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Scriptures Referenced
13. Practice secret disciplines (giving, praying, fasting) —Matthew 6:1-18 Matthew 6:1-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Giving to the Poor and Prayer 1 “Be [very] careful not to do your [a]good deeds publicly, to be seen by men; otherwise you will have no reward [prepared and awaiting you] with your Father who is in heaven. 2 “So whenever you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not blow a trumpet before you [to advertise it], as the hypocrites do [like actors acting out a role] in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored and recognized and praised by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
3 But when you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing [give in complete secrecy],
4 so that your charitable acts will be done in secret; and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you. 5 “Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to pray [publicly] standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
6 But when you pray, go into your most private room, close the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
8 So do not be like them [praying as they do]; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9 “Pray, then, [b]in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, [c]Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘[d]Your kingdom come, Your [e]will be done On earth as it is in heaven. 11 ‘Give us this day our [f]daily bread. 12 ‘And forgive us our [g]debts, as we have forgiven our debtors [letting go of both the wrong and the resentment]. 13 ‘And do not [h]lead us into temptation, but deliver us from [i]evil. [j][For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’ 14 For if you forgive [k]others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive others [nurturing your hurt and anger with the result that it interferes with your relationship with God], then your Father will not forgive your trespasses. Fasting, The True Treasure, Wealth (Mammon) 16 “And whenever you are fasting, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on a sad and dismal face [like actors, discoloring their faces with ashes or dirt] so that their fasting may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
17 But when you fast, put oil on your head [as you normally would to groom your hair] and wash your face
18 so that your fasting will not be noticed by people, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily, 26 February 2016 Practice secret disciplines. Praying and fasting. Praying and fasting.
00:02 Brothers and sisters, yesterday we did giving to the poor and to give in secret, not like the Gentiles do, and not with selfish motives and all that. Brothers and sisters, today we are talking about praying and fasting in secret. Father, God wants us to do it secret.
00:31 Now let’s read that. That is from verse 5 Matthew 26, Matthew 6, Matthew 6, 5. Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites.
00:47 For they pray not just the Gentiles, not just unbelievers. Do not be like the hypocrites. So there are hypocrites within the church or within the children of God.
00:59 Do not also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray publicly standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they already have their reward in full. When you pray, go into your most private room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is in secret.
01:24 And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you, will reward you. And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be hurt because of their many words. So do not be like them, praying as they do.
01:42 For your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Brothers and sisters, this is a fantastic statement. It is a very important statement because many people don’t know, and they do this, and some people actually practice this hypocritical thing.
01:59 They begin to pray. I’ll pray for you, brother. I’ll pray for you.
02:01 I prayed for you, sister. I prayed for you. You lose your reward.
02:06 Don’t go around telling people that you prayed for somebody, because why are you telling people you prayed for somebody now? Why are you telling somebody? Our heart, our heart, our problem is our desperately wicked, righteously wicked heart. Our heart wants recognition. That’s why I prayed for you, brother.
02:27 Don’t worry, brother, you’ve done this. You’re going through this. I prayed for you.
02:31 We prayed for you. Is that necessary? Not necessary. If you pray, keep quiet now.
02:39 Unless in genuinity, in sincerity, you know, you need to encourage this person and say, then you see a group, don’t take yourself. I prayed for you. The church is praying for you, brother.
02:53 The church is praying for you, sister. That means you put a group so that you dilute your own importance. You dilute your own importance.
03:05 Why? We do not want you to lose your reward here. We don’t want you to lose your reward here. Because Jesus Christ says, then you pray like hypocrite.
03:13 You stand in the street corners and pray. And then you go and tell people you prayed and all that you already got your reward. Your reward is right.
03:21 Somebody says, thank you, isn’t it? Or somebody says, oh, they’re praying for me. Put a group, forget about yourself. Thereby the whole thing in Christ is denying ourselves and picking the cross, picking up our cross, denying ourselves.
03:35 Do not put our because our heart like this. It wants to be very important. And that is a demonic thing.
03:42 The devil is always talking to our heart. Our heart to become more and more and more important. We are more and more nothing.
03:51 The most lowest of us all here will be the highest in heaven. So look at this again. Look at this again.
03:59 So when you need to pray, somebody say, please pray for me. You see? Yes, thank Jesus Christ. But brother sister will teach you to pray even.
04:08 Why Jesus wants you to pray. He is your father. He wants you to pray.
