speaker 2: reading from verse one to three sixty one. From verse
[5:02] Speaker 2: one to three Isaiah chapter sixty one. The spirit of
[5:08] Speaker 2: the Lord, it says, is upon me, because he hath
[5:13] Speaker 2: anointed me to preach good glidings to the milk. He
[5:16] Speaker 2: had sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to
[5:20] Speaker 2: proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of prison
[5:24] Speaker 2: to them that are bound verse two, to proclaim the
[5:28] Speaker 2: acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance
[5:32] Speaker 2: of our God, to comfort all those who mourn verse three,
[5:38] Speaker 2: to appoint onto them that morning Zion. And then the
[5:42] Speaker 2: Bible says to give onto them beauty for ashes, the
[5:47] Speaker 2: oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
[5:50] Speaker 2: the spirit of heaveness, that they might be called the
[5:53] Speaker 2: trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he
[5:57] Speaker 2: might be glorified. Bless us mightily tonight in the name
[6:02] Speaker 2: of Jesus. Let me start by reminding us that manifesting
[6:10] Speaker 2: the possibilities that come with the spirit life is a
[6:14] Speaker 2: product of quality training. When the believer is not trained,
[6:20] Speaker 2: you will not know how to navigate yourself through the
[6:24] Speaker 2: maze of experiences that are scheduled around your spiritual life,
[6:29] Speaker 2: both good and bad. Unfortunately, for many believers, because they
[6:34] Speaker 2: have not been mentored into making sense of any and
[6:38] Speaker 2: all spiritual situation, they find themselves in offense. They find
[6:43] Speaker 2: themselves confused, They find themselves discouraged, especially in the midst
[6:50] Speaker 2: of unfavorable situations. I have taught you here that training
[6:54] Speaker 2: exposes you to the knowledge required for victory while minimizing
[7:01] Speaker 2: error and minimizing waste. The advantage of training is that
[7:05] Speaker 2: it gives you an opportunity to experience victory with minimal
[7:12] Speaker 2: error and minimal waste. Hallelujah. The first thing I want
[7:18] Speaker 2: to establish tonight is that tragic and unpleasant situations are real.
[7:25] Speaker 2: Tragic and unpleasant situations are real. In as much as
[7:31] Speaker 2: we are people of faith, the Bible does not teach
[7:35] Speaker 2: the believer to ignore the reality of tragedies and unfavorable situation.
[7:44] Speaker 2: The Bible does not teach us to act as though
[7:48] Speaker 2: they were not there. We can superimpose them with a
[7:52] Speaker 2: superior belief, but that it is not unscriptural to come
[7:56] Speaker 2: to terms with the fact that tragedy and unpleasant conditions
[8:02] Speaker 2: are real. Allelujah. And the effect of tragedies and unpleasant
[8:08] Speaker 2: conditions are also real. When you lose a loved one,
[8:13] Speaker 2: the effect is real. When you lose your job. The
[8:17] Speaker 2: effect is real when you go through some turbulent time
[8:21] Speaker 2: in your health, your marriage, your job, your church, your ministry.
[8:26] Speaker 2: All of these things are real. The Bible does not
[8:28] Speaker 2: teach us to pretend. Believing by faith is not the
[8:34] Speaker 2: same as pretense away together. The Bible does not teach
[8:39] Speaker 2: believers to pretend. The Bible teaches us to try jumph
[8:43] Speaker 2: over pain, try jumph over situations, but it starts with
[8:47] Speaker 2: recognizing the reality of those situations. I need to say this.
[8:53] Speaker 2: Crying and whipping I wrote here over painful and tragic
[8:57] Speaker 2: situations is not unbelief. The Bible makes provision for even
[9:01] Speaker 2: believers to cry. The Bible makes provision for believers to
[9:05] Speaker 2: express their humanity descently in the midst and the presence
[9:10] Speaker 2: of unfavorable situation. The Bible is full of great men,
[9:14] Speaker 2: even patriarchs who had to cry, had to whip. Some
[9:18] Speaker 2: of them had to ask God painful questions. You talk
[9:21] Speaker 2: of Abraham and Sarai, You talk of the nation of
[9:25] Speaker 2: Israel in bondage. You talk of men like Gideon, You
[9:28] Speaker 2: talk of men like Ruth, hallelujah. You even talk of
[9:33] Speaker 2: Jesus himself John eleven thirty five. The Bible says, Jesus
[9:37] Speaker 2: wept allelujah. The Bible talks about Jonah. He was frustrated
[9:43] Speaker 2: and he asks the Lord to just take his life.
[9:45] Speaker 2: Even Elijah himself was frustrated. And so it is not
[9:49] Speaker 2: on scriptural to come to terms with the reality of
[9:54] Speaker 2: tragedies and unpleasant conditions. Please look at me. If you
[9:58] Speaker 2: have been alive for us a little as one year
[10:01] Speaker 2: upon the earth, I am sure that you may have
[10:03] Speaker 2: faced a situation or two or more in your life
[10:08] Speaker 2: that has called for tears, called for sober reflection. There
[10:12] Speaker 2: is no man, no matter how spiritual, no matter how prosperous,
[10:16] Speaker 2: no matter how educated, who is entirely immune from situations
[10:22] Speaker 2: that are unpleasant. Are we together? The faith life does
[10:25] Speaker 2: not promise us unpleasant situation. It only promises us victory.
[10:30] Speaker 2: In the midst of victory in spite of are we
[10:34] Speaker 2: learning now? I'm teaching on beautiful ashes. First point that
[10:38] Speaker 2: tragedies and unpleasant conditions are real, and that you must
[10:43] Speaker 2: come to terms with that when someone dies, that death
[10:46] Speaker 2: is real, when someone goes through pain, that pain is real.
[10:51] Speaker 2: When someone loses their job and they no longer have salary,
[10:55] Speaker 2: that is a real situation. Hear me again. God does
[10:59] Speaker 2: not teach believers to pretend. We are people of faith
[11:03] Speaker 2: and the basis of faith is a superior promise that
[11:06] Speaker 2: is greater than the current tragedy. He does not teach
[11:10] Speaker 2: believers to pretend. Sometimes we get too hard and we
[11:16] Speaker 2: get too harsh on people when your humanity finds expression,
[11:20] Speaker 2: especially in the midst of painful situations. We have people
[11:24] Speaker 2: who get disappointed. We have people who get pained, We
[11:28] Speaker 2: have people who grieve and go through very, very unpleasant seasons,
[11:33] Speaker 2: and sometimes in a bit to challenge people to still
[11:36] Speaker 2: remain in faith, we swing to the other side of
[11:39] Speaker 2: the pendulum and we try to strangle away the humanity
[11:43] Speaker 2: of people and make them feel guilty for crying. We
[11:46] Speaker 2: make them feel guilty for taking a minute to absorb
[11:49] Speaker 2: whatever pain you're going through. And so, in teaching this
[11:53] Speaker 2: very important salmon tonight, the first thing I wanted to
[11:57] Speaker 2: know is that tragedies and unpleasant conditions are real. As
[12:04] Speaker 2: a man of God, you will think that all I've
[12:06] Speaker 2: seen in my life are just miracles and signs and
[12:09] Speaker 2: wonders and pleasant testimonies. I have cried myself, I have
[12:14] Speaker 2: cried for others. Allelujah. We have lost people within the ministry.
[12:18] Speaker 2: There are people who have come with testimonies that are
[12:21] Speaker 2: not the best. There are still people till date who
[12:24] Speaker 2: are trusting God, releasing their faith to be healed in
[12:27] Speaker 2: several areas. In spite of the many testimonies we already have.
[12:31] Speaker 2: It takes a lot of honesty to admit this that
[12:34] Speaker 2: tragedies and unpleasant situations are real. Someone learning already, Perhaps
[12:43] Speaker 2: someone came to church, or someone is connecting from across
[12:46] Speaker 2: the globe finding meaning. Where is God in the midst
[12:49] Speaker 2: of this spain? How could God be there when my
[12:52] Speaker 2: child died? How could God be there when my wife died,
[12:55] Speaker 2: my husband died? How could God be there when I
[12:58] Speaker 2: lost my job? You know that if you do not
[13:01] Speaker 2: understand the message like what I'm about to teach you,
[13:04] Speaker 2: God will be so confusing it will not make sense
[13:07] Speaker 2: to trust Him. And you know, pain has a way
[13:10] Speaker 2: of re educating and reorienting your mind, bringing you to
[13:15] Speaker 2: a point where you no longer believe God because it
[13:18] Speaker 2: doesn't seem to make sense believing him. It looks like
[13:21] Speaker 2: the lot of the own believer, and the believer he
[13:23] Speaker 2: eventually becomes the same. Tragedies and unpleasant conditions are real.
[13:33] Speaker 2: They are real. I remember, as a very very very
[13:36] Speaker 2: young boy, just beginning to love the things of the spirit,
[13:39] Speaker 2: we used to have one gentleman where group of friends
[13:42] Speaker 2: who love Jesus with all our hearts, serving him with
[13:46] Speaker 2: just God filled the Holy Spirit, experiencing supernatural things. And
[13:50] Speaker 2: then at a point the gentleman was a sickler. I
[13:53] Speaker 2: still remember it's many years now, and one time he
[13:57] Speaker 2: just fell ill. The crisis just broke up, and I
[14:00] Speaker 2: had the honor to be the only person who went
[14:02] Speaker 2: with another you know of a senior teachers to go
[14:06] Speaker 2: and see him at the hospital. Smiled at him, we joked,
[14:10] Speaker 2: you know, and I told him, I said, don't worry,
[14:11] Speaker 2: You'll be fine, and we'll be praying waiting for you
[14:14] Speaker 2: to get fine, not knowing that was the last time
[14:16] Speaker 2: I was going to see him, and a few hours
[14:18] Speaker 2: later they told me he had gone. I couldn't believe
[14:21] Speaker 2: it until I saw the poster with his face. I
[14:25] Speaker 2: had to tap myself and say, you mean this guy
[14:27] Speaker 2: is gone. Let me tell you the truth. When you
[14:30] Speaker 2: find people crying, when you find people going to pain,
[14:33] Speaker 2: don't be too quick to make them feel foolish. If
[14:36] Speaker 2: you have nothing to say, let your hands do the speaking.
[14:40] Speaker 2: Embrace them in love, and allow those tears to sponsor
[14:43] Speaker 2: the healing process. Are we together? Tragedies and unpleasant conditions
[14:52] Speaker 2: are real. But the second thing I want us to
[14:56] Speaker 2: know is that for the believer in Christ, the Bible
[15:00] Speaker 2: has good news. And here's the good news. Romans, Chapter eight,
[15:04] Speaker 2: from verse twenty eight. The Bible says, Romans eight twenty eight.
[15:11] Speaker 2: For we know, and we know that all things. For
[15:15] Speaker 2: I believer say all things, and we know that in
[15:19] Speaker 2: spite of the reality of tragedies, in spite of the
[15:23] Speaker 2: reality of unpleasant situations that seem to weave themselves into
[15:28] Speaker 2: our lives at one point or the other, my Bible says,
[15:32] Speaker 2: and we know that all things walk together. All things
[15:38] Speaker 2: may not come together, but they walk together. They may
[15:43] Speaker 2: not come together, but they walk together for the good
[15:48] Speaker 2: to them that love the Lord, to them who are
[15:52] Speaker 2: the called according to his purposes, the cold according to
[15:57] Speaker 2: his purposes. So the Bible tells us the second point
[16:00] Speaker 2: to note that all things can walk together. Now that's
[16:05] Speaker 2: a very expensive statement. All things, including tragic situations, including
[16:12] Speaker 2: painful situations, including situations that can almost make a man,
[16:16] Speaker 2: cost God. How do you say all things work together?
[16:21] Speaker 2: Perhaps it would have made sense to say all good
[16:23] Speaker 2: things work together, all wonderful things, all hopeful things. But
[16:28] Speaker 2: the Bible authoritatively says all things can walk together. Someone
[16:35] Speaker 2: say all things. Shout it against say all things walk together.
[16:41] Speaker 2: Professy to yourself, say all things are walking together. Speak
[16:46] Speaker 2: like a believer. Say all things are walking together, even
[16:51] Speaker 2: if you are crying. Say it one more time, say
[16:53] Speaker 2: all things are walking together. Not take a moment and
[16:57] Speaker 2: just meditate on that statement. Imagine the many things that
[17:01] Speaker 2: become all things. For you, all things mean the death
[17:04] Speaker 2: of your father. Maybe all things mean the death of
[17:07] Speaker 2: your mother. Unfortunately. Maybe all things means the job that
[17:10] Speaker 2: refused to come. All things means your spouse. All things
[17:15] Speaker 2: means the painful divorce. No matter what it is, the
[17:19] Speaker 2: Bible never says all things come together. You can't blame
[17:23] Speaker 2: everything on God, but the Bible says, provided it arrived
[17:26] Speaker 2: your life, it can be made in raw material all things.
[17:32] Speaker 2: All things do not come from God. Because the Bible
[17:35] Speaker 2: defines the character of the things that come from God.
[17:38] Speaker 2: It is every good and perfect gift that comes from
[17:42] Speaker 2: the Lord. So there are things that do not come
[17:45] Speaker 2: from the Lord, but that provided it arrived the believers life.
[17:49] Speaker 2: The intelligence of God really models the strategy to make
[17:53] Speaker 2: all things all things. Are we learning now? So do
[17:59] Speaker 2: not confuse what I am saying. I am not saying
[18:02] Speaker 2: all evil. Evil does not come from God. The Bible
[18:06] Speaker 2: tells us that that God is full of grace and truth.
[18:09] Speaker 2: If it is evil, we know that it comes from
[18:12] Speaker 2: the enemy. Everything that is anti God, anti salvation and
[18:18] Speaker 2: Thai redemption. For sure. Do not let your pain convince
[18:22] Speaker 2: you all things do not come from God. But God
[18:26] Speaker 2: is able to make all things walk together all things.
[18:36] Speaker 2: You may have been careless with your job and you
[18:39] Speaker 2: lost the job. The job loss did not come from God.
[18:42] Speaker 2: It came as a result of your not discigning and
[18:45] Speaker 2: knowing the principle that makes for increase and excellence. But
[18:50] Speaker 2: now that you are in the loss, what then is
[18:52] Speaker 2: your advantage as the believer? You put your money in
[18:56] Speaker 2: the wrong place and the money disappeared. It may not
[18:59] Speaker 2: be God, it be God that led to that loss,
[19:02] Speaker 2: But now that you are in that situation. Will God
[19:04] Speaker 2: leave you like that? No? Someone say all things, this
[19:07] Speaker 2: is a message of hope. Say all things, begin to
[19:11] Speaker 2: remainiss on the many things that make up your old things,
[19:14] Speaker 2: because our all things differ. What is all things for
[19:18] Speaker 2: me may be very different? All things your carelessness of yesterday.
[19:24] Speaker 2: Maybe you live the wayward life as a child. All things.
[19:26] Speaker 2: Now that you are saying, it looks like there is
[19:29] Speaker 2: no hope. I can tell you all things, all things
[19:33] Speaker 2: can work together. They may not have come together, but
[19:37] Speaker 2: now that they are in your life, the intelligence of
[19:40] Speaker 2: God is first enough to reinvent a strategy that incorporates
[19:45] Speaker 2: that tragedy and produces victory out of it. This is
[19:49] Speaker 2: the difference between a believer, one in Christ and one
[19:53] Speaker 2: who is outside Christ is someone learning. So I started
[19:58] Speaker 2: by saying tragedies, unpleasant situations are real. Pain is real,
[20:05] Speaker 2: losses are real, defeats is real. I can tell you
[20:09] Speaker 2: that we're not called to pretend. We're not called to
[20:13] Speaker 2: act as if it's not there. It's there, and the
[20:16] Speaker 2: effect can be very telling on a believer. But the
[20:22] Speaker 2: believer is one who has access to more superior information,
[20:26] Speaker 2: one of which is that all things may not come together.
[20:30] Speaker 2: All things that are in your life may not have
[20:33] Speaker 2: come from God, but provided it's arrived your life and
[20:38] Speaker 2: your destiny space, it can work together for the good
[20:43] Speaker 2: to them that love the Lord, and the Bible says
[20:47] Speaker 2: to them who are called according to His purpose. Is
[20:51] Speaker 2: someone learning Romance Chapter eight and verse eighteen Romans eight eighteen,
[20:57] Speaker 2: What does the Bible tell us? For I record that
[21:00] Speaker 2: the sufferings of this present time? Someone read that sentence
[21:04] Speaker 2: after me, the sufferings of this present time? One more time,
[21:08] Speaker 2: the sufferings of this present time. You would think such
[21:11] Speaker 2: a statement should not come from the lips of a
[21:14] Speaker 2: man who is full of faith in the body of Christ. Today,
[21:17] Speaker 2: if you mention this word suffering and you're join it
[21:20] Speaker 2: with time is interpreted as unbelief. And here is Paul,
[21:25] Speaker 2: Paul who want an encounter with Jesus. He makes Paul
[21:28] Speaker 2: to tell you that there is such a season in
[21:31] Speaker 2: a man's life. It says, the sufferings of this present time.
