Joseph Prince - More Than Money: God's Plan to Prosper You

August 4, 2025 | 29:45

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  • Joseph prince: when god blesses you, i mean, you are in a place
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  • Where you love the lord.
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  • You've got time with your family,
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  • And you enjoy the goodness of god.
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  • That's true prosperity.
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  • And now here is pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: all things may not be good,
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  • But all things will work together for good
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  • Because god knows the future.
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  • God knows where and how we all should end up, you know?
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  • And he will disappoint us because he loves us.
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  • He will risk--amen?-- you being angry with him,
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  • You know, misunderstanding him as long as he gets to love you
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  • And bring you to the place where he wants you to be.
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  • Where he knows that--you see, you must understand
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  • God is for you, for you and not against you.
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  • Therefore, god is for your happiness.
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  • And god knows--the things that he tells us, you know,
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  • Are things that are for our own good, amen?
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  • In the bible, the greatest success
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  • Is to know him, amen?
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  • And then we make him known. praise the lord.
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  • The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • So let me tell you this: the greatest thing you can learn
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  • Is to know the lord jesus, is to know god's love,
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  • And to know that you are not just an accident
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  • In this world, that god meant for you to be born.
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  • You have a call and you have a purpose in life, amen?
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  • All right, genesis 26-- i better get into the word--
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  • "there was a famine in the land,
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  • Besides the first famine
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  • That was in the days of abraham."
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  • And the bible tells us that this famine was besides
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  • The first famine that was in the days of abraham.
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  • So even abraham, the blessed man of god,
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  • The man that we bless ourselves by--
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  • We are blessed with the blessing of abraham,
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  • Amen?--so even he experienced famine.
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  • But let me just tell you this: famine is a time where you stop
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  • And assess your life, where you stop and say,
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  • "why is this-- why is there a famine?
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  • Why am i in an environment of famine?"
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  • It can be a famine of, you know--
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  • It seems like a famine of favor.
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  • Things are all going against you instead of for you.
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  • "so isaac went to abimelech king of the philistines, in gerar.
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  • Then the lord appeared to him and said:
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  • 'do not go down to egypt.'"
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  • I repeat: do not go down to egypt.
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  • "'live in the land of which i shall tell you.'"
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  • So even when things are going wrong--amen?--
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  • Keep on coming to church.
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  • Keep on spending time in the word of god.
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  • Read the daily devo-- amen?--pray.
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  • Even when things are going wrong, trust.
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  • Even if there's famine, there's good coming, amen?
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  • Good is coming in your future. dwell in the land.
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  • Don't go down to egypt, the ways of the world.
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  • When you spend time with god and you give god that time,
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  • The lord knows it.
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  • He seems like he rewards you with quality time.
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  • The bible says one of the benefits of wisdom
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  • Is that length of days, long life, and peace.
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  • Obviously, length of days and long life
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  • Are two different things,
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  • Or else they won't be put in the same sentence.
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  • Length of days, long life, and peace.
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  • Long life is long life. but what is length of days?
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  • It seems like your-- everyone has 24 hours.
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  • When god blesses your day, your day becomes, like, full.
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  • Length of days, long life, and peace, shalom.
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  • Shalom is more than just peace of mind.
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  • It is health, well-being, wholeness.
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  • So god says, "dwell in this land."
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  • "dwell in this land, and i will be with you
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  • And bless you;
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  • For to you and your descendants i give all these lands."
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  • Next verse, god says, "i'll make your descendants multiply
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  • As the stars of heaven."
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  • Drop down. see what isaac did.
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  • He obeyed god. "then isaac sowed in that land."
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  • Now, you don't sow in a year of famine.
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  • So there are believers who say, "you know what?
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  • It seems like i've been giving to god.
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  • I've been tithing. i've been giving to god.
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  • And yet there seems to be nothing happening--famine."
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  • What do you do? keep on persevering.
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  • You belong to abraham's family.
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  • And abraham's family sows in the year of famine,
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  • All right?
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  • "isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year"
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  • Of famine.
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  • "in the same year a hundredfold."
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  • Obviously, this is the blessing of the lord, amen?
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  • "and the lord blessed him."
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  • And the bible says, "the man began to prosper."
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  • I call this a thirty-fold, sixty-fold,
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  • Hundred-fold blessing.
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  • But watch this: "the man began to prosper."