04:11 He wants you to come to him. Don’t you think that is normal? As I repeatedly say that if a person has got few children, doesn’t he want you children to come talk to him? Not just one child, representing the whole lot. This is what parliament is.
04:29 One person is a congressman. And everybody all sit quiet. And the congressman comes reports or the parliamentarian comes a report.
04:37 Member of Parliament. No, he wants a relationship. If your father means he wants you to talk to him.
04:44 And now this question of secret room business. Now, most private room. Most private room.
04:49 Of course, it can be anywhere. Let us say you are among people. Most private room will be in your heart.
04:54 You can pray in your heart. Whatever you ask or think more than that will be done unto you. Which is according to his word.
04:56 Whatever you ask or think, think whatever you ask or think in line with his word. More than that he’ll blunt for you because he’s saying what? The Father knows what you need before you ask him. He knows.
05:14 Now your Father knows what you need before you ask him, but then he give it to you. Now that is why there’s another verse which says, if your earthly father, if your earthly fathers were wicked, he says, if their son asks for fish, will you give them a snake? If the earthly father gives you, if you ask the earthly Father and he says earthly fathers are wicked, if you ask the earthly father for bread, will he give a stone? No. Here.
05:44 How Much more. Your heavenly Father, who is holy, who is perfect, knows your need before you ask him, it will be done. This the faith we must come to, the faith we must come to is this.
05:54 Now the other thing is they call for corporate place. Now, this one is a meaningless repetition. Repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat.
06:02 Every religion does this. They have beads. All religions have beads.
06:07 In Jesus Christ there are no beads. There are no beads. Otherwise they’ll keep on hanging on to the beads for strength, for faith.
06:15 Your faith. You will not know. Without you realizing, your heart and mind will be drawn into the beads.
06:22 Jesus Christ says, I am Spirit, God is spirit. Worship me in spirit and in truth. But what happens if you keep on doing the beast business? And beads after beads after beast, your heart and mind unwittingly, unknowingly, undiscerningly will begin to go.
06:38 Faith in beasts. So much so people hang these beasts in the cars. All religious, I’m talking about, they hang in the beast, in their cars.
06:44 And all because the things are beastful. Protect them. Pity.
06:48 But that is how they’ve been duped or they’ve been taught or misunderstood or whatever. Those of you listening today, worship me. Heaven, Spirit and end Truth.
06:59 When you command the demon to go in the name of Jesus Christ, he will go. Now. Spirit of accident, if you are concerned of accident, spirit of accident, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to get out in the name of Jesus Christ.
07:10 And not to return. But at the same time, do not give the devil a foothold. Do not give the devil a foothold.
07:16 How do we give the devil a foothold? By allowing to follow the temptation. How does temptation come when we are drawn by our own heart desire? Temptation comes. When temptation is full blown, sin comes.
07:29 When sin is full blown blown, death comes. This is very clear. It’s very clear in James.
07:34 So how does temptation come? Temptation comes like that. We know how temptation comes. The devil talks to your heart.
07:41 But then the devil can only talk to your heart. When your heart is drawn by your own heart desire. It’s not.
07:47 Some translation will say, by your own heart’s evil desire. It’s not true. By your own heart desire, the devil will come talk to you.
07:55 Therefore we want God’s desire in our hearts. How does your own heart desire can end up in this? Let us say you’re looking for I must do medicine. I must do medicine.
08:07 I don’t have money. I must do medicine, my son. Must do medicine, must do medicine, must do medicine, must do.
08:13 And you don’t even have $20,000. This whole thing costs a few hundred thousand dollars. And the child couldn’t get a scholarship because some points are missing or some conditions in the country or whatever the economy couldn’t get.
08:25 But I must do, I must do. And then before you know it, you end up going, borrowing, borrowing, boring. You end up being sometimes end up stealing, end up borrowing and not able to pay, don’t pay all these things together.
08:37 And the sun finally may or may not even complete. Actually, that is why you need God’s desire. Now I must have a house, I must have rent a car.
08:46 And then a bank clerk. Finally he may do something with a check. Or you are in a company working for.
08:52 And you may do something with a petty cash or something because drawn by your own desire. What is so evil about wanting to do a big degree or wanting to have a house. But you become an obsession, you know, you say, Lord, I’ll be content with food and clothing.
09:10 Jesus Christ commands us to be content with food and clothing. Like that, content. But he says contentment with godliness, great gain, step by step.
