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Running With The Vision Pt. 1 | Rev. Harpreet Khosa | Sun. Jan. 11, 2026
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Running With The Vision Pt. 1 | Rev. Harpreet Kho…
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Pastor Speaker
Pastor Keg preached last Sunday about the vision. So I'll continue towards that direction. Something which I had in my heart by spending some time the Lord last night, late and early morning, I'll share with those thoughts which I had in my heart. And he has been talking. God is speaking to him about the vision. And the vision is basically that the fire of God for this year. The fire of God this year. The fire of God this year. Next year is extra prayer or the increased prayer. And so let's wait for the next year, but stay for this year because it's still January 11th. You cannot get bored of this year's vision. You cannot get bored of just saying that. Okay. I heard one time, see, I love about Pastor K a lot of things, but one thing about him is when he hears from God, he goes extra miles. When he hears from God about the vision, especially, he goes extra miles. And he has gone extra miles and the staff has gone extra miles to put these pictures even on the, on the, on the, on the, on the walls so that people can clue in like, this was not there last year. This was not there on 31st December, this was not there in last year, mid June or something like that. But this is here, so means there is something about this for this year. So that's why he's the picture of the timeline of Elijah and the fire. So it's for our benefit. Remember, it's for our benefit. The vision is for your benefit. Can I. I'll say. Actually, I didn't want to say, but I'll say this morning when I was studying something he said, you are born. It came in my heart. You are born in earth to do God's will and fulfill his vision. Your personal life's vision is incomplete without being connected and invested with your local church's vision. People who are not in the place of their plantations, they live the life on a lower level because they're only here to fulfill their personal vision. Your personal vision is lower to God's vision. God's vision supersedes your vision. God's vision is higher than your personal vision. If you are here and you are hurt for something, if you are hurt for somebody hurt you or pastor hurt you, or somebody else for some reason has hurt you, you are not obligated to remove or unplant yourself from this vision and go to somewhere else because you are connected to this vision and your life is connected with this vision. Your future depends on this vision. Your future generations, the future depends upon this vision. If you are Hurt for something. You are thinking of leaving your place of planting. You are basically saying you are leaving the vision you are born for. Remember, you are born not for your personal vision. You are born for God's vision. God's vision always comes to church. Not to you, to the pastor. And you get connected to that pastor and to that vision. And your job is to get infused, invested, connected with that vision and run with that vision. So that's why you will never be impactful in society you will never be impactful in society via your life or personal vision without having a main vision in your own heart. You're a business owner. You are somebody who owns properties or whatever business you own. And you want to be some blessing to your own family and to others. You will never ever reach the highest, highest of God until you submit and support the vision of God correctly and hundred percently. Stop entertaining that idea of leaving this place and go somewhere else because it's just church. A lot of people say that it's just church. If not this, I'll go to other. It's not about attending, it's about connecting. It's not about attending. A lot of religious people attend. We get invested. Spiritual people are invested people. Religious people are connected people. A lot of people. I went, I was born in religion, guys, I served that religion. I was raised in that religion. And that religion was okay, if you, if you are close to this area, you can go to this temple and just bow yourself because God is same. Or if you are close to this region, you can go here and do this thing. I mean, well, while we were traveling or while we were in the city in different because there were so many religious places of that religion and it was like, you can go here, you can go there. Doesn't matter. God is same. It matters. It matters. It may not. You may say, it doesn't matter to me. It matters to God. And if it matters to God, it should matter to me and you too. Why? Because he doesn't connect. He doesn't throw you on earth and say, figure it out. He puts you on earth and puts you in a place and says, get connected to that place. Stay faithful to that place. You will be hurt in that place. You will be. Things will happen in that way. But your purpose is to stay in that place because there is that vision is in that place and you are connected to that vision. And when you stay focused in that vision, I will take care of your personal vision.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Stop entertaining the idea of leaving this place and go somewhere else. Because it's just know it's the vision. You are connected and it will only fulfill you. It will only fulfill you. The purpose of God in this church will fulfill your life.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Adam was never fulfilled when he was left. When he left that place, he was never fulfilled. He was never satisfied. He was never, he never accomplished what God wanted him to do. Why he left that place? Where? The place of plantation, the place where God put him. Why? The vision was in that place. The vision was in that place. And the vision is in this place. And God has brought you to this place for a reason. Why? So that you can have that vision in you. You can run with that vision. You can put that vision into your mind, into your hands, into your heart and say, lord, if this is the vision for this year, I will 100% give myself to this vision.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
And Pastor Craig has said, Pastor Jenny has said, and because they are the leaders, why God doesn't speak to us? Because that's the divine order. That's the divine order. Why does God speak to them only, not me? About the vision, you are not allowed, even associate pastor, Even the people who sits in front row, even the people who are prayer warriors. Remember, listen, dad Hagin used to say, if you are praying too much, be careful. Because you can fall in error more quickly than a person sitting in the last row. Because you pick things, you see things. But that doesn't make you the pastor of the church. That doesn't make you the leader of the church. You don't dictate the vision. You run with the vision, you submit to the vision. You love the vision. You bore that vision in your heart and say, I will do, do all that is in that vision till my last breath is in me.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
