18.Prayer Marathon

Welcome to track #18. Of wisest serpents Good. Hallelujah. Amen. Every single time we come for a new session, it is a different thing all together and a different blessing all together. How many of you believe that? Yeah. Before you continue, can you find out if your neighbor is not by your side? That precious neighbor of yours? Check if Any advice? Wow, I believe you are learning wonderful things over here, practical things. Chief Isaac, can you please tell those outsides to come in, please? I believe you are learning wonderful things over here and I wanted to share with your neighbor one thing that you have learnt which you want to keep as a secret to yourself. Share that one thing with your neighbor. Hallelujah. OK, we want to continue praying. And how many hours have we prayed today? 4:00 So we have 4 right. 4/5 All right, five hours. OK, so we are still praying. Tell your neighbor we are still praying. Remember, we are selected and we are maintaining an aim. We are selected and we are maintaining an aim. And that aim is to pray for 24 hours before we leave this place and go back to our campuses. And we must maintain the morale and pray with passion and understanding. Hallelujah. So Bishop has been sharing with us amazing things. And one of the things that we want to pray about this evening is contentment. Contentment. Tell your neighbor. Contentment. Yeah, we are going to praise to God that we would be people or elders or Christians who would be content with what we have. Hallelujah. And now we believe that God is going to answer our prayers. One of the things that Bishop said was that in time of need, in time of need, we will see your contentment level. Yeah, when you are really in need of something. Yeah. We will see whether you are really someone who is content or not. And then in times of suffering, when you are suffering and also in times of abundance. Hallelujah. I quite remember before the last session started, I was telling that how many some of us, we don't even love to the extent that we give things to other people. You see, like you're an elder and you have two or three or four Bibles, but your church member does not even have one, you see, and you want to pile those ones on your library, your shelves. And then when we say that how many elders have 4 Bibles, you lift your hand knowing really well that in your chest, one of your shepherds, you have chosen a shepherd who? That's not the Bible. Yeah. You see how you can, you can go to the extent of helping that shepherd of yours or that chest member of yours by giving that person a Bible. Yeah. 1 elder, one of the new elders in Pentagon. She did one thing and I was so blessed. She was not even in my church. No, OK, she was in my church. My sister Sonia is the one. And then she went on visitation before the service, the Wednesday service starts. And when she went on visitation, I don't know what happened, but later I also went to that same room myself. And when I went there, the guy was reading a Bible. And then he told him that he's preparing to come to church. And your Bible is new. When did you buy it? They said I didn't buy it, but that Sonia gave it to me. Yeah. And that Sonia bought me a Bible. Hallelujah. But you may be here. You may have 5 versions of their Bibles. Yeah. And you have. Not even thought about giving 11 to your church member. You see how we must love not to be content with even the two my things when we have things in abundance, We are too content that we don't even give some to others. Yeah, we can't do it. I want to praise to God this evening that Father, we have a lot. Of the. Word in us, we have a lot of things to share with people, but we need your grace. We need your grace, the grace to help us make it easier to give to others. How many of you think it's a very powerful prayer? Yeah, most of us are really content, but we are going to pray in the spirit and pray with fervency. Yeah, because we are heading towards this session, as Bishop has said that we are. We should be expecting against. I don't know who, I don't know who is on your mind. Yeah, but some people have 2-3 people on their minds. Yeah, some have targeters and two people who come is the lie to shock you. So I just want you to lift your voice and talk to God and ask Him for grace to be able to give to others, grace to let the things that you have also get to others, the material things that you might be having. You might have even messages, but your church members do not have. Yes, they do not have. And you may assume that they have, but they do not have. Let's lift our voices right now to God and praise Him, the Father. We want you to grant us your grace, Oh God, your grace, that we will not just be OK with the things that we have, but we also look at others, that we can also give a hand to others. In the name of Jesus, lift your voice this evening. Lift your voice this evening and praise you God. Praise you God, Praise you God. Praise you God. Praise