09:20 Can you imagine? Your health will be good, things will come to you. He will take care of you in contentment, you’ll grow. I’ve seen this for many, many, many people at the same time.
09:31 Many don’t follow. But the road is narrow. Road is narrow.
09:35 And difficult is the way brothers and sisters today remember this me in English. Repetition, repeat, repeat. Why he says that for the Gentiles, for the unbelievers think they will be hurt because of their many words, God.
09:48 You think God cannot hear. But if you’re not born of the Spirit, you cannot know in your spirit, you will not know in your spirit that father God actually hears your prayer. That Jesus Christ actually hears a prayer.
09:59 So you pray blindly. You pray wanting something you want volition, really you want. But unless you’re born of the Spirit, you will not know inside you that your prayer actually connecting with God.
10:11 You will not know. Some hazy thing will happen and you will begin to go for it. Go for it, go for it.
10:18 Repeat and repeat and repeat. But if you know, even one single line of prayer would be enough, even what you think will be enough. Because you say, I accept all Jesus Christ because your will for me is the best.
10:30 The other thing, people can’t accept what Jesus Christ is saying. Why they do not know or do not believe in their heart that Jesus Christ will do the best for you. Best, best for you.
10:42 And then right now they have thought called corporate prayers. What happens now? This happened in America. But now they all want some people calling for corporate prayer and fasting so that they get the right politician as a president.
10:57 Brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ, I already dealt this before. Jesus Christ clearly said, my kingdom is not of this world. My kingdom is not of this world.
11:06 This corporate prayer and fasting is in the Old Testament whereby he says, if people will turn from the wicked ways by fasting, I will answer them and then heal their land. First of all, in Jesus Christ, we are a holy nation. We are not an earthly nation.
11:27 Our nation is not here. We are citizens of heaven. But what do they do, these people, unknowingly or for their own benefit? They begin to get a lot of people to pray for something.
11:38 And what they then don’t do is do not check year by year. When you got a whole lot of Christians to pray or fast, did it work? Did it work? They won’t check that. They won’t put the statistics for that.
11:52 You find that actually many countries, these Christians who are misled call people all their own agenda. You know, they want to look good. They want to look good to the, to the, to the government of the land or to other people.
12:07 We are praying for this country. We are praying. They want to look good.
12:10 So remember some of the leaders calling for corporate prayer also, they themselves may want to look good. We don’t know all this, of course, they may be sincere and actually sincerely wrong. There are people who are sincere but sincerely wrong.
12:23 So they begin to get people all together pray. But then they are not going to check every year. Now you as a believer of Christ, a disciple of Jesus Christ, you better ask yourself, don’t listen to me.
12:35 You ask yourself. Because God has given us a sound mind. Ask yourself and see whether this is true.
12:43 Now remember, our land is a holy nation. We are going to pray for people to be saved, to be got out of their blindness, get out of their misery, send the captives free. We are going to pray for casting out evil spirits, teaching people there are so many things to do.
13:01 It’s a very busy day actually for me. It’s busy day for disciples. It’s a very busy day daily.
13:07 So many things to do. Now, brothers and sisters, so don’t get caught in all this. The Father God will need what you need before you ask him.
13:15 He knows already in verse eight. So let us now do that. Now the same thing with the fasting.
13:23 Fasting through treasure and wealth. 16 it says, Whenever you’re fasting, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on A sad and dismal face. Like actors discolouring their faces with ashes or dirt so that their fasting may be seen by men.
13:39 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they already have their reward in full. I am fasting today. I’m fasting today.
13:47 Your fasting keeps quiet. Keep quiet. Command your heart to shut up because you don’t want people to know why you want.
13:53 That’s your intention. But finally people know. Okay, that’s it.
13:57 It’s okay. But your intention should be clear. That’s what God goes by, intention.
14:02 Your intention is you want to fast in secret. If people know, people ask. Then suppose you’re sitting there for some meeting or some lunch.
14:09 Then they went for lunch, brought food. Then you can say, among Christians, today, I’m fasting. But your intention must be clear.
14:16 Your heart is not seeking, oh, I’m fasting. That is intentional. So you have to say you’re fasting because somebody offering you food so you don’t offend them.
14:25 That’s okay. That’s good. Tell them.
14:27 So therefore, everything God wants us to do in secret and we need to tell, we will tell. But that is told in the spirit of humility and not trying to get the reward for trying to get people to look at you and say you are fasting or whatever. Brothers and sisters, remember.