So the vision has been given to us that the fire. Now, fire represents a lot of things. In the Old Testament, the New Testament, if you see the fire, it also represents the judgment of God. In the Old Testament, the judgment fell, fire came and all those things consumed the young boys and all those things. Fire represents a lot of things. Fire also represents the presence of God. Fire also represents the power of God. And in this thing, it shows the fire is not a judgmental. The fire is mostly about his presence showing to the people or the prophets of balance, saying that, no, no, no, I am with my servant Elijah. He called upon me and I'm going to show myself to you, to him, to everybody, that I am with this man. So that was showing his presence that was showing his power, the miracle of it. So if you see the fire of God, they have a lot of things. But for the sake of streamlining this thing, let's read Luke chapter 12.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
The fire is not just for a pastor. The fire is not just for the people few selected the fire he wants to pour on a church, the fire he wants to pour upon all set of people. But to have that fire in you, upon you, you have to be prepped, you have to be ready, you have to be positioned. You have to have certain things in your life for that fire to come upon you or burn within you. Amen. Luke chapter 12 I'll read from verse 35. Luke 12:35 Let your waist be girded, and your lamps burning, or your lights burning you yourself be like men who wait for their master, and when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants who the Master, when he comes to you, that he will gird himself, and have them to sit, to eat, and will come and serve them and if he comes in the second watch, or come in the third watch, or find them so, blessed are those servants. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour of thief would come, he would have washed and not allowed the house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready. Now it's talking about the coming of Jesus, but I'll show you a few things Here you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at the hour you do not expect. Then Peter said to him, lord, do you speak this parable only to us or to all the people? He said, Lord said, who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his Master will give, make ruler over his household, and give them the portion of food in due season? Blessed is the servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes, means the person who is doing what he was asked to do. For truly I say to you that he will make him ruler over all these things he has. But if a servant says in his heart, my master is delaying his coming, and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, and the master of that house will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and when at the hour he comes, when he is not aware, will cut him into two, and appoint him his portion with unbelievers and that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself see, a lot of people know, but it Is not enough to know, it is enough to position. It is more than. It is not just, oh, I know that God wants to do this thing. What are you doing for God to do their thing. God wants to do things. Yes, but what are you doing? God's part is always the last, first, our part. See here. The master of that servant will and the servant who knew his master's will and did not prepare himself or do according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know yet committed things deserving of stripes shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from whom, from him much will be required, and to whom much has been committed of him much will be, or he they will ask more of him. I came to send fire on earth. So here Jesus talking about basically, that there is my purpose on earth. I want to do certain things on earth. I want to do this thing on earth. I want to do this thing on earth. And the disciples are talking to him and saying, okay, how do we know? How do we know you are talking to us or to all? And Jesus started talking about, there are ways to do. There are things to do. And a person who hears what I said and does not prep that when I went, I said to him, take care of the household. And when I came, he did not take care of household, he shall be beaten. But if I say to a man, take care of this household, and I'll come back in few years or few months, and I came back and he has taken care of that thing, and he shall be blessed. So basically he's saying, there is a time for preparation. There's a time to prepare. There's a time to get ready. There's a time to make yourself approve of things that God wants to do. God said, I want to pour my. My spirit upon you all. God said, I want to pour my fire upon people. But the people has to do something for that fire to come, to stay and to sustain them and to do things through them. There is a responsibility on people. There is a requirement of people. There is something the onus is upon people.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
See, Jesus didn't say, I will not come. He said, I will come. And he did come. The Master did come, but he did reward according to who were ready. There were a few who were ready, but there were a few who were not ready. Did the ones who were not ready receive the same portion? Did the ones who didn't participate receive the same portion? No. Why? Because they didn't do what was asked of Them what was asked of them. Be ready, be ready. I can come anytime. I can come in any season. They were supposed to be ready, but they were not ready. So same is the way when he said that I want to pour my fire upon my church. I want to pour my fire upon this place. From this place. I want to do things because the many prophecies has been given for about this place. Dr. At 28 June 9, 2010 saw from that side that my hand is upon this place. Many will go out of this place and do many healings will happen this place. There were prophecies given to this place from years before even I was or some of you were here even because God saw future. God saw and God speaks things in future also. He doesn't just think about present, he thinks about future also. And what when he dictates the vision, he talks about the future. Not just the day we are in, but people when they take that prophecy, people when they receive that word, they start working from that day when they are present right now. And if he have received and the people who pastor heard that word and he started prepping accordingly from 2010, he and his wife started prepping accordingly. Why the word was given by the prophet and it shall come to pass. Because it is never that the word prophet says and never comes to pass.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
