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Running With The Vision Pt. 2 | Rev. Harpreet Khosa | Wed. Jan. 14, 2026
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Pastor
I will continue with the word that I preached last Sunday. Running with the vision or preparing yourself for the vision? I will continue with that same theme because the first Sunday pastor preached was about. He shared the vision, he gave the points. And I don't know about you, but I'm grateful about how God talks to him. You need a leader who has a vision. Without vision, people perish. A king without a vision, the country will be doomed. But a king with a vision, the country will prosper. So I'm grateful that Pastor Craig, who, like whom God has spoken to him about 25, 26, 27, we're in 26, 27, 28, 29, he's speaking to him. And we are so grateful that we can, good students can take. Learn a lesson from there and say, okay, God, you are talking about this. So this is our future, so we must do this thing to get there. That's the whole point of God telling us, right? Why is God telling us? So that we can prepare ourselves. Remember Jesus? I shared last Sunday also, I'll just give you a brief recap that when I think it was Luke 12 from 35 to 40, something 47. And here it was. Jesus was saying, basically, I like the preparation. I like the preparation. If I go away, if a master goes away and sees his servants prepared, and when he comes back, sees his servants prepared and did what he asked for them, he'll be happy, he'll be grateful, he'll be delightful, and he'll give what he promised. But if he comes back, because he comes back unexpectedly, untelling or not informing them beforehand. So when he comes unexpectedly and he sees his servants not prepared, he's not happy and he cannot give what he has promised. So he was saying, basically, prepare, prepare, prepare. Don't be sleeping, but prepare. I want your lamps to be burning. I want you to be up. Remember the 10 versions, 5 in and 5 out. Why 5 prepared, 5 didn't prepare. So preparation time, like Pastor Nancy, Brother Hagin said, it's. It's important time. But I'll say preparation time is a pleasing time to God. God is pleased when you prepare. God takes a delight in those who prepare because to him he sees, you know, preparation time shows your faith because you don't see the end yet. You have only hearing like, we have not seen Jesus yet. But only we see by faith, we believe by faith. We have not gone anybody in heaven, have you? Anybody gone? Not up your hand? Nobody has gone to heaven, right? Oh, somebody said, no, no, no, Brother Joe, you did. I thought you prayed too much. You went in third heaven. Not yet. Just joking, brother. We have not gone, but we believe by faith. Similarly, when we hear a vision and we start prepping ourselves, God sees our faith and he's pleased with faith only. And in our preparation, he sees faith because he's delighted because he says, oh, wow, they have not even seen that, but they started preparing right now. They are prepp now they're putting effort right now. The end is here. Oh, I'm delightful. Means this guy has a faith, this girl has a faith, this family has a faith. They will receive what I'm promised here at the end.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
So it's important and to receive what God has spoken to Pastor Craig and Pastor Jenny to receive that. And it's not just for them. Remember that. It's not just for them. You are a part of the same vision. It's for us. It's for our businesses, it's for our finances, it's for our families, for our lost loved ones. This fire which is representing to be of the presence of God or the power of God or the judgment of God for other things, but it is for our family. It's for us personal too. So you have to take it that way. And it's also for the vision. Also remember I heard the early morning that morning Sunday when I when I woke up, he said, I heard in my spirit, he said, your vision is. My vision is superior to your vision and a family's vision. They can have a vision for the family, for their finances, for their kids and all of that. That's great, but it's superior. It's under. My vision is higher means. If a person is just living for their personal life and personal vision, they are living a lower lifestyle. The higher and the best is if a person is invested, is planted, is running for that vision. And when he put the hand to this vision, I will put my hand to this vision. You put to hand. See what is vision in the church. Vision is the dream of God. Vision is the purpose of God. Vision is the plan of God. And when you say, lord, I'm invested in your dream, God says, I'm investing myself into your dream. Now you want your children to be settled. You want the marriage to happen. Like some parents, they have concerns about their children. Some parents, they have concerns about their lost loved ones. Some parents have their concerns about different things or spouses or a single person can have different things. Everybody goes through different things. But God knows everybody's path and everybody's life. And he said, Whatever concerns you, I'll perfect. But you put your hand to what I want you to put.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
And it takes faith to say, okay, I'm putting this behind, but I'm putting my hands both to this vision. It takes faith. And God says, oh, you are giving up everything for this vision. I take, I'll put my hands on this vision. Whose hands you want? I want God's hand in my life. Man's hand can do enough only, but God's hand can do a lot.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
And few things that I shared with you were that about the word of God. First thing that how can you prepare yourself what things you should do this year to be ready to receive certain things. Because impartation doesn't come. Because this thing, the fire will not come just by at the end of 31st night when we have and he says, pastor will lay hands and say, okay, I'll be filled. No, no, no, it won't come like that. It will only come to those who prep themselves. And how can you prep? You can prep being the person of word this year. Being a person who fills himself up with the word. Person who is walking with the word. The person who makes word his last resort, first resort. Everything is word. He makes that that person. Because the word is itself a fire. Remember I told you from Jeremiah 29 and 23:29, it says God said to Jeremiah that my word isn't is a fire of God, isn't it? Fire? It is a fire. And Jeremiah said first Jeremiah was withstand from people because his ministry was different. He was a prophet, his ministry was different. And people withstood him. People withstood him. And he said Lord, you, you know what? I'm tired of the people and I don't want to speak more. I'll shut myself and not make even. I'll not even utter your word or utter your name from my mouth. God said basically, but this word in me is like a fire in my bone. It's consuming me. It's burning inside of me. And then those dudes disciples, they were walking on the path and after Jesus, Jesus has died and got risen up after the third day, third on the third day. And Jesus started walking with those two disciples to the road of Jerusalem. And when he talked