14:41 Then he said, put oil on your head as you normally would, to groom your hands, wash your face, so that your fasting will not be noticed by people. It doesn’t want us to be noticed. But by your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you.
14:55 Now this statement, your father who is in secret, your father who is in secret. Can you imagine? And your father who sees in secret will reward you. Who is in secret means he is in the most holy place.
15:08 He is in the fact. You have to see Kim diligently to find him. Because he is in secret.
15:08 He is in a secret place. He is not available to everyone. He is only available to those who want him.
15:22 That’s why the word is, your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you. Brothers and sisters, today, same thing. So why do we fast in the New Testament? It’s not the Old Testament.
15:36 People think you fast and God will do something. It is not like that anymore. We are children of God.
15:41 Jesus Christ is inside you. Jesus Christ inside you. So your father was in secret.
15:47 Now Jesus Christ, also your father, he’s inside us. So now, and we are in Jesus Christ. So we are already inside there.
15:56 So we are not going to look for him in a secret place. He is inside me. So, brothers and sisters, today you fast so that your character will change.
16:05 You will overcome sin, you will overcome temptations. Your heart will change. You’ll become more and more like Christ.
16:11 That’s why you fast to kill the flesh, to kill your body’s desire, to deny yourself, become the cross. That’s why you fast. You fast for that reason.
16:18 You don’t fast to get reward from God. He’s already promised that whatever your needs will be settled. And he sees us through.
16:26 His promises are yes and yes and amen. So do not fast to get something from Jesus Christ. Do you remember? Do you fast to go get something from your earthly father? No.
16:36 You ask him in faith. You ask Him. But what is not amiss? Ask him what is right.
16:42 He will give it to you. What is wrong for you, what can damage you. He won’t give it to you.
16:45 Brother and sisters, today remember, Jesus is in you. You are in Jesus Christ. You are a holy priest.
16:52 Let’s go and be a holy priest. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
2 Corinthians 9:7 Amplified Bible (AMP) 7 Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift].
1 Peter 5:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.
Mark 9:42-50 Amplified Bible (AMP)
42 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe and trust in Me to stumble [that is, to sin or lose faith], it would be better for him if a heavy millstone [one requiring a donkey’s strength to turn it] were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43 If your hand causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It is better for you to enter life crippled, than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, 44 [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.] 45 If your foot causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It would be better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell, 46 [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.] 47 If your eye causes you to stumble and sin, throw it out [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It would be better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out. 49 “For everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good and useful; but if salt has lost its saltiness (purpose), how will you make it salty? Have salt within yourselves continually, and be at peace with one another.”
John 14:15 Amplified Bible (AMP) 15 “If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 33 Don’t be fooled. “Bad company ruins good character.”
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Amplified Bible (AMP) 22 Abstain from every form of evil [withdraw and keep away from it].
Matthew 17:21 Amplified Bible (AMP) 21 [But this kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting.]”
Romans 8:34 Amplified Bible (AMP) 34 Who is the one who condemns us? Christ Jesus is the One who died [to pay our penalty], and more than that, who was raised [from the dead], and who is at the right hand of God interceding [with the Father] for us.
Hebrews 7:25 Amplified Bible (AMP) 25 Therefore He is able also to save forever (completely, perfectly, for eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede and intervene on their behalf [with God].
Romans 8:26-27 Amplified Bible (AMP) Our Victory in Christ 26 In the same way the Spirit [comes to us and] helps us in our weakness. We do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the Spirit Himself [knows our need and at the right time] intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too deep for words. 27 And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit intercedes [before God] on behalf of God’s people in accordance with God’s will.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the Power of Christ Daily 31st December 2015 how to overcome Temptation how to overcome Temptation Brothers and sisters, this is an important topic because the fundamental. First of all, you have to go back to the fundamental. If someone is practicing sin, on and on and on, the same sin or any other sin, practicing sin, then the question arises whether they are actually born again.
00:31 Born of the Spirit. Born of the Spirit means you are trusting in Christ, you are believing in your heart, you are confessed with your mouth that you are a sinner, you have sinned and all that. And whenever it happens, whenever you fall in sin, it can happen because we are still in the world and we are being transformed from glory to glory.
00:53 But if you do sin immediately, there is a conviction. The Holy Spirit will be convicting you and you will feel terrible. Not because people have found out about you or there are consequences to the sin.