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  • If you haven't begun yet, all right, don't forget:
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  • Before the began to--
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  • Before the "began" is the sowing.
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  • "then he began to prosper. he continued prospering."
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  • There's the sixty-fold.
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  • "and until he became very prosperous--"
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  • That's the hundred-fold, amen?
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  • Now here is where you can get criticized by people.
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  • "oh, you're preaching the prosperity gospel
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  • And all that."
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  • I got no time for people like this--amen?--
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  • Because many a times, there are a lot of hypocrites.
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  • Because why do i say that? they have three or four cars.
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  • They have a big house.
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  • And then they are criticizing people
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  • For encouraging others that they can prosper.
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  • What i'm against is materialism. i'm against greed.
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  • I'm against people that, you know, they love money.
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  • Avarice.
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  • You know, they love money more than people, more than god.
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  • That is what i'm against.
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  • I'm against pastors that don't want their people
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  • To prosper.
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  • I think something is wrong.
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  • Now, something's wrong also if the pastor is living
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  • Such a lavish lifestyle and, you know,
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  • Just, all about money and all that.
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  • Something is wrong.
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  • But if the pastor is-- you look at the church
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  • And the church is prospering,
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  • The church is growing as a whole--amen?--
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  • The pastor is bringing the people into the land, amen?
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  • Are you listening, amen?
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  • You wanna be in a church like that.
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  • So don't be taken by people like, you know,
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  • "oh, prosperity in the bible is all about spiritual things."
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  • I agree. number one is to know god.
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  • Didn't i say that just now?
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  • I spent so much time saying that, isn't it, all right?
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  • So you know, sometimes people like to take a statement
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  • Out of context,
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  • But we've got no time to, just, address all these people, amen?
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  • We just go on preaching the truth.
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  • So in case you're thinking this is spiritual,
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  • Look at the next line:
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  • "for he had possessions of flocks
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  • And possessions of herds and a great number of servants.
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  • So the philistine envied him."
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  • Now, the philistines are people who are the enemies of god,
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  • Enemies of the people of the land, the jewish people.
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  • Usually, they end up as enemies, okay?
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  • They are usually the enemies. goliath was a philistine.
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  • Philistines are not spiritual people.
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  • They don't go by spiritual, you know, eyesight.
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  • Obviously, they are looking at palpable, visible,
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  • Tangible blessings of god on isaac.
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  • So much so, they envy-- they are jealous of him.
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  • Do you make the world jealous of the blessings of god
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  • That is on you?
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  • Do you know that one of the connotations
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  • Of the hebrew word "barak"-- which is blessing, all right?--
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  • Is actually the word "to be envied."
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  • And in the amplified bible, it brings it out: "blessed,"
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  • To be envied, "is the man who fears the lord."
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  • So god says, "do not go down to egypt."
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  • But what about egypt?
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  • If you look at egypt-- by the way, "egypt" in hebrew
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  • Is the word "mitzrayim," mitzrayim.
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  • It's not the word egypt; it's mitzrayim.
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  • All right, whenever you've got an "-im,"
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  • It's plural.
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  • It's double straightness-- literally, double distress,
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  • Or double straightness.
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  • If you look at the land of egypt, it's very flat.
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  • God says the land of israel is hills and valleys, amen?
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  • Out of the hills, you would dig copper, even.
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  • But here it says, "do not go down to egypt."
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  • Look at the picture, the map of egypt.
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  • It is a flat land, and on both sides of the land,
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  • It is actually-- it is sandwiched by desert.
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  • And the desert will blow its dry, dry sands
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  • Into the land of egypt.
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  • The only sustenance for egypt-- egypt hardly had rainfall,
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  • Hardly, very little rainfall.
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  • And the only sustenance is the river nile.
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  • Can you see the blue river nile, okay?
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  • But they do not know its source.
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  • They do not know what is the source of the river nile.
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  • They enjoy it, but they don't know the source.
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  • Isn't that like the world?
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  • When god says, "don't go down to egypt.
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  • Don't go down into a place of double pressure,
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  • Double distress, double stress"--
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  • Literally, mitzrayim means double distress, or stress.
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  • God doesn't want you to go down to a place
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  • Where you'll be hemmed in on both sides.
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  • So the land of egypt is hemmed in on both sides.
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  • You have libya and you have sudan.
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  • So it's literally sandwiched by desert.