you God, praise you God, Lift your voice and pray. When we have a lot of things, oh God, when things are so abundant in our lives, we don't want to just stick the things close to ourselves and not to release our hands to other people. But Father, we have come to this realization and we are saying that grant us the grace of God. Grant us the grace of God to look at other people and give them help in the name of Jesus. That we will not be content with our lives of God, that we will not say that it is OK with us in the name of Jesus. But Father, we will see the need of going to other people and helping them, giving them aid in the name of Jesus. Lift your voice, lift your voice, lift your voice, lift your voice, lift your voice and praise to God. Lift your voice and praise to God. Lift your voice and praise to God. Monte ke bele Bebe nitan de la ba ba ba ba ba ba Rob Angele cosi candela bele anda masi koloba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Lift your voice and praise to God. Lift your voice and praise to God. Talk to your Heavenly Father Maiya Mala Baba Masuko Bala Baba Baba is Shamanda Kola Maniyanta. That God will even open your eyes and let you know that there is an essence of not just receiving the word of God and not giving it. Out, but God will. Christ you the grace, and he will Christ you the grace to reach out to other people with this gospel as well with this gospel as. Well, that you will. Not stand somewhere and post that I am full of the word of God and other people are not benefiting. Just lift your voice. Lift your voice to God. Moshe Kampala Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah. Mercy Komala Bah Bah. Bah. Rabandi Komala Bah Bah Bah mikala maniyanta mikala maniyanta mashuka bolo bolo bolo mesika bolo bolo bolo. Let's your voice and praise to God. Let's your voice and praise to God. Let's your voice and praise to God Ka ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Let your voice to let your voice to go and play this Maya mano shambra kid ESU ka ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba baa. Sobralebe khusha bhala bhala bhala bhala bhala bhala bhala Baba lisi kabaya mayanda Ras tumbre keda Ras tumbre keda Ras tumbre keda E combo sobre kit E kunta mana Mako bakaya ABBA shabaya mandala Baba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. Whereby we will not just be in our comfort zone and say it is OK with us. Hey, we will release what we have because what we have is what we can give to the people. We have the gospel and we shall give the gospel to the people. That we shall not see ourselves to having a cool life and others are not benefiting. Manja kamayya, kapa Rusek hemeni, Kayama Kukoteka. Is somaka paya mazeka paya Baba Baba Baba Baba Baba Baba Baba Baba man OK abaya. Lift your voice and praise your God. Lift your voice and praise your God. Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody knows that you are laboring for yourself. You are laboring for yourself. Mish kapa ite mish bakanto commande convey Miss Papalo composite asum perennie anda EO EO EO EO EO EO EO EO EO EO EO. EO masi. PPPP cabrando capalo. Cabrando capalo. Cabrando Capalo. Hallelujah. Amen. I want to read the definition of contentment for my dictionary. Contentment means happiness with one's situation in life. Happiness with one's situation in life, you see, is I'm telling you that we can get. All the good news. That we need to get. And we can be happy in our homes and say that we don't, we don't sing. You see, You are happy at where you are, But you must always remember that other people somewhere else, they need you. Yeah, and if you are going to be content with the small that you have, because contentment can also like you are OK with your small chess members, You are OK that you don't even want to reach out because when a semester started you were given 20 chess and you pray to God that God gave you 20 members. So don't want to even go to the extent of reaching out to other people. You are OK with your 20 members? No. And when you re transform your pastoral ministry, unless you realize that a shepherd is someone who should always see himself or himself to be dirty. Yeah, dirty. You should be a dirty shepherd. I'm not saying I'll go and roll on the ground and come and tell us that you're a dirty shepherd. As someone who will not be ashamed, sweating, helping the people, mobilizing the people, yeah, teaching them how to even preach and not seeing yourself to be the only preacher or to even teach them how to preach by laying your life also down for them. Hallelujah. Let's pray together for Bishop. Hallelujah. So you want to pray to God and tell the Father, please, we want to really go into the nations, Yeah. We will not be OK with ourselves in our rooms, D14 and F9 and all those things and be there alone. No, but we will. Move. You see, the last time, the last time one important person in this church right now standing here shares something with me. And then he