01:04 Because what you sow, you will reap that will take place. And not because of that. Because you sinned against Christ, you sinned against Christ, you sinned against somebody.
01:15 Suppose it is an adultery thing like what I was before I was born again, it sinned again. When I became born again, I knew I sinned against my wife. I caused a lot of harm to my family.
01:27 You are feeling remorse because of what you’re doing and causing trouble to other people. You have caused this kind of problem. That comes not because, oh, I’ve been found out, so I feel terrible.
01:38 So I want to get out of the sin. That’s not going to continue. It’s not going to work.
01:43 First you have to check whether you actually are born of the Spirit. Born of the Spirit means your heart believes that Jesus Christ is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And he died for you and rose again.
01:54 He suffered and took all your punishment, all your curses, all your sins, and was all that nailed on the cross and he went to Hell for you and rose again. You have to check that portion, the first portion first. Start the first step.
02:10 Do you really believe Jesus Christ is the King of Kings? Is it your Lord and Master? Is he really your Lord and Master? Because he may be a Lord and Master in some parts and may not Lord and Master in other parts. Then it’s not your Lord and Master. There is no, no half Lord and master, half, no Lord and Master.
02:28 He is your Lord and Master for all those born again. He is our Lord and Master, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. What he says is final.
02:38 So to lean on his words to look for his scriptures, to lean on it, to believe in him. Because the word of God is Jesus Christ, the son of the living God, brothers and sisters. So first you have to examine yourself in that and look at all the sins that we are committing so that we do not repeat these things.
02:59 Because temptation comes out first of all, remember, the familiar spirit will begin to talk to your heart. Our hearts are fallen nature. The familiar spirit will be assigned to you.
03:11 A demon will begin to talk to your heart, to tempt your heart to do something. But after a while it has become your second nature to sin, to sin and sin. Because you keep on forgetting about Jesus Christ, forgetting about sin, forgetting about harming people.
03:26 The three commandments. Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. Love one another as I’ve loved you.
03:33 That is for the congregation, the followers of Christ among each other. Love your neighbor as yourself and you will live. So you have to check, are you loving your neighbor as yourself? If you are not loving your neighbor as yourself, then obviously you are not wanting to or you really do not know.
03:51 Maybe you are not born again. Now brothers and sisters, first you have to decide that are you really born again? You want to be born again or not? You want to turn to Christ and say, from today I dedicate my life completely to you. You are my king and master, Lord.
04:07 Whatever you say, Lord, I will obey. I want to obey. First there’s a purposing in your heart.
04:12 There’s a scripture of a giving that when you give what you purpose in your heart, same thing. The purpose in your heart is important. The purposing in your heart is important.
04:22 So you purpose in your heart to be a child of God. To love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. And love one another as he has loved us.
04:31 And love your neighbour as yourself. You purpose that first. That is the conduct that will show that whether your heart is actually believed and you are actually born again.
04:42 Now next thing is to remember scripture. First is to check your heart whether you are born again. Really.
04:49 If not, you have to go and do something. Go to Jesus. Go to Jesus.
04:53 There’s nobody can help you. Everybody can teach you, including me. That’s all you can do.
04:58 But finally the reason is yours. God does not override your will. Your will is with you.
05:04 You override your heart and mind. God wants you to override your heart and mind. And that we can do it by the blood of Jesus Christ, by the name of Jesus Christ, we can override.
05:13 Now first Peter 5:8. So there is hope. There Is hope.
05:17 Because he has died and given his blood to us. He has given us his name. He has given us his name.
05:23 And we go and do these things. Oh, cannot become all right. We can overcome.
05:29 Why? Because he has given, suffered like that to give us this. And he says we can. That means he can.
05:34 When Jesus says you can, you can. He says, if the truth first. Peter 5:8.
05:39 He says, that enemy of yours, the devil, the devil walks about like a roaring lion, fiercely hungry, seeking someone to swallow and just try to swallow earth. So, brothers and sisters, you have to remember some scriptures. There is a devil walking around to steal your soul.
05:57 So if you completely ignore this fella, this devil will find this all of you. So it cannot. You have to.
06:04 Now look at it. My heart is wicked. It’s always doing something.
06:08 My mind must be renewed. Renew the spirit of your mind. Now you have to go back to the Word to wash your mind.
06:13 Wash the water by the Word. Wash the water by the Word. So you begin to read the Word of God again and again.
06:21 So many people, I find that they fall into sin and not coming out or whatever is because they have been washing their water with the Word of God. They’ve not been seeking the Word of God. They’ve not been meditating on the Word of God.