with them and talked about the prophets, about the sacrifice, all those things. And then he see, then they were talking and their hearts were burning and they didn't know why our hearts are burning. And when they sat on a table with Jesus and they broke the bread and Jesus thanked And they said, oh, it's Jesus. And it disappeared. And then they were like, oh, now we know why our hearts were burning inside of us. Why the blaze of God was inside of us. Because of the scriptures being opened by Jesus. When you put the Word first thing, it will open itself. And when the Word opens in you, it will bring light, it will bring fire, it will bring power, it will bring presence. It will make you and transform your life. It will give you faith to do things which your natural abilities cannot do that. But it comes from the Word. So Word is not an ordinary book. This book is not ordinary book. This is the very, very God of heaven who sits on the throne, is sitting on the table and sitting on the lap of yours too. Some of you have phone, some of you. It is the very God of Heaven in your hands right now. So don't take it lightly. But say this year, this year, I'm going to put Word more in me. I'll pour the more of Word in me. Why? The Word is a fire. The Word is light. The Word is consuming me from inside. What the Word will do is it will flush the wrong things out and bring the right things in. What will do to what would. What it will do? It will position yourself. I love sports. I don't care about movies. I can go years without a movie. But sports, weekly basis, I don't watch every day. But I keep my memories up to the date. So that's my. From very young age. Rami is sitting. He loves soccer. We talk about soccer a lot now. So we play soccer. The soccer players, at one stage, they can eat things and they can do things. But the one who want to prolong his career, the one who want to have the best in his career, the one who want to do the great things in career, they have to prep at a very early age. You see the history, you see the. You read about them, you study about their eating habits. You study about them when they, when they are little, some of them, they eat pizzas and everything. But when they start going to a high end, professional coach, everything is cut down. Everything is cut down. Everything is measured. Everything is properly measured by the coach, not by them. Why? Because he's prepping them. For what? Glory. Coach doesn't get that money. He is getting that money. But coach is prepping them.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Who will get the glory? God. But we will also share his glory with us. He's a God who shares things with us. He will share badas too. So important for us to recognize. And the Word Helps us recognize. And the second thing I told was prayer this year. Don't be just a person who blazes here and there. Be a person who is consistent in prayer, who has a habit of prayer, who has a lifestyle of prayer. Not here and there. We all fall into that category of vacation game, holidays game. We will sleep, we'll eat more, we'll do these things. Less spiritual things will be less natural things will be more dinners and fun things will be more and all again, there is a season to that. That's fine. God is not mad at it. God is not a legalistic God. But yet he still wants us to be fiery in that our prayer time too. Why? Because that Paul in Colossians 4:2 said, I'm just giving a recap. We'll go further in that. He said, continue in prayer. Continue in prayer. Continue. Word is in Greek is consistent, robust, never giving up attitude. Kind of prayer means I don't care how long it takes, I don't care how short time it takes, whether it's a long time to pray. Because sometimes we fall into category of unless we pray three hours, it's not called prayer. And sometimes we say, oh. Pastor Kagan said. Pastor Dr. Kennedy Hagin said, it's not about that long time. You pray. There are times where you will pray long. There are times you don't need to pray long. Amen. But there isn't thing you say, oh, I'll follow one in the North End. There are times. There are things that require longer sessions. There are things that you need shorter but intense sessions. But you have to have that in you, that never giving up attitude that I will push through. And this year, if you start doing it at homes in your lives, it will help the ministry here, it will help the church here. Amen. So have that in you. And remember, prayer and confession are two different things. Never mix them up. You cannot say, I confess and I'm not praying. That's called my prayer. That's not called your prayer. Confession is what you have been praying and you're confessing out. You can confess while you're driving, you can confess you are showering. You can confess when you're cooking. You can do anything when you're doing that. But prayer is different. There are times that you can walk around and do prayer, but there are times you sit quietly in front of God and say, I'm going to pray, and nothing else is distracting you. And confession doesn't replace prayer time. Confession is declaring, confession is commending. Confession is speaking. It is not Praying, by the way, it's just one little part on the side of prayer, but prayer is spending time communion with him because he requires us to do Amen. Third I said was holiness. Thank you, ma'. Am. Oh, you listen, you listen. Third was holiness. That's important too, because people sometimes say they, oh, it's holiness. This, this, that. Listen, you are made holy. You are made holy. You are holy. I love Nigerian people's name, man. You go to Nigeria. You say, how are you, sir? What's your name? Oh, God, man. What? Godman, favor, blessing, holiness. They have all kinds of names. Like, we love their names. Holiness. I met personal holiness. I met favor. I met God, man. I met these guys blessing all these guys. You can call yourself holy because you are holy. You can say and stand in the mirror and say, hi, how are you? Holy. You are holy.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
You are holy. Why? Because God is holy and he has created you after his own image. And you are holy. Means if you are holy, to walk anything other than holy or walk anything or do other than being holy. It's unworthy to God. It is not appropriate behavior. It is not appropriate behavior to God. So we should walk in holy. Can I show you a scripture? Let's go to Hebrew 12, which I didn't say last Sunday, but Hebrew 12. Hebrew 12, verse 14. Hebrew 12, 14. It says, pursue peace with all people. The word pursue is in Greek. If you study it means to go for a hunt. To go for a hunt means you have to pursue peace to any extent. You have to go. You go to just pursue peace with who? With all men. Not with only your friends, with all men, whether they know you, whether you know them. To all men, you pursue peace. And then what is next? And holiness, without which. Without which what? Without pursuing peace and without holiness, no man will see the Lord. That doesn't mean that you won't go to heaven, guys. That means you will never enter the presence of God on earth properly. Means you will never. God will never invade your personal space properly. Means if you are not living in peace with other