said, Frank, you must make it your aim that you choose one particular. Hall and make. It your aim that you will knock on every single door? Yeah. Knock on every single door as that. I came here to present the gospel to you. Yeah. And you not be. OK, Saddam, I come to church, I go to everything, so I'm OK, but you will not. Be in your room. You will go. Out. And he challenged me, says Frank. They may see you to be praying over if they have not, if all that you do is that you come and then stand in front, and then you pray with the people, and then you deceive yourself that you are praying. You are not praying. But it should be something that is not even seen about you. Yeah. And then told me that you can walk from Commonwealth to the main gate. Just take one the first track of bishops, count messages and then be listening. Or just take one particular camp and then put it in your ears and then aim that you are going to pray from this time to that time. Yeah, not the two hours, 3 hours that you stand in front of them and then you pray. It's not that one, you see. But if it were to be someone, the person is like, ah, but you cry what you see. But the person has come to the extent of telling you the truth. And most of the time when we are being told the truth, it's like the person that's not like you. Yeah, I'm telling you that the person that's not like you, but the person likes you. Otherwise you'll be nice outside, but inwardly, hey, there's nothing inside. So we are going to praise you, God. Hallelujah. Yeah. If Grace said that there's so much to be done, so much to be done. Yeah, so much to be done. And thank God that we have been counted among the Army that is going to do their work. You will not check our neatness. Don't check your neatness. Don't check if you are sweating. Don't say you are sweating through my nuclear. What small prayer you are praying. You are sweating and you are smelling. Don't say that, Hallelujah. But we are going to pray to God and believe God that this semester is going to be a very powerful semester. That salvation of our fathers come out to proclaim that this semester is salvation. I'm telling you, we are going to do it by the grace of God. Lift your voice and talk to God. Lift your voice and talk to God that you would not stay in your room. She will not stay in your room and be OK and appear on Sundays and appear on Wednesdays, but every single day you will make it an aim that you're going to. Knock on her door. That you're going to preach to someone that God will help you to reach out to someone, that you will not just be contained, just not be contained with that. Happy life that you have, but you. Also, lay down your life for someone. She will lay down your life for someone. She will lay your life for someone. Manda Shambaka Baba. But there is so much to be done. There is so much to be done. Oh. Lord, please keep. On empowering us, keep. On empowering us. With your word. And with your. Spirit that this semester and this. Academic year lost salvation. So Comer to account for sister in the. Name of Jesus. That you choose us, that the glory that your name shall be heard every single corner and every single place that your name shall be had. Lift your voice and praise your God. Lift your voice and. Praise your God, lift your voice and praise. Your God lift, your voice and. Praise your God. That God will cross you the ability to even witness, to reach out to people, to not consenting daughter and bring. The gospel to them. In the name of Jesus. For we are people who have been empowered. People who have receive the word of God and filled with the spirit of the living God and we shall go out with boldness. The Bible says that and Paul prayers said and for me that boldness shall be given and that I may open my mouth and proclaim the cross-border in the name of Jesus. Lift your voice. And continue to. Pray. Continue to pray. If you find it difficult to evangelize, tell God right now the Father I have come this. Evening I am. Praying for boldness, boldness in the name of Jesus, boldness in the name of Jesus. That's no faith shall kill me, that no person shall kill me, that no person shall kill me in the name of Jesus, because I have you. You are the lion of the tribe of Judah, and I am behind you, and you call. Me to your family. And I shall do you in the name of Jesus. Hey, Cortana, this semester, oh God, we want to come into agreement with you that this semester shall be a wonderful honor. That you shall use us in the name of Jesus. That what our Father is sharing with us shall not follow the rocky corner, but we shall hide this weather in our house, that we may not sin against you. What is the essence of hearing the gospel and not going to proclamation to other people? What is the ancestor, oh God, right now in this place will lift our voices to you will lift our voices to you will lift our voices to you. The Bible says that the righteous this semester, oh God, grant us boldness to snatch people who are on their way to the lake of fire. That is the man with the wife we have come. We shall be like in the midst of the people. We may have, but we shall flourish. We may have on the culture, but we shall survivor in the investor. No persona, no group of people can intimidate. Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh yeah, left your voice, everyone. It's really human business recording workload to YouTube Lift your voice down, lift your voice down. Lift your voice down. Start this semester. You will not but life start this semester. You will not start but but this semester every day and every time and every moment and every hour, that's all right to the Lord shall be talking to you. You shall leave you up to bring it to people. You shall take us. Don't do so easily. You shall take us. Study the Bible easily because God is crossing us his Holy Spirit the abolisier to meditate us for this weather, the abolisian and hunger for his weather. The Bible says blessed are they that do hunger, and that's that of the righteousness for they shall be built. God was the this spirit upon us that this semester we shall do well, we shall do well. We shall be wiser like a We shall be wiser like a for one more minute, Sir, I'd watch it your prayer and increase your voice. Sir, we are praying now. Now what I ABBA Misha ABBA Misha ABBA Misha ABBA Misha ABBA. The Bible says that the such of heaven prayer of a righteous man of village Marsha. The Bible says let us step forward, come only unto the throne of question that we may obtain mercy to find grace to help this time of please. This is the timer that we need the Lord so much in our life that this time run salvation. So winner shall be part of our we shall be strong winner. Yes, Sir, yes, Sir. The harvester is fully pleasure, but the labor of you for God, we touch him. We thank you that you have counted us among God. Deliver us, us. And you are not just standing us out, but follow your partners here to equip us with your weather, with your spirit, with your weather and your spirit. We shall not be elder, the father of your weather. We shall not be elder, the father of your spirit. But oh God, we shall be. We shall be. Every single person let's your voice let's your voice. That God you know that you make me with him. That God, you know that you're going to take seriously. We are in the business. So winning business now best in business and we you know, it's just going just like that. But we have come here in the name. Don't be so much don't be so much taken out of what you can say then what's good my tire, my tire Bubba me tire Bubba get very attire get very attire get very attire get very attire. We are entering in an agreement with God that Father I've got his comfort every single person over here. There will be a very sensational in a Parisa to take salvation seriously, to take so in it curiously, in the name of Jesus. There may be Joya, there may be Justin, there may be singing, there may be everything, but oh God, we are not going to. The power is salvation. The power is salvation that we have. I'm not the shaver, but the fox is the fight. Fight is the power. This is the power. Salvation. This is the power, yeah, You must be faithful and not put to God that you have been a listed in the army, in the army, in the army, in the army. That's a power into the nation in the name of Jesus, with the power in the name of Jesus. Oh God, this semester, this semester, our semester shall grow. Our semester shall grow, Our process shall grow. Because oh God, you are protested by a purpose to wait on you, to wait on you, to wait on you, to be taught how to be whiter like a temperature, like a system is no brain. Lift your voice, everyone. Lift your voice everyone Lift your voice everyone. Lift your voice everyone. Lift your voice. Lift your Taya who you are. Just serious. Who is for this semester? Oh God, this semester, let it be. But your will not. Many, many, many, many, many, many shall come on to the knowledge of the tuta. Many shall be said. Maya taya. Maya taya, Maya taya. What you've been doing to be so you're not with the first requirement of you. You've been a Christian. They tell you with salsa, they tell you with salsa, they tell you with salsa. Not just that, but in the whole, in the community, Matiah, Matiah, Matiah, Matiah, Matiah, every, everybody. Now we shall see. We shall protect the gospel to them. We shall not assume that everybody has heard the gospel. No, no. This is the thought from the devil that everybody is saved. Everybody is saved us. But we know there is not everyone that is saved, whatever I would say, Sir, who we are not ignorant of the devices of our enemy. He may break God not through our mind. So we are doing the well, but we are not doing who. We are flipping, We are sleeping. We are sleeping. Boka, boka, boka matiya miteta, miteteteta, miteteteta. We shall walk, but more people. We very tired. They very tired. The Bible says the wickeder no manner. Let's see what him up for the righteous, the righteous, the righteous, the righteous, how many righteous people are in this room? Lift your hands to God if you are righteous, if you are righteous. So God, because God is God in Azza. Boldness, boldness, boldness, boldness, boldness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Ayata, the Ayata, the Ayata, the Ayata, the Ayata. Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday. Oh God. Oh God, oh God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maya taiada. We shall accomplish. They're purpose. Wisha Wisha. Wisha. Wisha, wisha. It's better. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah. Oh, claw. Vita. Vita Yeah, you. Dear Soccer. We are brainer. Yeah. You should turn us. We are ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba. Mata. Yeah. Mata. Yeah. Mata. Yeah. Mata. Yeah. Miya Tayo miya. Tayo miya. It is rising. It is rising right now. Right now. Right now, right now, right now. Right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. My, Oh my. Oh my. Oh. We are continuing to pray for the work ahead of us this semester and the work ahead of us in the years ahead. We are going to pray for the ministry God has prepared for you and the life God has prepared for you and how your life is going to be like in 10 years time. Think about it, where will you be in 10 years time? If you are still on edge, what type of life will you be living? Hallelujah. And one of the key things we've learnt about the serpent is the wisdom of giving oneself holy. Amen. When the snake is killing, it wraps it's entire length around the prey. It does not wrap the tail around the prey from head to tail. Are you listening to me? When? Jesus was telling us to have the wisdom of a serpent or to become as wise as a serpent. He meant that we should give ourselves totally, totally. You can be a messing student and give yourself holy. You can be a medical student and give yourself holy. You can be a whatever student and give yourself only as you are in the classroom, you are in the lecture room, but truly your heart is fully given to the work of God. Our wedding. Vows and all the things we use for ceremonies and so on. We were prepared on Medical block 2nd floor. When Bishop was a house officer, he was working in the hospital but he was fully given to the ministry. One of the reasons why some of us will fall by the wayside and it is minus U. When I say any bad thing, you say minus me. You see? But but it's not just math. You don't use math to minus yourself. Yeah, you don't use math to minus yourself. You have to use prayer. To move. Things away from your life. Amen. And there are some of us here this evening. There are things preventing us from giving ourselves fully. Some of them are legitimate. Some of them are illegitimate, parental, social. Whatever it is, let me tell you, you cannot be a serpent and use your tail in this ministry. We are not using our trunk, I said. We are not using our trunk as a serpent. We are not using our mouth, we are using the entire land. Everything about your life, everything about your life will be totally given. You cannot be here and have unbelievable music in your room and on your iPod. Listen, that was before Wise as Serpent, but after Wise as Serpent, there will be no vestiges of the world in your life. No, no, no, no. When we look at your life, we will not see traces of the world. Unbeliever things, foolish friends, they are all in our lives, and they keep us. Some of youth. Is your appetite? Yeah, your appetite. You like the world too much and let me tell you, you are capable of like in church, being in church and still having love for the world. Yeah, she just said no man can save 2 masses. You can't save the world and save God. But As for admiring liking, you can be in the church and still like the world, and that will not make you have the wisdom of a serpent. Those those who are rising and shooting forward in the ministry are people who are giving themselves their entire length has been given to the prey. The prey. Of. Souls the prey of the world, we are, I said. We are not using our trunk or our tail or our head or our neck. Every part of you, therefore, whatever constitutes a representation of the world in your life, we are going to drive them out with prayer. This this This evening we will use prayer to remove illegal beloveds. Yes, Yeah, you are here praying. I meanwhile, she is waiting for you. She is waiting for you. She is entirely waiting for you. We are going to use prayer to dry out all these things so that we we can give all of ourselves. There's Paul to Timothy. Meditate on these things, but give yourself fully. Give yourself fully. You cannot be in this room and love the world, the evangelism, the salvation, the work ahead of us this semester. You cannot be here and be there. Be here tonight. You will decide whether you are here or you are there. And if you are here, you are going to be here fully. You are