06:33 If every day you meditate before going to sleep about how every small thing that you went against, you want to settle it. You want to be presented as a pure, chaste virgin to Christ. Because your soul, we are the bride of Christ as a church.
06:50 Now, if your hand causes you to stumble and sin, Mark 9:42. Cut it off. He says, if the food causes you stumble in sin, cut it off.
06:58 Remove yourself from the source of temptation. The Bible says remove yourself. That means you have to remove the source of temptation and sin.
07:07 Suppose the Internet is causing you this. You have cut off the Internet for you. Oh, but I am working without Internet.
07:14 I won’t survive without Internet I can’t do my work. Without Internet, I cannot earn a living. Yes, this is the problem right now.
07:21 Brother or sister is a deep thing. The pornography and all that coming through them, you cannot overcome. So first I’ll continue thinking the Word of God.
07:30 The first. You stop first. You stop first.
07:34 Why you stop first? Because it’s killing you. But then how do I do it? We’ll come to that. We’ll come to that.
07:40 I go on teaching here from the Word of God. It’ll come to that. And God says, bad company wins.
07:45 Good character, Rigza. Bad company so get rid of the company, first get rid of the company. If the TV is your bad company, get rid of the tv.
07:54 If the Internet is a bad company, get rid of the Internet. And for the Internet thing, then you make other first you stop, you begin to repent. Then you see Matthew 17:21.
08:07 This kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting. Fast and pray, fast and pray until this thing breaks. Because you want to be holy in Christ.
08:18 You want to please Jesus Christ. If you love me, keep my commandments and his commandments. All of you know the Hebrew.
08:26 One of the translations is interpretation is authoritative prescription. This prescription will save your soul, save our souls. Like when you go to doctor, it is a prescription.
08:38 You go to pharmacy, get the month, get the medicine and take. It’s a prescription for your physical body, but it’s a prescription for the soul. If you love me, keep my commandments.
08:48 Abstain. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 abstain from all kinds of evil. Some translation will say flee.
08:55 Some places will say flee from every form of evil, every semblance of evil, anything looking evil, you run away. You run away. How? Oh, your body want to love you.
09:06 Your heart and mind want to love you. Yes. Blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus.
09:11 In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every wicked thought to get out. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every wicked thought and everything in my heart to be clean.
09:20 Lord, merciful Lord, mercy, show mercy for me to overcome this. Lord, overcome. Make me overcome.
09:27 In the name of Jesus Christ, I ask the Holy Spirit to make me overcome. I ask the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ to make me overcome. Overcome every sin.
09:37 So in the name of Jesus Christ, ask the Holy Spirit to shake me up before even I’m going near some place of evil, some things of evil, some connection, whether in the Internet or whatever, or links in the Internet or even going to see people or even the office to flee from all semblance. Evil make me flee. Anything looking evil, let me flee.
09:58 I want to be presented. Yes, Bhajan Lord, your Holy Spirit, your God, yourself. So you begin to pray and pray from your heart.
10:07 From your heart. You have to pray. And some things that clearly said here does not God accept by prayer and fasting.
10:15 Matthew 17:21 so there are demons who have caught you. So somewhere spirit talks to your heart and then another bigger demon comes and catches your heart and it enters you and you are in this mess. Now then Jesus Christ 8:34 is interceding for us.
10:33 He himself is interceding for us with Father God and the Holy Spirit also interceding for us. Now when Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ are interceding and intervening on our behalf all the time, we should be overcome. But we are not.
10:50 Overcoming means you are not turning to the Holy Spirit, you are not turning to Jesus Christ. First you have to turn to Jesus Christ. Because it is Jesus Christ who sent the helper.
11:00 Father God sent the helper. Jesus said, I have to go. So Father God can send a helper to you.
11:06 And he will bring to memory all that I have spoken unto you. Now remember, brothers and sisters, he can only bring to memory what you have gone and leaned on the word of God. The word of God will come and convict you at that time and you run away.
11:22 But if you have been practicing sin, you have to think you have step by step gone that way. And what you sow, you will reap. You cannot get out of those things and you have to pray.
11:33 Supposing you keep on smoking, smoking, smoking something. Finally the lung got some disease. What to do? That’s why God said, those who do not defile the temple of God do not defile the temple of God.
11:49 Of course, some people learn to excuse themselves. It’s not what goes in that is sin. What comes out isn’t true.