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  • And the only sustenance that it has for its drinking water
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  • And washing and all that is the river nile.
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  • And they don't even know its source.
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  • Isn't it like the world?
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  • They enjoy--even the blessings on this earth--amen?--
  • 00:11:07.943 --> 00:11:11.547
  • It's still from god, amen.
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  • Every good and perfect gift is from above, the bible says,
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  • And from the father of lights.
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  • But they do not know its source. you and i know its source.
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  • That's why we always worship, we acknowledge him,
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  • We thank him, we give him glory.
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  • We even tithe to show that he's the source of all our blessings.
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  • Deuteronomy 11: acknowledge the lord
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  • And you prolong your days.
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  • God brings you a land flowing with milk and honey.
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  • Notice again, it's not a land of milk and honey.
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  • It's a land flowing.
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  • Flowing is an idea of copiousness, plenteousness,
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  • Abundance--amen?-- superfluousness, extravagant.
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  • Flowing with milk and honey.
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  • "for the land which you go to possess
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  • Is not like the land of egypt"--
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  • It's not like the land of egypt--
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  • "from which you have come, where you sowed your seed
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  • And watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;
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  • But the land which you cross over to possess
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  • Is a land of hills and valleys,
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  • Which drinks water from the rain of heaven."
  • 00:12:19.982 --> 00:12:24.186
  • So in egypt, they get their water from below,
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  • A river, all right?
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  • And they have to work it.
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  • I have a ol--ancient picture, an old pai--not that ancient--
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  • But an old picture of people watering,
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  • Irrigating, their field with their foot.
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  • If you look really close,
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  • Those two are standing on pedals.
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  • And what they do is that they gotta work really hard,
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  • You know, amen?
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  • It's like running all the time, and they are constantly watering
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  • Their fields with their foot.
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  • They get their water from the river,
  • 00:12:56.218 --> 00:12:57.920
  • But the river needs to be--
  • 00:12:57.920 --> 00:12:59.889
  • The water needs to be channeled up,
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  • And they use the pedals.
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  • It's a old picture, old photo.
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  • And let's go back to the verse again.
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  • Notice that that's what egypt does:
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  • Egypt is a lot of effort to get good stuff--
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  • A lot of effort, a lot of effort.
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  • Look at me...
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  • God can just bless you, and you are blessed.
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  • The world, like i said, they spend so much of their health
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  • To get the wealth, and then later on
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  • They spend the next half of their life
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  • Using their wealth to get back the health
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  • That they have lost.
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  • You know, it's like-- when god blesses you,
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  • I mean, you are in a place where you love the lord,
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  • You've got time with your family,
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  • Time to come to church, time to smell the flowers,
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  • Time to enjoy your loved ones.
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  • Time.
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  • To everything there is a season. god gives you that.
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  • And you enjoy the goodness of god.
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  • That's true prosperity, amen?
  • 00:13:54.276 --> 00:14:00.482
  • And the blessing come from where, in israel?
  • 00:14:00.482 --> 00:14:02.718
  • Drinks water from the rain of heaven.
  • 00:14:02.718 --> 00:14:06.255
  • Notice the rain of heaven. where is heaven?
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  • Up.
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  • So our blessings is from there, amen?
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  • Amen.
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  • Animals are designed to look down.
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  • That's why they are animals.
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  • The word "anthropos" come from the word
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  • Which means man is upright-- look up, face up.
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  • Man is designed to look to god. man is designed to face god.
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  • Beasts of the earth face down, amen.
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  • We are meant to have a connection with god.
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  • God designed you to be loved, to be cared for, to be provided.
  • 00:14:38.420 --> 00:14:45.527
  • So we know our source is from god.
  • 00:14:45.527 --> 00:14:48.497
  • All right, "the land which you cross over
  • 00:14:48.497 --> 00:14:50.032
  • Is a land of hills and valley that drinks water
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  • From the rain of heaven."
  • 00:14:52.234 --> 00:14:53.836
  • I wanna bring this to a close.
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  • But, before that, let me just say this:
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  • You know, the bible says in the book of wisdom--
  • 00:14:58.374 --> 00:15:00.576
  • Proverbs 22 tells us, "by humility
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  • And the fear of the lord are--" say it.
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  • The bible says--don't have to apologize, come on.
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  • The bible says it: "are riches and"--come on--"and life."
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  • Not sickness. life.
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  • Not death. life.
