Bible Seminar Vol.1 Part 2

One thing is sudden.
If you stick to the Word, you will come back with a testimony.
What God wants to give in your life is not a healing.
What God wants to give in your life is not a job.
What God wants to give in your life is not money.
What God wants to give you is the Word of God in your spirit.
It'll make you what it talks about.
And you are shining, and you are shining by the power of the Holy Ghost.
You are shining by the power of the Holy Ghost.
You are shining and nothing can stop you.
It is your season.
It is your time.
Nothing can hinder you.
This is your time.
This is your hour.
Mabel is yours.

All right.
So Luke's Gospel chapter number 10 from verse 38.

Now while they were on their way, I'm reading from the Amplified Translation.
It occurred that Jesus entered a certain village and a woman named Matha received and welcomed him into her house.
And she had a sister named Mary who seated herself at the Lord's feet and was listening to his teaching.
But Matha, overly occupied and too busy, was distracted with much serving and she came up to him and said, Lord,
Is it nothing to you that my sister has left me to serve alone?
Tell her then to help me, to lend a hand and do her part along with me.
For the Lord replied to her by saying, matter, matter, you're anxious and troubled about many things.
You're anxious and troubled about many things.
That's what Jesus said to her.
He said, you're anxious and troubled about many things.
And when we read from the new national version, he said, you're worried and upset about many things.
That's what the Lord said to the woman.
You're worried and upset about many things.
Jesus knew matter was worried and upset about many things.
Sometimes we get upset about many things.
The Lord said about many things, not just about something.
The Lord knew that our complaint about her sister Mary not coming to join her in the servant had nothing to do with the servant for that day.
There was a long story behind it.
The master said, matter, you are worried and upset.
You're troubled and upset about many things.
Did you ever get to that place in your life where you were troubled and upset about many things?
Many things about your job, many things about your relationship with somebody, many things about even where you live.
And then you're upset.
And you know when you're upset,
Many things begin to happen.
You get frustrated, and the frustration reveals itself in so many things, so many ways.
You become easily angry, easily offended.
Someone talks to you, and your reply is strange.
You normally wouldn't talk like that, but you're upset.
So many things are going through your mind.
And what's actually happening is your experiences are now irreducing a character into your life.
They're changing you.
You're no longer that kindly, well-mannered you you used to be, that friendly person you used to be.
It's changing you now.
What you're going through is changing you.
And the Lord said, matter, matter, you're worried and upset about many things.
He didn't say you're worried and upset about your sister.
No, he said about many things.

Why are you in your life?
Are you worried and upset about many things?
It's possible.
You can be worried and upset about many things.
And they say, what's the problem?
You said there are a lot of problems.
Don't even know where to start from.
A lot of problems.
That means you are not enjoying your life.
You're not enjoying the life that God gave you.
And so you're not an effective witness for Jesus Christ because you have become a candidate needing some kind of administration.
You're in need.
You are the needy.
Someone needs to cancel you.
Someone needs to intercede for you now so you should remain in the faith.
So it's become a problem.
How can you effectively help someone else enjoy his life in Christ when you are not enjoying that life yourself?
What we received is a gospel.
Gospel is good news.
And if it's not working good for you, something's wrong.
Yesterday, we started out to explain how that God has given us a life to enjoy.
And that one of the things that God wants us to have in our lives is joy.
And we want to define joy.
So we can have a joyful life always, but it's a choice.
It's a choice.
You can leave it frustrated life just because there's someone who you think doesn't like you.
And you can live all your life.
You can live so many years, so many months, so many weeks trying to prove yourself to that person and you don't need it.
So instead of enjoying your life, you're spending time trying to be something else, because you see, you're trying to appeal to what whoever it is thinks about you.
Do you ever find yourself trying to live in a way, soul, you can be better appreciated?
That would not be you.
That'll be someone else.
If you don't enjoy yourself, no one will enjoy you.
Learn to enjoy yourself.
Learn to be happy about yourself.
Start out there.
Start out there.
Appreciate yourself.
Appreciate yourself.
Remember something.
You know, the greatest gift you could give to anybody is yourself.
Right?
You can't have anything that's greater than you.
And so when we say that we've given our lives to Christ, we're thinking we've given him the greatest gift because he gave us his life.
He gave us the greatest gift.
He laid down his life for us.
So I'm thinking, all right, I'm gonna give God my life.
But the life I'm giving him is a frustrated, broken life on repentant, on forgiving.
And I don't wanna change it.
Then he gives me the tools to change it.
And I ignored the tools.
And every day I'm living in a frustrated life.
So that's not good for God.
It's not good for God.
We said yesterday, God made us to be happy for Himself.
Listen, He created us for Himself to derive pleasure in us
He made us for himself to make himself happy.
I don't know if I'm stressing it enough.
God wanted to be happy and made us for his own pleasure.
So I said, I think that's selfish.
I don't blame you.
Because you have a brain.
If it didn't give you one, you wouldn't even think.
No, because now we have the clay trying to talk to the potter and to say, why did you make me this way?
You mean you made me for yourself?
He made you.
And you question the one who made you.
It's nonsense.
You're supposed to say, wow, you made me.
You must be really great.
You mean you made me?
You must be something.
Think about it.
But if God made you, he must be really cool.
Yes, he must be something.
No matter what you think about you, this complicated, whatever it is, called you, whoever made you must be something.
What do you think?
If you found out that he made you, hold you different.
If you found out that truly he made you, hold you different.
Would you say, wow, how can I outsmart him?
He made you.
What do you think?
He must be smarter than you.
No, if God, if God stepped down now and he reduced himself to you and said to you, hello, I made you.
And you believed him.
What would you do?
Talk to me.
No, if he told you, I made you and you found out that he did and you agreed with him that he did.
What would you do with that?
I mean, that information would be something.
So, what would you do with it?
Will you be looking at it like, wow.
What would you do with it?
Come on.
Again?
You were?
You were?
Thank you.