people. Means if you are not walking in peace with other people. Means if you are not pursuing, means not walking in that path of holiness, path of righteousness. You will not experience the presence of God the way others will experience. That's what he said, that you will not see the Lord. That doesn't mean because you are born again, even if you have some things here and there in your life, you fall here and there, you will still go to heaven. That doesn't Mean you cannot go to heaven. But he said, no one will see the Lord means those who do not walk the way they are supposed to walk, they will not be able to enjoy the presence of God. They will not be able to enjoy the fire of God. They will not be able to enjoy the power of God in their lives to a measure, to a degree which God wants to do it. So for that reason he said, pursue peace with all men and holiness. Walk in that, live in that. That's your lifestyle. Because I'm holy. You are holy. You should be walking that way. So in that you will see that. So if you are walking in peace with other people, if you're walking in holiness means you will see that, you will see the Lord. Means you will see the power of God in your life. You will see the presence of God in your life. So for that reason you have to understand you are holy. If the land can become set apart, the land, the bush became set apart because God came and said, this is my place. And Moses, remove your sandals. Moses, be separated. Moses, separate yourself from fleshly things and be you are on a ground which is holy. That was the ground. You are his heart's desire, you are his beloved, you are his everything. How much more he expects of us to walk in that lifestyle, how much he expects of us to walk in that perfection of life. People say, don't put yourself pressure by saying, oh, perfection. Nobody can attain perfection. Well, it's available. It's up to you if you want to attain or not. But it's available. It's available. If Jesus did it, you can do it.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
What is perfection? The way God sees you, the way God wants you living that way. It's called perfection. God said to Abraham, be perfect in my ways. Be perfect in my ways means yes, it's a process. But strive every day to live that way which I want. And then I'll show you my ways to you. But you strive, you make efforts and it's possible to. If a man in the Old Testament without God in him can be set that strive towards perfection. I certainly, who hold God in me and you certainly with God in you, can strive for their holiness, can strive for their perfection.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Amen. So for that he said, be holy minded. Be that who you are. And you don't have to say, oh, I don't want to say no, if you know who you are, if you focus on what you have been made, those things will start falling off you automatically. Those things will fall automatically Oh, I have a problem of gossiping. Oh, that's fine. Start focusing who you are, it will start falling off you. I have a problem of addiction. It will start falling. Focus on this thing, not focus on what you have. Focus on what you are and it will start going off you.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
And the fourth thing I said was fear of God. The fear of God, basically, if you can want to put in a simple thing, it can be said is the awareness of God. You need to be aware that God is always with you. You need to be aware God is always around you. You need to be aware God is always listening you, always watching you. Whether you're alone, whether you're with somebody, whether you're dealing with people, whether you're alone, always doesn't matter. If you are with a sinner, he is always watching you. A lot of Christians have thought that, oh, because they are sinners, I'm above. You are above spiritually. You are above spiritually, but you don't have the right to demean them naturally. God died for them too. What if they give the life in next hour? What they'll be same level you are? Because a lot of people think I'm Christian. They are sinners. They are sitting in their booth, they don't know anything. I can treat away because I am God or I'm godly man. No, no, no. You may be godly man, you may be godly woman, but you don't have a right from anyone to demean anyone. Why? Because they are also made on God's image. And God also died for them. And God has been. He is giving opportunities for them to come. Also on your spiritual level. So never demean anyone and always be aware of how, because God is watching you even there. Actually, you should be acting better and so nice with them and so treatful with them, so so kind and pleasant with them that they should ask you, what is your profession, ma'? Am? What do you do, ma'? Am? What? What? What? What's so different about you? Not that when you walk and they say to the neighbor and say, wow, man, no, they should be talking to you and saying to you, you know what? You are so polite. You were so friendly, you were so kind, you were so patient. What is about you? And you can say, you know what? Thank you. God will give you a word right that time, right in your mouth to speak to that person and you can get them born again right that minute.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor
But why? How can you be. But when you're aware that God is watching you aware that God is around you.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor
People think nobody's watching. People think God is watching only when we are in the church and something God is not even watching when they are in church. That's great, that's your thinking. But God is watching you when you are in the church. God is watching you when you are parking lot. God is watching you when you're home. God is watching you when you're in the room talking to your wife. Ecclesiastes I think so 10 chapter says that that be aware. How do you talk about the king? A word can fly out and tell what you talked in the book in the room. Ananias and Sephirah. Their problem was that they talked in the private of their room and they talked that let's be what Jose was and let become the main people of the church by donating what we should. And they lied not to a man, they lied to the Holy Ghost. But why? Why were they able to lie even because they were not aware that God was listening to them when they were selling the land. Even they were not aware of that. They were so, so delusioned. They were so. I don't know how to say the broken mind or what. But they were so far of this concept that God is watching them. Even when they were prepping this offer to take it to the apostles feet. But fear of God came upon the scene to show to the people this is what they were missing in their home. It was not respect they were missing, it was the fear they were missing. It was another faith they were missing. It was the fear they were missing. They had faith. That's why they brought the money. They had the right heart, that's why they brought the money. But little bit crooked heart, little bit wrong thinking, little bit here completely destroyed their life. If they had the proper awareness that God is watching and let be generous also or if we don't want to give, let's be less. But they, they fooled themselves and where they ended up they could have been the history book for long. They could have been missionaries sent to Ephesus or somewhere. But they were there in three hours. They both died. They both died. And God brought his fear on the scene and showed that this is what they lacked. So four things we talked. 