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You have to understand that everything to do with God, it's not about doing. It's about knowing.
My people perish because of lack of what? Knowledge. If you don't know, you perish. Not because Satan is powerful. No, the devil is nothing.
But the devil will always take advantage of those who don't know.
Knowledge is always the issue. You see, when you understand the Lord, you start understanding that our approach to him is more in the place of understanding than the doing.
I'm going to say something that is going to break the internet maybe.
Amen.
But it is the truth. And I'm not saying this because I am I don't like controversy. I hate controversy. It's foolish. But sometimes people think what we are saying is controversial because it takes away religion.
Are you listening to me?
It robs them. You see, religion is addictive.
I want you to hear me. Religion is addictive.
Because religion is in the scope and the ability of men.
When you enter into what God does, it takes away all that you can do. No longer matters.
It becomes pointless. Now you have to ask yourself this question. The Bible says this. It says that your righteousness is like filthy rags. Meaning that there is nothing you can ever do to impress God. Nothing.
Are you here?
How many people have a strong relationship with God? Wave your hand. Wave your hand. You say you have a strong relationship with God. Amen. I thank God for you. Now, let me throw some rocks. You are correct in a sense, but you're also wrong in another sense. Let me tell you where we are wrong. It is impossible. Listen to me. It's impossible to create a relationship with God. I want you to hear me. I know you're like, "Huh?" Hear me. It is impossible to create a relationship with God because a relationship is built. All right? A relationship is built. You get to know each other. You start talking. You start hanging out. That is what building a relationship looks like, right? But a parent does not build a relationship with his children.
Teach.
They're already his.
But the child is learning to grow in a relationship.
That is already made available.
Let, let me, let me go a little deep. I know I messed you up, but bear with me. You cannot build with God because God knew you before you were.
He created you. He knows the number of hair on your head. He knows you're coming in, you're going up, you're rising up, you're laying down. He has numbered your days. Meaning, he has already decided how long you will live.
He knows all your mistakes, present and future. He knows your goodness. He knows your failures. He knows everything about you. So he is not coming to you to cultivate anything.
Are you, are you listening to me?
Yes.
Trust me, this message will give you a lot of freedom. It will deliver you.
Amen.
You see, the worst kind of deliverance is deliverance or the, let me, let me say this. The, the, the, the worst or the strongest stronghold. Let me say it that way. The strongest stronghold on a man is not witchcraft, is not sorcery, it's yourself.
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Self-deception.
Is the greatest level of witchcraft.
Satan himself fell because he bewitched himself.
You see, every witchcraft, whatever it is, trust me, I do deliverance. I know.
All this, the blood of Jesus solved. But the biggest reason why we struggle is because we still don't understand the God that we are serving.
Amen.
We have made God human, thinking the same way I build a relationship with my brother, my sister, my husband, my wife. That is how I build with God. This is why a lot don't understand why God could pick somebody that they deem to be not qualified and God qualifies them despite them not looking the way they think a man of God should look.
Speak like a man of God. They have so many mistakes. Why did God favor this one?
Is because they think God selects you based on your behavior. That will mean that he's not God because he doesn't know you. He's waiting for you to act for him to know you.
Amen.
When the Lord looked at Jacob from his mother's womb, he said, "Jacob, I love Esau. I hate."
Yet Jacob was a suppler.
But God just decided. He said, "I will love whom I want to love. I will show mercy to whom I want to show mercy. I will give grace to whomever I want to give grace to." Notice, God does things because he has decided.
Yes.
So if God's relationships or your relationship with God is based on what he has ordained.
Then your worship doesn't make you closer to him.
Your prayer doesn't make him any closer to you. Oh, I know you are now, you're scratching your head. I know you are confused now. Some will say, "Oh, he said, you see, he said don't pray." I never said that.
I'm telling you, what you think will make you close to God is actually deception.
The Lord said, "Draw close unto me." But how do you draw close unto God? Because God is not a human being that you can walk towards him.
He's omnipresent.
He's already next to you. So when he says draw close to me, what does he mean?
Are you following me so far?
Are you following me so far?
So if the Lord said draw close to me, what does he mean? What is he saying? Because God is not human. So if I set human conditions, I've already lost God.