I would think the first thing you should say to him is, why?
Yeah, because he didn't ask him to.
And then he introduces himself and says, I made you.
You say, why?
Then he says, for my pleasure.
But you see, that's the reality.
That's the truth about it.
That's exactly what has happened.
And that's what he's trying to get across to us, that he made us for his own pleasure.
And I told you yesterday, if it's true that he made us for his own pleasure, then it means that he delights in us.
It means that he's happy about us.
He wants to be happy about us.
And if he wants to be happy about us, then he wants us happy.
Because if we're not happy, he can't be happy about us.
And then I read you several scriptures to show you that God loves us and that God wants us happy and prosperous and joyful and that God delights in us.
and warns us to enjoy the life that he's given us.
So, when should we enjoy it?
Now, every day.
Every day should be a good day.
I have a good day every day.
I made up my mind a long time ago, years ago.
And once I decided, because I found it in the Word, once I decided, I set my sale and I went for it.
And it's been every day, a day of victory, every day, a day of joy, every day, a day of fulfillment, every day, every day, every day.
Someone said, do you mean that you don't face challenges?
I don't know what you mean by challenges.
But if you mean things that happen, and you've got to put your faith to work, then, farically, yes.
But there are things that I thrive in.
Yeah, because I've found out if I don't have the opportunity to stretch my faith, to put my faith to work, I said thinking is something wrong.
You know, because I learned that if you have little kids, and there isn't any noise for a while, better find out what they're up to.
So I think that if the devil is not troubling, and nothing is happening, no trouble, everything is cool and calm, I start wondering, does the devil try and do something somewhere?
Because I always like to keep him somewhere where he ought to be.
So I don't mind him causing some trouble.
When he causes trouble, I say, yeah, that means I'm dealing with him, that's why.
So for me, life is always prosperous, always successful, always joyful, always, always, absolutely.
Now, you either agree with that or you listen to some of the folks who will tell you, life is full of ups and downs.
That's their experience.
I know that that's their experience, because that's their communication.
That's what they found with God.
It's up today and down tomorrow.
They're happy today and not very happy tomorrow.
Some prayers are answered, well, and some are not answered.
So they're not sure where they are with God.
So the Christianity is like a speculation.
I don't think that's the way the Word of God ought to be.
I think we are successful every day.
And it only gets better because the Word of God tells us that the part of the righteous is as the shining light that shines brighter and brighter onto the perfect day.
Hallelujah.
Glory to His name forever.
And so this matter was troubled and upset.
And Jesus knew.
And Jesus said something to her, like us to read it.
I already gained from verse 41, matter, matter, the Lord answered.
You're worried and upset about many things.
But only one thing is needed.
Only one thing is needed.
Only one thing is needed.
Mary has chosen what is better.
That's that one thing that's needed.
It will not be taken away from her.
That's what the Lord said.
It will not be taken away from her.
See, people who are upset and unhappy and frustrated like to take from others who are happy
that thing that makes them happy.
Because when you're frustrated, you don't know, you have no reason why someone else should be so happy.
Did you ever feel like maybe a sense of frustration, with a sense of urgency, and while you're there, you don't feel like laughing, and some fellow just comes laughing and looking happy?
Get out of here.
You've just knocked the joy out of him.
Because you don't think that's the moment you're having a frustration moment, see, and you like to protect it.
Yeah.
Have you ever seen people who love to, they love their trouble?
They like it when some people are against them.
And so they talk about it.
They protect the problem.
They keep talking about how they were mistreated by someone and then the other one and then the other one.
Well, such is life.
They feel like they're going through something and they love it.
They don't want to come out of it.
They love to go through this persecution as it were.
And the feeling that they are alone.
and persecuted.
And they don't have friends except you that they can talk to.
You are the only one I can tell these things, you know?
And you keep telling him or telling her and she's just listening to your stories.
Things just never get better.
Three weeks later, you're back again.
It's the same story.
It just never changes.
And you are secretly happy to be going through this thing.
Because if you're not going through it,
You're not yourself.
How many of you like trouble?
You said, no, I don't like trouble.
I don't really like trouble.
But why do you preserve your trouble?
Why do you preserve it?
Why do you protect it?
Why do you love it so much?
I'll give you a simple example so you can know how you love trouble sometimes.
Imagine that someone has offended you and you're waiting for that person to come and apologize.
and then he's not coming to apologize.
He's even acting as though he didn't do nothing wrong.
Every day you see him, you're like, is it that he doesn't know what he did?
Now, you are carrying the burden of this frustration, but you don't realize it.
You are unhappy, but he's looking happy.
Everything is normal with him, and you can't believe it.
But you're still waiting for him to apologize.
You might even get to the point where you begin to pray to God to knock him out and tell him to come and apologize to you.
And he's not coming.
You know you can have stomach ulcer because of that.
It's true.
You can have an ulcer because of that.
Because the happier you see him, the more frustrated you are.
Because you want to see him knocked out
And sad, now you know, or he should come and apologize to the great you.
Now, I'll tell you how to fix that.
Instead of wasting days and weeks and months, staying and remaining frustrated because of this, whatever it is, whatever you might want to call him,
that refused to come to you to apologize.
And now you're unhappy.
And it's affecting you everywhere.
Maybe now you're coming late to work because of that.
There are things as opposed to do you can't do just because every time you're working, that thing goes through your mind.
He still hasn't apologized.
And then you stop your work.
You're thinking, he's not there.
He's just going through your mind.
You've traveled in your mind, back to the land of frustration.
Two hours gone.
You're supposed to submit something.
You haven't even started.
Then suddenly, you wake up and come back to yourself.