going to pray. And before we pray, I'm giving you 48 seconds to think about anything in your life that has the capacity to dilute your commitment. Even as you are standing here, you are afraid because you know that one you step out nor they are waiting for you outside there. But through prayer, by the time you go out there, they'll be dead and gone and removed from your way. Lift your hands. Think about what prevented you from doing great things last semester. The friends, the movies, the desires, appetites. We are cleaning our lives of these things. Yes, a certain way of thinking. Let's lift your hands. Lift your hands. Allow the Holy Spirit to show you, show you, show you the problems you are dealing with. So you are here, only half of yourself is here, 1/3 of yourself is here, 5 sixths of your. We are not looking for 11:12. We want 1212. We want 10 / 10. We don't want 9.8 / 10. Oh, oh, oh, think about what has prevented you from doing well. And we are going to pray about it. We are going to pray about it, friends. Illegal beloveds, useless movies, useless socializing, a desire to please friends, a desire to make people say good things about you. Your friends must always say good things about you. Then you are happy. You you you. You derive a sense of self respect and self-confidence from the good comments of idiots. It's ending tonight. You are taking a new path of total surrender to the Lord. Even as a student, even as a nurse, even as a doctor, everything in your heart will be given to the Lord. Yes, Paul said. They give themselves to God first and then to us, the Church of Macedonia. They before they give themselves to Paul, before they committed themselves to the ministry of born, they, they, they first of all gave themselves to God, to God. I think I have to look for that scripture for you. You should all read it, yes. Sorry, sorry, sorry, we have to move some people from here. I mean the chairs, we are rearranging the place so if they come to you and ask you to even make while I'm moving, so just. Don't be distracted. Well take your Bibles and turn to 2nd Corinthians 8 verse 3, Second Corinthians 8 and verse 3. Every type of Bible. Try pad Bible, iPod, Galaxy Bible, Bible, Bible, every type of Bible. Verse 3 for to their power I bear record. Yeah, beyond their power they were willing of themselves, praying us with much entreaty that we would receive against and take upon us the fellowship of the ministry to the Saints. Are you there? Are you all there? Are we all there? Look at verse 5. And this they did stay with me. This they did. Tell anybody you are going to do the same thing tonight. You will do a beer. Tell her you will do a beer. Yes. This they did not as we hoped. But are you there? But what first say First say this is your Proton tonight. Tell your friend, this is your Proton. So, so, So what did they do first? First, they gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God. Listen, listen me here, anybody who he comes around me, wants to work with me, wants to do someone to serve God, wants to be accepted, want to know this type of you know. Charismatic. Raps and all those things. I asked myself one question. Has this person given himself to God first? Yeah, some of you standing here, you have given yourself to first love. You have given yourself to Bishop first, but you have not given yourself to God first. Yes, and I'm telling you, you will fall by the wayside there. I give you 2 years. You'll be receiving drape by the roadside. The people around Bishop who are serving, doing great things around him properly have given themselves to God first. You are you. You ask them that the the kind of things they are facing and the and the way the work is. The nature of the ministry is not for children. It's not for people who have given themselves to Bishop Dag. What else? It's for people who have given themselves to God. Yes. Once I stand here, I have given myself to God first. You, you, you are going to propose to a lady. You are not even asking yourself, has she given herself to God? You're not thinking about that. You want a wife who will love you. The wife who will love you must give herself to God first. Yes, you may not know any man who tells you talent. You are the 1st in my life and that is why this church is called First love. Yes, God. Is the first love. Of Bishop, before anything else, you want a man who will love you for the rest of your life. You are going to marry a man who loves God first. You must be afraid of anybody who will give himself to you but hasn't given himself to God first. Lift your hands now and we are going to praise the Lord. I want to give myself to God first 1st but I give myself to you. Oh yes. Myself. Oh. Yes. Oh yes, Oh yes. Myself I. Question your commitment to the church, to the ministry, if your commitment. To God is questionable. First of all. Yeah. None. He. I. In. Yeah. Yes. In the name of. Yeah. Father. We thank you. We commit ourselves to you, give ourselves.