So the pastor started prepping and we have come to this place. That's why if you, if you are a visitor, I'm sorry, like go back to a lot of sermons to hear about it. Because there's a timelines he has been explaining from years and it is important to come in contacts and to learn what does that mean? And he has been speaking about that for years, about time linings and how timelines impact how how things are. And every year what he has said has come to pass. 21, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 20 everything he has said has come to pass. And now he has spoken about 26. So don't you make clue one and one is true that if 21 he said something, it came to pass. 23 he said something he came to pass. 24, 25 why won't 26 come to pass? What does it. Why does why won't 26 come to pass? And if he has said in 26 I will do this means I should be getting ready for this so that I am not the one who's standing on the side and watching others, but I'm the one who is participating with the others.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
So that's why people like church people. They have to be one with the vision. The vision has to burn in your hearts. That's why Habakkuk said, write on it so that people can read it and run with it. Why make it simple and plain and, and how simple it is? And they have put in the walls, we will be putting on the Logos and all those things. But we have put everything on the walls. So why? So that we can see, receive it and be intentional about it and do something about it. Do something about it.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
The part is on my side. It is on my side. It is on your side. What we should do to receive that fire of God. And the fire of God is not just for church only, guys. It is for your personal lives too. The power is not just for the church and church services. It's for your personal lives too. It is for your businesses too. It is for your families too. If it is for your lost loved ones too, it is for your, the neighbors too. It is for wherever you go, it is for that too. It is not. The power of God is not constrained or occupied or put in one jar and said, oh, only in the promise of life. 140 Capricorn it will be no. We, we are the carriers of that power. Wherever we go, the power goes. Wherever we go, the presence will go us. Wherever we go, the fire of God will go us. If you go in your neighborhood, it will go with you. If you go in your lost loved ones homes or a family function where everybody is drinking, everybody is doing their own thing, and you go there with a fire, they will get agitated. They will know that something different has come upon them or around them. Why? Because it's the fire of God. But that fire has to be received. The fire has to be taken. The fire has to be brought into you.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
It is not that God will just say, oh, I want to drop the power of my power to bond people. No, no, no. He did say, in the last days, I'll pour my spirit on all flesh. But remember, all flesh doesn't mean all flesh. It means all who participate. All means all who are ready. All means all who want. If you want something, you will be ready for that.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
If you want something, you will make efforts. If you want to come to church, you will wake up on time. You will not say, oh, wow, I was trying to come to church, but snow came. You will not do that. Why? You will get ready. What? You will go back say, okay, let me go on to Bed on time. Even if I don't go to bed on time, I will sleep less, but I'll wake up on time. Why? I'll catch my sleep in the afternoon, evening, at night, but I'll go to church. Why? You'll put every effort because you want to be at our place. And you will make all the efforts.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
So what are the things? Few things which came in my heart for us to receive that for us to be ablaze of it, for us to be occupied of it. For us to have that fire burning in us. Amen. Can I say first word? Luke. 24. The first thing you have to be is you have to be a person of the Word. You have to be a person of the Word. You say it's a kindergarten. Don't worry, I'll go further. You have to be a person of the Word. The Word has to be in you. The Word has to be in you. The Word has to be around you. The Word has to be first priority in your life. The Word has to be your first source. The Word has to be the first place where you go to. Because the Word in you does something. Now let me show you something. Luke chapter 24 and verse. I'm not reading from the verse 13 because it's the two disciples after Jesus got raised up from the dead. The two disciples are walking and they are talking and all those things. But I'm not going to go on that side. Why? Because it's too long of a chapter. But I'll go to the verse 30. Verse 30 says, now it came to pass and he sat on the table with them. And he took bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they knew him. And he vanished from their sight. As soon as they knew that it is Jesus who. Who was walking with us all those time. And Jesus vanished working of miracle guys, it vanished. And they said to one another, did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on the road and while he opened the scriptures to us? The Word of God is a blazing fire. The Word of God contains fire. The the Word of God occupies and is full of fire. The Word of God is not just a book, it's a fire of God. The more it is in you, the more you will participate in it. The more it is in you, the more it is in your mind, the more it is in your thoughts, the more it is in your heart, the more power of God will be upon you. The less you have, the less you will have. The less is in your heart, the less it will be in your mouth, the less it will be in your life. The more you have in you the word of God. Why he said, did they did not our hearts burn? Means did our hearts not had a fire within us burning in us? When he talked on the road with us and while he opened the scripture to us, if you go back and read whole chapter, it talks about. He talked about the prophets, about the Old Testament, about what the prophecies of Jesus Christ was. And when he spoke about those things and they are thinking and saying and talking to each other, whoa. That's why we were feeling that burn. That's why our hearts were stirred up. That's why we were so on fire inside. Because it was the Word he was talking to us. It was the scriptures he was opening to us. It was the power of God, the Word of God. When he opened and it became revealed in us, it became the fire of God in us. If you don't have the Word in you, the less likely are the candidate to receive the fire of God.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