23 minutes gone, 27 left. Let's talk about next few things here. And next thing I want to talk about is Hallelujah. Next thing I want to talk about is humility. Let's talk about humility. Let's Go for James chapter four. I'm just talking from my heart. What we should do to prepare ourselves, what we should do to align ourselves with a vision and so that we can be helpful to pastor. Also, we can run with the vision and we can have the best in our lives too. James chapter four and verse six, he gives grace, more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. Now humility is an attitude of the heart. Humility is not weakness. The people who walk after the flesh, they will say humility is weakness. But humility is not weakness. It's actually the spiritual quality of a right person. It's a spiritual quality of one man. A woman should possess that. I'm humble. And he said, he gives more grace to who? To the humble. So humble person is who, who is saying to God, I want to read you the right wording. It says, the one who reduces one's self importance, who makes himself small, who makes himself minimize oneself and is willing to stoop to any measure that is needed. Why? Because he wants to keep right things at the right place. He is that man. And God said, if you are a person, if the fight is going on between two people and you're always like, no, me right, you right, me right, you right. And there's no ending of it. But even if you are not wrong and you say to a person, okay, you know what, that's fine. I'm sorry, what do you say? What are you representing? You are representing. I want peace with you. I'll humble myself. God said, you know what? I'll give grace to the humble person. You know the word grace? It means the touch of God. The grace means ability of God. The grace means the presence and power of God. So he said, I will give my ability to a person who is humble, but the one who is fighting for his right, I'll resist myself from that or I'll just be away from that one. So means a person should be walking humility all the time. If you want more of God in your life, the more of humility is required for that. That's why Paul said in Romans 12, chapter 3rd, 12th chapter, verse 3rd, he said, to every man, a measure of faith is given. To every man, the measure of faith is given. So let you guys do not think highly of yourself or highly or more, but be more what? Sober. What is that? Be more humble. Know yourself where you stand, know where you are. Don't think you're like always right. You're not always right. Nobody's always right. Guys, nobody is right always. Don't be a Mr. Right or Mis. Right person all the time. Even in your workplace, in your home, in your marriage. It's better to be humble and submit and God give you the grace required of you. So he said, grace is described as a touch of God that results in favor and presence of God. Grace is a power that changes a person, a power that enables him to do which previously he could not do by himself. It is required. But humility makes room for God to be involved in your life. Humility makes room, and humility is for the heart. You have to recognize your own thoughts. You have to judge yourself inside. You have to watch yourself inside. And you say, you know what, Lord, I'm sorry. You're not showing yourself weak. You're not demeaning yourself in God's eyes. You're humbling. Who cares what people think? Who cares what people think? People cannot give you grace anyways. People cannot give their power to you anyways. People cannot even help. And even if they can help, their help is limited. But what God can do, there are thousand people even cannot do that. So you need grace from God. And God sees the heart. And God wants you to be humble always. And that doesn't mean that you are doormat. That doesn't mean that you are like, always like, oh, beat me with that stick. I'm just like a poor guy. No, no, not only that. Not like that. If you see a situation is escalating. If you see a situation, it's rising up. If you see the temperatures flaring up and up, it's better you say, sorry, sir, sorry, ma', am, I walk off. Why? That doesn't mean that you're weak. That doesn't mean you were wrong even. Let God, who is a judge, let him be judged.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
So humility is another thing that will help a person to receive. Hallelujah. That's okay. Once we figure it out. Let's go to Isaiah 66. That's okay, guys. Who was preaching last night? Dr. Bill Winston was preaching and his phone was in here. He's like, ding, ding. He's like, that's what my signal looks like. God is telling me, turn it off. Isaiah 62, the last chapter of book. Isaiah and.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Verse 66, chapter Isaiah and verse 2. It says, for all those things my hand has made, and all those things exist, says the Lord, but on one thing will I look. And on him who is poor, not poor of money, guys. Poor, humble of heart and of a contrite Spirit and who trembles at my word. I want to read this in the amplified version. It says Amplified classic. For all these things my hand has made, and so all these things have come into being by and for me, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look and have regard. God have a regard of that kind of a person. He said, to this kind of a man, I will look and have regard. He who is humble of a broken and wounded spirit, and who trembles at my word and reverse my command. He is looking for people who are not weak of the spirit, but are weak basically are who are humble, who knows how to put themselves under him, who sees the situations and say, you know what? I humble myself. Amen. That's, that's what basically saying, what is the opposite of humility? Pride. He said, I resist the proud. Pride always eliminates you. Pride always, always, always eliminates you from God's system. God's seen if a person is being proud in marriage, in church, in other places, Pastor will give time. If you are prideful in your workplace and you think yourself what is pride? Thinking yourself highly, there can be a person who can sit in the service here and say, you know what? I am better than pastor. I'm better than this person. You can still be sitting right now and saying, you know what? I don't know what he's talking. I know better than this what he's talking. I can preach better. What is that? What is that? That is your thoughts saying and telling you you are better. You are not learning the situation. You're not saying, I humble myself. You may know certain things more than me, you may know certain things more than Pastor King in certain areas of life, but that doesn't make you higher than him. According to divine structure of God, according to divine nature, divine order of God, you are under him. And according to same system, in the natural law, your boss who is running the show, who is running the business, is above you. Means he knows more than you. Even if he is not a