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  • "by humility and the fear of the lord."
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  • How many people when you tell them, advise them,
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  • To how to handle money and all that--
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  • They don't wanna listen.
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  • There goes their riches.
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  • Actually, humility is like wanting to learn
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  • From people: how they excel, how they learn,
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  • What do they do, amen?
  • 00:15:37.613 --> 00:15:39.381
  • Humility, teachableness,
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  • Humility, and the fear of the lord--what does it bring?
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  • All these three things people seek after, amen,
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  • Today in the world--right?-- riches, honor, and life.
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  • They seek for esteem from their colleagues,
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  • From their fellow men.
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  • Bible says honor. you have honor in life, amen?
  • 00:16:04.807 --> 00:16:12.781
  • Proverbs 9 says, "the fear of the lord
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  • Is the beginning of wisdom,
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  • And the knowledge of the holy one is understanding."
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  • The fear of the lord.
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  • Do you know the devil doesn't have wisdom?
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  • No, let me qualify that.
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  • He has corrupted wisdom because the bible says,
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  • "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom."
  • 00:16:29.731 --> 00:16:31.533
  • So he has not begun,
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  • Because he doesn't fear the lord.
  • 00:16:33.535 --> 00:16:42.077
  • For some people, they have not even begun.
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  • They have natural wisdom. they have knowledge.
  • 00:16:43.979 --> 00:16:48.450
  • They are smart-- many a times, book smart--
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  • But they have no wisdom.
  • 00:16:52.321 --> 00:16:54.356
  • I'm gonna show you this real quick,
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  • And then we're gonna close.
  • 00:16:55.691 --> 00:16:57.025
  • The bible says--ephesians 1,
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  • The very first thing you pray for--
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  • "therefore i also, after i heard your faith
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  • In the lord jesus, after i heard your faith
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  • In the lord jesus and your love for all the saints--"
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  • Many a times when we hear people are doing well--
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  • They have faith in the lord jesus
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  • And they have love for all the saints--
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  • We stop praying.
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  • Paul is the opposite.
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  • "when i heard about it, i do not cease
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  • To give thanks for you."
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  • Do not cease"-- say, "do not cease"--
  • 00:17:18.313 --> 00:17:20.249
  • "to give thanks for you, making mention of you.
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  • Do not cease to give thanks and do not cease
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  • To make mention of you in my prayers:
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  • That the god of our lord jesus christ,
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  • The father of glory, may give to you
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  • The spirit of wisdom and revelation
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  • In the knowledge of him."
  • 00:17:34.229 --> 00:17:35.564
  • Now, number one prayer is that you keep on praying.
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  • Every day is to ask god for wisdom,
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  • The spirit of wisdom and revelation.
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  • The first place, in the knowledge of him,
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  • To know him.
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  • When you see him, it's hard to unsee.
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  • No amount of temptation in the world
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  • Can distract you anymore because you have seen him.
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  • It's the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
  • 00:17:53.682 --> 00:17:55.050
  • Next verse says-- the way it operates--
  • 00:17:55.050 --> 00:17:56.552
  • "the eyes of your understanding being enlightened."
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  • You have eyes in your heart, your inner man.
  • 00:18:00.189 --> 00:18:02.257
  • You can see things before your physical eyes
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  • See it.
  • 00:18:04.426 --> 00:18:05.761
  • That's how the spirit of wisdom and revelation operates.
  • 00:18:05.761 --> 00:18:09.298
  • You see god with the eyes of your heart, amen.
  • 00:18:09.298 --> 00:18:13.135
  • And then--you see, notice that the prayer you pray every day
  • 00:18:13.135 --> 00:18:16.772
  • Is to ask god for wisdom.
  • 00:18:16.772 --> 00:18:18.106
  • Colossians, chapter 1, it says, "for this reason we also,
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  • Since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you.
  • 00:18:21.877 --> 00:18:25.147
  • Do not cease to pray for you."
  • 00:18:25.147 --> 00:18:27.316
  • So there are prayers that you keep on praying.
  • 00:18:27.316 --> 00:18:29.351
  • And what prayers are they? prayers for wisdom.
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  • "do not cease to pray for you, and to ask
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  • That you may be filled with"-- what?--
  • 00:18:35.357 --> 00:18:38.160
  • "with the knowledge of his will
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  • In all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
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  • That you may walk worthy of the lord,
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  • Fully pleasing him,
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  • Being fruitful in every good work
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  • And increasing in the knowledge of god."