If you have no word in you. God spoke to Jeremiah and he actually, I'll read Jeremiah 20. I love that scripture. Jeremiah 29 he said. Then I said, I will not make mention of him and nor speak anymore in his name. Jeremiah is talking about his own ministry, which was people were not receiving it. And then he's talking about it and he's saying basically to God, it's like, you know what, Lord, I will not make mention of him. I will not even speak anymore in your name, basically. But his word was in my heart like a burning fire. Shut up in my bones. I was weary of holding it back and I could not. The word is a fire. If you want just that dramatic and miss the basic. Basic is the word. You will never receive the fire from top if it is not burning in you. The fire will not come upon you if it's not coming ablaze, coming from inside of you. And the first thing you can have the fire in you is if you have the Word burning in your heart. Word burning in your heart. The Word revealed in your heart. The word shut up in your bones. A lot of people have a rage in their bones. A lot of people have jealousy in their bones. A lot of people have other things in their bones. The worldly people I'm talking about and they let it open out. When a pressure situation comes. What a believer should have is a word shut in their heart and in their bones. That when the pressure situation Comes, it comes out the Word. And when the word comes, the fire, the sword comes out of the mouth and the fire of God falls from the top. The Word contains that fire. The Word is a source of fire. The Word is the foremost thing that the fire can be seen upon the words. Go to two chapters further. I'll read few scriptures, so please. Jeremiah 23:29 Also it says something. Jeremiah 23, 29, 28 and 29. The prophet who had a dream, who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. And who what is a chaff to the wheat, says the Lord, is my word. Is not my word like a fire? Says the Lord, like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces, is my word not like a fire? He said God is speaking to Jeremiah, basically saying, is not my word like a fire? And if you have the Word in you, the fire is in you, baby. You go out and the fire will come out of you. You go out and do dealings with people, sinners, other things in businesses. The fire is upon you. And if you are doing justice with the Word, the more fire will come upon you. Because that's the vision I have for your place.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Don't just look on the dramatic and say, well, January 11th, Pastor said this year, maybe it is on something on 28th of December or something on last service of 31st, he will lay hand upon us and something will happen different to me. Nothing will happen different to you. I'll tell you right now, nothing will be different to you. Why? Because if you are not ignorant of something, as of now, we are in the first and earliest part of the year and we have received the word that the fire of God wants to come upon people. But if we prepare not, and we will have not, and how you prepare, the Word contains fire and the Word more in you have, you will become a recipient of the more fire at the end of a year too.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
And if you miss this part, you can look at this part, but you have missed the basic foundation of that part.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
I know the fire means anointing. I know these things, but I'm talking to you that you have to have something in you to receive something. You have to be at certain place to receive something. You have to be. Why Jesus said, I said to them, I'll come back. And they were not ready. And when I came back, they were not ready and they will not receive what I promised them. And if they are ready and they will receive the promise. The promise is only because of faith. Faith receives the promises of God and faith is the word of God, basically.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
So have that. Remember that the Bible is not just a book that contains words. The Bible is not just that, just a simple book. It's a holy Bible. It's a holy Bible. It's a Bible. You may have a thousand books in your library, but Bible is only one. The Word is one only. You may have a thousand books that is pointing towards the Word, but the Word is only the word of God that should be burning in you. That should be in you. That should be coming out of you. Amen. The second thing I want to talk you to is Word, the prayer. Now I want to read a few quotes from certain people. I loved it. He said prayer is an essential part a person should have in their life if they want to be fiery for God. He said, no man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is praying, the pastor who is not praying is playing. The people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers, many players and peers, but few prayers, many singers, few clingers, lot of passers, few wrestlers, many fears, few tears, much passion, much fashion, little passion, many interferers, interferers. And few intercessors, many writers, few fighters. Failing here. We fail everywhere. What he's talking about. If you fail on the part of your prayer life, you fail in receiving the fire.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
If we miss now the time that we should be putting emphasis towards prayer, we have missed the whole boat.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Too much is given, much is required. He wants to give much to us, but much is required of us too. You can do this scripture on the other side and say, God, you want to give much to me, but much is required of me first. Then when he sees much I have given, he will give much to you.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