11:56 Because what comes out, God said it from the depth of your heart. When abundance of your heart, the mouth will speak. Your heart is filled with such rubbish, your mouth will speak that rubbish Jesus has said.
12:07 So what goes in it doesn’t defile the man through the food. He’s talking about the food. But remember this, keep the temple of God holy means first of all, you do not want to damage this temple.
12:21 Why? Jesus Christ died on the cross. So you have power to keep health. If the health goes without you doing anything, let us say there is a virus running around, a SARS or something.
12:33 Then we ask for mercy. Because the world has become so wicked, so difficult. The world system is the devil system.
12:41 Then we can’t do anything. We ask for mercy and Jesus still shows mercy. And when it’s time to go home, we leave our casing here, the tent, as apostle Peter said, and we go home.
12:52 But if you listening things in the Internet and your heart is meditating on worldly things, then you will fall into sin. You will never come out. You need to go and fast and pray.
13:06 Because your heart has to be controlled, overcome. To do that, your mind has to be renewed. Without the mind renewing, your heart cannot change.
13:16 The mind must be renewed in Christ. So there are people so many years practicing sin, practicing. And then of course you can practice in hidden way.
13:26 Nobody knows. But the devil will know. The Holy Spirit knows and God knows.
13:31 So even if the Holy Spirit is not in you, because you are not born again, God knows. But of course God loves you. There is hope in Christ.
13:40 But you have to turn. He will not take your will away. Father.
13:44 God will not take your will away. The will is with you. You have to be willingly going to Christ.
13:49 You must be willingly wanting to lean on the word of God. You must willingly want to obey. Willing.
13:56 Willing. That also you can make a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. I command my heart and mind to be willing to obey the word of God.
14:04 This is all prayer talking, you know, because you see the word of God that gives us a signal, isn’t it? It’s the word of God. So how do we change is by the word of God. How do we change? By giving commands.
14:17 Matthew 16:17, Mark 16:17. He says, what in the name of Jesus Christ you cast out evil spirits. And he told the sea to be calm.
14:27 Jesus told the sea to be calm. The sea became like glass. So you can command your heart to be calm and reject all sin.
14:33 You can command your mind to crave for the word of God. You can do so many things. This is not.
14:40 You’re left alone as an orphan here. And you continue sinning. No, no.
14:44 And suffering the consequences. No need. I was a terrible sinner.
14:49 But once I came to Christ. Finally God only arranges circumstances and pulls you. Finally, if you are sinning and sinning, that also I believe, by God’s mercy will happen.
14:58 Things will go wrong, because by default we are sinning. So things will go so wrong here and there. Because a soul that sinneth will surely die.
15:06 That is the word of God. So your body begins to get trouble. Relationship will be breaking, everything will be sinking.
15:12 Then finally, when the pain is so much in your heart and soul, you can become a brokenhearted and brokenhearted. God says he is near to save. The word of God says when a person is brokenhearted, he is near to save.
15:25 And then a contrite spirit he saves. He doesn’t. This is a condition he has put.
15:32 Brokenhearted is near to save. A contrite spirit he saves. So you don’t have a contrite spirit.
15:38 He cannot save because that’s his command. God is true. He cannot change his own command.
15:44 Contrite spirit is. I am wrong. I don’t want to sin anymore.
15:48 I need Jesus Christ the Savior, the only one who went on the cross for me. In the name of Jesus Christ. I sinned against man, I sinned against Jesus Christ.
15:57 And if you are a Christian, if you are lying and lying and lying, you are sinning against the Holy Spirit also. Why you are grieving the Holy Spirit? Why are you grieving the Holy Spirit? Because you know that is what suddenly happened in Ngannyas. And they sold a piece of land and then they came and told the church, this is the value of the land.
16:17 We got money and give to the church. They giving some to the church. And then Peter said, why are you sinning? Why you’re telling lies about the lie that’s yours.
16:26 The prophecy is yours. He’s going to tell the truth. Lying is a big issue, brothers and sisters.
16:30 All lies burn a lake of fire. Or God already said, but there is hope for you. But by quoting the scripture, oh, you are condemning me.
16:38 No, the word of God is coming into you. Anybody quoting the word of God to you, you have to decide whether the word of God applies to you at that time. It applies.
16:47 Repent, brother. Repent and change. I’ve told so many scriptures are there for us.
16:52 In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray for mercy for all those who are suffering in sin. Amen.