[21:36] Speaker 2: The inconvenience is the constraints that come with this present
[21:41] Speaker 2: season are not worthy to be compared with the glory
[21:46] Speaker 2: which shall be revealed in not shout a man, So
[21:50] Speaker 2: that every time you see sufferings, know that there is
[21:54] Speaker 2: a parallel to it, that is waiting. Don't just receive
[21:57] Speaker 2: the suffering and don't expect glory that does sufferings of
[22:00] Speaker 2: this present time, whatever name you call it, that accident, tragedy,
[22:05] Speaker 2: whatever it is, he said, it is nothing to be
[22:08] Speaker 2: compared with the glory. It's like telling a student in
[22:12] Speaker 2: school that the suffering you are going through, burning midnight candles,
[22:16] Speaker 2: putting your legs in cold water a still remember, and
[22:19] Speaker 2: all the strategies that we invent to study and push through.
[22:22] Speaker 2: That the sufferings are not compared to the blessings that
[22:26] Speaker 2: come by the time you become a consultant. It's a
[22:29] Speaker 2: word of hope. The sufferings of this present time are
[22:33] Speaker 2: not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall
[22:36] Speaker 2: be revealed in us. Can I give you more scriptures?
[22:40] Speaker 2: Second Corinthians, chapter four, eight to ten. All things can
[22:46] Speaker 2: walk together. Here's what Paul again says. We are troubled
[22:52] Speaker 2: on every side, how many sides, every science that it
[22:59] Speaker 2: is possible for a man like job to be troubled
[23:03] Speaker 2: on every side trouble. You turn to your finances and
[23:08] Speaker 2: it looks like it's going haywire. Then you turn to
[23:11] Speaker 2: your marriage and it's almost upside down. Then you turn
[23:14] Speaker 2: to your spiritual life and you find out that it
[23:17] Speaker 2: looks like that candle is going down. You turn to
[23:19] Speaker 2: your relationships, and I mean things are just going around
[23:23] Speaker 2: your life. Let me tell you the truth. Not many
[23:26] Speaker 2: people have experienced this statement troubled on every side. But
[23:31] Speaker 2: I have met people who are troubled on every side
[23:35] Speaker 2: by reason of this work that God has given. I've
[23:38] Speaker 2: had the honor of speaking to, praying with counseling and
[23:43] Speaker 2: comforting people who represent this scripture to the point that
[23:48] Speaker 2: when you are done praying, they don't say Amen. And
[23:51] Speaker 2: it's not unbelief. They are used to pain. They are
[23:57] Speaker 2: used to the world not working. So when you say
[24:00] Speaker 2: in Jesus' name while you are shouting and sweating, they're
[24:03] Speaker 2: just listening to you, and it is not unbelieved. Sometimes
[24:08] Speaker 2: pain can stop you from shouting. Imen. They said it,
[24:11] Speaker 2: they just did not voice it out. Oh, come laid
[24:18] Speaker 2: down the burdens you have carrying forming the sc you
[24:26] Speaker 2: are God. Oh, come lay down the burdens you have
[24:38] Speaker 2: carried for in the sec you are. There is a steal,
[24:53] Speaker 2: anoyting the sanctual there is a st.
[25:02] Speaker 1: In the.
[25:07] Speaker 2: Please come laid down the bird, and you have carried
[25:14] Speaker 2: for in this su Back to that scripture, the Bible
[25:26] Speaker 2: says we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
[25:33] Speaker 2: It says we are perplexed, but not in despair. The
[25:37] Speaker 2: next verse, please, it says, persecuted but not forsaken, cast
[25:44] Speaker 2: down but not destroyed. Was then always bearing about in
[25:49] Speaker 2: the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the
[25:53] Speaker 2: life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
[25:59] Speaker 2: So it's not just pay it's not just persecution. It's
[26:04] Speaker 2: not just to be perplexed and to be downcast. It says,
[26:07] Speaker 2: we are bearing that reproach, but we also know that
[26:11] Speaker 2: the glory the life might be also made manifest in
[26:15] Speaker 2: our body. Second Corinthians four seventeen. I'm giving you these
[26:22] Speaker 2: scriptures to establish the fact that all things can walk together.
[26:26] Speaker 2: Let's read Second Corinthians four seventeen together. Ready read for
[26:32] Speaker 2: our light affliction, which is but for a moment, what
[26:38] Speaker 2: get for us? You see the word there again, a
[26:41] Speaker 2: far more exceeding an eternal weight of glory. One more time,
[26:46] Speaker 2: colling Onia, for our light affliction, whatever you call it,
[26:51] Speaker 2: which is pot for a moment, what get for us?
[26:58] Speaker 2: Now take note of that scripture. The Bible never said
[27:01] Speaker 2: work at for all light afflictions do not work glory
[27:07] Speaker 2: for all, but for we who are in Christ our
[27:12] Speaker 2: light afflictions. And no matter how long did it looks,
[27:16] Speaker 2: the Bible calls it a moment relative to the glory
[27:19] Speaker 2: that is coming. It says it worked for us a
[27:23] Speaker 2: far more exceeding an eternal weight of glory. Let me
[27:27] Speaker 2: give you the last scripture James, Chapter one. I love
[27:29] Speaker 2: these two to four James, Chapter one, two to four,
[27:33] Speaker 2: establishing the fact that all things work together for the
[27:38] Speaker 2: good of them that love the Lord and those who
[27:41] Speaker 2: are the called according to His purposes. Let me read
[27:44] Speaker 2: for you and you listen, my brethren. It says, count
[27:48] Speaker 2: it all joy. When you fall into diverse temptations, Please
[27:53] Speaker 2: give me amplified. You would think the word dear just
[27:57] Speaker 2: means temptations like being tempted. Is the word trials? Trials? Trials?
[28:04] Speaker 2: What other versions? And IV? I'm looking for the word trials.
[28:08] Speaker 2: It says, count it all joy when you fall into
[28:13] Speaker 2: beautiful it says, whenever you face trials of many kinds.
[28:19] Speaker 2: Knowing this verse three says that the trying go back
[28:25] Speaker 2: to KJV. Now knowing this that the trying of your
[28:29] Speaker 2: faith work at patience. You see that word again, work
[28:34] Speaker 2: heead patience. Verse four, it says, but let patience have
[28:39] Speaker 2: its perfect work, that you may be mature and complete.
[28:45] Speaker 2: The word perfect. There's the word mature. The word entire
[28:48] Speaker 2: means complete oneting nothing. In. As much as we have
[29:00] Speaker 2: admitted that tragedies and unfavorable situations are real, we must
[29:06] Speaker 2: also know that in Christ, this is the defining point
[29:11] Speaker 2: in Christ. If it is not in Christ, then your lot,
[29:15] Speaker 2: your doom, is already predicted, unfortunately. But in Christ, the
[29:20] Speaker 2: Bible says, all things walk together for the good, to
[29:24] Speaker 2: them that love the Lord, and to them who are
[29:27] Speaker 2: the called according to His purposes. Now please look up
[29:33] Speaker 2: back to the scripture we read. The Bible says in
[29:38] Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter sixty one, verse three, that among the many
[29:42] Speaker 2: things that God is able to give the saints is
[29:45] Speaker 2: beauty for ashes. Please look up. How many of you
[29:49] Speaker 2: have seen ashes before? Ashes is defined as the residue
[29:54] Speaker 2: that is left after bonding happens. Am I right? Do
[29:58] Speaker 2: you know the process that leads to ashes? Ashes first
[30:02] Speaker 2: starts usually with a tree blossoming beautiful tree. Then that
[30:09] Speaker 2: tree is cut down loses its life till it becomes wood.
[30:14] Speaker 2: Then you would think that was the end of the tragedy.
[30:17] Speaker 2: That wood is now subjected to fire till it becomes coal,
[30:21] Speaker 2: and then from call it finally becomes ashes. And the
[30:25] Speaker 2: Bible says, even at that point there is still something
[30:28] Speaker 2: God can do about it. From a tree to wood,
[30:35] Speaker 2: that is bad enough because the life is gone. Are
[30:39] Speaker 2: we together now? Now? What is left is father burned
[30:44] Speaker 2: until it becomes coal. And then the coal is burned
[30:50] Speaker 2: until it becomes ashes. Ashes is the final state of anything,
[30:56] Speaker 2: when it's been burned thoroughly. The firm, the beauty, the color,
[31:01] Speaker 2: the glory is totallygon. You call it ashes, and the
[31:05] Speaker 2: Bible says such a reality can be a man's experience.
[31:09] Speaker 2: Are we together? Pay attention now? Beauty for ashes? Now?
[31:15] Speaker 2: Look up. When we were in school, we were taught
[31:18] Speaker 2: something called synonyms and antonyms. Remember, and if you recall properly,
[31:27] Speaker 2: just does your English for one minute. The opposite of
[31:31] Speaker 2: beauty is not ashes. If I'm to use an antonym
[31:36] Speaker 2: for beauty, it may be maybe something else. I'm not
[31:39] Speaker 2: sure ashes would have been the best world there. But
[31:42] Speaker 2: the Bible says that when God comes, he looks for ashes.
[31:47] Speaker 2: When he finds ashes, he gives beauty. Now, one of
[31:52] Speaker 2: the things you are going to be learning here is
[31:54] Speaker 2: that God is a miracle worker. But the way he
[32:00] Speaker 2: walks his miracles is that sometimes he still leaves you
[32:04] Speaker 2: with your water. He only turns it to wine. But
[32:07] Speaker 2: there are times you will have to take the ashes away.
[32:10] Speaker 2: You will never see it again. There is nothing that
[32:13] Speaker 2: can come out of the ashes. What happens is not
[32:16] Speaker 2: is a replacement. He is not turning water to wine.
[32:21] Speaker 2: When he turns water to wind. The water is there.
[32:24] Speaker 2: He doesn't need to give you anything new. He will
[32:27] Speaker 2: still use the water as the raw material. But the
[32:31] Speaker 2: Bible says there is a way he can look at
[32:33] Speaker 2: your life and see that what is there is ashes.
[32:36] Speaker 2: He will collect the ashes away and give you beauty,
[32:45] Speaker 2: beauty for ashes. He does not give you beauty to
[32:51] Speaker 2: wrap the ashes with it. He collects the ashes. You
[32:54] Speaker 2: may never see it again. When you understand this, you
[32:58] Speaker 2: will learn, as you be learning right now, that even
[33:02] Speaker 2: in the midst of hopelessness, there is something you may
[33:05] Speaker 2: never see again, Like your loved one who is dead.
[33:08] Speaker 2: You may never see them in the flesh. Consider that
[33:11] Speaker 2: as ashes. But that God can bring beauty. He can
[33:15] Speaker 2: put something in your life. It may not be equal
[33:18] Speaker 2: to a mother. He may not be equal to a father.
[33:21] Speaker 2: It may not be equal to the pain. It is
[33:23] Speaker 2: not all the time that water turns to wine. But
[33:26] Speaker 2: if it is God, even ashes can be collected and
[33:30] Speaker 2: beauty is given back. Someone learning now this is very powerful.
[33:39] Speaker 2: When you learn this, you will know that there is
[33:42] Speaker 2: nothing called hopeless for the believer. Because in our world
[33:50] Speaker 2: today we perceive the zenate of hope. Provided there is life.
[34:00] Speaker 2: Mean life is gone, whether from a human being or
[34:02] Speaker 2: from a thing, we generally say it is hopeless to me.
[34:07] Speaker 2: Nothing can be done about it, And you may be right.
[34:11] Speaker 2: But walk with me as I show you how believers
[34:15] Speaker 2: can walk perpetually in victory. Lay your hands on your
[34:19] Speaker 2: head in one minute and adds a lot to open
[34:21] Speaker 2: your eyes. Out of the ashes am I dying today?
[34:30] Speaker 2: I see the breaking of a brand new day in
[34:37] Speaker 2: which the name of the lone alone is lowified. I
[34:44] Speaker 2: see the breaking of a brand new out of the
[34:50] Speaker 2: ashes of my dying today, I see the breaking of
[34:58] Speaker 2: a brand in which the name of the Lord alone
[35:06] Speaker 2: is lordified. I see the preak enough brand. Allelujah in
[35:16] Speaker 2: Jesus' name. Now I want to give you six keys
[35:20] Speaker 2: very quickly. These are irrefutable Kingdom keys. They represent the technology,
[35:29] Speaker 2: the law of conversion. How beauty can be replaced for ashes.
[35:37] Speaker 2: It happens when you know how to engage these mysteries.
[35:42] Speaker 2: For someone who has cried, for someone who twenty twenty
[35:45] Speaker 2: four has been a plethora of tragedies, The Lord, by
[35:49] Speaker 2: this teaching, is giving you the solution to your prayer,
[35:53] Speaker 2: is showing you the roadmap out of pain. I know
[35:57] Speaker 2: you have cried, but the Lord is saying you have
[36:00] Speaker 2: cried enough. Here is the way to come out. Are
[36:03] Speaker 2: you ready now? Number one? The first key that gives
[36:10] Speaker 2: perspective and brings solution to any condition of hopelessness and despair.
[36:18] Speaker 2: Are you ready? Number one? Remain conscious of the love
[36:24] Speaker 2: of God towards you. Remain conscious of the love of
[36:29] Speaker 2: God towards you, no matter what happens in your life,
[36:34] Speaker 2: no matter how much you do not have answers to it,
[36:38] Speaker 2: whether it's a situation of death, sickness. Perhaps someone right
[36:42] Speaker 2: now is watching battling cancer. You have an autistic child.
[36:46] Speaker 2: You've lost your job, you're losing your home, you've lost
[36:49] Speaker 2: your ministry. Things have gone bad, hair wire around your life.
[36:53] Speaker 2: No matter what you lose, never lose the consciousness of
[36:59] Speaker 2: the love of God towards you. Jeremiah thirty one and
[37:02] Speaker 2: Us three. The first key that represents an ankle, the
[37:07] Speaker 2: ankle you hold till victory is established. The Lord hath
[37:12] Speaker 2: appeared of all on to me, saying, Hey, I have
[37:15] Speaker 2: loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness
[37:20] Speaker 2: have I drawn you? With loving kindness? Have I drawn you?
[37:25] Speaker 2: Romance chapter eight. We looked at that earlier. Now let's
[37:27] Speaker 2: go to verse thirty two. Romance, Chapter eight. The consciousness
[37:32] Speaker 2: of the love of God. The Bible says, he that
[37:37] Speaker 2: did not spare his son? Do you know what that means?
[37:41] Speaker 2: To demonstrate how far the extent of His love for
[37:45] Speaker 2: you and I? The Bible says, not even his son
[37:48] Speaker 2: Jesus was spared, but delivered him up for us all.
[37:55] Speaker 2: How shall he not with him also freely give us all.
[38:01] Speaker 2: There is something you need to know about how much
[38:04] Speaker 2: God loves you. That can become an ankle when life
[38:08] Speaker 2: does not make sense. If you lose the consciousness of
[38:12] Speaker 2: the love of Jesus. You will fall prey to every
[38:16] Speaker 2: explanation Satan will give you as to the reason why
[38:19] Speaker 2: things are the way they are in your life. You
[38:22] Speaker 2: can lose your job, you may lose your home, God forbid,
[38:27] Speaker 2: you may lose any other thing. But let it not
[38:29] Speaker 2: be that you lost with it the consciousness of the
[38:32] Speaker 2: love that Jesus has for you. Someone says he loves
[38:36] Speaker 2: me one more time saying he loves me. Second Corinthians,
[38:41] Speaker 2: chapter thirteen and verse fourteen, one of our uncle scriptures.
[38:44] Speaker 2: Here it says, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
[38:49] Speaker 2: the love of God, and the communion coinnonia of the
[38:55] Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. It says, let it be with you all amen,
[39:00] Speaker 2: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
[39:05] Speaker 2: the love of God, the love of God. No matter
[39:09] Speaker 2: what you are going through, the love of God, God.
[39:12] Speaker 2: Where are you that it looks like I'm praying and
[39:14] Speaker 2: answers are not coming, and the devil tells you, is
[39:18] Speaker 2: this how love looks like? You debound that statement immediately.
[39:21] Speaker 2: I may not know what I am going through, I
[39:24] Speaker 2: may not even have a sense of the solution. But
[39:28] Speaker 2: one thing I may never. I should never. You should
[39:31] Speaker 2: never consider in your life is that God hates you?
[39:36] Speaker 2: It's a lie. If you hear that is a familiar
[39:38] Speaker 2: spirit writing through your pain. Someone say again, he loves me,
[39:43] Speaker 2: shout it, say he loves me. Possibly, If he loves me,
[39:47] Speaker 2: where is the rent he still loves you? Possibly? If
[39:49] Speaker 2: he loves me, why did he watch my brother die,
[39:53] Speaker 2: my sister die? Why did he watch me lose the visa?