AC Dixon said, when we depend upon organizers, we get what organizations. When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. When we depend on education, we get what education can do. When we depend upon a man. Listen to it. You get what man can do. But when you depend upon prayer, you get what God can do.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Fire is not of any man, guys. The fire is of God. The power is of not any man, guys. The power is of God. And he pours upon the flesh who is ready. He pours upon people who have cultivated the land of their heart, who have cultivated the lives in a style that they say, lord, not mine, but your will. Not my personal vision, but the vision of the church. Not my personal, personal things. But Father, the house of God that comes first. The vision of God that comes first. I'll sacrifice anything and everything for that vision. And God says, ah, I see why. And those people who say that they have the word of God in them already and they have a little bit prayer life, but this is not the time to lessen it and get busy. This is the time to pick up the slack and put more further weight into it and say, lord, I will increase my word time because your word is like a fire. And I want that fire in my bones, I want that fire in my lungs, I want that fire in my mouth, I want the fire in my eyes wherever I go. I want to be the container or the carrier of that fire. And Lord, for that reason the word life will top up and the prayer life will top up. And I will not depend on any organization, but I will depend upon God. God doesn't anoint organization. God anoints men and women. God's presence doesn't come on methods, but God's presence come on people.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
So give it 100%. Give it 100%. I love the book of Acts. If you go, if you have time, two, three days and you want to give it yourself and be stirred up, read the book of Acts from the start to the end. It is not just a history book, it's a pattern book. It's not a history book that oh, you read on time to time. It's a pattern we should have in our life. You read from Acts chapter one, how the fire came upon them in 14. You read from second chapter how the fire started going out of from them to out to the public and started getting people saved. How the miracles started happening, how the people started getting. The church started getting filled, the people started getting revolutionized. The city who was under such a seize and pressure because of the death of Jesus from Jews and from Roman Empire and the poor Christians were tight in few bondage places. The fire came and broke loose. It broke loose. It. It put the shackles of Satan. It put the shackles of religion and the bondage of fear out by simply because they were giving themselves to the Word and the Spirit. They were giving themselves to the Word and the prayer. They were giving 100% to the word and prayer. That's why he said it is not right for us to give up on the word and the prayer and go and serve the tables. It is not right. And we want to be the word first and the prayer first people, then we will care about the other things. If we put that thing in our life and say, lord, I don't care if we go out on that birthday party or not, if we go on that relative's party or not, if we go and have that extra thing in our life or fun or things like that. But we want to be the people who have word and the spirit word and the prayer in our lives first. And then we'll see other things. God will multiply time, but it depends upon if you want to do that, if you want to be the recipient of it, if you want to be the participant of it, if you want to be the one who says, lord, I. I'm ready.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Remember, God has eyes. I don't know. Some people think they don't. He doesn't have. He has eyes. He doesn't have only ears. I have eyes. When my son says, daddy, I love you, and doesn't pick up his plate, I don't care about his love. Language. Your actions justify your words. What is the wording that old people say? Not sorry to you, but not mean that way. But it came across that doesn't say words speak louder than action or something. No action speaks louder than a word. Whatever that is. Your actions go first. It's not that you can say, lord, I'm ready. And he says, huh? I'll give you. No, you. You say, lord, you don't even have to say I'm ready. You don't even have to say I'm ready. He has eyes to see and say, that boy, that girl, that couple, that family is ready. I want to give it.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
He want to give it. I want to do it for them while they're ready. They're pouring themselves completely into the word in my prayer.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Now, if you see, I'll go quickly. We have a lot of things to cover, but I don't have the time for that. Colossians 4. Colossians 4. Amen. The vision is that he wants us to be fiery. Colossians 4, second verse. Continue earnestly in prayer. The word continue in Greek is something that is strong, robust, and it depicts never give up, never give up attitude. It is a picture of a person or a congregation of believers who are pressing into the things of the Spirit. It's a picture. It can be taken as a personal or it can be taken as a corporate body too. It is a robust, never giving attitude in you. If you have Been believing for something and it didn't come to pass. Listen, remember, guys, God is out of time. God doesn't sit in time. We are in time. Sometimes what people think is, oh, 2025 ended. And whatever things I believed in 2025 doesn't look like it will come to pass. God doesn't think that way. If you have been believing for something and it didn't show up yet in the presence of God, that thing is still there. Because the calendar moved, the man calendar made it doesn't mean that it will not come to pass. Don't lose, don't give up on that. That's what basically Paul is saying, never give up attitude. Have a robust and strong in prayer. Means continue. Means if you have started that prayer five years ago, don't say, because it's a 2027 coming, oh, it may be God's idea. No, no. Never give up attitude. Never give up on your children. Never give up on their crooked past. Never give up and say, God is working and God will come to pass. He is. He sits beyond time. Sometimes. A lot of Christians, they say, oh, what is the word of God for New Year? I understand, and I'm preaching about that side of story too. But I'm just gonna say on this, just on the side note is, don't give up on things you have been believing. Don't give up on the things you have been asking. Don't give up as a couple. Don't give up as a young man, woman, as a family, on the things you have been believing. Stay strong, robust, and never give up attitude and say, lord, I don't care whether it's 2026, 27, 2028, I'm not gonna give it up. Why it has to change according to what I'm asking.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