So how do I draw close to God? So these are questions that now you start thinking about.
Then what does this walk look like?
Yeah.
Before I tell you how, let's, let's go. Let me mess you up some more.
You see, you're clapping. I think you're offended. I am glad you're offended so that you can change. When Adam and Eve were in the garden, when God created Adam and Eve and they were in the garden of God, Adam never prayed in the garden. You don't see a single time Adam prayed. Adam never prayed in the garden. There was no prayer session, worship session in the in the garden. Adam was God's child and in the cool of the evening God visited him. Adam never called God. Are you listening to me?
In the garden? God is the one who visited Adam.
In the evening. God would show up. Notice they had just sinned and God came as his usual time. Adam, where are you guys at? Adam runs and Lord, I, I am naked. What? Who told you you are naked? Did you do what I told you not to do? Notice God knowing they did it and he saw it. He still came.
Come on.
So what separates you is not what you did.
Come on.
You didn't hear what I just told you.
God came as if he never saw what happened. He walked in as usual and said, "Adam, where are you?" Adam said, "Uh, Lord, I am hiding behind this." And to show you that he's God, he approached them where they were hiding.
So he even knew where they ran to. Said, "Adam, what are you doing there?" And God with his calmness, Adam, what are you doing? I am hiding. Why are you hiding? I'm hiding cuz I'm naked. Who told you? Did you eat from the tree that I told you not to? God. So calm, still maintaining his relationship.
Because the love of God was not based on what Adam does.
Amen.
It was based on what God had decided.
Amen.
So the decisions of Adam.
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Let me help you.
Let me say it this way. A wise man once said this. I won't tell you who the wise man is. He says, he said this. He said, men control access to relationships. No, it's true. A man controls access to relationships. A woman controls access to intimacy.
Am I speaking or am I?
Teaching good?
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So God has already established God. God has already established his relationship.
You can't spice it up. You can't increase it. You can't lower it. You can't change it.
Let me ask you a question. What is unconditional love? A love that has no conditions.
So if you set any conditions.
It disqualifies you.
Because what God is offering is unconditional.
Amen.
Am I speaking to my?
Are you understanding what I'm saying?
Amen.
You see, I am, I am teaching you. I am not preaching to you yet.
Are you understanding me?
I am teaching you. I'm not preaching to you yet. I'm teaching you. God has given unconditional love. Okay, let me tell you something. You know, God has never sent a single soul to hell. Do you know that?
God has never sent anyone to hell. People who end up in hell is because they chose it.
Hell was never created for human beings. The Bible tells you that it was created for the devil and his host.
Him and his ninjas. Hell was for them. But if you want to be like them, you go there. Not because God sent you.
Do you realize when the Lord Jesus died on the cross, he descended and brought souls from the time of Noah.
Unto present time. People were given a second chance in hell.
Your pastors don't teach you. It's in your Bible. I don't have to see. Go look at it.
Teaching good.
He brought the captives out. So anyone who tells you hell is full is lying to you. We don't want to go to hell. One soul in hell is too much.
Amen.
One life lost is too much.
Amen.
But that place was not created for men. So anyone who goes there, it's not because God is angry. God's anger was quenched a long time ago, more than 2,000 years ago.
Are you, are you listening to what I'm saying?
We are going somewhere. Pay attention. Pay attention. Pay attention. Enoch walked with God. Enoch walked with God. Meaning God was walking and Enoch joined the walk.
Meaning the, the relationship was always there.
It is Enoch that woke up to it.
Amen.
So you are trying to build something that is already flowing. Come on.
But you are struggling because you don't know that a relationship with God is based on accepting what he has made available.
Amen.
Not on what you can do. This is why you cannot fake worship.
You can fake praise all you want.
Because praise will have rhythm. You will shout. You stomp your feet. The music is worship is based on your experience with him.
And your level of worship is centered on how you have seen him.
Because worship is not about what he has done. It has nothing to do with what he will do, where he will take you through. No, no, no, no. Worship is about who he is to you.
That revelation of who he is is worship. So when you sit and you say, Lord, who is like you? Because you have realized in all relationships you have ever been in, no one compares to him.
Amen.
So good.
Amen.
