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We are having the concluding session of the GDOP.
We have this for 2 main purposes. First to intercede for the nations of and then to pray for God's people, to pray for the churches of Christ around the world. For his work in the ends of the earth.
"The son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost". Jesus said so. No other man said that. Jesus came to save man's life. He is the only called Savior and that hasn't changed.
We had a glorious time from Tuesday to Friday. I had an amazing time in India.
Meeting the individuals personally helps you feel the love of Christ. It was India's moment.
When you come to a nation the first thing that God wants you to do is go to the shepherds. They are like Gatekeepers. If they open to you, the blessings that God gave you to give to them will get to them. But if they don't, the blessing will not get to them.
We re going to have a marvelous time in the near future. I'm coming back to India. And just as I came by the holy Ghost, I come again by the holy Ghost.
Our Lord exactly what to do. Never forget.
During the last couple of weeks, we had a couple of programs and one of them was the Night of Bliss in Nigeria. Specially designed for them for a reason. We had so many centres at once primarily because there couldnt be a single venue at once.
The last time we had a crusade, we had over 3 million people and we shut down the city for 2 days. That was too much. So once the Lord gave us the direction, we had to do it in multiplied centres.
That was huge because each centre had lots of people. During the communion service we will have time to show highlights of the program and say a few things about it
As well as the program in India.
The scriptures tell us from 1 Tim 2:1-3...
He guides us in prayer. He tells us how to pray for all men; all people of all nations. The Lord would rather have them come to the knowledge of the truth. People are generally ignorant of the truth unless they are given divine knowledge.
We are going to pray for all nations, that they may come to the knowledge of the truth.
Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life". The knowledge of the truth is to get to know who Jesus truly is.
Who is Jesus?
That is the question of the hour and the question for all nations.
Everyone has heard about Jesus but they don't know who he truly is.
Remember the passion when Saul of Tarsus was going to Damascus to arrest every Christian he could find. He made Havoc of the church because he truly believed that they were wrong. He believed Jesus was an ordinary man. He knew about the crucixion and death of Jesus, but he believed like others that the disciples stole his body. So he was angry with the Christians persecuting them from City to city. He was given authority by the leaders of the nation to arrest them and throw them to Jail.
But on this occasion, a light shine on him from heaven. In his own report the light was brighter than the noon day sun.
You can't look directly at the noon day sun.
But this light was brighter.
He heard a voice call out to him from the light. The Voice was the Same Jesus that he believed was dead and gone.
He didn't believe Jesus ressurected. Yet this Jesus called him by his first name.
Jesus told Saul that was he was doing was not going to work out for him.
The power of God's presence was so strong that Saul was blinded by the glory of it.
Someone had to lead him by the hand into the city.
Later on the Master told him what his mission in life was.
This man was killed after facing so many persecutions. He was thrown into jail and eventually sentenced to death because of this message.
If he faked the story why would he do something that would make him lose everything...
He was a man of respect. Known by the leaders...
Why would he take a story that would make him lose everything...
Get jailed several times..
And sentenced to death...just for the Story.
To stop all the troubles of his life all he would have needed to do was deny the story.
If he had denied it, they would let him go.
They punished him because he insisted that the story was true. He died for this.
All the apostles died for telling this same story; that Jesus ressurected.
They put their lives on the line for this because they knew it was true.
They saw the man die
They saw him after his death.
They related with him after his death.
In their very presence they saw him ascend to heaven in bodily form.
No, you can't see that and deny it.
They saw he was truly who he claimed to be.
We are praying for the nations of the world to come to the knowledge of the truth about Jesus. That he will make himself known to them.
That's the beautiful thing about him; He makes himself known.
(Prayers)
We are going to pray again and this time...the Bible shows us how to engage the forces of darkness through prayer. This is very important.
Ephesians 6:10-
He tells us to depend completely in His power, not our abilities, but in the power of his might. He is mighty to save.
We wrestle against forces of darkness.
Human beings are not our enemies.
There are forces and evil spirits that control acts of wickedness around the world. They are responsible for the evil we see around the world.
V13: The evil day is that day that the forces of darkness think they have a chance at you, and they try to come against you. On such occasion, you will be able to withstand and remain standing.
Always stand against them, overcome them and remain standing.
V15-16
Your faith, your trust in God's word, is a shield. With your faith, you shall be able to quench and frustrate all the fiery darts of the wicked. They can't have advantage over you.
V17-18. How do you pray in the spirit? Praying in tongues and with groanings of the spirit.
We engage these spiritual forces in the realm of the spirit. And as we pray we declare our understanding of the word in the realm of the spirit. We use the word of God as our weapon. The rhema of God is the spoken word. You take what God has already said and speak them in consonance.
On the basis of what He said, you make declarations. That is the sword of the spirit.
We make declarations and we speak in tongues. As we do so, we overwhelm the forces of Darkness. (We don't get overwhelmed by them).
Right now we are going to pray in this way.
We break the hold of the forces of darkness over the leaders of the nations. We overwhelm them
(Prayers)
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