That's basically Paul is giving the idea saying, continue in prayer. Continue in prayer. Don't just think and just say, you know what? I'll move on. Because looks like God in here. God heard you the first time. He heard you the first time. He heard you the first time. He's working on it. Amen.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Now this is. This is the. I took word and prayer one more time. But now another aspect a person should have is about if you want to be in that category of Elijah and say, I want to have the fire of God upon me. I want to be what pastor said, the fiery ones. I want to be. I just don't want to be spectator, but want to be a participator. One thing is about Holiness. Let's go to Exodus 3, chapter 2 about holiness. Verse 3, third chapter and verse 1 and 2. Now, Moses was standing the flock of the Jethro, the father in law, the priest. And he led the flock to the back of the desert and desert and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. Now, angel of the Lord appeared to him in the flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he was looked. He looked and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I'll turn aside and all those things. And God spoke to him. In sixth verse that all those things. And then he said to him, where does it. Oh, fifth verse, sorry, do not draw near to me. God said to me, do not draw near to me. In fifth verses. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place you stand is a holy ground. God said to him, don't come close to me, because I'm a consuming fire and you are a man. First take your sandals off. Why does God said that? Now holiness is. A lot of people have their own ideas of things and say, like, holiness is like, oh, it's a. It's a. It's kind of a restrictions and legalism. And they say, don't do this, don't do that. But if you read in Old Testament and New Testament, the word holiness means separated. We have been taught very well, Separated, consecrated, sacred, and set apart. That's the word it means. So you, you have been. He said to him, this ground is holy ground. The word holy is the same word. Separated, sacred, and set apart. If the ground can be holy, if the ground can be separated, how much more the people of God who are more valuable than the ground which will be folded in few years, how much more you are sacred, how much more you are separated, how much more you are consecrated, how much more you are put aside for the purpose of God. He said to Moses, Moses, you are standing on a holy ground. This is a sacred and separate ground. Before God came on the scene, that ground was an ordinary ground. That ground was just seen as another piece of land. And the bush was seen just another piece of bush on the mountain. Nobody cared about that. So many people have seen that. But as soon as God came on the scene, that bush became sacred bush, that ground became sacred ground, that became holy ground. Similarly, it is us. The God changed the status of a land. God changed the status of the land completely and he has changed our status too. We are holy. We are not walking holy to prove something to him. We are holy because we have been Created in holiness. So for us to have that fire and experience that fire with us, in us, around us. If he said to Moses, Moses, take your hands, don't draw near to me, and take your sandals. First off means the things you have in you. First take the things off. Things in your life, take them out. Things in your flesh, take them out. Things in your thinking, thought, life, or in your behavior, in your personality, take them out. Take them out and come to me as holy. Because you are standing on a holy ground. This ground has been set apart, separated, consecrated, because of me. You are set apart, separated, consecrated because of God. We are the generation of holy people. We are. We are not trying to become holy. We are the holy. We are the holy people. We are the ones who have been set apart. So for that reason, basically God is saying, my presence changed the status of that ground. My presence should change the status of your life too.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
The word saints people use, it's not just for pastors. The word saint is in Greek, same word holy. Paul wrote to rome in Roman 7. He said to my beloved to the saints. He said that word to the loved ones called saints. You are a saint because you fell yesterday. That doesn't make you a sinner. You are still a saint because you had a fit with your wife, because you didn't want her to wear that tie this morning. That doesn't make you any other person. You are still a holy. You are still a person God has put his stamp upon. You are still a person God has put his status upon. You are still a changed man. You are still a holy man. You still, maybe you have gone so down into sin and filths of life, but you are still a walking ground of holy person.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Holy Spirit is comfortable with saints because the status has been changed. We have become the environment of holiness. You are the environment of holiness. God likes holiness. Holy Spirit, the name is holy. We don't call him the Spirit or the Spirit, just Spirit. We call on purpose the Holy Spirit. Our Spirit is called our Spirit. Him we call Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit. The Bible we call holy. You may have thousands of books, but this is a separated book. Holy Spirit is separate than the thousands of spirits that is walking on the earth. He is separate. Similarly, you are same holy person. You are a same holy person. So you have to live holy. You have to walk according to who you are made, not who you were. For us to receive what God has for future for us.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Someone said holiness is in Fact commanded, God wills it, Christ requires it. And all the scriptures, including laws and gospels and prophets and the proverbs and the letters and the history of the history books that tell judgment of past and the book of Revelation that tells judgment of the come calls for holiness. I would love to read what Billy Graham said. We have lost largely the sight of holiness and the purity to God in today's society. This is the reason we tolerate sin so easily. This is the reason, he said we tolerate sin so easily because we have lost the art of holiness. We lost the sight of holiness and the purity of God in today's society. But with awareness of God's holiness, with when God made us, made us to be. We will not tolerate sin in our lives. If you have been struggling with it, this is the time. This is the time to put your foot on that neck of that addiction of that wrong thinking of that anything that has been harassing you from our time. This is the year to say, lord, we end this year. We end this year. I end this year. If you're a young man, you have been addicted to certain things. This is the time. You don't say, lord, help me, no, he has already helped you because he has made you holy. See yourself as holy. See yourself as a holy ground. See yourself as a sacred set apart person. I don't care if you're 18 year old and struggling with what your friends at school are struggling. Don't give it up. You are a different person than your neighbor. You are a different person than the person who's going to school. You are a set ground. You have been stamped by God as a sacred. God has put his stamp of approval upon you. Hallelujah. Addictions are easy to break. They are easy to break. God said the psalmist. I think David and other people wrote that psalm together. Psalm 119 was the longest chapter in the book. It says verse nine or ten, I think should it or eleven. He said, how a young man can clean himself, how a young man can live clean in this time. He said, by putting the word in you, the word cleanses you. You are made holy. And the Holy Bible going in you keeps you holy, walking holy in the society. Can I take you? 