born again man, he still is over you. You cannot break that barricade and say, I'm spirit of God, it's inside of me. I have the wisdom of God, bless God. I know more than him. He's a fool. He doesn't know anything. But guess what? I. I will shut my mouth and just be at the work and let him fail. No, no, you cannot do that if God has brought you there. You have a spirit of God, you have excellence in you. You have a wisdom of God, you be a Help to that sinner person, even not to judge. Why? Because God will come to his rescue more than your rescue. Why? Because you are prideful. He can be a sinner, but yet he's a humble man. Because there are a lot of sinners. Believe me or not, there are a lot of people in the world who have these qualities, yet they don't know God. And we who know God should be walking into these more than them. So that's why he's like, I look for these people. Pride always eliminates you. Pride always takes you out. You should be the one who's saying, you know what, Pastor, I'll help you. You know what, Pastor? I have anointing. I'll help you. You know what? I have anointing to help in the church. I have something in my heart. I' blessing to.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Promotion comes to humble, not prideful. Remember? Remember? I think Pastor Debbie Simon's husband was the one, right? He was in a factory or something, and the machines were something in the wrong. And he went in and God showed him because he was praying in tongues or something like that. God showed him and he fixed. And God promoted him. The boss promoted him from wherever he was to a higher position. He didn't go and say, you know what? Let him suffer. Let his company fail. I'm here for my paycheck only if you are there for your paycheck, you will only get a paycheck. What do you want? Just a paycheck or a blessing? Blessing is bigger than paycheck, guys. What is blessing? Surprise packages. Surprise things surprise boss can do for you because you are doing something for him. You're not just going there for a paycheck. If you go for a paycheck, you will get a paycheck. No doubt the sinners get that. You should get more than that.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
So humble, humble. He promotes prideful. He resists. So if prideful, he resists, how can he come upon a prideful person? How can he pour his fire upon a prideful person? How can he pour himself upon a prideful person? He cannot. Holy Spirit needs the environment to possess the vessel. He needs the environment. He cannot just come upon any place. Yes, we say, his glory fills the earth. His glory fills the earth. But he occupies few places. Only he wants to occupy all of us. But for that, we have to change ourselves to come in line with what he wants. And then he can come and occupy us. And when he comes and occupies us, we become his vessel. Remember, God said, it's not up to me, it's up to you which kind of vessel you want to be in the house. He said, there are many vessels, gold, silver, wooden, clay. But you want. What do you want? Which vessel you want. You decide. You want gold vessel. Then he said to Timothy, timothy, do these things and don't do these things. You will be a vessel of gold.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
If I were you, it's very simple. Gold is more in price than silver. Gold is more popular than clay. Gold is more popular than wood. And gold is more pure and expensive and used in certain places, in certain occasions only.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
So be a gold vessel for that. He said, eliminate certain things from life and prep certain things for that, and then you will be used of vessel. God is looking in the end, there's the vessels. Only the vessels. Only the right kind of vessels, the gold kind of vessels, the standardized vessels, the vessels. Who says we empty out ourselves but you, so you can fill us. The vessel who say, will remove our old way of thinking, of our old way of doing, even though we have been doing that for years, we remove them. We want you, God, in us, more of that. So that is what we are prepping for. So that the fire of God which he wants to pour upon all of us can come upon us and in us so that we can be vessels filled with his fire, going out into the cities and doing things. So humility is another one. Next one is, can I talk about souls? Passion for souls.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Matthew 28.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Matthew28, verse 18. Few things I'm talking about is the word of God, the prayer. Third one was holiness. Fourth was fear of God. Then humility. I forgot. She remembered humility. No, I didn't forget. Another one is passion for souls. See, we are in a camp where we don't put too much focus on the souls. And we say, you know what? That's fine. But it's important to God. It's important to God. Matthew 28:18. Jesus came and spoke to them and said, all authority has been given to me on earth and in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore. Go. Therefore in Greek is go and keep on going. It doesn't say, go, therefore means and come back. No, go and keep on going. Like you come to Sunday on church, you come to Wednesday. That doesn't say, oh, I'm done for the month. No, no, you come, you go home. You come and you go home. Same is the same as the way to say, okay, go there for. Jesus said, go there for means go and keep on going. You go today, you keep on going tomorrow, you keep on going day after. Means you don't get tired of evangelizing to people. You don't get tired of saying, you can't tell God. Remember Jesus? Few days ago, I told one guy in the store that Jesus, Lord, I'm done. You can talk to other person. No, no, it is for all of us. Go and keep on going. Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Lord, in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you even to the end of the age. The word lo. I was reading Rick Renner's book. He said the word lobe. He is master of Greek, Master of Greek, he said. The word lo is very hard to explain in English, but the expression Jesus was giving to the people was lo, I will be with you means he was so expressive, he was so joyful. He was so like, whoa, I will be with you till the end of the age. And then he said, the law means the presence of God. The presence of God belongs to those who go. The law belongs to those who go. If you are not going out, you are not lowing even means the God is not around you even if you are going out. Every day means every opportunity you get out to talk to people about Jesus means God's presence will be starting stronger, showing himself upon you through you and talking to people. He will start expressing himself through you. But if you are not going, you will never get that low in you. The low is his expression saying, oh, I will be with you till the end. He is so joyful to tell us, I will be with you till the end. I want to be with you till the end. But how much you go depends how much I can go.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