You've seen him and you have felt his heart. You have felt the beauty that is in God and you said, "Lord, I have looked upon a a a million fair virgins. None is like you." Because now it is no longer about doing. It's about who he is.
Our depth with God, our depth with God, our profoundness with God does not come from a place of works. Imagine Adam has not done anything and God comes. Okay, let me surprise you.
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To show you that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. David says this, "Who is man that you care for him? Who is man that you visit him every morning?"
Just because you didn't know he visited you doesn't mean you don't have a relationship.
Amen. It is you that didn't know that he visited you. Let me find where I can talk to some people. Every morning God comes to see you.
Every day God has come to you. But when he came, you didn't see him.
When you woke up, you saw Facebook, you saw Instagram, you saw TikTok. You wanted to hear what somebody else said about you. You are concerned about you. You never opened your eyes and you say, "Oh Jesus, I know you're here.
Good morning, Holy Spirit." Nothing like you are not aware.
You can't build with somebody that is already involved in your life.
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Good.
You can't. He knows your needs. He knows your thoughts. You are not building with him, but you are growing in him.
We are growing in him. We are growing in that love.
Because that love, you see, another psalmist says, "When I, when I, when I put all the sum of who you are, this is this knowledge is too much for me to to comprehend to bear. It is beyond who can, who, who can download this and for it to make sense." That is why we grow because God is infinite.
So when you understand the place of that love, when you comprehend the place of that love, then your prayer also changes.
Yes.
Your approach to God also changes.
Why? Because now you understand that God has already decided.
I am not making God decide. Just like I didn't choose to be born. He decided that. And one day you just became self-aware that you are alive and you're living and you're breathing and you're moving.
Is the same also he decided that he will be with you for eternity.
But now the intimate part he cannot do because love is a duty.
Love is not emotions. Uh, I feel like I'm talking to the wrong people. Love is commitment. Love has nothing to do with emotions. It's a decision.
It's a decision. I am deciding to do this. I am deciding to do that. I am deciding for it to be like this. I am deciding. That's what love is. Because love is only evident where there are mistakes.
Amen.
There can never be love unless there's mistakes.
That is why love is a decision.
Amen.
If somebody is doing good to you and that's who you say that, oh, that's that's my favorite person. We just get along. The day that relationship will be tested will fall. That's why every marriage goes through tests.
Because it is a test of that love. That's why when you stand on that altar for better, for worse, why is for better and for worse involved in something that should just be bliss?
Because worse will come. Uh, are you confessing? Worse will come. Worse will show up. We are broken people. We have a fallen nature. And God has accepted that. He said, "For God so loved the world, he gave." He didn't give because you are good. He gave so that you can become good.
Amen.
Amen.
So his decision wasn't based on faults. His decision wasn't based on how good you can be. His decision was about where he wants to take us.
I'm just trying to, you know, get close to God. No, he said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." That did not until when you are good. I love what God said to Jeremiah. He said, "My hand is not short to deliver, nor my ears deaf to hear. But your sins have separated you from me, not me from you." So we separate ourselves and then we blame God.
But if our mistake is so bad, why is it when you say, "Father, help me. I am sorry," is already there because he never left?
Amen.
I don't know if you got that. He has never left. He has never walked away. We are the ones who turn our back on him like an ostrich. You know, growing up in Kenya, ostrich or they, they are very interesting birds. As big as they are, when there is drama, they just put their hand in the ground. Boom. And because they can't see anyone, they're like, "Yeah, no one can see me. We are safe." But that whole body is outside. But the head is in the ground. Yeah. No one can see me. Mhm. I'm really hiding right now. Many times that's how we are like children of God. Many at times this is how we behave as children of God. You see, let me, let me, let me say this. And show you how you become intimate with God.
Are you ready?
Yes.
Now, Genesis chapter 1 verse 26. Genesis 1:26. I want to show you something. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Uhhuh. Are you ready?
Yes. Yeah.
Now listen to this. And God said, "Let us make man in our image and after our likeness." That's all I wanted. Let us make man in our image and after our likeness. The image is not the appearance. If you understand original translation, it is not talking about how God looks. Nobody has ever seen him. It is talking about the nature that is with God.
Are you hearing me?