Suddenly, you hear his voice quite close.
You pack your things.
You have clues.
because he has come close.
Instead of doing that, why don't you just go and apologize and end it?
You take the step, go and apologize.
You apologize, and when you apologize, the whole thing will come to an end, and you start living happy.
He said, I should apologize.
He offended me.
I know he offended you.
But you see, the thing is affecting you and is destroying your life.
So why don't you bring it to an abrupt stop?
By going to him to say, I'm sorry about that.
He would say, I thought I was the one that offended you.
I'm tired of keeping things like this.
You'd find that you are the master of circumstances.
So they will not dictate how you live.
God needs you to be joyful for you to be successful.
God needs you to be happy for you to be successful.
You need it.
You need it.

A lady died of cancer.
Why did she die of cancer?
When the cancer started, and I was informed, I sent a message to her that she should stop worrying about her husband because, you know, she had so many things against her husband.
You know, he was living wide.
He was just, you know,
I mean, if he did come to her Sunday service, he was a miracle.
The pastor was happy.
He was happy.
Everybody was happy that he came.
Then, of course, it'll be some weeks.
So, as a message to her, I said, you are in a greater problem than your husband.
Let your husband go.
In other words, stop holding these grudges against your husband because this is the reason for your cancer.
No prayer can help you.
What you need is to forgive and to forgive genuinely.
Oh, she said she tried.
Well, maybe she tried, but somehow he got worse and really misbehaved a little more.
And she was frustrated, she got more angry, and the cancer got larger.
Then I said, I don't think, if you don't forgive your husband, if you're gonna keep this kind of feeling and hold your bitterness, this cancer will kill you.
Because you've given it a home in your life.
What is God going to do about him?
That was anger.
God's not going to do anything about him.
God wants to do something about you.

Think about what God wants to do with your life.
instead of worrying about him.
If you stop worrying about him, God will be able to do something about him.
But as long as you're worried about him, God can do nothing with your life.
And then you create a home for Satan.
Oh, she said, okay, then she got healed.
Then she got angry again, and the cancer came back.
And when the cancer came back,
Her frustration just went wild.

And the husband wasn't changing.
And then she died of it.
The cancer killed her.
She didn't die of cancer because cancer was a great, great enemy.
No, she died of cancer because
She just wouldn't let the cancer go.
The cancer was the unforgiveness that she had in her heart.
Understand something about forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a tool.
It's a marvelous tool for your own happiness.
When you give that forgiveness, okay, when you give it to someone else, you don't give it because, you know,
They were so wrong.
Or you were so right.
It's got nothing to do with right and wrong.
It's in your own interest.
You forgive.
Don't wait for them to apologize.
Apology and repentance are not the same anyway.
Just because somebody apologized to you doesn't mean he's repentant.
So if someone says, I'm sorry, it doesn't mean he has changed his way of thinking.
He might still hold to the same opinion and do the same thing next time.
So apologies, not repentance.
You know, in our country, apologies of currency.
I tell people, don't use apology as a currency.
Ah, but I've apologized.
They think that they have bought the forgiveness with apology.
But I've apologized, haven't I?
I said, I'm sorry.
Avano said it.
So they think that once they have presented that apology, they ought to get their money's worth.
You get it.
You know, the apology ought to get for them, whatever it is they want it.
He came late and I said, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry.
And the man says, no, you're not entering.
Sorry now.