  • 00:18:50.005 --> 00:18:51.940
  • The very first area is to be filled
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  • With the knowledge of his will in all wisdom
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  • And spiritual understanding.
  • 00:18:59.081 --> 00:19:00.983
  • And that brings you to the-- 11th verse, please:
  • 00:19:00.983 --> 00:19:03.585
  • "strengthened with all might, according to his glorious"--
  • 00:19:03.585 --> 00:19:05.754
  • I was sharing this just now--
  • 00:19:05.754 --> 00:19:07.089
  • "and to-- for all perseverance"--
  • 00:19:07.089 --> 00:19:08.423
  • The word there should be "perseverance"--
  • 00:19:08.423 --> 00:19:09.758
  • "and long-suffering with joy."
  • 00:19:09.758 --> 00:19:11.560
  • You are strengthened so that you become a very cool, calm,
  • 00:19:11.560 --> 00:19:15.464
  • Collected person.
  • 00:19:15.464 --> 00:19:19.301
  • And you will fulfill the "keep calm and carry on."
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  • You're truly calm, a person who is poised.
  • 00:19:22.604 --> 00:19:27.409
  • And that's what the world needs.
  • 00:19:27.409 --> 00:19:28.744
  • Multi-millionaires, they want to be that kind of person.
  • 00:19:28.744 --> 00:19:32.080
  • You don't know the turmoil they go through.
  • 00:19:32.080 --> 00:19:34.883
  • Their blood pressure follows whatever whoever says.
  • 00:19:34.883 --> 00:19:38.053
  • God wants you to be a person strengthened with all might.
  • 00:19:38.053 --> 00:19:40.789
  • It takes strengthening with all might
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  • For you to be a patient person.
  • 00:19:43.292 --> 00:19:45.160
  • It takes strengthening with all might to persevere
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  • In the midst of trials, adverse circumstances, amen?
  • 00:19:48.697 --> 00:19:56.438
  • So i close with this: the very first thing you ask god for
  • 00:19:56.438 --> 00:20:00.075
  • Is always wisdom.
  • 00:20:00.075 --> 00:20:01.476
  • Christ has made unto us first-- before righteousness, even--
  • 00:20:01.476 --> 00:20:04.713
  • Wisdom and then righteousness
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  • And then holiness and redemption.
  • 00:20:09.284 --> 00:20:10.952
  • Christ is all these to us, but he's first wisdom.
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  • Wisdom is the principal thing.
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  • Hebrew, "reshith." wisdom is the reshith thing.
  • 00:20:15.524 --> 00:20:18.860
  • "in the beginning, god created." the first word, "bereshit."
  • 00:20:18.860 --> 00:20:22.597
  • Bereshit is the very beginning.
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  • The very first thing you ask god for is wisdom, amen?
  • 00:20:23.932 --> 00:20:30.105
  • The wisdom from above is first pure, peaceable,
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  • Gentle, easy to be entreated.
  • 00:20:32.274 --> 00:20:34.009
  • The wisdom from below is sensual, demonic, self-seeking.
  • 00:20:34.009 --> 00:20:38.347
  • Where there's envy and strife, there is confusion,
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  • Every evil work.
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  • There is a wisdom from the world.
  • 00:20:41.883 --> 00:20:43.352
  • It always makes you proud. it makes you self-seeking.
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  • It makes you sensual.
  • 00:20:46.722 --> 00:20:48.290
  • But the wisdom from above is like jesus:
  • 00:20:48.290 --> 00:20:50.792
  • Pure, gentle, easy to be entreated,
  • 00:20:50.792 --> 00:20:53.095
  • Humble, good fruits.
  • 00:20:53.095 --> 00:20:55.697
  • And that's what king rehoboam lacked: the humility.
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  • Listen to the people.
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  • You are a servant king. you are not a king king.
  • 00:21:01.603 --> 00:21:08.677
  • Without people, there is no king.
  • 00:21:08.677 --> 00:21:11.580
  • That's a good statement.
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  • I wanna take down notes on myself.
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  • That was a good statement, amen? we must never forget.
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  • Leaders, whatever field of leadership you are in,
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  • Remember this: you are there to serve.