And the nature and is, is nature just how he is. How do we know that angels have two feet, two arms, two faces, two, two eyes, two a mouth like you ears? Every time you see angels in scripture, they appear like men. Unless they are seen in visions, then they look different. But every time angels appear, the Bible even tells you, uh, make sure you entertain strangers by doing so. Many of you have entertained angels.
If you look at Daniel, he said, "I saw the man Gabriel." Meaning he looked like a man to him. I see angels all the time. They look like men. Sometimes you will see wings. Many times you don't see wings at all.
That's just how they appear. Okay? So he's saying, "Let us make man in our image and after our likeness." Philippians chapter 2:5 says this, "Let this mind also be in you that was in Christ Jesus." Now I want you to put those two together. Genesis, God is saying he's creating man. He said, "Let me make him like me. Let me make him like me." Then in Philippians 2, he's talking about the Lord Jesus, God reincarnated as a man, saying, "Let this mind also be in you that was in Jesus." Now, before I touch on this, I want you to think about this. The Bible says that God has never called an angel son. God has never looked at any angel and said, "This is my son. He's called the God of hosts, God of heaven's armies. He's never is not never called the father of angels. Never. Zero. If you read Genesis 6 and other passages, he says, "And the sons of God." Notice this is not God saying. It is the writer describing how watchers appeared like to be like men in nature that they were even able to have children with human beings. So you're saying these supernatural guys that are children of God, but it was not God saying that they are my children. I don't care the highest ranking of angels you have ever seen in scripture, the seraph or the cherubims or whoever you will mention. None of them have the capacity to have a relationship with God like we do.
Amen.
None.
Amen. Proximity doesn't mean relationship.
Humans fall, God picks you up.
An angel falls, hell.
No repentance.
One mistake, Lucifer was kicked out.
One, he thought he didn't even act on it. Out.
Human beings chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after.
Is God being biased? No. And even if he was, it's not bad. He's God. He can do whatever he wants to do.
But here's the key that many of us miss. Listen to this. Hebrews 1 and 5. "For unto which of the angel said he at any time, thou art my son?" God has never told any angel, you are my children. "This day I have begotten thee. I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son." God has never said that to any angel. Zero. Now how does this benefit us? Philippians 2 and 5. Now watch this. We are almost finishing. I promise I won't keep you long. I want you to look at this. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Verse six, "Who being in the form of God," let us make man in our image and after our likeness. He who, he who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with him. Stop right there.
The reason why you struggle to have a relationship with God is you're trying to be something that you already are.
The deep calleth unto the deep.
Amen.
Your issue is your mind has prevented you from being equal with God.
Come on. Now when you hear equal, you are thinking about an example is this. Okay, Rio and Andrew stand up. Come here. Come both of you come. Okay. Both of these guys have my blood in them. Right. And who's older? He's younger. They are my children. They are my equal. How are they my equal? One day they will grow up and they will be just like me.
They will also have families of their own. So in terms of humanity, they are my equal. They are just other human beings, but they are small human beings that one day they will grow.
Yeah.
But them becoming 36 years old like I am right now will not change or replace me. They came from me. Come on.
So the equality is not in status because they will always be my kids.
Amen.
Even if they were a thousand years old, you came from me. You're still my child.
Amen. Teaching good.
So when you think about being equal with God, you think equal in status. It's talking about equality in nature.
Come on. Because the nature that God has, because he created you with it, then you have the capacity to handle intimacy.
Closeness.
Yes.
Come on.
I feel like I'm preaching. Are you sure you can hear me?
Yes.
You have the capacity to speak with him, reason with him. A God that doesn't need counsel.
Looked at Moses and said, "Moses, let us reason together." God has 24 elders in heaven. He has never reasoned with them.
God sat down with Moses and said, "Moses, uh, let us reason. Let's talk about let's, you know, why is God feeling the need to do this to something he created? Is because he duplicated himself.
So he knows even your response.
Is like him responding to him.
Come on. So good.
So good.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
So God can have a conversation with you, but he will order angels. God will have a conversation with you, but he'll tell angels, "Go and do this. Go and do that." But when it comes to you, what can I do for you? What would you like? How would you like me to handle this? Is there anything else you? If you understood this, listen, your prayer list has been cut down to 5%.