[39:56] Speaker 2: Why did you watch me lose out on the opportunity.
[39:58] Speaker 2: If he loves me, why did do you allow my
[40:00] Speaker 2: business to go down? I tell you, no, matter what
[40:03] Speaker 2: happens in your life, you are already on your pants
[40:06] Speaker 2: to open recovery, triumph and victory if you can hold
[40:09] Speaker 2: onto this confidence that he loves me, he loves me,
[40:15] Speaker 2: he loves me, He loves me. Lord, you seem so
[40:24] Speaker 2: far away, a million miles, and what it feels today.
[40:35] Speaker 2: And though I haven't lost my faith, I must confess
[40:40] Speaker 2: right now that is hard for me to pray. But
[40:48] Speaker 2: I don't know what to say, and I don't know
[40:52] Speaker 2: where to start. But as you give the grace help
[40:57] Speaker 2: me with all that's in my heart, I will see
[41:03] Speaker 2: and I will.
[41:04] Speaker 1: Pray even in my darkest through the sorrow and the pain,
[41:14] Speaker 1: I will see.
[41:17] Speaker 2: And I will pray.
[41:20] Speaker 1: I leave my hands to honor you because of what
[41:25] Speaker 1: it is true.
[41:27] Speaker 2: I will see. This is very powerful Lord. It's hard
[41:35] Speaker 2: for me to see all the thoughts and plans you
[41:40] Speaker 2: have for me, very powerful song. But I will put
[41:48] Speaker 2: my trust in you, knowing that you die to save
[41:53] Speaker 2: me free. That is my confidence that you went that
[41:58] Speaker 2: far for me. And I don't know what to say.
[42:03] Speaker 2: I don't know where to start. But as you give
[42:07] Speaker 2: the grace read all that's.
[42:11] Speaker 1: In my heart, I will see. I will pray.
[42:19] Speaker 2: Even in my.
[42:20] Speaker 1: Darn cast, through the sorrow and pain, I will see.
[42:29] Speaker 2: And I will pray.
[42:32] Speaker 1: I leave my hands to honor you clean no word
[42:37] Speaker 1: is I will see.
[42:43] Speaker 2: The consciousness of the fact that He loves me. As
[42:47] Speaker 2: you stand and watch them bury your brother, as you
[42:50] Speaker 2: watch them go down in death, never allow the devil
[42:55] Speaker 2: lie to you as you watch yourself lose your job
[43:00] Speaker 2: and you wave your company goodbye, and you're confused, not
[43:04] Speaker 2: knowing where the next man will come from. No matter
[43:08] Speaker 2: what you lose, do not lose the consciousness of the
[43:13] Speaker 2: love of God through Christ. There is victory in knowing
[43:17] Speaker 2: he loves me. There is victory in knowing He has
[43:21] Speaker 2: a plan for me. Is it not in your Bible?
[43:23] Speaker 2: I know the thoughts that I think towards you, say
[43:25] Speaker 2: the Lord, thoughts of peace are not of evil. Listen,
[43:29] Speaker 2: when you lose the consciousness of God's love for you
[43:32] Speaker 2: as a man of God, you are ready for any compromise. Lord,
[43:39] Speaker 2: I know you love me, But where where will I
[43:41] Speaker 2: get the bills from the money? Where will I ah?
[43:53] Speaker 2: Someone say again he loves me. Yes, sir, No matter
[43:58] Speaker 2: what is going on in your life right now, among
[44:01] Speaker 2: the many things that you try to give us an explanation,
[44:06] Speaker 2: let it never be that you lose the consciousness of
[44:10] Speaker 2: the love of Jesus. Is someone learning already. Key number
[44:14] Speaker 2: one that can help a man experience beauty for ashes
[44:21] Speaker 2: is that you must remain conscious of the love of
[44:26] Speaker 2: God towards you. I wrote something here and I wanted
[44:30] Speaker 2: to listen still on point one. Refuse to be offended
[44:35] Speaker 2: with God. Refuse to be offended with God. Refuse to
[44:43] Speaker 2: be offended. I think that should be Matthew, chapter eleven.
[44:47] Speaker 2: Please give it to us a lesson we have to
[44:49] Speaker 2: learn from Johnder Baptist Matthew Chapter eleven. Please, from verse one,
[44:56] Speaker 2: the Bible says it came to pass when Jesus had
[44:59] Speaker 2: made an end to come his twelve disciples. He departed
[45:02] Speaker 2: then to teach and to preach in their cities, reading
[45:05] Speaker 2: to six. Now, yeah, that's a scripture when John had
[45:09] Speaker 2: heard in prison? Where was John in prison? John could
[45:14] Speaker 2: not be offended when he was in the wilderness, he
[45:17] Speaker 2: would not be offended at the senate of his ministry.
[45:20] Speaker 2: But when he got to prison. Many things happen when
[45:24] Speaker 2: men are in prison. The Bible says he had in
[45:27] Speaker 2: prison the walks of Christ, and he sent two of
[45:30] Speaker 2: his disciples. Next verse please, and he said unto him,
[45:33] Speaker 2: I doubt the one who should come? Or should we
[45:38] Speaker 2: look for another? That is the character of offense. This
[45:41] Speaker 2: was the man who or daaning Jesus in ministry. But now,
[45:44] Speaker 2: because he had become so offended, he's sending a message
[45:48] Speaker 2: to Jesus that even though I brought you to ministry,
[45:52] Speaker 2: I saw the heavens open, I had the voice that
[45:55] Speaker 2: spoke in light of my pain. Now I doubt if
[45:58] Speaker 2: you are the Messiah? Are you the one who should come?
[46:02] Speaker 2: Or should we expect another? Look at how Jesus responded.
[46:05] Speaker 2: Verse four, Jesus said, unto him, Go and show John
[46:08] Speaker 2: again those things which you do, and which do you do? Here?
[46:13] Speaker 2: And see verse five. The blind received their site the
[46:16] Speaker 2: lame work. The lepers are cleansed the death. Here the
[46:20] Speaker 2: dead are raised up, the poor have the Gospel preached
[46:23] Speaker 2: to them. Read verse six. Together, one to go, and
[46:27] Speaker 2: blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me.
[46:35] Speaker 2: He said, John, your problem is not my miracles. Your
[46:39] Speaker 2: problem is not my ministry. Your problem is not my person.
[46:43] Speaker 2: You are sending a message to doubt my credibility. But
[46:45] Speaker 2: what is really wrong with you is offense. Offense can
[46:49] Speaker 2: make you speak in a way that you will be surprised.
[46:53] Speaker 2: How do you expect John to be asking the credibility
[46:57] Speaker 2: and the validity of Jesus. It was on himself. John
[47:01] Speaker 2: saw it, He baptized Jesus. He saw Heaven's open John.
[47:06] Speaker 2: The Bible says John had the works of Jesus. There
[47:11] Speaker 2: are times that God can move so mighty. You become
[47:14] Speaker 2: offended the more you hear testimonies on stage here. It
[47:18] Speaker 2: annoys you because that was also your prayer request. How
[47:23] Speaker 2: could you give someone a second child. Oh God, when
[47:25] Speaker 2: I'm still asking for one? How could you give someone
[47:29] Speaker 2: to it? How could you give someone multiple jobs when
[47:32] Speaker 2: I'm still asking for one? This is God for you.
[47:41] Speaker 2: Never be offended. I made up my mind that no
[47:45] Speaker 2: matter what happens in my life, I will rejoice always.
[47:48] Speaker 2: I will never be offended. I know He loves me.
[47:52] Speaker 2: Whether I understand or do not understand the things around
[47:56] Speaker 2: my life, he loves me. Someone says he loves me
[48:00] Speaker 2: Number two. Let's hurry up the second key on your
[48:06] Speaker 2: journey to receiving beauty for ashes ready. Always hope for
[48:13] Speaker 2: and expect God's best in everything. Always hope for and
[48:19] Speaker 2: expect God's best in everything. The power of hope. Always
[48:25] Speaker 2: hope for and expect God's best in everything, Psalm forty
[48:31] Speaker 2: two one, verse five. Always hope for and expect God's
[48:37] Speaker 2: best in everything. It says, Why thou cast down, oh
[48:42] Speaker 2: my soul, and why thou disquieted in me? Hope thou
[48:47] Speaker 2: in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the
[48:51] Speaker 2: help of his countenance. Why is my soul cast down?
[48:54] Speaker 2: He's saying, Why is my soul disquieted? He says, hope
[48:59] Speaker 2: dow In God Romance Chapter five and verse five. The
[49:03] Speaker 2: Bible says, hope make head not as shamed hope. That
[49:07] Speaker 2: means hope has a way of eroding shame. When you
[49:11] Speaker 2: place your hope in Jesus, then shame is on its
[49:14] Speaker 2: way out of your life. Look at me, please. There
[49:21] Speaker 2: are three levels of hope. I preached the message years
[49:24] Speaker 2: ago on hope, and I'm sure that in the future
[49:27] Speaker 2: I will do one again. But just to teach you,
[49:29] Speaker 2: there are three levels of hope. You need to understand.
[49:32] Speaker 2: Number one, there is hope in the midst of current conditions.
[49:39] Speaker 2: So the condition is still there, it's not changed, and
[49:43] Speaker 2: so you are hoping that it will change. Hope in
[49:47] Speaker 2: the midst of the current condition, then there is hope
[49:53] Speaker 2: in spite of or against all hope. The Bible says
[49:58] Speaker 2: that means that's situation has become physically hopeless. Maybe the
[50:04] Speaker 2: person who are trusting God to live has now died.
[50:07] Speaker 2: From a biological standpoint, that is a hopeless situation. The
[50:11] Speaker 2: burial date has been fixed. But in the midst of it,
[50:14] Speaker 2: you can still have hope. In spite of are we together?
[50:19] Speaker 2: So there is hope. In the midst of trusting for change,
[50:23] Speaker 2: there is hope in spite of victory, in spite of
[50:27] Speaker 2: the tragedy. And then there is what the Bible calls
[50:29] Speaker 2: eternal hope that, even if it fails within this life,
[50:35] Speaker 2: the assurance that you are in Christ, eternal hope. These
[50:43] Speaker 2: are the levels of hope, I would say it again,
[50:46] Speaker 2: hope in the midst of current situations. The character of
[50:51] Speaker 2: that hope is that it is trusting God that the
[50:53] Speaker 2: current situation will change and not become worse than it is.
[50:58] Speaker 2: Then there is hope again, hope that means a state
[51:02] Speaker 2: of hopelessness physically has happened, but the Bible says, even
[51:06] Speaker 2: in that situation, you can still hope in God. And
[51:09] Speaker 2: then number three, there is what the Bible calls eternal
[51:13] Speaker 2: or blessed hope, hope beyond death, hope beyond the grave,
[51:18] Speaker 2: hope beyond this life. If you do not have these
[51:22] Speaker 2: three levels of hope, you will never truly experience this
[51:27] Speaker 2: reality or beauty. For ashes, hope in the midst of situations.
[51:33] Speaker 2: I'm trusting God that the joblessness would turn for my
[51:38] Speaker 2: favor to become a great job. I'm trusting God that
[51:41] Speaker 2: the baringness will turn to twins or tripless. You know.
[51:45] Speaker 2: One of our precious ladies, whom I've known her for
[51:49] Speaker 2: a while, and she sent me a text. I'm sure
[51:51] Speaker 2: she's following now, perhaps from the hospital. She's been trusting
[51:55] Speaker 2: God for the fruit of the womb. And I've seen
[51:58] Speaker 2: the pain that this lady has had to go through.
[52:00] Speaker 2: And just yesterday night I was in. This morning, this
[52:04] Speaker 2: lady sends me a text message thanking God for a miracle, triplets.
[52:08] Speaker 2: God gave her triplets. I mean, I was, I was
[52:13] Speaker 2: so happy. I said, come again, you mean it was
[52:15] Speaker 2: it a mistake? Said no triplets? God for you hope
[52:24] Speaker 2: that a negative situation can change. That is the first
[52:29] Speaker 2: level of hope. But that even when that situation closes,
[52:33] Speaker 2: because you can water a plant that is dying to
[52:36] Speaker 2: come alive, but when a plant is dead, there's no
[52:39] Speaker 2: point watering it again. Water does not resurrected dead plant.
[52:44] Speaker 2: It's over. But even at that, you can still have
[52:47] Speaker 2: hope that a plant can grow, maybe not the plant
[52:51] Speaker 2: you wanted to grow, but another one can still grow.
[52:54] Speaker 2: And then if all fails in this life, your consolation
[52:58] Speaker 2: is that there is hope beyond the grave. If there
[53:00] Speaker 2: is hope beyond this life. Someone says, I have hope.
[53:03] Speaker 2: Let the devil hear you. I have hope, and you
[53:06] Speaker 2: mean you have all three levels of hope. I have
[53:09] Speaker 2: hope that what is plaguing me now that is unfavorable
[53:13] Speaker 2: will change, and may it change in Jesus' name. And
[53:17] Speaker 2: then the second level of hope, maybe your sponsor, maybe
[53:21] Speaker 2: your human help, maybe the person you are leaning on,
[53:24] Speaker 2: has gone to be with the Lord. And possible what
[53:26] Speaker 2: your message may not bring my mother back to life,
[53:29] Speaker 2: I know, I understand, but even in that state, there
[53:33] Speaker 2: is still another level of hope that what your mother
[53:36] Speaker 2: represented to you God can bring another person to play
[53:40] Speaker 2: that role. It may never be like your mother, but
[53:42] Speaker 2: it will cover what her absence would have cost in
[53:46] Speaker 2: your life. Are you learning now? And then when all fails,
[53:56] Speaker 2: you know that there is eternal hope because I am
[53:59] Speaker 2: in Christ, no matter what happens. The Bible says to
[54:03] Speaker 2: be absent in the body is to be present with
[54:06] Speaker 2: the Lord who is learning tonight. Don't forget these three
[54:10] Speaker 2: levels of hope. I just taught you the one that
[54:13] Speaker 2: is taught in church. Unfortunately, and that's why there are
[54:16] Speaker 2: lots of immature believers. It's just the first level hope
[54:19] Speaker 2: in the midst of current conditions. So when life pushes
[54:24] Speaker 2: beyond the gates of your current conditions and what you
[54:27] Speaker 2: are trusting God for never happens. I like Joe, wa'ts
[54:31] Speaker 2: the second level of hope. Though he slay me, Yet
[54:35] Speaker 2: will I praise him? I praise him to see him
[54:39] Speaker 2: turn my morning to dancing? But what if I never
[54:42] Speaker 2: have the child? Hope against all hope? I like the
[54:50] Speaker 2: way the Bible puts it. Hope Abraham, Now who hope
[54:54] Speaker 2: against all? Hope against all hope against all hope. You
[55:00] Speaker 2: are trusting God that your tubes will not be removed
[55:03] Speaker 2: from the surgery. But the doctor said, sorry, will have
[55:06] Speaker 2: to take away everything. That means there will not be
[55:08] Speaker 2: a child. You may not have a physical child, but
[55:12] Speaker 2: hope against all hope that for the believer, even at
[55:16] Speaker 2: such points, listen hope. It should not only be tied
[55:21] Speaker 2: to the arrival of a miracle. There are times that
[55:24] Speaker 2: hope is not tied to any physical manifestation. It is
[55:27] Speaker 2: tied to God. It is not all the time you
[55:30] Speaker 2: hope on the arrival of things. There are times that
[55:34] Speaker 2: you live the issue of things and hope in God,
[55:37] Speaker 2: and the Bible says there will be a consolation. God's
[55:41] Speaker 2: thrown is made up of righteousness and justice, and he
[55:44] Speaker 2: will find a way of making out compensation for trusting him.
[55:50] Speaker 2: When you notice about God, you never feel cheated. When
[55:53] Speaker 2: you hope for things and you are still disappointed, you
[55:56] Speaker 2: find consolation that in the economy of God, your compensation
[56:00] Speaker 2: will still route itself back to you. Because God is
[56:03] Speaker 2: not a man that you should lie. You firsted and
[56:07] Speaker 2: you prayed for two weeks, stretch so as to not
[56:10] Speaker 2: lose the job, so that the loved one will not die,
[56:13] Speaker 2: and the person died, and you said, I wasted my time.
[56:16] Speaker 2: You didn't speak like a believer. That investment of prayer
[56:20] Speaker 2: will be deposited and not that area of your life,
[56:23] Speaker 2: and the reward will come. There are no wastages serving God.
[56:26] Speaker 2: There are no wastages loving God. Everything done in the
[56:30] Speaker 2: name of the Lord has a reward system. It may
[56:34] Speaker 2: not be in the area of your expectation, but I
[56:37] Speaker 2: tell you, if it is the God of Heaven, it
[56:39] Speaker 2: will still come to you. The Bible talks about Matthias.