How much you want his presence, you want. Every time you go out and talk to people, his presence come upon you. And when you open the mouth, the words strike the heart of that person. The words strike that heart. He may get saved or not saved the right way, right that time. But the anointing to be there. Then you practice going. You practice going means you have that in you desire to tell people. The early church was a church who was always a blazing for souls, who was always going out for souls, who was always burning for souls, who was always. I don't know if you have read, but Brother Hagin's one of the visions which is very unpopular vision, very rarely seen or heard in churches is when Jesus appeared to him with a crown in his hand. And that crown was for the salvations. He said, this is a crown I'll give to my people who will win souls. And that was one of the visions we talk about demonic visions, our demon vision, all the things. But this was also one of the vision. If Jesus came from heaven on earth to talk to our main guy in this last days and tell about I want my people to be going out more and talking to people. And he said, I tell my people but they are so, so self aware instead of so careless. But they are like too busy when I tell them and nudge them and tell this person, they don't want to tell and the soul is lost and I don't want the soul to be lost. Jesus said, because I died for them. I want people to go out, I want people to tell. But my people are very much inside of them and thinking about themselves only. They have to be selfless, they have to think about other, they have to go about other, they have to be more expressive and they have to go out and win souls. I will be with them like I was with apostles, proving my word with signs and wonders. I will be with them because I said, lo, I will be with you but my people are not going out. If Jesus came down on earth to tell brother Hagin and he wrote in a book I believe in vision, that is for us that we should go out, we should start going out. That's why Pastor, is it coincident God's Holy Ghost is talking through pastor from the last six months, eight months. Go out more, go out more. Let be evangelizing church. Let be evangelizing church and staff. We every week we pray for the church and we say the number 6 point or 7th point on that list or 11 things which Pastor Craig gave last year to everybody that our promise of life church is winning the souls sharing the gospel, healing the sick. They are bold in sharing the gospel. We declare every day of every week upon you. We declare every week upon you. And if God's spirit is coming upon you and nudging you a little bit, don't be shy, just open and step out. If there is something in you and you and pastor is sharing about the gifts of the Spirit, how things are prayed and if your eyes are gazed upon somebody, if you are attracted to somebody not in a other way, you have to be careful not in that way, in spiritual way means God wants to do something in there like but I'm not a pastor, I'm Nobody. No, no, no. You have God in you. You are somebody. And you just open your mouth, you just shake hand, you talk to him, you tell about Jesus. You lay hand. If you want to do whatever you have to do in a spiritual way, but open your mouth because God is nudging inside of you and saying to you, I want to work in this person's life. You may be the last person who ever come in contact with that person. We don't know. They may go to right after that. They may go to hell, they may go right away after that. But we don't know the life of people. But Jesus may have told you, nudged in you and said, do this thing. But sometimes we are too much. No, no, no. That's what we are saying. We are evangelizing church. We are evangelizing church. We are evangelizing judge. We are people who evangelize. Not like those, like will go like Jehovah Witness people. Guys, cut the scene, brother. Like those guys. I don't want to be in trouble, man. Remember, we don't just go knock on doors every time. Be led by the spirit of God. There enough fish in the sea for you to get every day. You don't have to go on to the knocking the doors. You just be led by the spirit. You may be pumping the gas. You will get somebody. You may be going and giving somebody or picking up some Tim Hortons. Don't be in a rush at Tim Hortons that God is nudging you and you're fighting for your bagel or something. Like, be in the. Be aware. Be aware of that.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
It has happened to you. Hallelujah. Amen. We are evangelizing people. We have to be. We have to be, you know, one of the biggest churches in India and a lot of people in India and Africa also. They are very bold in evangelizing. Very bold in evangelizing. I go to Africa now. I see those guys, those who pick us up from the hotels and stuff, man. They are bold. They tell people. And sometimes we go come down in the lobby and we're like, oh, wow, okay. You were talking. Is he going there? No, no, we were just talking to him. Is he a Christian? No, no, no, no, Not a Christian, but we are talking to him. Wow. You are telling. They are everywhere they're going. Why? They are aware continuously that we have to go out and win souls. We have to tell to people. We have to sow seeds of the word. We have to plant. Let anybody else come. Come and harvest. Don't be the person. Oh no, no. If they don't come to my church, I'm not going to tell them. Let God fill this church. You fill his kingdom. Let God fill his church. He knows how to fill the church.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
He knows how to fill the church. He wants you to fill his kingdom. That person may be living somewhere else, that person may not even fit here. But that person may go and fit and be a blessing to somebody else. Pastor in the Brampton end. But you just be led. Why? We are not a church conscious people. We are a kingdom conscious people.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Church is a part of kingdom. Kingdom is greater than a church. Church is not a greater than kingdom. Church was birthed out of kingdom. Be Kingdom minded like Dr. Bill Winston says, not a church minded though we are planted. We have to be aware that if a sheep is Jesus, go therefore and disciple them. How you disciple them and bring them here and they say, no, I don't want to come here. That's fine, find another church or we live here, no problem. I'll find you a Google, write Word and Spirit church in that area. Be that kind of a person. But be a soul winner. Be a person who goes out and talks to people. Be a person who wants to, who wants to do these things.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Because what you are doing is you are positioning yourself, evangelizing positions. Me? Yes, it positions you. It positions you. What is evangelizing? A passion in you. Burning in you to win people for Christ. That's a passion in you. That's a zeal in you. That's a vigorous quality in you. And Jesus said, do not quench the Holy Ghost. Do not quench the spirit means that is the passion, the fire of God. Do not quench that means put a flame into that, put a wood into that, put something into that so that the flame can go higher. How can you do that? By not taking yourself out from this position but saying, lord, I'll put myself more into it and I will be more aware from now onwards. Instead of just waking up and rushing over home and trying to honk people and yell at people, I'll be waking up a little bit, spend some time so my spirit is ready when I go out. I'm sensitive. I'm sensitive. Whom you lead me to.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Then you will talk. God will show you. God doesn't lead me, he leads you. Maybe you are not recognizing. He leads everybody. He leads everybody because you're a child of God and this is the birthright of every person who is A Christian that they are being led by the Spirit of God. This is your birthright.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