  • 00:21:23.725 --> 00:21:27.662
  • A king like jesus, he was a king,
  • 00:21:27.662 --> 00:21:30.298
  • And yet you see him by the shores of galilee,
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  • Casting out demons, bringing relief to the oppressed,
  • 00:21:33.902 --> 00:21:38.039
  • Casting out the spirit of depression,
  • 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:40.609
  • The spirit of intimidation,
  • 00:21:40.609 --> 00:21:45.947
  • The spirit of... that makes you sick, infirmity.
  • 00:21:45.947 --> 00:21:50.519
  • You see him healing the sick. you see him cleansing the leper.
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  • This is a king, the king of israel.
  • 00:21:56.291 --> 00:22:00.595
  • And he uses his power, the powerful word that he has,
  • 00:22:00.595 --> 00:22:03.999
  • To heal, to set free.
  • 00:22:03.999 --> 00:22:08.670
  • And pontius pilate said, "shall i crucify your king?"
  • 00:22:08.670 --> 00:22:14.342
  • And they said, "we have no king."
  • 00:22:14.342 --> 00:22:17.078
  • "we have no king," the leader says, "but caesar is our king."
  • 00:22:17.078 --> 00:22:19.881
  • And for 2,000 years, they've been serving
  • 00:22:19.881 --> 00:22:21.850
  • Caesar after caesar after caesar,
  • 00:22:21.850 --> 00:22:24.719
  • Whereas the king is waiting for them to say,
  • 00:22:24.719 --> 00:22:28.156
  • "you are our king."
  • 00:22:28.156 --> 00:22:29.658
  • Bang, he's gonna return.
  • 00:22:29.658 --> 00:22:34.596
  • But as you and i, right now, we acknowledge him as king.
  • 00:22:34.596 --> 00:22:38.834
  • And we therefore live in his kingdom,
  • 00:22:38.834 --> 00:22:42.204
  • Where his kingly sway is over everything that we are over--
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  • Our families, our jobs, our ministries, our career,
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  • Our relationships.
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  • There's his kingly touch on all that.
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  • There's an authority that the world knows not oft, amen?
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  • And that's what it means: "seek you first the kingdom of god
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  • And his righteousness"-- do his way of doing things--
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  • That righteousness, peace, and joy may flow.
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  • Don't follow the ways of the world.
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  • Don't copy the world. i got no time.
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  • People give me books, you know, business books, or whatever.
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  • It's okay if you're a business person
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  • And read all that and all that.
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  • I got no time for that, why?
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  • I need time for even my own books,
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  • But i find that many a times when i study those books,
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  • I don't even have to study these books.
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  • I'm able to organize. i'm able to administrate, amen.
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  • I can talk to people that are more qualified than me
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  • And see the very areas they need to change
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  • Or have revelation in.
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  • Now, i'm not saying that in a boastful way.
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  • I'm just saying i'm nobody but for the wisdom of god.
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  • And i still desperately need his wisdom, and so do you.
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  • So make that our prayer every day.
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  • Right after this.
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  • From pastor joseph prince.
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  • Joseph prince: lift up your hands
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  • All across this place.
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  • Remember this coming week: let's not take our lives
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  • For granted.
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  • Let's not be like ancient egypt,
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  • Not knowing the source of our blessings.
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  • And this week, we trust god as the source of our protection.
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  • God knows ahead of time,
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  • Before we even enter into the realm.
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  • He can make the crooked places straight.
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  • Let's pray for that right now.
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  • Father, in jesus's name, as we step into an entirely new week,
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  • Father, we pray, lord, that you'll go ahead of us, lord,
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  • As you have promised and make all the crooked places straight.
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  • Let every valley be exalted, every mountain, proud--
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  • Prideful things be brought low, lord.
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  • I pray, father, that you'll make the places straight for us,
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  • And prosper our way, father.
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  • Prosper everything that we touch.
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  • As you have promised, lord, whatsoever he doeth
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  • Shall prosper.
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  • Father, we ask for true prosperity
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  • To know you more and more, lord, we pray.
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  • And, father, in jesus's name, as we and our family
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  • Step into this week, protect us from every danger,
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  • From every infection,
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  • And from all the powers of darkness.
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  • In jesus's name, we ask.
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  • Thank you, father, for your favor is on us.
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  • Thank you, father.
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  • We love you, and we proclaim that you are
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  • The source of all our blessings, lord, favor and good things,
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  • Lord, in our life, in jesus's name.
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  • And all the people said-- congregation: amen!
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