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. And let's go to from the third verse. It says, for this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should be. You should abstain from sexual immorality. You should abstain. Abstain. Word is basically to withdraw, to stay away from or to put a distance between oneself and the other person or to put a barrier between those things that has been harassing you means if you have a temptation in your life. He's saying basically abstain means put a barrier that long and tall enough that you will not be able to come cross that barrier. If the person, if there is a friend, that is the reason that you are stumbling, then put a barrier between you and a friend. If there is a thing that is on a tv, then put a barrier. If it's your phone, put it on the side means put a barrier. God will not put a barrier. We will put a barrier and say, God, I am abstaining from myself, from any sort of sin because I am holy and I want to live holy. And I want to have that part of fire upon me because I have to live holy for that reason. That each of you should know how to possess his own vessel. Vessel is talking about your body, your mind, your thought life. He said, you should know how to possess your vessel. How to possess means how to handle your Handle your vessel in sanctification and in honor. And verse seven says, for God did not call us to uncleanliness, but in holiness. We are called in sacred place. We are called to be sacred. We are called to live different. We are called to have different things in our life. We have to have that for us to be burning with fire. You cannot be twinkling with sin. You cannot be twinkling with things of the past. Past is past. And if there's a struggle, put your foot down and say, lord, I'm free, Lord, I'm free, Lord. The Bible says, you have translated me. You, not you will you have translated me, Lord. Lord, you have set me free, Lord, the freedom of God is in me. The Bible says the Holy Ghost is in me. Where the Holy Ghost is, there is a liberty. Liberty is in me. Liberty is around me. Liberty is my portion. And where I go, I take liberty. I take freedom. Not to just myself, but to the friends in the school who are struggling also. But before you take, be yourself also and practice that in your life.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
So you have to have the Word in your life. Be consistent with the Word, be addicted to the Word. And then you have to have a prayer going in you. Continuous, robust. And then you have to be right living, clean living, pure living. There's a man I love. He admires. He challenges one of the biggest churches. He has always said to his people. A lot of ministers come to him all around the world, and they ask him, what is the Reason of God's power upon you so greatly. What is the reason? He always says, I walk so clean, I live so clean. I live away from sin so far that I don't give an. I don't even give an appearance. Forget appearance, I don't even. I have created so great barriers in my life for that. That I walk such a clean and holy life that God is so pleased with me. For a man to say that it's possible.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
It's possible to live like clean life, to live to the standard we have been created.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Can I tell one another thing? That is fear of God. Listen, this is one subject. People have mistreated. People have done their own justice. People have put their own interpretations. People have done other things. Listen, you cannot replace the fear of God with anything else. You cannot replace the fear of God. And actually the fear of God is the foundation of the doctrine of Christ, is the foundation of the biblical Christianity. It's the foundation. The Bible says in Proverbs 1 and Proverbs I think so, 9 or something also that the beginning of the wisdom is the fear of the Lord. The knowledge and the wisdom comes because you fear God. You fear God. You. I'm not talking about the fear that like, oh, I'm afraid. No, no, that's a tormenting, that's a torturing. That's a devilish fear that has no right in our lives. But I'm talking about the reverential fear. I'm talking about when you talk about God, when you talk about somebody else behind the scene and when you talk, when you know that my God is listening, that's called the fear of God. That your bones quake in you. The bones. Listen, Satan can touch your body because you are on earth and the body is the part he can touch. He can touch your mind. Who can touch your spirit? Who can touch your spirit? Satan cannot touch your spirit. Why? Because God has sealed you with the blood of Jesus and he cannot touch your spirit because you're born again. But who has the right to touch? He said fear from God because he has the right to not only touch your body, but he can touch your spirit too.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
The clean fear of God. The reverential fear of God that when you are taking steps, when you're dealing with finances, when you're dealing with other people behind the scenes that you know God is watching when you are making things against the government. Listen, a lot of people fear CRA more than they fear God. Why? Money minded. You should Be not fearing from cra. If you fear from God. Can I say something? Somebody said. I love this quote. The remarkable thing about God is when you fear God, you fear nothing else. Whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else. You do not fear God. You'll fear everything. You'll fear heights, you'll fear water, you'll fear everything. You'll fear a lot of things. You'll fear your family's future. You'll fear for your safety, you'll fear for your. What government is saying. You'll fear every single thing. But if you have a fear of God in you, the security of God stands in you. And you will fear nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Charles Purdue said, he who fears God has nothing else to fear.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Psalm 31:19.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