Because he's surprised.
After saying sorry.
Because to him, his apology, his currency, he has presented the currency for purchase.
So give me my commodity.
I paid.
In Europe, when you say you are sorry, you go back.
I'm very sorry for coming late.
I will make sure I don't do that next time.
You go.
In Nigeria, you say, I'm sorry, then you wait.
I said, I'm sorry.
You are still waiting.
Say you are sorry and go.
But we've been raised to think that apology is a currency.
We are wrong.
See, growing up wrong.
That's why sometimes we do know when we've done something, but we are not even sure.
And when we're punished for doing something wrong, we think that not a person who is punishing us is too strict, he's harsh, he's wicked.
The man says, the gate is locked.
You are supposed to come at eight.
Sorry, you can't enter.
Very wicked man.
You see, that's their response.
Very wicked man.
That's in Nigeria.
You're not allowed to do your job.
say, wicked man, because it took actions against you.
Even the judge, in the court of law, when the judge has passed the sentence, the family members of the accused say, wicked man.
Can you imagine what he said?
Wicked man.
Give him life imprisonment.
Wicked.
They don't see the law.
They see the judge as a person.
If they could beg him there, they would.
But the lawyer says, you can't talk.
I talk for you.

trying to get the judge's attention.

See, it's a society.
We've been raised that way, and it's so terribly wrong.
So, so wrong.
We have to change our way of thinking.

So Jesus said to her, one thing is needed.
One thing is needful.
One thing is necessary.
And Mary has gotten it.
And it will not be taken away from her.
What is this one thing?
Well, the Bible says that Mary was sitting at the feet of the master, listening to his teaching, listening to his word.
She was listening to the master.
She was in the presence of the master listening to him.
What food do you want to prepare, Matta?
He fed 5,000 men.
The women and the children were not counted.
He fed them with a little boy's lunch.
Why don't you sit at his feet and let him fix the food for you?
She was impressive.
After the disciples,
where Jesus got fish from.
They were fishing.
And he said, children, do you have any?
No, we haven't got anything.
He said, cast your net on the other side of the board and use your fine.
And they did it.
They enclosed a multitude of fishes, John said to Peter, it's a master.
They got out of the water.
And then he said, bring some of the fish you caught.
And they went to Jesus and found him preparing fish.
They met him preparing fish, and he said, bring some of those ones, because he wanted them to compare them.
The miracle fish from his word and the one from the water.

How will you impress the creator of the universe?
What do you want to do to impress him?
Even our prayer has become work.
If you're not sweating, you don't think he has hurt you.
Then when you are now sweating, you think, yes.

We can't even pray to God simply anymore.

If you haven't lost your voice in prayer, you don't think you've started?
Can we impress in that way?
No.
No.
So why are you suffering?
When you should be enjoying your life?
You know, some people, they say that, um, do put all your effort in your work.
Find some time to go to the beach or go to the cinema or take a walk or go window shopping.
All of those things don't necessarily bring you joy.
You can have joy in anything.
You don't have to wait your Saturdays.
My Saturdays reserved for me.
It's my special day of cooling off.
Of what?
How of your frustration of Monday to Friday?
Is it such people don't enjoy their lives when they can actually enjoy every moment.
Enjoy every day of their lives.
And be happy about what you do.
Take pleasure in yourself.
Relish the moment.
Right?
Yeah, yesterday we read it, that he gives us richly all things to enjoy.
You enjoy them, enjoy those things.
This thing that you wore, did you have time to look at it in the mirror?
As is Lord, thank you for this shirt.
Wow, this looks nice.
Did you have time to appreciate yourself?
Then when you come to work and nobody sees what you are wearing, say they don't even know what I'm wearing.
But you didn't see it yourself.
Did you never see it?
Did you see it?
So start learning, start learning to enjoy your life.
And you'd be amazed at what happens.
See, remember this, the Bible says the joy of the Lord is your strength.
The joy of the Lord is your strength.
There's a difference between
Joy, just joy, the joy of the Lord, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
There are three different times.
You can have joy in its natural phenomenon.
And you can have the joy of the Lord.
Now the joy of the Lord is that joy that springs up from what the Lord has done.
I said, look what the Lord has done.
And we rejoice, glory to God.
We rejoice in what the Lord has done.
Joy in the Holy Ghost, on the other hand, is that joy that is a vote from your spirit when you are filled with the spirit.
That's the joy in the Holy Ghost.
It's a joy that's evoked in your spirit when you're filled in the Holy Ghost.
And usually it's expressed in some shouting, in some singing, in some outbost, you know, you are dancing in the Holy Ghost.
Yeah.
That's joy in the Holy Ghost.
It's usually not connected to something that has happened, something that you received, something that the Lord has done, not necessarily, but it's connected to a move of the Spirit God within your spirit.
Sometimes you don't even know in your mind why you are rejoicing so, because it's not coming from your mind.
It's like when you're speaking in other tongues and you come to the point where you're laughing in the spirit and you're singing in the spirit.
It's not because of anything that you can connect it to at the moment.
But it's just bubbling from within you.
Glory to God.
That's joy in the Holy Ghost.
And it's all good.
They're all nice.
We should be joyful because we're children of God.
We should have the joy of the Lord because of what He's done in our lives.
What He's done for us.
We say, look what the Lord has done.
Hallelujah.
And so we relish that.
And then also, we should have joy in our spirits, joy in the Holy Ghost.
Joy, that's why it tells us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Joy in the Holy Ghost.
Hallelujah.
So learn to enjoy the moment, learn to enjoy your life.
And when you start enjoying your life, you'll be helping other people enjoy their life.
There are too many people who are suffering for nothing.
Just unhappy for nothing.
They are aging for nothing.
And they don't know, they look at their lives and they can find anything to be happy about.
There's nothing to be happy about.
And when they come around others who are happy, they say, why is everybody happy here?
They don't even use the word happy.
Why is everybody like this?
And then you say, oh, well, it's a good day.
Is that why?
And they just hit and go.
Because they are very serious.
Life is serious for them.
They are here for business.
I'm here to work.
Work, work, work, work, work, work.
And the more they work, the less they recognize for what they do.
And then they become more and more frustrated.
Look at Mary sitting at Jesus' feet.
And the Master enjoying her presence.
Yeah?
And matter's working.
And Jesus looks over and says, matter, matter.
Why are you suffering like this?
That's the paraphrase of what you know.
So you are worried about so many things.
And did he go ahead to solve a problem?
No.
He was aware.
He said, you are trouble and upset about many things.
He didn't say, let me try to solve them.
No.
He said, Mary has gotten the solution, consult her.
How was it?
Because he recommends, you know?
Mary has gotten the answer.
And he didn't say anything more to matter.
You'll think if God knows my problem, he should solve it.
He's not like that.
He doesn't solve your problem because he knows it.
No.
So you can suffer and suffer and suffer.
And you say, but I'm in ministry.
Why am I suffering like this?
I'm in ministry.
I'm working in ministry.
Is this how ministry is?
Then sometimes the people who think, some people I enjoy and some people are suffering.
It's not fair.
The inequality in the society is also in the church.
Who is the cause of the inequality in the society?
He said devil.
Okay, who is the cause of the inequality in the church?
Is it the same devil?
The cause of inequality in the society is human response.
It's human response.
Good or bad?
Human response.
Whether some people are wicked, it's their response.
Frustrated people make others frustrated.
Look at that guy who killed people in Norway.
He was frustrated.
He said he was fed up.
He don't want Muslims to take over Europe.
That's what he said.
And he'll rather die and kill others.
He's going to get the attention of the government and the government must be blamed for what he's going to do.
So he goes on rampage, kills so many people, and says the government is responsible for trying to allow the Muslims to take over Europe.
That's the reason they killed 76 people.