The 95% you know, I just have to be his child.
Yes.
If I am his child, then it is handled.
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So you struggle with something that is already you. You see, Satan did not say, "I want to replace God." This is a very big misunderstanding that people in church preach. That's not what the devil said. He said, "I will lift up my throne above the clouds, above the stars, and I will go to the north, and I will be like the Most High." He said, "I want to be like him." His desire was to have the capacity to resemble him, to look like him, to appear like him, to sit in the council in the north among the congregation. He wanted to be you so bad that before you are even formed and came to the earth, he was jealous.
Why can't I be close like? But you are on earth busy praying, "Lord, if I could just see an angel." God is saying, "What about seeing me?"
Come on.
Amen.
What about being intimate with me?
Yes.
What about walking with me?
Yes.
What about knowing me as I know you?
Yes. So something shifts.
Immediately. You start understanding this walk with God.
Is more of a rest thing.
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Is more of an understanding that God is my dad.
He loves me more than I could ever understand. He gave his life for me when I didn't ask.
He chose to rescue me. He cho He chose these things. I didn't.
So your first mistake is you're trying too hard.
Oh, I know I messed you up.
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You see, some are not clapping because you are so used to hard work. You just want to work so hard over and over and over again. Yet, I have never seen my son work hard to impress me.
I'll be in the room and I remember Andrew will just come and lay on me. I'm like, "My guy, you, you have a bedroom upstairs. Why, why are you?" "Dad, I'm hungry. Dad, I need this." Sometimes you are just minding your own business, having your me time. The child will come and climb on you and sit on you.
They have rights.
And their right is you are my father. You, you, you, you brought me here.
Amen.
You better deal with me every time I want to.
Hallelujah.
And God has accepted this.
Yes.
That is why Jesus said, "Cast your burdens on me."
Yes.
He didn't say ask me if I can take them.
He didn't say rebuke them. He said bring them. Bring them.
Yes.
Ah. If you can hear me, shout fire.
Fire.
He said cast your burdens. Throw them. Do you know how to cast? It means every burden you just drop them.
I'm not going to ask you questions. You don't have to give me reasons. Just cast them on me. I care for you.
Cast your burdens unto me for I care for you. I care for you.
The care of God says, "Cast everything on me."
So many of you want to sing this for five hours thinking it will make you closer to God. "Spirit lead me where my is without borders. Let me walk apart. Oh Lord, I just." God is just rolling his eyes. He's like, "Ah, is this what you think of me that you have to impress me and you're my child?" I remember Andrew's first words. It was the most. He didn't even say them correctly, but it was the happiest day of my life. "Papa." When we come to God and we say, "You are my father," and we cast up. Heaven is still. He finally got it.
Yes.
She finally got it.
Amen.
Because God is seeking you to come to him. The prodigal son rushed to his father.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
You see the names we call God because of our humanity is different than how angels refer to God. Did you know that the names of God we use? If angels are speaking to you, they may use it so that you understand it, but not because they use it in heaven. No. Are you listening to me?
An example is this, and I was having this discussion with uh Prophet EJ and and uh and Darien. We were talking about this. If you look at God's creation in the beginning in Genesis 1, in the beginning God created the word God there is Elohim. God in his plurality or in his true nature that is why he's speaking in in in second person and third person. And God said, "Let us make man." Why is God saying, "And God saw that it was good." And God said, why is it speaking in that way? Because he's talking about his triune nature from Genesis 1. When God creates man, he's no longer referred to as Elohim. He's referred to as Jehovah.
The Lord.
Adam and Eve never called him Elohim. They called him Lord. They called him Jehovah. Because a Lord is a caretaker. That's what the word Lord means. Master, caretaker, the one who looks after you. But when the devil called Eve and said, "Eve," did God say you cannot eat of these trees? He never said Jehovah.
He said Elohim.
Even the name he called God was the name creator, not master and lord. Even in the name he showed proximity. Some of you, he went over your head, but when you watch it again, he will come, you will get it.
So he's saying, "Did the creator say you can't eat everything else?" But the guys that were created, they don't call him the creator, they call him Lord. So it shows you the perspective of an angel was completely different from the perspective of a man.
Are you listening to me?
I know it is more of a teaching today. I'm not preaching.