[56:42] Speaker 2: There are seven crowns that the Bible teaches that will
[56:45] Speaker 2: be given to the saints. One of it is the
[56:47] Speaker 2: Matthias crowd. You know whoe Mattia is one who died
[56:50] Speaker 2: for Christ. Not everybody who died for Christ wanted to die.
[56:53] Speaker 2: Some of them wanted to leave, but for Christ they died.
[56:56] Speaker 2: And the Bible says even at that, because they trust
[57:00] Speaker 2: that God. If God does not compensate them, then he's
[57:03] Speaker 2: not faithful. And just so, there is a crown for them.
[57:06] Speaker 2: You will see them and you will know that these
[57:08] Speaker 2: ones were the ones who went. You're for the cross
[57:11] Speaker 2: to death. You're not a man. You're not a man.
[57:23] Speaker 2: You're the God who open stores. No man can shots.
[57:29] Speaker 2: You're not a man. You're not a man. You're the
[57:37] Speaker 2: God of everything. No one like you, no one like you,
[57:45] Speaker 2: gesu a no one.
[57:47] Speaker 3: Like you, no one like you, no one like you,
[57:56] Speaker 3: no one like you.
[57:58] Speaker 2: Father one life, you know the God. Never lose hope
[58:12] Speaker 2: in the Lord. Never lose hope in the Lord. This
[58:16] Speaker 2: message for someone, these three levels of hope should comfort
[58:19] Speaker 2: you because most people who are not mentored methodically, when
[58:25] Speaker 2: what they are hoping for does not come to pass,
[58:28] Speaker 2: they feel disappointed and they don't know how to give answers. Again,
[58:33] Speaker 2: they did make sense that I fasted and prayed and
[58:35] Speaker 2: the percile steal died. They did make sense that I
[58:38] Speaker 2: was trusting God that I would get the visa and
[58:41] Speaker 2: it still did not happen. I trusted God that my
[58:44] Speaker 2: colleague would get the job. I even firsted what happens
[58:48] Speaker 2: when the current situation still does not change. Move to
[58:52] Speaker 2: the second level of hope. There is hope for change
[58:55] Speaker 2: in the current situation, but there is hope against hope,
[59:02] Speaker 2: hope against hope. Yes the person is dead now, Yes
[59:07] Speaker 2: I've lost the job. Now, Yes I had to go
[59:10] Speaker 2: through the surgery. Initially I didn't want to go through it,
[59:14] Speaker 2: but now I may not, from a physical standpoint, have
[59:18] Speaker 2: any child again. But I still hope in the Lord
[59:30] Speaker 2: someone learning always hope for and expect the best, God's
[59:38] Speaker 2: best in everything. Please look at me. I believe, and
[59:43] Speaker 2: this is my personal understanding of God. I believe that
[59:49] Speaker 2: God only has the best for my life. So as
[59:54] Speaker 2: I partner with God to see his word come to
[59:57] Speaker 2: pass in my life, I have in doctrine I needed
[1:00:00] Speaker 2: myself beyond repair that it is only God's best that
[1:00:05] Speaker 2: is allowed to happen in my life. I truly believe that,
[1:00:10] Speaker 2: I truly believe that are we together. When the oceans
[1:00:17] Speaker 2: rise and times, I will sorry you above Father, you
[1:00:28] Speaker 2: are king over. I will listen and know my soul missing.
[1:00:44] Speaker 2: Hallelujah for someone. God, you're speaking to you. You have
[1:00:48] Speaker 2: given up on God. You have given up on church.
[1:00:51] Speaker 2: You've given up on everything spirituality, after praying, after fasting,
[1:00:57] Speaker 2: after releasing your faith, after sowing seeds, after doing all
[1:01:01] Speaker 2: you know to do. Perhaps things did not change and
[1:01:06] Speaker 2: it degenerated. Maybe a health condition, maybe your finances, maybe
[1:01:10] Speaker 2: your marriage. You trusted God that a divorced would not happen.
[1:01:14] Speaker 2: You release your faith, but it still happened. You trusted
[1:01:17] Speaker 2: God that the surgery will not happen, but it still happened.
[1:01:20] Speaker 2: You trusted God that the house will not be repossessed.
[1:01:24] Speaker 2: Unfortunately was still repossessed. Let me tell you there are
[1:01:27] Speaker 2: three levels of hope. Don't learn just one. There is
[1:01:30] Speaker 2: hope for change in the midst of the current situation,
[1:01:34] Speaker 2: and when it fails, move to the next level of hope.
[1:01:37] Speaker 2: There is hope against hope, and even if that fails,
[1:01:43] Speaker 2: you console yourself that there is an internal hope that
[1:01:47] Speaker 2: God will reward me for standing even in the midst
[1:01:50] Speaker 2: of no result. If you're understanding me, say amen, number three,
[1:01:55] Speaker 2: the third key. I want to give you beauty for ashes.
[1:02:00] Speaker 2: This is a miracle that is happening to someone right now.
[1:02:03] Speaker 2: Are you ready? Never lose your joy. Never lose your joy.
[1:02:11] Speaker 2: You will think this is very simple and elementary. Never
[1:02:16] Speaker 2: lose your joy. Habacoke, Chapter three and verse seventeen to nineteen.
[1:02:22] Speaker 2: Very quickly, Habacoke three, seventeen to nineteen. Although the victory
[1:02:27] Speaker 2: shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines.
[1:02:31] Speaker 2: The labor of the olive shall fail, and the field
[1:02:34] Speaker 2: shall yield no meat. The flock shall be caught off
[1:02:38] Speaker 2: from the fold, and there shall be no herd in
[1:02:40] Speaker 2: the stalls. Next verse, Yet, someone say, yet, it's true
[1:02:46] Speaker 2: that I'm crying, Yet I will rejoice. It is true
[1:02:49] Speaker 2: that things don't seem to be making sense. Yet I
[1:02:52] Speaker 2: will rejoice. I will joy in the God of my salvation.
[1:02:58] Speaker 2: My chapter eight and verse ten seve as the joy
[1:03:00] Speaker 2: of the Lord, the joy of the Lord. The joy
[1:03:03] Speaker 2: of the Lord is my strength. The joy of the
[1:03:07] Speaker 2: Lord is your strength. The joy of the Lord is
[1:03:11] Speaker 2: your strength. Never lose your joy. When Satan mets out
[1:03:16] Speaker 2: and attacked to your life, let me tell you He's
[1:03:19] Speaker 2: not looking for your marriage, he's not looking for your children,
[1:03:22] Speaker 2: he's not looking for your health. He's looking for your joy.
[1:03:25] Speaker 2: He knows that a joyless believer is a defeated believer.
[1:03:29] Speaker 2: Are we together? Now, make up your mind to maintain
[1:03:32] Speaker 2: your joy, and Satan will use men to keep saying things.
[1:03:36] Speaker 2: The more depress you are, the more Satan is happy.
[1:03:39] Speaker 2: Someone learned to shame the devil from this service that,
[1:03:43] Speaker 2: even if it does not make sense, sit in the
[1:03:45] Speaker 2: midst of fire and still rejoice. Yes, sir, I rejoice
[1:03:52] Speaker 2: in the God of my salvation. I don't rejoice in
[1:03:55] Speaker 2: the situation. There's nothing to rejoice in there. But I
[1:03:58] Speaker 2: rejoice in the God who can save me. Is the
[1:04:01] Speaker 2: word Jehoshua. Where you get Joshua, God who saves, the
[1:04:06] Speaker 2: one who is my salvation. Never lose your joy, call
[1:04:14] Speaker 2: joy yourself as a believer, no matter the tragedy. Now,
[1:04:19] Speaker 2: joy is not the same as happiness. You don't have
[1:04:22] Speaker 2: to be smiling to be joyful. But eventually joy leads
[1:04:25] Speaker 2: to laughter. Did you get what I said? Joy is
[1:04:28] Speaker 2: of the spirit, is of the Holy gooes. I'm not
[1:04:31] Speaker 2: saying be a clown. No, there are times that tears
[1:04:33] Speaker 2: are coming out of your eyes, and yet you are
[1:04:35] Speaker 2: full of joy. Joy is a shield against offense. When
[1:04:41] Speaker 2: you have joy, it's impossible to be offended. When the
[1:04:46] Speaker 2: devil wanes who attack you, he will make sure he
[1:04:48] Speaker 2: brings down the gate of joy. Then he can penetrate
[1:04:51] Speaker 2: and deal with many other things in your life. I've
[1:04:57] Speaker 2: made up my mind that I will not lose my joy.
[1:05:02] Speaker 2: When you lose your joy, you will lose sleep. When
[1:05:04] Speaker 2: you lose your joy, you will lose many other things.
[1:05:07] Speaker 2: Some of you are looking by far older than your age.
[1:05:10] Speaker 2: You are, say thirty thirty five, but you have been
[1:05:13] Speaker 2: mistaken for fifty one fifty five. Why the absence of
[1:05:16] Speaker 2: joy is telling on your physical health. When you tell
[1:05:20] Speaker 2: people you are thirty, they say you are joking. The
[1:05:22] Speaker 2: things you are lying the thing you are reducing your
[1:05:24] Speaker 2: age so that you will get something, maybe a job,
[1:05:26] Speaker 2: But that is really your age. It's just that pain
[1:05:31] Speaker 2: and lack of joy has added an age to your
[1:05:34] Speaker 2: life that should not be. Are we together? Someone will
[1:05:40] Speaker 2: see a young lady, good afternoon, man, and they think
[1:05:42] Speaker 2: you're a mother of four five children just because there's
[1:05:45] Speaker 2: no joy. Rejoice in the Lord all ways and again,
[1:05:51] Speaker 2: I say rejoice. Someone say I rejoice, profess I say
[1:05:55] Speaker 2: I rejoice. I'm not downplaying your pain. Ladies and gentlemen.
[1:05:59] Speaker 2: This is how the economy of the Kingdom walks. When
[1:06:02] Speaker 2: you want beauty for ashes, you must remain in joy.
[1:06:06] Speaker 2: Joy is such a mysterious spiritual force. It is the
[1:06:09] Speaker 2: atmosphere that allows for harvest. If you are not in joy,
[1:06:14] Speaker 2: the possibility for harvest is not even there. The Bible
[1:06:16] Speaker 2: says they that so in tears will rip in joy.
[1:06:20] Speaker 2: Like saying go and collect your food in the kitchen,
[1:06:23] Speaker 2: you will have to enter the kitchen to pick up
[1:06:25] Speaker 2: the food. If there is no kitchen, then the possibility
[1:06:28] Speaker 2: for getting your meal is not there. Joy is beyond
[1:06:31] Speaker 2: a feeling. It is a spiritual atmosphere, like a crowd.
[1:06:35] Speaker 2: You can step into a ram called joy and live there.
[1:06:40] Speaker 2: Did you get what I said that it is beyond
[1:06:43] Speaker 2: a feeling. I feel happy, I feel joyful. You're not
[1:06:47] Speaker 2: entirely wrong, but joy must move beyond being a feeling
[1:06:51] Speaker 2: of glad tidings to an atmosphere. It shields you. Someone
[1:06:58] Speaker 2: again say I rejoice that you work out of this
[1:07:01] Speaker 2: place in spite of what is happening around our nation,
[1:07:04] Speaker 2: in spite of what is happening around the globe, find
[1:07:07] Speaker 2: a reason to rejoice. You don't rejoice in the situation
[1:07:11] Speaker 2: you'll be lying. You rejoice in the God of your salvation,
[1:07:15] Speaker 2: who can change that situation against Say I rejoice, So
[1:07:19] Speaker 2: next time you go and write down the list of
[1:07:21] Speaker 2: all the things challenging you. And while the devil wants
[1:07:24] Speaker 2: to lie to you, you are maintaining the consciousness of
[1:07:27] Speaker 2: your love for Jesus, maintaining hope, expecting the best of
[1:07:32] Speaker 2: God in everything, and then holding onto that ankle of joy.
[1:07:36] Speaker 2: Joy number four is someone learning tonight the fourth key.
[1:07:50] Speaker 2: When you want to turn beauty or you want to
[1:07:52] Speaker 2: receive beauty for ashes, never stop believing and engaging the
[1:07:58] Speaker 2: world of God. Never stop believing and engaging the world
[1:08:03] Speaker 2: of God, regardless what the devil tries to tell you
[1:08:07] Speaker 2: using your current situation. Never stop believing and never stop
[1:08:13] Speaker 2: engaging the world of God. Don't say I prayed and
[1:08:17] Speaker 2: it did not work, so I will stop. Don't say
[1:08:19] Speaker 2: I spoke no, You never stop when you are in
[1:08:23] Speaker 2: the midst of fire. The three Hebrew Boys remember Daniel
[1:08:27] Speaker 2: chapter three. You would think that because they were going
[1:08:29] Speaker 2: to be thrown in fire, they would say, well, that's it.
[1:08:33] Speaker 2: The first level of hope was that they would not
[1:08:36] Speaker 2: enter the fire. But they said, even if we are
[1:08:38] Speaker 2: there and we eventually die ol king, we will not bow.
[1:08:43] Speaker 2: I can imagine the Bible does not record it, but
[1:08:45] Speaker 2: I can imagine that in the midst of that fire,
[1:08:48] Speaker 2: maybe someone was quoting something. The little they knew, the
[1:08:53] Speaker 2: God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, you are chilled and
[1:08:55] Speaker 2: a defense for me. And they saw the fourth man,
[1:08:58] Speaker 2: he just stood there. And the Bible says there were
[1:09:01] Speaker 2: men who the fire had no power over. Someone learning
[1:09:11] Speaker 2: Second Peter, chapter three and verse nine. Never stop believing
[1:09:15] Speaker 2: and engaging the word of God. Second Peter three and
[1:09:18] Speaker 2: verse nine, give it toards media. The Bible says, the
[1:09:21] Speaker 2: Lord is not slack concerning his promises. As some men
[1:09:27] Speaker 2: count slackness. There is a way men counts slackness. After
[1:09:31] Speaker 2: two years, three years, if God does not come, he said,
[1:09:35] Speaker 2: God is slack. But the Bible says, the Lord is
[1:09:38] Speaker 2: not slack concerning his promises. Therefore, never stop. It has
[1:09:45] Speaker 2: not manifested. Would never stop? Are we together? He Brews
[1:09:50] Speaker 2: chapter six thirteen to fifteen. Never stop for someone This
[1:09:54] Speaker 2: is a prophetic word for when God made a promise
[1:09:57] Speaker 2: to Abraham, it says, because he could not swear by
[1:10:01] Speaker 2: no greater, he swore by himself, saying, surely blessing, I
[1:10:06] Speaker 2: will bless THEE, and multiplying, I will multiply THEE. And
[1:10:10] Speaker 2: so after he had patiently, And do you know what
[1:10:15] Speaker 2: it means to wait for God for over twenty five years?
[1:10:20] Speaker 2: If you were Abraham's colleague, most likely is when your
[1:10:24] Speaker 2: children will be getting married. That's when Sarah, a woman
[1:10:29] Speaker 2: who should be preparing to be a grandmother, that's when
[1:10:32] Speaker 2: she was receiving her child. And yet the Bible says
[1:10:34] Speaker 2: God is not slack because the one child that came
[1:10:38] Speaker 2: was equal to a nation. Is someone hearing, Now you've
[1:10:44] Speaker 2: trusted God for two years and you're about to write
[1:10:46] Speaker 2: the world off. No, don't talk to me about that.
[1:10:49] Speaker 2: That's what again. I'm tired, I pray. Don't talk to
[1:10:52] Speaker 2: me about giving again. I don't believe it. No, God
[1:10:55] Speaker 2: is not slack, the Bible says. So after he had patiently,
[1:11:00] Speaker 2: and who spoke to Abraham? But the Bible says the
[1:11:03] Speaker 2: word of God is quick and powerful? So why did
[1:11:06] Speaker 2: Abraham wait twenty five years. There are things we may
[1:11:09] Speaker 2: not understand on this side of God's kingdom, like why
[1:11:12] Speaker 2: God had to wait thirty years? Why he had to
[1:11:15] Speaker 2: die for three days? Couldn't he go to Hell and
[1:11:17] Speaker 2: finish everything in five minutes? Was Hell so difficult that
[1:11:20] Speaker 2: he spent three days? There? There are sides to dis
[1:11:23] Speaker 2: kingdom economy that is not given to us to know.
[1:11:26] Speaker 2: So that we do not be offended through our words,
[1:11:29] Speaker 2: we give God praise and exhaust the level of knowledge
[1:11:32] Speaker 2: given to us. The hymn writer says, we will understand
[1:11:35] Speaker 2: it better bye and by someone learning now, because sometimes
[1:11:42] Speaker 2: bringing foolish explanation to scripture can cause us to airr
[1:11:46] Speaker 2: in words and sin against God. There are many things
[1:11:50] Speaker 2: that may not seem to add up. Yet, Why did
[1:11:55] Speaker 2: Jesus go to the grave for three days? He healed
[1:11:58] Speaker 2: people instantly, Where did he keep his power? Did it
[1:12:01] Speaker 2: take him that long? What kind of battle was he fighting?