Horrible.
And he's not repentant.
That's a frustrated man.
Same thing with the terrorists, all the other terrorists, they're all frustrated.
Try to get attention.
Frustrated people are murderous.
So you can be very dangerous if you're frustrated.
You can be very dangerous.
There's no telling how far you go if your frustration is allowed to continue.
Maybe that's why God is asking me to talk to you.
Frustrated people are dangerous.
They are a time bomb.
Dangerous.
One frustrated fellow can ruin a lot of good.

But you have a choice.
That choice is either to drop, you know, lay your frustration aside and move on or keep your frustration and remain frustrated.
Can you see it?
It's a choice.
And when you are not happy, you can fulfill the call of God in your life.
That's the dangerous part of it.
You can't fulfill the call of God.
You won't be the person that you're supposed to be.
You believe in a different life.
From the life you're supposed to believe in.
And you'll be blaming someone else for it continually.
How long will you blame someone else for your failures?
How long?
We vent our frustrations on others all the time.
We want them to be unhappy because we are unhappy.
We find no reason why they should be happy when we are unhappy.
And the chain reaction is that we have a frustrated society.
Where is God?
You can change that, right?
Would you want to change that?
Okay, let's look at a couple of scriptures here.

One thing is needful, right?
Let's see what that one thing is.
Psalm 27.
Psalm 27.

Read verse 4.
Okay, great.
I want to read it to you from the amplified version.
One thing, have I asked of the Lord?
That will I seek, inquire for, and insistently require.
One thing that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, in His presence, all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty, the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness of the Lord, and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His temple.
One thing that I desire of the Lord,
What is David saying here to be in his presence, to live in his presence?
That's what he's saying.
To live in his presence, to function in his presence, to recognize his presence.
That's what Mary did.
Mary recognized that presence and was attracted to that presence.
It was attracted to his teaching, to his word.
and prized it above other things.
And the Lord said, it's just one thing you need, and this is it.
Why?
Because you see, that one thing will equip you for everything else in life.
Praise God.
Turn to Matthew chapter six, and we'll read from verse 25.

Matthew chapter six, said, Matthew's gospel, chapter six.
And we're reading from verse 25.