You don't have to be a 50 year old Christian. It's your birthright from day one that you are led by the Spirit of God.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
As many as are sons of God, they are led by the Spirit of God. Means as many as children of God.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
The next thing I can. I want to say is generosity. Can we go? Acts chapter two. Acts chapter two. I'll say you another thing. If you have remote starters, you can start your cars because. I'll be done in 10 minutes, guys. Acts chapter two. Some of you have taken my advice. I see you putting your hands in a pocket. That's okay. God is watching you. Do you turn on? No, no yet. That's okay. Acts chapter 2, verse 42. A vital church growth. Here part it says they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayer prayers. Then fear came upon every soul. Not fear of the demons, fear of God came upon every soul. And many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. And now all who believed were together and had all things in common. And sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all. As anyone had need. So continued continuing daily with one accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and simplicity of the heart, praising God and having faith with all people. These are people. And if you go In Acts chapter four also I want to share another one. Acts chapter four, verse 33 to 35. It says, now with great power, just two chapters down. Now with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. Nor was there anyone among them who lacked lacked what financial things for all who were possessors of lands and houses. Not land or houses, land and houses. Jesus said, if you have two, give one. If you have one, keep it. Don't be naked and give yourself to others. Keep yourself covered and give the second one. That's why he said they had who were the possessors of lands and houses, sold them and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold and laid them at the feet of apostle. And they distributed to each other as everyone needed. From there Barnabas came. So see, the people were generous. They were not tithers only they were generous people. We are a generous church. We are a generous church. But I believe. I believe with my all heart. I'm not saying as a prophetic word, but I Believe with all my heart that days will come when God will give us properties just for the revival. God will give us. God will put our hands or things into our hands, those businesses or those properties, that. And we will sell and bring the proceeds like a million dollars, $500,000, $700,000, and say to pastor, okay, Pastor, okay, here's a check. We sold this possession and do what is in your heart and do. And then. Yet the Bible says none of them lacked. None of them lacked. How can you give? If you have a 5 million and you gave 4 million away, you are decreased. But the Bible says no one decreased there yet. Why? Because you are sowing directly into the work of God. You are sowing directly into the kingdom of God. You are sowing directly into the heart of the Father. And when Father sees this, that you are not a greedy. You are not a person who wants to just hoard, hoard, hoard, hoard. But when I give, give, give, he knows how to multiply you. He knows how to give you more. He knows how to increase and abound us. That's why Paul said, I know how to abase. I know how to abound. He has seen both. He started with abasement, but he knew the aboundment is mine too. So means when you want, when you become that generous person and not only thinking about this tithe and little offerings. Bible talks about Philippians 4:19. I know we all quote that scripture, but if you read the context of that chapter, it is about those, those Philippi people, the church people. They were not just tithers, they were givers, they were partners. If you read that whole chapter, they. They were part of a Philippi church which Paul started and they brought their tithes and offerings like you do over here. They did. But yet they were continuously. The word there is continuous means it was their habit to give Paul. Every time Paul was going through that, or they heard about Paul's going out or Paul's missions or Paul's trips, they were like, oh, let's sell this. Let's buy this. Let's do this. Why? Because we want to show something towards this vision. We want to sow something towards this one. Why? Because they found something called partnership. They found something called fellowship. They found something. They were contributors. They were contributors always towards Paul's vision. That's why Paul was so greatly touched with their giving. That's why Paul was so greatly moved within their heart and said, I have always. When I think about you, I have a joy in me. Not because they were Money givers. But they were so seed sowers. They tapped into the highest principle of giving. Highest principle is not tithing, guys. When you tithe, you give, you make God high in your life. That's the highest one faith. But when you say more than tithing, I'll start sowing. I'll start sowing the way I want to sow with the way God wants me to. And when you start doing that, that's the highest form, then you hit something that you have never hit. That's the flow of God. And I believe with all my heart, as the days are coming, as the years are coming, we will have certain things in our hands. Those who are led from now on, those who are prepping from now onwards, they will start possessing things that they will be able to sell. God will never say to you, sell your own house and do unless he's making you somewhere like he told Pastor Nancy and Brother Ed sell. And because he was giving them an anointing, certain kind of thing. But he will never say to you, if you have one house and sell, no, no. He will make you first abounding some place. He will make your hands around some things. And then when you start abounding, you know, I need to sell this and bring this money here. That's called generosity, guys. Tithing is not generosity. If you are tithing, you're not shooting the moon. You are basic giver. Tithing, tither is a basic giver. Yet there is a great reward for a tither. Yet there is a great reward for tithing. But tithering is a basic thing. Why? Because it belongs to God. And if you are giving a little bit offering great thing because you are showing towards your life, but you say, no, Lord, I'm not satisfied with this. Only I want to be a generous giver. Because Bible says those who give generously will receive generously. But it pleases you. When I give generously, I don't want my name, I don't want a title. I don't want a pastor to say from the pulpit and say, oh, guess who is the biggest giver of this church. Guess who, who gave the more? Guess. Chantel gave $1 million. If that's the heart, great, it means that's fine, everybody's different. But that's not my heart, Lord. I want to give so that your kingdom can go forward. The vision you have given to my pastor and my pastor's wife, it can go forward. I want to support that hundred percent. God will say, I see the heart, I see the Motives. Because money is a revealer of the motives. Money shows the heart. Before even you can open, rip your heart out. He shows the heart. And generosity is important. Generosity is important.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