[1:12:10] Speaker 2: Someone learning? Listen to me, never stop believing and engaging
[1:12:17] Speaker 2: the word of God. And I've taught you that there
[1:12:19] Speaker 2: are three ways to engage the word of God. Number one,
[1:12:23] Speaker 2: you study the word of God. Number two, you listen
[1:12:26] Speaker 2: to the word of God. Number three you declare or
[1:12:30] Speaker 2: confess the word of God. These are the three levels
[1:12:33] Speaker 2: of engaging the world, as revealed in scripture. Let me
[1:12:35] Speaker 2: repeat the game that to engage the word profitably. Number one,
[1:12:40] Speaker 2: you study the word of God to show yourself approved
[1:12:43] Speaker 2: onto God. Number two, you listen to the word of
[1:12:47] Speaker 2: God because faith comment by hearing and hearing by the
[1:12:50] Speaker 2: word of God. Number three, you confess the word of
[1:12:53] Speaker 2: God because you declare doubt that He might test be justified.
[1:12:59] Speaker 2: If you are not staty the word of God, you
[1:13:01] Speaker 2: will lack spiritual intelligence. If you are not listening to
[1:13:04] Speaker 2: the word of God, faith will not be built. And
[1:13:06] Speaker 2: if you are not confessing the word of God, you
[1:13:08] Speaker 2: cannot partner with the spirit to create and manifest realities
[1:13:13] Speaker 2: and possibilities in your life. You understand me, so a
[1:13:16] Speaker 2: shout amen. Never stop believing and engaging the word of God.
[1:13:25] Speaker 2: Never stop believing and engaging the world of God. Never
[1:13:30] Speaker 2: stop believing and engaging the Word of God. No matter
[1:13:34] Speaker 2: what happens, I believe God's word. Many years ago, I
[1:13:37] Speaker 2: used to say this that God forbid. But even if
[1:13:40] Speaker 2: I die of sickness, the last word that will come
[1:13:43] Speaker 2: out of my mouth is by His tribes. I am healed,
[1:13:46] Speaker 2: and I really meant what I was saying. You see,
[1:13:49] Speaker 2: most believers really do not believe the world. Most believers
[1:13:53] Speaker 2: are scientific Christians. I say that to mean we are
[1:13:56] Speaker 2: Christians whose faith surrounds logic and stops them. It shows
[1:14:03] Speaker 2: because every time it looks like there is a bit
[1:14:05] Speaker 2: of delayed manifestation, we fall like a pack of God. No,
[1:14:11] Speaker 2: something happens to you when you are fully persuaded, fully
[1:14:16] Speaker 2: persuaded that God is faithful, fully persuaded that God is able,
[1:14:21] Speaker 2: fully persuaded that God is loving. Allelujah, never stop believing
[1:14:30] Speaker 2: and engaging the world of God. You get up in
[1:14:33] Speaker 2: the morning. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare,
[1:14:36] Speaker 2: this growth is living my body. I confess by the
[1:14:39] Speaker 2: power of the Holy Spirit that by His tribes I
[1:14:41] Speaker 2: am healed. I place a demand upon the finished work
[1:14:44] Speaker 2: of Christ in Calvary over this situation. I release my
[1:14:48] Speaker 2: faith in spite of this report. I decree and declare
[1:14:52] Speaker 2: that I believe the report of the Lord. A time
[1:14:54] Speaker 2: will come. You will feel like a full confessing because
[1:14:57] Speaker 2: you've been confessing for six months and your financing to
[1:15:00] Speaker 2: go down. Your health seems to go down your children.
[1:15:04] Speaker 2: You are laying hands on your child, and you are
[1:15:06] Speaker 2: saying the name of Jesus. This prodigal from will get
[1:15:08] Speaker 2: born again. By afternoon they call you that you should
[1:15:10] Speaker 2: come and pick your child from a prison cell. And
[1:15:13] Speaker 2: once that you hear that kind of thing, the devil
[1:15:15] Speaker 2: will they keep wasting your time. I have thought you, Collingonia.
[1:15:19] Speaker 2: Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Let the
[1:15:23] Speaker 2: healed of the Lord say so. Let the blessed of
[1:15:26] Speaker 2: the Lord say so. Do not let anyone make you
[1:15:30] Speaker 2: believe that confessions of faith is gibberish. Now, the value
[1:15:35] Speaker 2: to confession is that it is first deposited in your
[1:15:39] Speaker 2: heart as a revelation. So for many people they just
[1:15:43] Speaker 2: confess blindly. The journey to confession starts with conviction, that
[1:15:48] Speaker 2: is within your heart. Are we together, For with the
[1:15:50] Speaker 2: heart man believes onto righteousness. Then with the mouth confession
[1:15:55] Speaker 2: is made onto soteria salvation. If you do not believe
[1:16:01] Speaker 2: with your heart, you would just be speaking and unbelievers gibberish.
[1:16:04] Speaker 2: So you take out time to meditate on scripture until
[1:16:08] Speaker 2: it becomes spirit and life. But when that deposit is
[1:16:12] Speaker 2: made within your spirit, you speak the righteousness of faith speaks.
[1:16:18] Speaker 2: The righteousness of faith speaks. It is not silent. It
[1:16:22] Speaker 2: speaks that which God has done. It speaks that which
[1:16:26] Speaker 2: you would desire God's word to make happen in your life.
[1:16:29] Speaker 2: What thingsoever you desire when you pray, believe that thou
[1:16:33] Speaker 2: receivest them, and thou shalt have them, The Bible says,
[1:16:36] Speaker 2: declare you that thou mightest be justified. Look at me.
[1:16:43] Speaker 2: If you have stopped engaging the world of God, then
[1:16:46] Speaker 2: you are partnering with Satan to keep those ashes until
[1:16:51] Speaker 2: they rise to a point where they bury you yourself.
[1:16:55] Speaker 2: Are we together now? God is coming tonight, desiring to
[1:17:00] Speaker 2: give you beauty for ashes. What you see, I have
[1:17:03] Speaker 2: taught you that God does not do anything outside of
[1:17:06] Speaker 2: his world. The word of God defines the jurisdiction for
[1:17:10] Speaker 2: the administration of God's power. Let me say that again,
[1:17:13] Speaker 2: the word of God's Scripture defines the boundary the jurisdiction
[1:17:19] Speaker 2: for the administration of God's power. God's power, as mighty,
[1:17:24] Speaker 2: as infinite as it is, works only within the jurisdiction
[1:17:28] Speaker 2: allowed by his word. Because He has exalted his word,
[1:17:32] Speaker 2: given as both his reputation. It's someone learning now. So
[1:17:36] Speaker 2: if you expect God to move so perstitiously over your life,
[1:17:40] Speaker 2: I hate to disappoint you, but you might be very disappointed.
[1:17:45] Speaker 2: There has to be a scriptural basis for the power
[1:17:48] Speaker 2: of God arriving in your life. Here's what Mary said.
[1:17:51] Speaker 2: Be it onto me, not according to your power. Be
[1:17:56] Speaker 2: it on to me according to your word. Be it
[1:18:00] Speaker 2: onto me according to your word, not according to your power.
[1:18:07] Speaker 2: The energizing was sponsored by his power, but that power
[1:18:10] Speaker 2: was carried through the tray of his world. I've taught
[1:18:14] Speaker 2: you that the word of God is like a tray.
[1:18:16] Speaker 2: If I ask you to bring water or bring your
[1:18:18] Speaker 2: meal for me, if you truly honor me, you will
[1:18:20] Speaker 2: not carry water and put it at your back pocket
[1:18:22] Speaker 2: and remove it and give me. You will place that
[1:18:24] Speaker 2: water on a tray, place your place there. That tray
[1:18:28] Speaker 2: is the world of God. With it comes God's power.
[1:18:31] Speaker 2: With it comes God's favor. So when you want God
[1:18:34] Speaker 2: to bring his power his favor, the vehicle the tray
[1:18:38] Speaker 2: that conveys that power to you is his word. If
[1:18:43] Speaker 2: you ignore the word of God, you are ignoring the
[1:18:46] Speaker 2: possibility for change. If you are ignoring the world of God,
[1:18:50] Speaker 2: you are ignoring the potent shall for change, whether it
[1:18:55] Speaker 2: is to turn your water to wine, whether it is
[1:18:58] Speaker 2: to replace ashes for beauty, you will still need his word. Nevertheless,
[1:19:05] Speaker 2: at that word, and he said come, and he began
[1:19:09] Speaker 2: to walk. It is someone learning now a personal I
[1:19:14] Speaker 2: don't have a job. Use that time to lend his word,
[1:19:18] Speaker 2: Use that time to hear his word. Use that time
[1:19:21] Speaker 2: to rewrite your possibilities in the spirit. I'm in the
[1:19:26] Speaker 2: midst of pain and I cannot find comfort anywhere. Get
[1:19:29] Speaker 2: the word of God, rather than hearing nonsense. Get the
[1:19:32] Speaker 2: word of God, rather than going on social media, and
[1:19:35] Speaker 2: hear the remaining part of your faith into many slices.
[1:19:40] Speaker 2: There are people who carry their pain, their faith is
[1:19:43] Speaker 2: on reserve, and then they go to social media and
[1:19:46] Speaker 2: they don't use the content properly. They listen to nonsense
[1:19:49] Speaker 2: for twenty minutes, and at the end of it there
[1:19:51] Speaker 2: is zero faith. He was on law. But by the
[1:19:54] Speaker 2: time social media is done with you, zero faith. The
[1:20:00] Speaker 2: devil says, finish up, because I'm coming. That's what he's
[1:20:02] Speaker 2: waiting for. Faith is a product of God's word. Faith
[1:20:09] Speaker 2: is a product of God's world. You ignore the word
[1:20:13] Speaker 2: of God, you have ignored the potential for change. When
[1:20:17] Speaker 2: we talk about beautiful ashes, we say that with respect
[1:20:20] Speaker 2: to the world of God. John Chapter one, verse one.
[1:20:23] Speaker 2: In the beginning was the world, and the world was
[1:20:26] Speaker 2: with God. Are you learning? And the world was God?
[1:20:28] Speaker 2: The Bible says the same was with God in the beginning.
[1:20:32] Speaker 2: I like these three. The Bible says, through Him, all
[1:20:35] Speaker 2: things were made by Him and without him, outside of him,
[1:20:39] Speaker 2: outside of him, ignoring him was not anything made. Ignoring
[1:20:45] Speaker 2: the world nothing can be made. Allelujah. I speak over
[1:20:51] Speaker 2: someone tonight. Whatever has drained your passion for the world
[1:20:54] Speaker 2: of God. Maybe anger, maybe offense, maybe pain, maybe tragedy,
[1:20:59] Speaker 2: maybe pro long situations. You carry your Bible in the
[1:21:02] Speaker 2: morning and you just throw it back because quite honestly,
[1:21:05] Speaker 2: you are not interested in this charge thing. Again, you
[1:21:08] Speaker 2: carry a message to listen to and you just deleted
[1:21:11] Speaker 2: and you're not ready. You throw away your phone. In
[1:21:13] Speaker 2: the name of Jesus, Let passion for the Word be
[1:21:16] Speaker 2: rig needed in your spirit. Man, Let passion for the
[1:21:19] Speaker 2: Word be rig needed. In the name of Jesus. Never
[1:21:29] Speaker 2: stop believing and engage in the world of God. Can
[1:21:32] Speaker 2: I give you number five, the fifth key that is
[1:21:36] Speaker 2: responsible for the business of receiving beauty for ashes that
[1:21:42] Speaker 2: comes as a solution to hopelessness and despair, to tragedies
[1:21:48] Speaker 2: and unfavorable situations. Ready, Pray without season. Pray without season,
[1:21:57] Speaker 2: Pray without season, Libyan, Chapter one and verse nine. We
[1:22:03] Speaker 2: have learned through spiritual intelligence that your darkest moments should
[1:22:08] Speaker 2: be your most prayer full moments. Your darkest moments should
[1:22:13] Speaker 2: be your most prayerful moments. Your darkest moments should be
[1:22:17] Speaker 2: your most prayerful moments. One is it? Nineteen one nineteen
[1:22:23] Speaker 2: Philippians one nineteen. Please for I know that this shall
[1:22:28] Speaker 2: turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply
[1:22:33] Speaker 2: of the spirit of Jesus Christ. I know that this
[1:22:37] Speaker 2: financial situation, this health situation, I know that this ministry situation,
[1:22:44] Speaker 2: this whatever situation, this legal situation, I know that it
[1:22:49] Speaker 2: shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, through your prayer.
[1:23:00] Speaker 2: Psalms eighteen and verse six, Pray without season. In my distress,
[1:23:08] Speaker 2: I didn't just cry, I didn't just lament. I didn't
[1:23:13] Speaker 2: just call on people to sympathize with me. In my distress.
[1:23:17] Speaker 2: I called upon the Lord and cried onto my God,
[1:23:22] Speaker 2: and he heard my voice out of his temple, and
[1:23:25] Speaker 2: my cry came before him, even to his ears. In
[1:23:32] Speaker 2: my distress, I cried onto the Lord. Believe us, year me.
[1:23:36] Speaker 2: When you are in your darkest hour, obtain grace to pray.
[1:23:42] Speaker 2: Obtain grace to pray. This is why God gave us
[1:23:46] Speaker 2: the prayer language. Because there are times that you may
[1:23:49] Speaker 2: not even be able to make sense of the things
[1:23:51] Speaker 2: that are happening around your life. At such points you
[1:23:54] Speaker 2: engage in the spirit because those dark moments can be
[1:23:58] Speaker 2: moments of intense war fair intense warfare that Satan is determined,
[1:24:04] Speaker 2: the onslaught of Hell will come at his best against you,
[1:24:08] Speaker 2: your children, your health, your job. That's not the time
[1:24:11] Speaker 2: to watch and fold your arms. Any man who is
[1:24:14] Speaker 2: a general in the army, you know that when you hear,
[1:24:17] Speaker 2: but to cry, that is not when to dress in
[1:24:20] Speaker 2: mufty and fool your arms. Now you go back and
[1:24:23] Speaker 2: put on your warfare and gallia and carry the whole
[1:24:26] Speaker 2: armor of God, and go to the place of prayer
[1:24:29] Speaker 2: and engage with power until victory is established. Many believers
[1:24:36] Speaker 2: lose out on situations that victories already established there because
[1:24:40] Speaker 2: they could not pray. Through prayer is like bathing. It's
[1:24:44] Speaker 2: like the process from pregnancy to bathing. When a woman
[1:24:48] Speaker 2: is pregnant and after three months all the discomforts that
[1:24:52] Speaker 2: comes with pregnancy, she can shout at the child, but
[1:24:56] Speaker 2: the chance he remains there and the woman who wants
[1:24:58] Speaker 2: a chance to come. But when she gets to her
[1:25:01] Speaker 2: ninth month, she becomes sensitive, unusually sensitive, because at any
[1:25:08] Speaker 2: point she can be given an eddy plus or minus.
[1:25:11] Speaker 2: She gets the clothes ready, she gets everything ready, the
[1:25:15] Speaker 2: car always having fuel there because at any point she
[1:25:19] Speaker 2: kept be in the marketplace shopping, and then contraction will
[1:25:23] Speaker 2: start and before you know it, from that place she
[1:25:26] Speaker 2: does not return home again. But she was ready, everything
[1:25:29] Speaker 2: was already in the car. The Bible says, be sober.
[1:25:32] Speaker 2: Then it says be Fijiland, be Fijiland. Don't be careless.
[1:25:39] Speaker 2: Start the spiritual patterns. This attack on my child, this
[1:25:44] Speaker 2: thing I'm seeing that happen to my elder brother. I
[1:25:47] Speaker 2: notice every July, every August is like there is something
[1:25:52] Speaker 2: said and wants to do. I need to deal with
[1:25:55] Speaker 2: this thing. I notice that there is every July, every
[1:25:59] Speaker 2: August body must die. I'm coming by fetch to stop it.
[1:26:04] Speaker 2: And so when the season comes, you know that there
[1:26:06] Speaker 2: is a programming in the spirit that that event will
[1:26:09] Speaker 2: always bring tragedy. That's not the time to fold your
[1:26:13] Speaker 2: arms and carelessly go around wasting away. You take on
[1:26:17] Speaker 2: your priestly gallia. It's time to pray without season. Allelujah,
[1:26:27] Speaker 2: It's time to pray without season. There are specific periods
[1:26:31] Speaker 2: in my life where there are moments of intense sensitivity,
[1:26:36] Speaker 2: because there are times when God's world comes to me.