Are you there?
Okay.
It says, therefore I tell you, Jesus is talking here, therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy, anxious and worried about your life.
About your life.
Stop being uneasy about your life.
Stop being worried about your life.
Oh, if you could stop worrying about your life.
If you could stop worrying about your life.
This is what you shall eat or what you shall drink or about your body.
What you shall put on is not life greater in quality than food and the body far above and more excellent than clothing.
Look at the birds.
Yeah, Jesus is saying this.
This is wonderful.
Look at the birds of the air.
They need us so not reap, not gathering the bands.
And yet your Heavenly Father keeps feeding them.
Are you not what's more than they?
And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure, one qubit to his stature, or to the span of his life?
And why should you be anxious about clothes?
consider the lilies of the field, and learn thoroughly how they grow.
They need a toil nor spin.
Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence, excellence, dignity, and grace was not a raid like one of his.
But if God so clawed the grass of the field,
Which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace?
Will he not much more surely close you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore do not worry and be anxious saying what are we going to have to eat or what are we going to have to drink or what are we going to have to wear.
For the Gentiles, the heathen, wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things and your Heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
He knows you need them.

Is this don't be worried?
Warion is affecting you.
It's changing your life now.
Why are you so worried?
Is this do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow?
I like that.
That's a 34th verse.
Don't be worried or anxious about tomorrow.
I told you yesterday, two things that destroy today's happiness.
They are yesterday's regrets and the fear of tomorrow, the dread of tomorrow, the worries of tomorrow.
We haven't even gotten there yet.
We already worried.
The fear of the future.
Fear of the future doesn't necessarily mean, oh, I don't know what's gonna happen to the country.
It doesn't have to go that far.
It can be as little as you're going to the office and you're dreading what's gonna happen at the office today.
You can be dreading a meeting that has just been called.
All managers have been called for a meeting.
Hey, what is happening again?
See, you haven't even gotten there yet.
You haven't heard why.
Why some are very happy?
Because they're thinking they're going to get something out of this.
It is a welcome.
We're having the meeting.
It is a head they said, we have a meeting.
All managers.
OK.
See, you're dreading the meeting already.
It's robbing you of present happiness.
Decide to be happy today.

Don't allow the frustration.
Even in our attempt to be happy, we can become frustrated.
You know that.
Nobody's gonna spoil my joy.
Nobody, I'm gonna be happy today.
Nobody's gonna... Be already your frustrated.
Nobody's gonna spoil my joy.
Nobody, nobody.
Pastor said, to be happy, I'm gonna be happy.
You're not happy.
You're already manifesting frustration in attempts to be happy.
Okay, look at verse 33.
He says, but seek aim at in strive after.
First of all, his kingdom and his righteousness.
What does that mean?
His way of doing and being right.
I love that expression.
God's ways of doing things.
God's ways of being right.
I told you one time, you know, when I have issues with people,
I don't try to find out who's right and who's wrong.
I like to know what is God's righteousness in it.
Now, what does God want?
Not whether A or B is right.
And then all these things, who I like it, he says, all these things taken together in one package.
See, when God blesses you, he doesn't go, one, I'll give you A, I won't give you B. I'll give you C, I'll leave out D. He says, all these things taken together will be given you, besides, that means an addition.
All these things taken together in one package,
When God blesses you, you are blessed, brother.
You're blessed, sister.
He blesses you in one full package.
Everything is in it.

Say this.
Say, I'm very smart.
I'm very intelligent.
I'm very intelligent.
That's important.
That's important.
I'm very smart.
I'm very intelligent.
I know who I am.

Hallelujah.
Just another thought.
Can I make my life simpler?
Because your life can be very, very complex, you know?
You can have a very complicated life, you know?
Can you make your life simpler?
You can make your life less complicated, less complicated.
Make yourself happier.
How can you do it?

They say that man is very easy going.
I'm not talking about the man that says he's very easy going.
I'm talking about simplicity in Christ.
Okay?
There's a simplicity in Christ.
God's not complicated.
There's a simplicity in Christ.
That's what I'm looking at.

Hallelujah.
Okay.
We're going to rush through some things now.
Okay.
Think about this.
What about when you go through some ill treatments?
Have you been treated badly?
Have you ever been treated badly?
It can be treated badly at home in a neighborhood?

Okay, let's look at a couple of scriptures here.
James 5, I will read to you from verse 13.

Have you noticed what it says?

Glory to God.
He says, is anyone among you afflicted, ill-treated, suffering evil?
He should pray.
I like that.
He didn't say, he should talk back.
He should get bitter.
He should complain.
He said, he should pray.
God is aware that you could be ill-treated.
So he says, is anyone among you afflicted, ill-treated, suffering evil?
That means being treated wrongly.
He says, he should pray.
He says, pray.
That's how you respond.
He says, pray.
You want to live God's world, right?
God said, if you're mistreated, he'll treat it, badly treated.
He says, pray.
Yeah.
That's what he says.
Pray.
Then.
Go to Psalm 37 and look at verse 4.