Good.
When I was in Paris and I was with Lee and I was uh with Uncle Todd uh and Andrew also came with me and uh James came with me also and a lot of men of God came to see me. They came and they sat with me and they wanted to observe. How do you prepare for service? We want to see how, how is it that when you go in church, your, your accuracy, your the anointing, the power. They came with their with their shows. They thought we were going to Raaka. They sat with me and they were asking me questions. They were like, "Oh, prophet, you know, it's only uh two hours to service. How are we going to prepare?" I said, "No, I'll go and sleep." They said, "What do you mean? You're not." I said, "How do you guys prepare?" They said, "Um, you know, we fast for like 2 days or 3 days knowing we're going to preach." I said, "Uh, not that there's anything wrong with fasting. I fast, too." I said, "I don't need to do that because he sent me."
Amen.
I didn't send myself. Those are his people. He sent me. I'm going to do what he sent me. So why am I going to go and push? I'm not going to go there and start doing things.
I was sent.
Are you understanding what I'm trying to say?
I didn't bring myself. I didn't ordain. I didn't show up. And then I went there and I sat and and began to to h create solutions on God today, let the power be strong, as if the power of God depends on me.
It is not about he who wills.
It's about God who gives grace.
If he sends you, then he has given you grace to do something.
You see me, I'm not false. I'm not going to pretend.
That I will make you all 40 days, 40 nights. It's time to take. Then when you come out, you feel strong. You are. It's like you've made God like a gym.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Your relationship with God is not built. He has already built the relationship. We are just walking in it. The first thing that you need to understand is this. Let us go boldly.
To the throne of grace.
That we may receive mercy.
In time of need. Notice why did he say boldly? Remember, it's talking about the mercy seat of God. He say boldly go to your dad and get what you want. Why? If he's your father, he can't push you away.
So, your boldness should not be against the devil.
Many of you are bold with witches and wizards, which is good. Sh. No witch can stand. It's good boldness, but it may be empty in spirit.
Your strength in the spirit begins by how reliant are you on God.
Amen.
It doesn't begin by how many times you called on Jesus to destroy a witch, a wizard, or whatever you want to call it. Boldness to know that God is my dad. Every time I sit down and I look to him and I say, "Father," he is there.
The Lord Jesus always said this. He said, "Father, I thank you.
That you have heard me.
I know you always hear me." That is boldness.
To know that it is not about what I have done, what I have said, where I have been. If I call my dad, he may not be happy, but he will still come.
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This is why many of you before you pray, you have to sing Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh Father, now you're here. Oh Holy Spirit. Then now you can start requesting. Oh f oh f oh Father, Father. Yes. You know, some of the greatest miracles I've seen God do is when I didn't even feel like it.
I, I wasn't even feeling it. But then I remembered I'm not the miracle worker.
Amen.
So it has nothing to do with how I feel.
Amen.
I am not blessed because I feel blessed. I am blessed because God decided to bless me.
Amen.
You are not healed because you simply prayed. You are healed because you know by his stripes I am healed. It is no longer about deciding. It is no longer a debate. He decided.
Amen.
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Let this mind.
What made the son of God do what he did on earth was because of his mind.
Not because of his prayer. Your mindset determines if your prayer is fruitful.
Or it's useless.
Your mindset.
Jesus spent hours in prayer. Was he worshiping? What was he doing? He was having a conversation with his. When he comes down, he knows what city to go to, what he needs to do. But we have made prayer about asking, begging, thinking that if I do this to myself, then God is happy with me. No.
The children of Israel fasted and then God and came and said, "The Lord came and said, 'Is this the fast I ordained for you?' Did I not tell you, go and lose the bones of those who are bound. Go and feed the widows and the widows. That's what I asked you."
You are here starving yourself for things I didn't even ask you to do.
For a while, I was uh delivering my little sister Benny. I'll find Benny in the middle of the. I would just be walking in my house. I just be not that it's bad. I'm like, "Hey Benny, take it easy." Oh, Father, go. Imagine you're having a. I want you to see how crazy this looks like. I want you to have a mental. I'm not saying this is bad. Even there are times and this is why you have to know God to know when it is time to do certain things.
Amen.