[1:26:40] Speaker 2: It is how God works with me. He does not
[1:26:42] Speaker 2: speak to me all the time. Anyhow, my work with
[1:26:45] Speaker 2: Him has made me understand certain chiros moments. And when
[1:26:49] Speaker 2: I get to those times, I know that the devil
[1:26:52] Speaker 2: also waits around the corridors of those seasons, because your
[1:26:56] Speaker 2: heart is open at those seasons, and he wants to
[1:26:58] Speaker 2: appear as an angel of light. That is the time
[1:27:01] Speaker 2: when you are sensitive. Many believers are careless. It is
[1:27:07] Speaker 2: the reason why sometimes some tragic situations even happen in
[1:27:11] Speaker 2: the first place. Be sensitive. Be sensitive. You are in
[1:27:15] Speaker 2: a strategic period of your life. Be sensitive. Maybe someone
[1:27:19] Speaker 2: I'm speaking to you. You may need to take a
[1:27:21] Speaker 2: few days after today before you make a major decision
[1:27:26] Speaker 2: that destroys your life. Take three days first and praying
[1:27:30] Speaker 2: God grant me revelation. Should I leave Nigeria or should
[1:27:34] Speaker 2: I stay? Don't take that kind of decision over coffee.
[1:27:37] Speaker 2: You are joking. That means you don't love your destiny.
[1:27:40] Speaker 2: Are we together now? No, there are decisions that are
[1:27:43] Speaker 2: too serious, too destiny implicating to take them carelessly. You
[1:27:48] Speaker 2: go to the place of prayer. Until you are prayed
[1:27:51] Speaker 2: and prayed. Don't trust what you hear. It may look
[1:27:57] Speaker 2: like God. Till prayer distills that voice. You will find
[1:28:01] Speaker 2: out that Satan came nicely appearing as an angel of light.
[1:28:05] Speaker 2: How many things do you have as plans? You see
[1:28:08] Speaker 2: them well calculated until you take them to the place
[1:28:11] Speaker 2: of prayer and you watch the red Biro from the
[1:28:13] Speaker 2: throne striking a lot of things that are fabrications of
[1:28:17] Speaker 2: your own desire, and you credited them before your prayer
[1:28:20] Speaker 2: to the voice of God. Prayer distills, prayer purifies someone learning.
[1:28:28] Speaker 2: Pray without ceasing. You want beauty to be turned to ashes.
[1:28:32] Speaker 2: Pray without ceasing, Pray without ceasing. Pray for your life,
[1:28:37] Speaker 2: Pray for your ministry, Pray for everything around you. Remember
[1:28:41] Speaker 2: I've put you in and Act Chapter twelve, They caught
[1:28:45] Speaker 2: James and beheaded him, and the church kept quiet. They
[1:28:50] Speaker 2: now caught Peter waiting for you know, pass over, so
[1:28:54] Speaker 2: that they will kill him also. But the Bible says,
[1:28:57] Speaker 2: prayers was made by the church onto God for him,
[1:29:00] Speaker 2: and God sent angelic assistance. And that night, as they
[1:29:05] Speaker 2: were planning for the next day to morrow to destroy him,
[1:29:08] Speaker 2: that night they had a visitation and God delivered Peter out.
[1:29:12] Speaker 2: Same thing happened to Paul and silas the Bible says.
[1:29:15] Speaker 2: At midnight, they prayed, and they sang loud enough, and
[1:29:19] Speaker 2: the jailers heard them. Suddenly there was an earthquake. It
[1:29:22] Speaker 2: came and ran to the prison, opened all the doors,
[1:29:25] Speaker 2: and salvation came not only to the apostles, but also
[1:29:30] Speaker 2: to the jail and his family. When you pray and
[1:29:35] Speaker 2: pray sincerely, When you pray and pray non pretentiously onto God,
[1:29:41] Speaker 2: not just to satisfy the each of religion. When you
[1:29:44] Speaker 2: pray and it is phavaned, it is effectual, I tell
[1:29:47] Speaker 2: you sincerely, produces power in the spirit. Allelujah. Number six.
[1:29:56] Speaker 2: This will be the sixth point. Very quickly, What is
[1:30:01] Speaker 2: the six key on your journey to receiving beauty for ashes,
[1:30:09] Speaker 2: stay connected to the larger family of believers. Stay connected
[1:30:15] Speaker 2: to the larger family of believers. Every triumph tragedy strikes,
[1:30:20] Speaker 2: that is the worst time to isolate yourself from the
[1:30:24] Speaker 2: larger body of believers. We see this Apostolic model in
[1:30:28] Speaker 2: the Book of Acts the early Church. When persecution broke,
[1:30:31] Speaker 2: they found comfort being in their own company. Stay connected
[1:30:37] Speaker 2: to the larger body of believers. Adds Chapter four, twenty
[1:30:40] Speaker 2: two and twenty three. As Chapter four, Hallelujah, it says,
[1:30:47] Speaker 2: for the man was about forty the man who was healed,
[1:30:50] Speaker 2: Now who the miracle of healing was showed Verse twenty three,
[1:30:56] Speaker 2: it says, And being let go, they went to their
[1:31:00] Speaker 2: own company, the apostles. Now they went to their own
[1:31:05] Speaker 2: company and reported all that the chief priests and the
[1:31:08] Speaker 2: elders had said to them. Do you know that it
[1:31:12] Speaker 2: was on account of this they went to their own company,
[1:31:15] Speaker 2: and on hearing they chose to pray. Remember the prayer
[1:31:19] Speaker 2: in Ant chapter four. It was on account of this
[1:31:21] Speaker 2: report the church said, let's pray, and they prayed together
[1:31:25] Speaker 2: that you grant that science and wanders be wrote through
[1:31:28] Speaker 2: the name of your Holy Son. And the Bible says,
[1:31:31] Speaker 2: in response to that prayer, the building shook, and they
[1:31:35] Speaker 2: were filled you the Holy goes again. This is why
[1:31:40] Speaker 2: spiritual families are very important. When the devil wants to
[1:31:44] Speaker 2: destroy you, he flatters you into believing that your spirituality
[1:31:49] Speaker 2: alone and by yourself, is sufficient. You do not need
[1:31:52] Speaker 2: the power of a spiritual family. And when disaster strikes,
[1:31:57] Speaker 2: usually through offense, shorts failed me. I don't like this one,
[1:32:01] Speaker 2: this one happens. I don't like this church. There's favoratism,
[1:32:05] Speaker 2: there's tribalism, there's this in this church. You may be right,
[1:32:08] Speaker 2: but it is still a risk to be alone. They
[1:32:13] Speaker 2: return to their own company Hebrews chapter ten and verse
[1:32:18] Speaker 2: twenty five. The Bible says, to neglect not the gathering
[1:32:21] Speaker 2: or the assembling of yourselves Hebrews ten twenty five. Please
[1:32:25] Speaker 2: give it to us to neglect, not forsaking the assembling
[1:32:29] Speaker 2: of yourselves together, as the manner of some is, but
[1:32:33] Speaker 2: exhorting one another. And so much the more as you
[1:32:37] Speaker 2: see the day approaching. What do you get from a
[1:32:41] Speaker 2: larger family of believers? Strength, support, and comfort? What do
[1:32:47] Speaker 2: you get from a larger body of believers, strength, support,
[1:32:53] Speaker 2: and comfort. We make it as a pre in this
[1:33:00] Speaker 2: ministry that when people within certain departments have issues around
[1:33:06] Speaker 2: their lives. It's almost mandatory that there has to be
[1:33:09] Speaker 2: a system where the people within their department can covert
[1:33:13] Speaker 2: for them, providing strength, providing support. When someone is believed,
[1:33:18] Speaker 2: that person should not be left alone. Not when you
[1:33:21] Speaker 2: are in the larger body of believers. Let me tell
[1:33:24] Speaker 2: you the truth. There are many people whose situations who
[1:33:27] Speaker 2: have been dealt with if they had the support of
[1:33:31] Speaker 2: the larger body of believers. When the believers were persecuted,
[1:33:36] Speaker 2: they came and they were among themselves, they pray together.
[1:33:40] Speaker 2: You have heard me say that community kingdom community living
[1:33:45] Speaker 2: is the key to sustaining Kingdom values. There are times
[1:33:49] Speaker 2: that you are in the midst of a big devil community.
[1:33:52] Speaker 2: It's difficult to freely and confidently practice your faith. You
[1:33:57] Speaker 2: will need the covering, you will need the support, You
[1:34:01] Speaker 2: will need the strengthening of fellow like minded believers. If
[1:34:06] Speaker 2: you decide to remain alone, you will compromise without knowing.
[1:34:11] Speaker 2: You can be in an office where only one person
[1:34:14] Speaker 2: out of ten twenty people is a genuine believer. I
[1:34:17] Speaker 2: tell you, Eventually, those tones and diesels will chalk on
[1:34:22] Speaker 2: you until the seed refuses to grow. You need a
[1:34:25] Speaker 2: larger body of believers. Whatever fights you, whatever makes you
[1:34:32] Speaker 2: to ignore the gathering of believers I are, we're saying
[1:34:37] Speaker 2: that now it is of the devil. Is the reason
[1:34:40] Speaker 2: why you see making an announcement of a virtual service
[1:34:43] Speaker 2: today is simply because of a special situation. To protect
[1:34:47] Speaker 2: our people is our response to the security situation and
[1:34:53] Speaker 2: our response to responsibility. But there are many believers who
[1:34:57] Speaker 2: they make it a habit. They cannot identify with any
[1:35:02] Speaker 2: spiritual family. They freelance anywhere at all as their passions
[1:35:08] Speaker 2: drive them. It's a risk one day disaster will strike.
[1:35:12] Speaker 2: And if you do not have a spiritual family where
[1:35:15] Speaker 2: you draw support, where you draw strength, where you draw comfort,
[1:35:19] Speaker 2: there are many people who would not have been embarrassed
[1:35:22] Speaker 2: the spiritual families they are part of. If a good
[1:35:25] Speaker 2: spiritual family should be able to step in and cover
[1:35:28] Speaker 2: for your shape. Let me tell you something. With family,
[1:35:31] Speaker 2: even if you meet your child misbehaving outside, you solve
[1:35:35] Speaker 2: the problem outside and call him inside. Remember that's what
[1:35:38] Speaker 2: happened to you. They can caan't you left, right and
[1:35:41] Speaker 2: center inside the house. But when they've solved the problem outside.
[1:35:46] Speaker 2: Number two, it matters where you are found. Anybody who
[1:35:50] Speaker 2: finds you in your father's house, treats you with honor,
[1:35:53] Speaker 2: But when you are found on the road side, they
[1:35:56] Speaker 2: treat you like a prostitute or a fugitive. Together. Now,
[1:36:01] Speaker 2: when a young man wants to get married to a lady,
[1:36:03] Speaker 2: if it comes and finds her in a father's house,
[1:36:06] Speaker 2: like Isaac found re Baker and they went to the
[1:36:09] Speaker 2: father's house, they would treat you with honor, with dignity
[1:36:12] Speaker 2: because of where you were found. But when they find
[1:36:15] Speaker 2: you by the roadside, Sorry to play with your mind.
[1:36:19] Speaker 2: That's a difference between a prostitute and a responsible lady
[1:36:23] Speaker 2: that is found somewhere. Nobody asks a prostitute, where's your father,
[1:36:26] Speaker 2: where's your mother, where's your elder brother. That's not their business.
[1:36:31] Speaker 2: They may not even know the person's name. But when
[1:36:34] Speaker 2: you find someone at home, it is with honor and
[1:36:37] Speaker 2: with dignity. It's someone learning. Now, many of us stand
[1:36:43] Speaker 2: naked and careless spiritually, and we do not know the
[1:36:46] Speaker 2: power of spiritual families. So when disaster strikes, there is
[1:36:52] Speaker 2: no body. Let me tell you this, even when you
[1:36:54] Speaker 2: lose your physical family, do not lose your spiritual family.
[1:36:58] Speaker 2: It's possible for your physical friendamily to go, maybe dead
[1:37:01] Speaker 2: or whatever. Make sure you stay connected genuinely by covenant
[1:37:06] Speaker 2: to a spiritual family. You enjoy the blessings of intercession,
[1:37:11] Speaker 2: You enjoy the blessings of covering. You enjoy the blessings
[1:37:14] Speaker 2: of covenance that that family has with God. There are
[1:37:18] Speaker 2: many people who receive certain results before they even grow
[1:37:22] Speaker 2: to the level of spiritual intelligence to command that result themselves.
[1:37:26] Speaker 2: The advantage of a family. Look or please, if you
[1:37:30] Speaker 2: are a father and you go and haunt me, does
[1:37:33] Speaker 2: your child need to know how to haunt me to
[1:37:35] Speaker 2: eat it? No, he enjoys the blessings of a responsible father.
[1:37:40] Speaker 2: One day you will grow to become a haunter. But
[1:37:42] Speaker 2: meanwhile he will not suffer because his father can be
[1:37:46] Speaker 2: a leverage for him. And even when that song becomes
[1:37:49] Speaker 2: a prodigal son, the fact that there is still a
[1:37:52] Speaker 2: home and a father back at home that means there
[1:37:55] Speaker 2: is still hope. Imagine it is better to have a
[1:37:58] Speaker 2: prodigal song than a prodigal father, because a prodigal son
[1:38:04] Speaker 2: has where to return to. A prodigal father does not
[1:38:07] Speaker 2: have where to go to. Are we together do not neglect?
[1:38:19] Speaker 2: And when I talk of the guardian of the saints.
[1:38:21] Speaker 2: I hope you know that just because you come around
[1:38:24] Speaker 2: does not mean you are connected. Being connected genuinely is
[1:38:27] Speaker 2: by covenant and by understanding. There are people who can
[1:38:31] Speaker 2: sit down anywhere, but they are not connected at all.
[1:38:35] Speaker 2: You know they are not connected because the grace does
[1:38:38] Speaker 2: not speak when they tell you, I'm connected to this vision.
[1:38:43] Speaker 2: These grace, these ministry people have to look and say, no,
[1:38:46] Speaker 2: something is wrong. It's not true. You cannot stay in
[1:38:49] Speaker 2: the kitchen for five hours and then don't smell food
[1:38:53] Speaker 2: and they will soup there. Everything is being prepared. There,
[1:38:59] Speaker 2: red flying around and you're wearing a pure white shirt
[1:39:03] Speaker 2: and nothing even touch you. Come on, now, what kind
[1:39:05] Speaker 2: of shirt are you wearing? We need to verify whether
[1:39:08] Speaker 2: it's the kitchen you really are or you are calling
[1:39:10] Speaker 2: the place you wear a kitchen. Are we together? There's
[1:39:17] Speaker 2: a way you hug someone and you can tell what
[1:39:20] Speaker 2: food the person cook not even that he was at
[1:39:22] Speaker 2: the kitchen. Looks like this is serious African soup here.
[1:39:27] Speaker 2: Something is going on, and say, how do you know?
[1:39:29] Speaker 2: It's not word of knowledge, the implication of presence proximity.
[1:39:35] Speaker 2: Are we together? You believe me? There are many people
[1:39:40] Speaker 2: who do not carry that gene. They do not carry
[1:39:43] Speaker 2: that engracing at all. They that be planted in the
[1:39:49] Speaker 2: House of God, not there that be planted. It matters
[1:39:53] Speaker 2: where you are planted the house of God. It says
[1:39:55] Speaker 2: they shall flourish in the courts of our God, that
[1:39:59] Speaker 2: in old age they will be fat and flourishing, Fat
[1:40:05] Speaker 2: and flourishing. One of the reasons why God connects people
[1:40:09] Speaker 2: to spiritual families is because he knows that transformation and
[1:40:13] Speaker 2: empowerment is a gradual process. Are we together now? And
[1:40:17] Speaker 2: there are certain spiritual realities that people need to experience,
[1:40:21] Speaker 2: but their level of growth cannot sponsor that which they desire.
[1:40:25] Speaker 2: So God plans them to enjoy the leverage of covering,
[1:40:29] Speaker 2: the leverage of grace, is the leverage of covenance while
[1:40:32] Speaker 2: they are mentor to maturity. While they are mental to maturity.
[1:40:38] Speaker 2: So there are many attacks I will tell you sincerely
[1:40:41] Speaker 2: upon many believers that are unnecessary. Is because the devil
[1:40:45] Speaker 2: found them naked. The devil found them defenseless and void
[1:40:50] Speaker 2: of spiritual intelligence, and he took them for a prey.
[1:40:53] Speaker 2: Please look up. How many of you have seen a
[1:40:55] Speaker 2: lion attacking an antelope. Most times the antelope or the
[1:41:01] Speaker 2: elephant or whatever animals. Even though the lion is the
[1:41:03] Speaker 2: king of the jungle, it's not able to attack them.