Are you there?
I'm going to read it from the Amplified.
It's very beautiful here.
He says, delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your hearts.
There are secret petitions, those things that your heart craves for.
When you're talking to God and you can't talk to nobody about them, God hears.
He says, he'll grant you your desires and the secret petitions of your heart.
What did he tell you to do?
What's your own part?
Delight yourself.
Delight yourself in the Lord.
Delight yourself in the Lord.
Get happy about, listen, I tell you something.
Get happy about what you do.
Get happy about your work.
Get happy about your work.
Get happy about your assignments.
Get happy about when you're going to work.
The trip to work.
Get happy about it.
Somebody says, I don't even, I don't look forward to going to work.
You are really suffering.
You might think that your problem is the experiences, the bad experiences you have at work.
No, you are the cause of the bad experiences.
No, could I be the cause of the bad experiences?
I've tried my best.
It's the way to react to me.
It's what they've done to me.
No, have you ever thought of the fact that it is possible to attract the worst part of other people?
Have you ever thought about it?
You know, you can evoke the worst of someone's character towards you.
No, some people who are bad to you can be so nice to others.
Do you think because they love those people, mother and you?
No.
There's something about you that's attracting this weep that's coming to you all the time.
Change your attitude.
You'd be amazed at what happens.
Just change your attitude.
I know you say, can I just change like that?
You mean I just, I've been, I've been looking so sad and so unhappy, then tomorrow morning I just come to work here?
I just be happy, I can't do that.
Okay, don't do it.
If you can, if you can change that quickly, results will come that quickly.
What if you say, I'm gonna do it gradually?
It won't work.
It won't work.
Why?
Because we don't like it when people seem to be playing sneaky on us.
Imagine, all the time, when you see me, you go, no, no, no.
Every day, you don't even look at me.
No, no.
Then on this day, you just go, good morning, sir.
I think, something wrong with you.
How do you start that?
Start by showing you found something you've changed.
So I'm so sorry for the way I've been treating you.
I've learned something, and I chose to change.
See, what have you done?
You've brought a closure to your past.
You see, if you don't bring a closure to it, you look like there's something wrong with you.
So you can't just let them force into that.
So because you can't just let them force into it, you would want to do it sneakily.
You know, stealthily, that's not gonna work.
It won't work.
Bring a closure to it.
That's what forgiveness can do for you.
You know, we can forgive and we can also receive forgiveness.
You know, sometimes we are the problem and we want to receive forgiveness.
So we say, please forgive me.
I've acted badly.
I've acted foolishly.
Forgive me.
Sometimes there are people who are too proud to ask for forgiveness.
They think they're stooping down to ask for forgiveness.
Oh no, you're asking for something that's going to help you.
It'll bring a closure to your past and give you a springboard for your future.
So get smart about forgiveness, giving it and receiving it.
You can make a quick change.
He says, if you're ill-treated, he says, pray.
Now he tells you, delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart and the secret petitions of your heart, the secret petitions of your heart.
Oh, how God wants to help every one of us.
How God wants to give us a miracle life every day.
How God wants to lead us from glory to glory.
How he wants to do it all the time.
All the time.
Nothing is too good for you.
And it's never too much for only you.
It's never too much.
And I tell people, I'm so blessed.
I can understand it beyond what I've said.
I'm so, so blessed.
You know, how do you explain it?
How?
How can someone be so blessed?
My goodness.
I told you once, I thought, I was just so blessed that I said, I'm wondering, that's... How can somebody be just so blessed like this?
You know?
God had to talk to me.
to show me that, who are those that you know are in heaven?
I mentioned their names.
Those that the Bible shows us are in heaven.
He said, what were they like?
I said, they were blessed.
They were rich.
They were powerful.
They were God's friends.
How was Abraham?
How was David?
How was Moses?
These guys were great.
We know they're in heaven.
Even Lazarus that went to heaven had to be in Abraham's bosom.
Because Lazarus was poor.

God made this word.
And you know, the world is full of the goodness of God.
That's what the Bible says.
He says the earth is full of His goodness.
The earth reveals, the universe reveals His goodness.
If that's true, then God doesn't like poverty.
God doesn't like frustration.
God likes people happy and prosperous and sound and cheerful and laughing.
God laughs.
That's what the Bible says about him.
He laughs.
There's some of you who haven't laughed for a long time.
You haven't laughed.
You find it difficult to laugh.
You say there's nothing to laugh about.
You don't even remember how to laugh.
You get embarrassed if you cut yourself laughing.
Yeah, you think you're not serious because you're laughing.
No, learn to laugh.
I only tell ladies, don't laugh like an old man, you know.
I tell ladies, laugh with style.
The lady doesn't have that.
That's not lady like, laugh with style.
There's a way a lady laughs.
I don't mean like... No, don't cover your mouth.
Laugh out, but not like a... No, laugh well.
Laugh with style.
Yeah.
Learn to laugh.
Sometimes when things seem to get tough, pull back and laugh.
And don't say stupid things like, I'm just laughing at them.
You're going back into that frustration.
You're manifesting frustration.
I'm just laughing at them.
Don't go that way at all.
Laugh because you're a child of God.
Laugh because laughter is in your spirit.
He filled my mouth with laughter.
Hallelujah.
Learn to laugh.
Laugh happy.
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I have met people who are just not satisfied with anything.
They never satisfied.
Learn to be satisfied.
Who are you going for more?
Today's situation should be satisfied.
Hey, what was the definition of joy I gave you?
You remember?
Joy is what?
That emotion that is evoked.
Satisfaction.
Appreciation and pleasure.
Satisfaction.
Oh, satisfaction.
Satisfaction.
Satisfaction.
I'm always where I am.
You know, some people are never where they are.
They're here, but their mind is wondering.
I'm always where I am.
If I'm here, I'm here.
I'm always where I am.
And I believe that you should be in God's place, in God's time, for God's purpose, in God's way.
See, in your life you can have satisfaction.
Today's satisfaction.
Being satisfied doesn't mean that your dream for a greater tomorrow is dead.
No.
You're satisfied about today.
You have dreams for tomorrow.
You have dreams for tomorrow.
But if you're not satisfied about today, tomorrow's dreams may never materialize, because you project your frustrations into your dreams.
And you find the dreams never just come.
You never win.
It's always, I almost hit it and missed it.