Mama Maria, come. This is my mom, right? This is my mom. Watch this. I want something from her. You are going to give me. Do it now. Help me.
Do it, Lord. Do you like whoa, whoa, whoa, your power?
But if I know that this is mom, come and be like, Mom, I just, can you, can you help me do different?
When he gives me what I need, when I turn to the devil, you demon, it changes.
Yes.
How I relate to God is very different to how I relate.
Amen.
Amen.
So good.
But believers don't know the difference.
Everything is force. For false force mindset.
24 elders bow before the Lord. Lift their holy hands. The angels lift them. You don't go to heaven here. God, you are beautiful worship.
Beautiful. But against the devil. Ah, your voice should be like thunder and lightning.
Amen.
It should be like the greatest earthquake that has ever happened.
Amen.
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Grow in the grace and the love of God.
But it begins with your mindset. God is my father.
God is not a stranger.
God is my father.
Because he is your father and you relate to him in that way. Then he knows you're mature enough for him to open up secrets and mysteries to you.
God does not open up mysteries and secrets to servants.
He opens it to his friends.
When you know that it's like an example, my, my, my, my kids have a friendship with me. They know this is Dad, but there's a friendship also. We hang out, we play games, we do things, and I can speak to them like a friend. Last night I spent. Will was at home after we watched the boxing fights and we sat. I sat for like 30 minutes talking to Andrew, telling him, "This is what you need to do. You need to stop doing this. Do these things this way." And Will was there, watched me speak to him. After all that, it was a tough conversation. After that, he came to me and said, "Okay, Dad, I'm leaving." He said, "Andrew, you're going to do fine." He left. After a little bit, Andrew came out. "Okay, Dad, good night." And he went. Notice there's a time to be a father to father him. There's a time we can be friends where I can speak to you and tell you things that, um, are bothering me also, and then you're like, "Ah, Dad, don't worry, it's going to be okay. We'll pray about." Knowing very well he can't do anything about it.
But I can open my heart to him. Yeah.
What is the moral of the lesson today? The the Pharisees came to the Lord Jesus and they said, "Why do you liken you saying God is your father? You are saying you are equal to God." They took out stones to stone him. Do you know what Jesus said? He said, "Uh, hold on one second. Is it not written in your scriptures and your scriptures cannot be broken that ye are gods and I have set you so?" Immediately they couldn't stone him. They were confounded. Children of God, learn to just be a child to God. He will carry you much longer and much further. When you don't have this understanding, you will use strength thinking you're impressing God. You will use all these other things thinking that that is what will make you close to God. But God will wait until all those things don't work. When you are empty, then you come to him in purity. Then he will show himself.
Amen.
Often time those who love God through a lot of things so that they can learn that simple lesson.
God just loved Jacob. Everything about Jacob was crime. The guy robbed his way into a blessing. Imagine how bold that. And God was impressed. He said, "That's why I chose you."
You're willing to do anything to get to me. After his father blessed him, Jacob did not have a prayer session in the desert. He was tired. He slept. He took a rock and made a pillow and laid down. And all of a sudden, heaven is open. God said, "Uh, I will be with you." God, why are you confessing you will be with? I didn't ask. No, but you are my son. I love you. The moment he leaves there, the angel of the Lord is following him, guiding him until the end of his life. Not because he was better than his brother. God just loved him. You are not born again by accident. God decided this way before.
Amen.
We did not choose Jesus. Jesus chose us.
He said so. You did not call me. I called you.
You did not choose me. I chose you.
You need to understand this. And comprehend this with everything that is in you. I want you to stand up and I want you to pray and you're going to tell the Lord, "I just accept your love for me. It is beyond me understanding, but I accept your love for me." Lift your voice and pray.
Father, I accept your love for me.
It is beyond my understanding, Lord.
But I accept your love for me.
You are so far beyond my understanding, but I accept your love for me today, Lord.
Thank you for your love, God.
Choosing me.
Thank you for your love. I accept your love today. I understand that it is not by my own.
Because you chose me.
I accept God that there is nothing that I.
I accept your love today, Father.
So as I lift my hands, Lord.
I accept your love, oh Lord.
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I let go of my pride.
I stretch towards you. You have not moved, but I moved. Today. Today. Sh.