[1:41:06] Speaker 2: You know why, because the mother and that they are
[1:41:10] Speaker 2: a heard. They even though the lion is powerful, they
[1:41:13] Speaker 2: can kill it. So he waits for one who fears
[1:41:17] Speaker 2: off carelessly, fears off enough, and then he runs to
[1:41:22] Speaker 2: that one and picks off that one. And I have
[1:41:25] Speaker 2: watched sometimes where even as the lion is running there
[1:41:28] Speaker 2: the bigger elephants also run. They live where they are going,
[1:41:32] Speaker 2: and three or four of them come and they push him,
[1:41:35] Speaker 2: and sometimes they kill the lion. I have watched. I
[1:41:38] Speaker 2: think a buffalo one of these animals lift a lion
[1:41:41] Speaker 2: two three times and he dropped dead. Don't try my
[1:41:44] Speaker 2: child again. The power of family. There are some of you.
[1:41:49] Speaker 2: You will be surprised. Some of the prayer we are praying.
[1:41:52] Speaker 2: We don't even know where the body is coming from.
[1:41:54] Speaker 2: It's because of you. Your carelessness is giving Satan room somewhere.
[1:41:58] Speaker 2: But your advantage is that covering. And the Lord says,
[1:42:01] Speaker 2: wake up. Something is about to happen, and from nowhere,
[1:42:04] Speaker 2: from the realm of the spirit. While the devil things
[1:42:07] Speaker 2: is so close to you. You hear tongues thundering from
[1:42:10] Speaker 2: the spirit Sha kappaka separated Ah. Destroy it not, for
[1:42:16] Speaker 2: there is a blessing in it. Destroy it not. Now.
[1:42:20] Speaker 2: Don't think I'm playing games with your mind. This is
[1:42:22] Speaker 2: how it works, Allelujah. To remain conscious of the love
[1:42:36] Speaker 2: of God towards you, To always hope for and expect
[1:42:41] Speaker 2: the best of God in everything. To never lose your
[1:42:45] Speaker 2: joy regardless what happens around your life. To never stop
[1:42:51] Speaker 2: believing and engaging the world of God. To pray without
[1:42:56] Speaker 2: ceasing that that other night. The more try I take
[1:43:00] Speaker 2: the situation, the more fiery and aggressive and intentional and
[1:43:04] Speaker 2: consistent the prayer should be. And then to stay connected
[1:43:09] Speaker 2: to a larger family of believers. Now listen to this,
[1:43:14] Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. I told you earlier on that God
[1:43:18] Speaker 2: can turn water to wine. Let me tell you how
[1:43:20] Speaker 2: that miracle works. He doesn't introduce anything new. It is
[1:43:24] Speaker 2: the water you already had. He will simply turn it
[1:43:27] Speaker 2: to wine. The size may not be affected. Maybe the
[1:43:32] Speaker 2: color and the taste and the chemical composition, that's all
[1:43:35] Speaker 2: that changes. But when you stand before His Majesty with ashes,
[1:43:40] Speaker 2: there are times that nothing can be done over that ashes.
[1:43:43] Speaker 2: So here's what he says, bring it. Now you have
[1:43:49] Speaker 2: to trust him enough to take the ashes. I told you.
[1:43:53] Speaker 2: Ashes is the final state of burning. From a flourishing
[1:43:56] Speaker 2: tree to a log of wood to burned. Call to
[1:44:02] Speaker 2: ashes a tree wood, call ashes, and he says, give
[1:44:11] Speaker 2: it to me. When you hand it over to him,
[1:44:15] Speaker 2: to you, it may look like every situation is hopeless.
[1:44:19] Speaker 2: Then you see him coming with a gament beauty. He
[1:44:24] Speaker 2: calls it, and he wraps it around you, like the
[1:44:27] Speaker 2: father of Joseph wrapped the coat of many colors. Now
[1:44:32] Speaker 2: I don't know what it was before it became ashes.
[1:44:36] Speaker 2: It's amazing that when anything becomes ashes, you cannot really
[1:44:39] Speaker 2: tell what it was before. It is not always wood.
[1:44:43] Speaker 2: When they cremate men, they also become ashes. So it's
[1:44:46] Speaker 2: not always wood. Even flesh, when you burn it intensely,
[1:44:50] Speaker 2: it can become ashes. When bones are crushed and burned,
[1:44:54] Speaker 2: they become ashes. Ashes does not reveal what it was before,
[1:44:59] Speaker 2: so sometimes listen carefully. The law of receiving beauty for
[1:45:03] Speaker 2: ashes is that you must trust God for grace to
[1:45:07] Speaker 2: forget about the ashes, because you cannot receive the beauty
[1:45:11] Speaker 2: still remembering the ashes. Remember ye not the former things.
[1:45:19] Speaker 2: I know that you lost your job, but for as
[1:45:22] Speaker 2: long as you are still thinking about that job lot,
[1:45:26] Speaker 2: for as long as you are still remainissing on sodom
[1:45:28] Speaker 2: and go Morah. You didn't carry everything. I know you
[1:45:31] Speaker 2: left your chair in the parlor while it has been burned,
[1:45:34] Speaker 2: But do you know that God is able to do
[1:45:36] Speaker 2: something in your future. You may never see that chair again.
[1:45:39] Speaker 2: You may never see your loved one again. You may
[1:45:41] Speaker 2: never go back to that office again. Maybe that relationship
[1:45:44] Speaker 2: did not work, and it's for real, it's gone, never
[1:45:47] Speaker 2: comes again. Most believers cannot go forward because their heads
[1:45:51] Speaker 2: are still at yesterday. Their bodies are trying to move forward,
[1:45:55] Speaker 2: but they miss yesterday so much they do not even
[1:45:59] Speaker 2: see what God is doing today. The law of conversion
[1:46:02] Speaker 2: receiving beautiful ashes demands that you forget about what that
[1:46:07] Speaker 2: ashes was. That ashes was a beautiful plant. The picture
[1:46:12] Speaker 2: may be with you, but you have to stop it
[1:46:14] Speaker 2: from distracting you. I know that you once had a father,
[1:46:19] Speaker 2: a mother. You once had brothers and sisters, and now
[1:46:23] Speaker 2: they've slept the slept of the sleep of death. You
[1:46:25] Speaker 2: may not forget them, but you cannot allow that pain
[1:46:29] Speaker 2: to stop you from moving forward. Agreed. You can have
[1:46:32] Speaker 2: moments of grief for a while, but the time must come.
[1:46:35] Speaker 2: You will tell yourself, I need to move forward. You
[1:46:38] Speaker 2: lost the job ten years ago. The company has even
[1:46:41] Speaker 2: been folded. Don't sit back and say, ah, I remember
[1:46:45] Speaker 2: my five million was in that company. My ten million
[1:46:49] Speaker 2: was in that company. Oh the days of railway. Unfortunately
[1:46:52] Speaker 2: it has gone. I worked in a typewriting company. It
[1:46:57] Speaker 2: will never return again. Stop missing typewriter. There are better
[1:47:02] Speaker 2: gadgets that can serve you will not have the privilege
[1:47:05] Speaker 2: of punching them one by one again. Are we together?
[1:47:10] Speaker 2: But you can have a better presentation, now hear me.
[1:47:13] Speaker 2: Do you have the courage to look at the ashes
[1:47:17] Speaker 2: that you've held so daily? Because to you it is
[1:47:21] Speaker 2: not ashes. You still remember the tree, You still remember
[1:47:25] Speaker 2: the wood, You still remember the coal and the ashes.
[1:47:30] Speaker 2: So when you hold it, others are looking at dust,
[1:47:33] Speaker 2: but you are looking at a story, a story of decline,
[1:47:37] Speaker 2: a story of pain. But do you have the courage
[1:47:40] Speaker 2: to look beyond it and receive His beauty? Jesus the
[1:47:44] Speaker 2: same give me the ashes. Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen,
[1:47:49] Speaker 2: that situation of pain you cannot live like that after
[1:47:53] Speaker 2: ten twenty years. Yes, the job issue has come. Yes,
[1:47:57] Speaker 2: the surgery happened and your wound was taken away. Yes,
[1:48:00] Speaker 2: I now your legs were I'm tretated, unfortunately, sadly. Yes,
[1:48:04] Speaker 2: the accident happened, It truly did. Yes, this happened. You
[1:48:08] Speaker 2: lost your job. Yes, you went to jail for five years.
[1:48:11] Speaker 2: Now you are released and your life. Listen meditating on
[1:48:15] Speaker 2: yesterday and remaining there. It's like holding onto the ashes.
[1:48:19] Speaker 2: But Jesus is standing tonight and he's saying, I'm not
[1:48:22] Speaker 2: going to turn that ashes to something else. It is
[1:48:26] Speaker 2: still a miracle. You are waiting for the ashes, and
[1:48:29] Speaker 2: you wish Jesus if you can turn the ashes to
[1:48:33] Speaker 2: call the coll to wood and the wood back to
[1:48:37] Speaker 2: a tree. This is what I want you to do.
[1:48:40] Speaker 2: Are you not the god that turned water to wine?
[1:48:42] Speaker 2: And then he says, I'm also the god that gives
[1:48:45] Speaker 2: beauty for ashes, So that if your miracle does not
[1:48:53] Speaker 2: afford you turning ashes back to coal, back to wood,
[1:48:58] Speaker 2: and back to a tree, it may never happen again.
[1:49:05] Speaker 2: But he can give you beauty. And look at me.
[1:49:09] Speaker 2: I wish I had time. I would have explained to
[1:49:11] Speaker 2: you what the Bible calls beauty. Beauty there does not
[1:49:16] Speaker 2: mean looks. Beauty means everything that can take away pain.
[1:49:22] Speaker 2: Beauty means everything that can erode the memory of pain
[1:49:28] Speaker 2: and tragedy and suffering. Let me tell you, if it
[1:49:32] Speaker 2: is the God of Heaven, there is something he can
[1:49:35] Speaker 2: do in your life. Your mother may never return in
[1:49:38] Speaker 2: this side of God's kingdom. Your father may never return,
[1:49:41] Speaker 2: your siblings may never return. The job may never come again, unfortunately,
[1:49:45] Speaker 2: and sadly maybe the marriage may never walk again, unfortunately.
[1:49:50] Speaker 2: But let me tell you the truth. Look at those
[1:49:54] Speaker 2: ashes and present it to the Master. Let your hands
[1:49:58] Speaker 2: be empty enough, then watch what else it gives you.
[1:50:03] Speaker 2: He will give you beauty for ashes. Beauty. So someone
[1:50:10] Speaker 2: looks at you and says, you've been anenophan for ten years,
[1:50:14] Speaker 2: but it does not look like that in your life.
[1:50:16] Speaker 2: God raise ather parents from everywhere to cover for you,
[1:50:20] Speaker 2: to a point where if you tell the story people
[1:50:22] Speaker 2: who say is a lie. You mean You've lost your
[1:50:25] Speaker 2: job for fifteen years, but today instead of a job,
[1:50:28] Speaker 2: you never went back to the job, but God gave
[1:50:30] Speaker 2: you a business, a flourishing business. You lost the ministry,
[1:50:35] Speaker 2: but now God has called you and placed an apostolic
[1:50:39] Speaker 2: and a prophetic a nontion upon you. To our next ctent,
[1:50:42] Speaker 2: that those who knew you as a man of God
[1:50:44] Speaker 2: ten twenty years, if they say you, they will never
[1:50:47] Speaker 2: believe that you are the one carrying this power again.
[1:50:50] Speaker 2: Do you know Joseph never returned back to his father's house.
[1:50:53] Speaker 2: Read your Bible you taught Joseph from Egypt. He missed
[1:50:58] Speaker 2: his home. Joseph did not receive the miracle of turning
[1:51:02] Speaker 2: water to wine. Joseph received beauty for ashes. You thought
[1:51:10] Speaker 2: that Joseph would go back home. He wanted to go
[1:51:13] Speaker 2: back home. He missed the playground, he missed everything that
[1:51:18] Speaker 2: was happening there. But sometimes God does not take you
[1:51:23] Speaker 2: back by turning water to wine. He tells you you
[1:51:27] Speaker 2: may never go back there again, but I will give
[1:51:30] Speaker 2: you something else. Now look at me, please, We're about
[1:51:33] Speaker 2: to pray God something else will always be better than
[1:51:38] Speaker 2: what you had before. Find a way of believing what
[1:51:44] Speaker 2: I'm telling you. When God brings any replacement to your life,
[1:51:49] Speaker 2: it will always be better, more superior in quality. But
[1:51:56] Speaker 2: the keys. Do you have the courage to give him
[1:51:59] Speaker 2: the ashes? Some of you have been holding the ashes
[1:52:02] Speaker 2: of your pain for ten years. You've been holding the
[1:52:05] Speaker 2: ashes of regrets for ten years. You've been holding the
[1:52:09] Speaker 2: ashes of tragedy, financial tragedy. You're held for ten years.
[1:52:14] Speaker 2: Jesus is coming by way of this message tonight and saying,
[1:52:17] Speaker 2: hand it over to me, lay it down, Lay it down,
[1:52:22] Speaker 2: Lay it down for someone. You may not even hand
[1:52:26] Speaker 2: it over. You may be like the woman with the
[1:52:28] Speaker 2: labasta box. You will just break that thing and say ashes.
[1:52:32] Speaker 2: You were once sat three. I played under your shade.
[1:52:36] Speaker 2: I watch men caught you to become wood. I watch
[1:52:41] Speaker 2: fire bone you to become cold. Now you are reduced
[1:52:44] Speaker 2: to ashes. But I'm ready to lay down because something
[1:52:48] Speaker 2: else is coming. Let me tell you what happens. When
[1:52:51] Speaker 2: you lay down the ashes. He will hold your hands
[1:52:54] Speaker 2: and say come. You will open up a realm and
[1:52:58] Speaker 2: you will see many trees. You would see that it
[1:53:01] Speaker 2: was an or chad he wanted to give you while
[1:53:04] Speaker 2: you were whipping over a tree. He now gives you
[1:53:07] Speaker 2: an o chad, and with that orchid you have many
[1:53:10] Speaker 2: shades to lay in and also bring orders into that experience.
[1:53:15] Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. From a human standpoint, there are people
[1:53:19] Speaker 2: we may never stop missing with loved people. There are
[1:53:23] Speaker 2: memories that may never leave our minds, memories of yesterday.
[1:53:27] Speaker 2: But here's what the Bible says, This one thing I
[1:53:30] Speaker 2: do forgetting the things that are behind and reaching forth
[1:53:35] Speaker 2: for the things that are before me. It didn't say
[1:53:37] Speaker 2: forgetting the bad things. I've taught you things don't have
[1:53:41] Speaker 2: to be bad and tragic. Sometimes you have to just
[1:53:44] Speaker 2: be strong to say, you know what, yesterday, I wave
[1:53:48] Speaker 2: you goodbye, I love you, I miss you. I'll keep
[1:53:52] Speaker 2: you in my mind, but be gone for good. I
[1:53:55] Speaker 2: have to face the future because that destiny is waiting
[1:53:58] Speaker 2: for me. Don't tell me about story of something bad
[1:54:01] Speaker 2: that happened. Do you know how possible I would have
[1:54:03] Speaker 2: been married twenty years ago? I understand. Can you hand
[1:54:06] Speaker 2: over those ashes? You are still holding onto it? And
[1:54:09] Speaker 2: many good men are coming now? God is same. Can't
[1:54:12] Speaker 2: you see beauty? We are saying ashes of yesterday? Are
[1:54:15] Speaker 2: you willing to give that beauty and get out of
[1:54:18] Speaker 2: the way? I mean, give the ashes and let beauty come.
[1:54:21] Speaker 2: My first car, a ghastly moto accident destroyed it. My
[1:54:25] Speaker 2: first cu said, nobody will leave all those things and
[1:54:30] Speaker 2: praise the new. Is someone ready to pray. Go ahead
[1:54:34] Speaker 2: and begin to speak to the Lord. Everyone falling online
[1:54:39] Speaker 2: and praying. Whether you're sitting, whether you're standing, take any
[1:54:43] Speaker 2: position you're most comfortable. But please pray. Pray everyone, pray
[1:54:52] Speaker 2: her name, my last, super last, caverendert. There is an
[1:54:57] Speaker 2: answer to hopelessness. There is an answer to despair. There
[1:55:03] Speaker 2: is an answer to confusing tragic situations. The answer is
[1:55:09] Speaker 2: found in this message that my God, your God, is
[1:55:14] Speaker 2: able to make all things walk together. He may not
[1:55:21] Speaker 2: have caused the all things, the all things may not
[1:55:24] Speaker 2: have come from him, but he has the power to
[1:55:28] Speaker 2: make all things sad stories, all things negative stories, all
[1:55:34] Speaker 2: things tragic situations, painful situations, all things to walk together,
[1:55:42] Speaker 2: to the good of them that love the Lord, and
[1:55:46] Speaker 2: to those who are the card quy only are take
[1:55:49] Speaker 2: a minute to invest in prayer. Sanila, Caparacos, Sada, Brenda Gabella,
[1:56:05] Speaker 2: Beauty for ashes, Beauty for ashes, turning my morning to dancing,
[1:56:14] Speaker 2: my sorrow to joy that nay, in all these things,
[1:56:18] Speaker 2: we are more than conquer us to Christ. Someone is praying, Lord,
[1:56:23] Speaker 2: I know that it ends up in praise. I lost
[1:56:26] Speaker 2: my loved one, but I choose to trust you. It
[1:56:29] Speaker 2: will end up in praise. I lost my job, but
[1:56:33] Speaker 2: it will end up in praise. I believe you for
[1:56:38] Speaker 2: the visa. I believed you for the healing. I didn't
[1:56:42] Speaker 2: want to go through the surgery. Now I'm having to
[1:56:45] Speaker 2: go through it, or I had to go through it.