Psalm 31, verse 19. Oh, how great is your goodness which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have prepared for those who trust in you and in the presence of the sons of men. Remember, see, he said, how great, not just goodness. How great is the goodness for those who fear you. Goodness has levels. You want to experience the highest form of goodness in your life of God. Goodness have levels. God's goodness is toward the sinners, too. That's why the Bible says he's just towards you and your neighbor who doesn't believe you. But if you want to see the great goodness means the highest level of goodness in your life, start fearing God. Means have a reverential respect and a fear of God in you. Psalm 147, 10. Psalm 147, verse 10 and 11. He does not delight in the strength of the horse, horse, horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him and in those whose hope is in his mercy.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
We quote a lot of it. A Lord takes pleasure in the prospect of his servants. Yeah, he takes it, but he also takes pleasure in you. How you are treating him behind the scenes, how you are dealing in the closed doors. How you are dealing with the closed doors. The book of Acts. I love that. The last chapter of the fourth chapter, the last three, two verses. The man named. I don't know how you pronounce. I will say Joses, but people say it's Hoses. Is it Hoses? J, O S E S. I don't know if it was Spanish or it was a different person, but let's say J O S E S. Can you put Acts, fourth chapter, and the third, second, last verse. It says Joses or Hoses. He the guy named Not Brabas. Barnabas who was. I see. What do you say Joses? You're a professor. Joseph. Hoses. Hoses. I'll call Hoses. Hoses. Whose name was Barnabas. By the apostle Translator, son of encouragement. A Levite of the country of the Cyprus. He. Can you go next verse? He sold the land, brought the money and laid at the apostles feet. The guy became celebrity in a day. The guy became known in a day. The guy became so popular in a day. But he did it from the pure motive of the heart. He knew about God. He knew about God's fear. He knew about everything. He did it from the pure motive. Can you go the next chapter? First verse? The next chapter. First verse says. And a certain name Nannias and Safira, his wife also sold a possession. Why? They said they talked among themselves and closed it and said. Hey baby, listen. There's a status going on around in the church and we need the highest one. We need to attain the highest one. To attain the highest one we have to copy what Barnabas did. Barnabas gave $50,000. Listen, we have a million dollar property sitting on the side. We'll sell it and we'll give 65,000. And we'll say we are the top givers and give us the status. But the less they knew. They were not robbing Peter. They were not fooling apostles. They were fooling the Holy Ghost. When they died. When they died. Chapter what he said. Chapter what is said. 4 5th. I know we are closing soon guys. And verse 5th. When Ananias, hearing these words, when Peter spoke, fell down, breathed his last. So great fear came upon those who heard these things. Listen, we have been starting to hearing now that vengeance is of the Lord. If you don't fear God, he'll make sure he shows up in a way that you fear God. And I'm not trying to make you afraid. But I'm trying to tell you that there is a fear of God in personal lives. We should have. I don't care. You're a 14 year old. You need to know the fear of God. I don't care. You're 85 year old and you've lived your life the way you have lived. You need to know the fear of God. His wife came and did the same thing. Lied, lied. Plain lie, man. Such a lie. Like professionals. Professional. Peter even gave an. Peter gave an option to this girl. Like. Come on, your husband didn't show up in three hours. Youth. She thought maybe he's getting something from the church and I'm missing. Let me go. He's getting pictures taken or something. Let me not miss the part and say, where is my hubby? And they were like, oh, he's done. But then he said. He said, are you sure this is the one you gave? He gave the option to her. God gives options to people, guys. But she said, yeah, no, no, no, no. This is what we did. Then immediately she fell down in verse 10 at his feet and breathed last breath. And the young men came in and found her dead and carrying her out, buried her by her husband. So great fear came upon not just all, but upon all the church and all those who hear these things, heard these things.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
The fear should be a constant thing in your life. When you're talking, when you're talking, when you're watching, when you're speaking, when you're mad, when you're happy, when you're. Whatever mood you are. We need to have that constantly in our. Established, in our. In our whole being that I fear the Lord. I fear the Lord. The Lord's fear is upon me. The Lord's fear is in me. I will not speak. That's the. When you constrain your tongue in that. When you constrain your action in that, that's the beginning of wisdom. That's the beginning of the leading of the Holy Ghost in your life. That's the beginning of knowledge. How you should do for that miracle, how you should do for your business, how you should do for your. How the loved one you're believing for. That's the beginning. But it will never come. The wisdom and knowledge doesn't come until you start the fear. Until you have that reverential fear in you. Because great goodness follows those who fear the Lord. And he delights in those who fears him, fear him.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
God wants to have things done in this city. And we are the people. And there are more people than us. Only don't get big head. We are the people too. But for that thing to happen through us, we need to have the Word in our bones, shut in our bones like a fire. The word of God in us, in our mouths, in our being, carried as a first, final authority. Second, the prayer life in a continued fashion. Third, the holiness, cleanliness, clean life. Because Holy Spirit need the environment of cleanliness. And the lastly, have the fear of God in you so greatly that God is respected there. Though that Word is not to put there as a respect. Fear is not respect, but the God is respected. In that place.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Speaker
There are other things I wanted to share but the time doesn't allow. But these are the four things I will say the word prayer, holiness and the fear have in you so that the word, the vision of the fire of God can fall upon all of us. Father, I thank you so much. I did my best Father I could in the time. But I thank you in the name of Jesus that the words they don't fall on empty ground but they fall into the soft part of their hearts. Father, from where they receive it and run with it. Father, Receive it and multiply that word sown in them the seed. The seed dies in their heart, Father and they become serious and sober Christians from this day forward. Father, serious and sober so they can receive what God you have promised in Jesus name. In the name of Jesus I say amen.