The people of the early church, they were generous people. They were not stingy people. The churches in Philippi, the churches other, they were generous people.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
So we need to possess these qualities. We need to have these things inside of us so that we can prepare ourselves, so that the fire of God can come upon each soul. The fire of God can come upon each families. The fire of God can come and help us in our personal lives too. God is not just after his own purpose. Only God is after your purpose too. But when you say I want your purpose, God says, I'll make sure your purpose is fulfilled too.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
So you have to start focusing on that. Start preparing for that from now onwards. Start putting word in you more. Start putting the word final authority. Start putting the word and walking on the word. Start prayer life. Start maybe from five minutes. Start from 15 minutes. Start from half an hour, start from one hour. If you have more time in your hand, three hours, five hours. The person who prays five hours is not greater than the one who prays for 50 minutes. If you think that you are, then you are already prideful boy. Then you are already five hours wasting.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Everybody is different. Everybody's life is different. Everybody. God measures everybody differently. God can give somebody an anointing to pray, a spirit to pray. That person can pray 7 hours, 16 hours, 4 hours, 10 hours. I know certain people who pray 7 hours, 8 hours a day. But God has given them assignment. Your assignment is maybe to work in a law office for 12 hours a day. How can you pray eight hours? No, you may be doing 15. Your 15 will equal eight that guys. Because in God's eyes, He knows how to pick justice.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
And when you pray, you are praying to him, not to any man. And when you pray, you're not praying to show off to any man. You're praying, showing off. Because Jesus said, if you are just praying to show off to people, you have got the reward. But if you are closing the door and praying to me or the Father, he knows how to reward openly to you.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Put more word of God in you. Let the prayer life build. Let the altar built there. Let the purity of God, holiness of God and walking in those paths of holiness and the perfection. Strive for that. Strive for that, Aim for that. Don't say it's not possible. It's possible. Strive for that. Let the fear of God, awareness of God be around you all the time. When you're in shower, when you're outside, when you're anywhere, God is always with you. When you're dealing with a little boy, when you're dealing with an older man, when you're with a sinner, when you are with saint everywhere, be aware God is with you and watching you and hearing you and thinking about you and how you're treating others. He is watching you.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
And let the humility be in you. Don't think highly. Don't think you are superior. Don't think if you think your position is more better, you're already wrong.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
He said, in Christ, we all are the same.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Let humility, the grace of God come to you. Let the passion of souls burn in you. Let the passion of souls burn in you. And let your heart be full of going out for people, for Jesus and winning souls. And let you be generous this year.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Not under pressure. And just ask God what is generosity to me. Generosity to her can be different to generosity to you, to her and to her. It can be different for you. Maybe hundred dollars extra this year for somebody, maybe 50,000 extra. You cannot compare and say, hi sister, what was your receipt this year? But guess what I'm going to do this year. No, no, no. You don't tell people. You talk to God about that. Let God deal with you and tell you and lead you what is why he will lead you and guide you into your miracle to them.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
And then what? John said that I came to baptize you with water. But the one who is coming will baptize you with Holy Ghost and fire. That fire will come.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
He said, I came just to baptize you with water. But there's one whose sandal I'm not even the shoelaces I cannot tie. But he will come to baptize you with Holy Ghost and fire. And he has a threshing fork in his hand. He will put wheat and the chaff on the both sides means he'll put purity and impurity, the vessels right and the wrong on the side. And he'll say, let my fire come on the right ones and let them burn with me. And let them do what my father desired from years. And then we will do it.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
We are a one church for one vision.
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Congregation Member
Hallelujah.
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Pastor
Father, let us prepare. This year we all sit and talk with our family members. And prep things and do things. But let us prepare this year, Father, for that fire, for that purpose, for that presence, for that power that we are the vessels, Father, ready to be used in these days. We are the people ready to be used in these days, Father. Let us be, Father, those people who are full of you, full of your vigor, full of your spirit, full of your fire, Father, that we go out and do exploits, we do go out and do things. That this church becomes the fiery church, this altar becomes the fire of altar fire. That when people come, they feel the presence of God. When we go out in our neighborhoods, in our homes, in our other places, Father, workplaces, we take that fire with us so we can do things. Father, you have in your heart, Lord, help us to be full of word. Lord, help us to build our prayer life, Lord, help us to walk in that holiness, Lord, help us to have that awareness of you around us. Lord, help us to be humble all the time. Because certain times we feel proud. But Lord, help us to be humble, Lord, help us to have that passion of souls in us. And help us to be generous and our hands and hearts to be generous. So we can put our hands and heart towards your vision and do everything to fulfill your vision. And you will do everything to fulfill our vision. And we thank you for it. In Jesus name, Father, we say amen.