[1:56:48] Speaker 2: Now I've lost my organs. But in the midst of it,
[1:56:52] Speaker 2: I still know that beauty can become a replacement for
[1:56:58] Speaker 2: the ashes. One more minute to a pray apostle. I
[1:57:06] Speaker 2: lost ministry to wrong mentorship. I lost ministry. I lost
[1:57:12] Speaker 2: my place and my relevance to carelessness and lie sensiousness.
[1:57:17] Speaker 2: But the Bible says there is hope. Listen carefully hear me,
[1:57:21] Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. The Bible tells you that there is hope,
[1:57:25] Speaker 2: and that hope make it not a shave. When the
[1:57:31] Speaker 2: tree is not caught, the scent of water can bring
[1:57:35] Speaker 2: it back to life. But sometimes the tree can be
[1:57:39] Speaker 2: cut away from the roots, turned to lots of wood,
[1:57:43] Speaker 2: burned to calls. Then it becomes ashes. When it becomes ashes,
[1:57:48] Speaker 2: don't try to make a tree out of it again.
[1:57:51] Speaker 2: When it becomes ashes, look to the master. It comes
[1:57:55] Speaker 2: with beauty, Joseph, don't just desire to return back to
[1:57:59] Speaker 2: your father's house. That may not be your destiny again.
[1:58:03] Speaker 2: That house you left, you have left for gold. But
[1:58:07] Speaker 2: look towards the assignment in the palace. There is a
[1:58:10] Speaker 2: prime minister time you. There is an ordination upon your life.
[1:58:19] Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, we pray. I believe that this is
[1:58:25] Speaker 2: also a message for Nigeria. Remember you know the former things.
[1:58:31] Speaker 2: There are things who will never get back to. Unfortunately,
[1:58:35] Speaker 2: discussing problems, blaming hands, pointing fingers may not do the job.
[1:58:42] Speaker 2: I believe that our destiny by far exceeds our pain
[1:58:48] Speaker 2: as a nation. This is also true for every African continent,
[1:58:53] Speaker 2: every African nation across the continent. Kaya you find that
[1:58:58] Speaker 2: Malawi nation that have had uprisings and all kinds of things.
[1:59:03] Speaker 2: One assurance, we may not know all the way it
[1:59:06] Speaker 2: will happen, but that the future of Africa as a
[1:59:10] Speaker 2: continent and of this great nation. I can tell you
[1:59:14] Speaker 2: the glory that is coming over this nation will by
[1:59:18] Speaker 2: far outweigh the pain, by far outweigh the moments of tragedies.
[1:59:24] Speaker 2: You believe that in the next one minute, as responsible
[1:59:28] Speaker 2: citizens and believers in best prayer for Nigeria, go ahead,
[1:59:32] Speaker 2: let's pray for Nigeria. We cannot be blind to the
[1:59:35] Speaker 2: things that are happening. Pray for the government, Pray for
[1:59:39] Speaker 2: the youth, Pray for the private sector. Pray for politicians.
[1:59:43] Speaker 2: Pray for truthfulness and honesty. Pray that men, especially men
[1:59:48] Speaker 2: in power, will look beyond themselves, be guided by the
[1:59:52] Speaker 2: fear of the Lord, conscience and a sense of posterity.
[1:59:58] Speaker 2: Go ahead and pray for wisdom for the leadership at
[2:00:01] Speaker 2: every level, that they would come up with pragmatic, intelligent,
[2:00:07] Speaker 2: applicable solutions. The mountain that Nigeria faces, like many African countries,
[2:00:15] Speaker 2: is not insurmountable. That we can shelf selfishness, prejudices, biases
[2:00:22] Speaker 2: and face this mountain with honesty and solve this problem
[2:00:27] Speaker 2: and scale to the next level of our prophetic destiny.
[2:00:31] Speaker 2: Pray for every home. Pray that God, who Raise help,
[2:00:35] Speaker 2: nobody should sleep without food. Pray that God, who Raise help.
[2:00:40] Speaker 2: This is not a prayer for Christians. This is a
[2:00:42] Speaker 2: prayer for all men, Christians, Muslims, non Christians. Pray for
[2:00:47] Speaker 2: everyone together that as a people we will enjoy the
[2:00:51] Speaker 2: messy of God. Pray that anyone who does not mean
[2:00:57] Speaker 2: well for this nation that God will judge them. That
[2:01:01] Speaker 2: anyone who does not mean well for the people in
[2:01:04] Speaker 2: this nation, there will be no peace for them. But
[2:01:07] Speaker 2: pray that those who mean well for this nation, wisdom
[2:01:10] Speaker 2: be given to them, Power be given to them. That
[2:01:13] Speaker 2: those who mean well for our nation, in the name
[2:01:16] Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, they will find access. Pray for the
[2:01:19] Speaker 2: government from the Presidency, the Senate, the House members, the governors,
[2:01:24] Speaker 2: the local government, shairman, the ministers, that they will serve
[2:01:28] Speaker 2: their fatherland in truth, void of selfishness, in truth, in
[2:01:39] Speaker 2: Jesus name, we pray. Let me speak over your life
[2:01:43] Speaker 2: as we wrap up the service. Were closing early so
[2:01:47] Speaker 2: that you can rush back home. But before I speak
[2:01:51] Speaker 2: over your life, allow me the privilege of making an
[2:01:53] Speaker 2: auther call for the fact that there are people here
[2:01:57] Speaker 2: gathered tonight. It was to be an entirely virtual service,
[2:02:00] Speaker 2: but were honored to still have people who came around.
[2:02:05] Speaker 2: I cannot take the chance of assuming that everyone here
[2:02:10] Speaker 2: within this place has made it right with Jesus. I
[2:02:15] Speaker 2: cannot take the chance to assume that of the tens
[2:02:19] Speaker 2: of thousands of people following across the social media space,
[2:02:23] Speaker 2: that everyone has made this decision for Jesus. You are
[2:02:27] Speaker 2: in this place and you're saying apostle. Even though this
[2:02:30] Speaker 2: is a virtual service. Now that I've found myself here
[2:02:33] Speaker 2: in this auditorium on hearing you speak, I need Jesus.
[2:02:38] Speaker 2: I need restoration to my spiritual life. I need help
[2:02:42] Speaker 2: from God. Or number two. You are saying, apostle, if
[2:02:46] Speaker 2: you will give me an opportunity. Even though I'm far
[2:02:50] Speaker 2: separated by distance across the nations, I still want to
[2:02:54] Speaker 2: receive this prayer. I'm going to count one to five.
[2:02:57] Speaker 2: I need just one sincere person who is making this
[2:03:00] Speaker 2: first decision or re dedicating your life to Jesus. I
[2:03:04] Speaker 2: wanted to leave your seat and come and stand here.
[2:03:07] Speaker 2: If there is one person, I am satisfied Tonight, God
[2:03:11] Speaker 2: bless you. Come, Cononia. Let's celebrate them. God bless you.
[2:03:16] Speaker 2: Thank you for the courage, Thank you, sir, Thank you.
[2:03:20] Speaker 2: Marm Come, come, come, come, God bless you, corn Onia.
[2:03:34] Speaker 2: Keep clapping. Amazing. What the Lord has done for us
[2:03:42] Speaker 2: intended to be a virtual service, but he still brought many.
[2:03:47] Speaker 2: He still brought many. Are you clapping? He still brought many?
[2:03:50] Speaker 2: Don't need to make it right. Come, God bless you. Allelujah.
[2:04:03] Speaker 2: Now there are some of you who ordinarily should have
[2:04:06] Speaker 2: been here, but because we didn't allow you the liberty
[2:04:10] Speaker 2: of coming to church physically. Please, I want you to
[2:04:15] Speaker 2: connect as I pray this prayer. Do not allow yourself
[2:04:18] Speaker 2: to be robbed of an opportunity to make Jesus Lord
[2:04:21] Speaker 2: of your life. As I pray for these ones you're
[2:04:25] Speaker 2: following me from your homes, your offices, everywhere. Be serious
[2:04:30] Speaker 2: and make this decision, this destiny defining decision for my
[2:04:35] Speaker 2: dear brothers and sisters who are in frontier. Thank you,
[2:04:37] Speaker 2: Thank you. I salute you for your courage to have
[2:04:41] Speaker 2: come to make this decision for Jesus. Let me request
[2:04:43] Speaker 2: that you lift your right hand as a sign of
[2:04:46] Speaker 2: surrender and say this as loud and as clear as
[2:04:49] Speaker 2: you can. Say, Lord Jesus. Those online here as your
[2:04:52] Speaker 2: chance to join them. Said again, Lord Jesus, tonight I
[2:04:56] Speaker 2: have heard your word. I love you with all my heart.
[2:05:02] Speaker 2: I believe that you are the son of God. I
[2:05:07] Speaker 2: believe that you died for my sin. I believe that
[2:05:13] Speaker 2: you a rose again for my justification. Right now I
[2:05:19] Speaker 2: receive you into my heart as my savior, my Lord
[2:05:26] Speaker 2: and my King. I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell,
[2:05:34] Speaker 2: and the grave is broken over my life. I am
[2:05:38] Speaker 2: a child of God from tonight and forever. Amen, keep
[2:05:44] Speaker 2: your beautiful hands lifted. Father, Thank you for these precious ones.
[2:05:47] Speaker 2: They have come declaring your lordship over their lives. I
[2:05:51] Speaker 2: declare by the authority of Scripture that their sins are forgiving.
[2:05:54] Speaker 2: And in the name of Jesus, I call you bona
[2:05:57] Speaker 2: fide recipients of the life of God. I pray for
[2:05:59] Speaker 2: you that from tonight the power of sin, saytan, hell
[2:06:03] Speaker 2: and the grave is broken over your life. I call
[2:06:06] Speaker 2: you the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, and you
[2:06:09] Speaker 2: are empowered to leave the victorious Christian life. From today
[2:06:13] Speaker 2: you'll go forwardever and backwarever. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen,
[2:06:20] Speaker 2: please do me a favor. I wanted to look to
[2:06:21] Speaker 2: my right. That will be your left. There are counselors
[2:06:24] Speaker 2: who will have a word with you very quickly, just
[2:06:27] Speaker 2: a word and a prayer, and then you'll be back
[2:06:29] Speaker 2: to your seat. Please do cooperate with them. Let's all
[2:06:31] Speaker 2: know them as they go. Thank you so very much,
[2:06:34] Speaker 2: Thank you so very much. Keep clapping until they're gone,
[2:06:37] Speaker 2: Keep clapping until they're gone. Keep clapping until they're gone. Allelujah.
[2:06:54] Speaker 2: Let me speak over your life. Now. Restore everything that
[2:07:02] Speaker 2: was lost, Restore.
[2:07:07] Speaker 4: Everything that was stolen, Restore everything that was lost, restore,
[2:07:18] Speaker 4: storlear restore everything that was lost. Restore everything that was stolen.
[2:07:33] Speaker 4: Restore everything that was lost, Restore, restore.
[2:07:47] Speaker 2: The first sets of people I'm speaking to are those
[2:07:50] Speaker 2: who there is still hope in the midst of their situation.
[2:07:54] Speaker 2: Water can still be turned to wine. Your water is
[2:07:57] Speaker 2: not ashes. It still gives life as water. It only
[2:08:01] Speaker 2: needs to be turned to wine. Therefore, I pray for
[2:08:04] Speaker 2: you every situation that can change. By the power that
[2:08:08] Speaker 2: raised Christ from the dead, we enforced change. Now every
[2:08:15] Speaker 2: situation that can change, health situation, marriage situation, job situation,
[2:08:22] Speaker 2: career situation. In the name of Jesus. Let water be
[2:08:26] Speaker 2: turned to wine. In the name of Jesus. Let dear
[2:08:30] Speaker 2: be a solution. Now. Then, the other said are those
[2:08:39] Speaker 2: whose trees have become wood, would have become coals. Coals
[2:08:45] Speaker 2: have become ashes. There's no need water turning to wine.
[2:08:50] Speaker 2: I pray for you, first and foremost, the grace to
[2:08:54] Speaker 2: be free from the grip of yesterday, the grace to
[2:08:59] Speaker 2: be free from the grip of yesterday. I say it again,
[2:09:03] Speaker 2: the grace to be free from the grip of yesterday.
[2:09:06] Speaker 2: And then I decree and declare, receive beauty for ashes.
[2:09:13] Speaker 2: It may not be as you expected, but may it
[2:09:15] Speaker 2: come in another form that still glorifies God. In your life.
[2:09:20] Speaker 2: It may not be as you expected, but I'm saying
[2:09:23] Speaker 2: it again, May it come in another form that still
[2:09:25] Speaker 2: glorifies God. Receive beautiful ashes in your finances, beautiful ashes
[2:09:33] Speaker 2: in your marriage, beautiful ashes in your spiritual life, Beautiful
[2:09:37] Speaker 2: ashes over the testimony of your life. Beauty for ashes.
[2:09:43] Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus Christ. I still pray that
[2:09:47] Speaker 2: you will receive a comment of praise for the spirit
[2:09:49] Speaker 2: of heaviness that will be called the ox of righteousness,
[2:09:53] Speaker 2: the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified
[2:09:56] Speaker 2: in your life. Everything that represents shame, everything that represents hopelessness.
[2:10:02] Speaker 2: I pray for you. Let the bombing Gilead bring you healing,
[2:10:07] Speaker 2: healing over death, healing over tragedies, healing over calamities, healing
[2:10:13] Speaker 2: over losses. In the name of Jesus for someone, I
[2:10:19] Speaker 2: speak to you prophetically, Remember you not the former things,
[2:10:23] Speaker 2: nor consider the things of old. I decree and declare
[2:10:27] Speaker 2: you open up your eyes and see. God is doing
[2:10:30] Speaker 2: a new thing. God is doing a new thing for someone.
[2:10:34] Speaker 2: A new thing may mean a new job for someone.
[2:10:37] Speaker 2: It maybe I'm not a child to replace the one
[2:10:40] Speaker 2: that died for someone. God will give you hope over
[2:10:43] Speaker 2: testimony you have lost. In the name of Jesus Christ Father,
[2:10:50] Speaker 2: you have given me this message and have brought it
[2:10:52] Speaker 2: to your people. The grace that follows this message. Let
[2:10:56] Speaker 2: it be deposited upon this teaching. Let it be deposited
[2:11:00] Speaker 2: upon your people. That everyone who listens to this teaching
[2:11:03] Speaker 2: will find hope. And for they who are the hearers,
[2:11:07] Speaker 2: like Revelation says, let them be blessed because their ears
[2:11:10] Speaker 2: have heard the truth. In the name of Jesus, the
[2:11:14] Speaker 2: grace to work in keeping with all the keys that
[2:11:16] Speaker 2: have shared. And I pray that many of you will
[2:11:19] Speaker 2: come to testify here that you gave up your ashes
[2:11:23] Speaker 2: and the next sense you got beauty. That will be
[2:11:26] Speaker 2: your testimony. This week. I say it again that you
[2:11:29] Speaker 2: gave up ashes and you received as a replacement beauty.
[2:11:34] Speaker 2: Receive testimonies this week good news. This week, I say
[2:11:39] Speaker 2: it again, testimony is this week good news. This week elevation.
[2:11:45] Speaker 2: This week. Now your hands hold good things. Now your
[2:11:49] Speaker 2: ears here good reports. As you travel you are blessed.
[2:11:54] Speaker 2: I declaree safety for you in Jesus' mighty name. We pray,
[2:12:01] Speaker 2: Amen and Amen. Let's share the grace in fellowship, and
[2:12:04] Speaker 2: then afterwards you'll reach for your homes. The grace of
[2:12:07] Speaker 2: our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the
[2:12:09] Speaker 2: sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit rests on. Abide with
[2:12:13] Speaker 2: us now and forever. Amen. Surely God's goodness and mercith
[2:12:16] Speaker 2: follow us all the days of our lives, as we
[2:12:19] Speaker 2: dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever. Amen.
[2:12:23] Speaker 2: God bless you all. See you on Sunday.

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