Make your life more fulfilling.
Amen.
So I said Hebrews chapter 13 and we're reading, we're reading verse five.
I'd like to read to you from, again, the amplified, okay?
Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money, including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions, and be satisfied with your present circumstances and with what you have.
For he God himself has said, I will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you without support.
I will not, I will not, I will not, boy.
Can you imagine that?
He says it here three times.
I will not, I will not, I will not, in any degree, leave you helpless, nor forsake, nor let you down.
That is as relaxed my hold on you.
Glory to God.
Ayah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah.
Oh, glory to God.
Saman Gondara does this.
Who?

He says, be content with your present circumstances.
God knows where you're at.
He knows.
He knows.
Don't get frustrated because someone was promoted and you were not.
Oh, come on.
Someone can be promoted three times, and you are not.
The day your own comes, labor Kaya.
It will come with glory.
But between now and then, I'm gonna keep keeping on.
I'm gonna keep my composure.
I'm gonna delight myself in the Lord.
I'm gonna do whatever God wants me to do.
I'm gonna be happy and joyful all the way.
And I'm going to rejoice with anyone who has been promoted.
Because mine is coming, glory to God.
I'll never feel left out.
God said it here, says, I will not, I will not, I will not, in any degree, leave you helpless nor forsake you.
Oh.

I'm a success.
Oh, thank you Lord Jesus.
Wow.
Wow.
First thing that is Chapter 6.
I'm talking about contentment.
All right?
Contentment.
Contentment.
Come to a place of contentment.
Alleluia.
Yeah.
A place of contentment.
You're not worried about this and that, and that, and that.
You already have everything.
That's the way you live out to be.
Hallelujah.
There's a contentment in your spirit.
There's a composure.
Because your father owns the world.
He owns the world.
Hallelujah.
All right, let's go.
From verse six, and it is indeed a source of the man's prophet for godliness, accompanied with contentment.
That contentment, which is a sense of inward sufficiency.
Did you see that?
Inward sufficiency is great in abundant gain.
It's great in abundant gain.
Yeah, godliness with contentment, he says, is a great game.
That's what God and the King James.
For we brought nothing into the world, and obviously, we cannot take anything out of the world.
But if we have food and cotton, with these, we shall be content satisfied.
But those who crave, now, notice what he says here.
This is verse 9.
Those who crave to be rich fall into temptation and a slam and into many foolish, useless, godless, and hurtful lusts that plunge me into ruin and destruction and miserable perishing.
Wow.
People who... who... want to be rich.
who struggled to be rich, who drive to be rich.
You don't need to do that.
No.
If you have entered into his rest, you have seized from your struggles.
And watch the glory of God working in you.
You never have to try to make a dog learn to back.
It'll back if it's a dog.
It's in his nature.
A concierge who produced corn.
An orange seed will produce oranges.
How are you listening to me?
If you are the seed of Abraham, it will show up in your life.
Your prosperity cannot be stopped.
You don't have to struggle for it.
This thing is in your system.
Discover the features in your life.
Discover the features and start living them out.
This prosperity is inside you.
This glory is inside you.
Bring it to the fore.
Don't struggle to make it happen.
Those who are struggling have not entered into his wrist.
They are struggling to pay for a house.
They are worried because they can't get the house.
They're worried because they can't get the car.
They're worried and they're worried and they're worried and they're worried and they're worried and they're worried and they're worried and tearing down their life because of this thing that they're looking for.
Why are you so worried?
Why are you so pained?
Are you not the seed of Abraham?
Have you forgotten who you are?
Have you come to that point of failure?
Abraham's seed doesn't fail.
Don't you understand it?
If you will continue to praise him, if you will continue to serve him, if you will continue to delight yourself in him, he will create the opportunities that will bring you
to that place of inheritance that was already planned for you.
There's no failure in Christ.
How can I discover those things that are in me and bring them out?
How can I capitalize in those gifts that God has put within me?
Somebody said, I can't sing and I can't preach.
What in the world can I do for God?
Oh, so much more.
So much more.
There's so much more you can do for God.
Don't forget this.
God's not looking for preachers, and God's not looking for singers.
God's looking for those who just walk in love, as others looking for.
If you would do that, you're ready for anything.
Yeah.
Hallelujah.
Thank you Lord Jesus.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, glory to God.
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Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
I'm making progress.
So I'm sharing those things with you because if you have them in you,
Like Peter said, they make you that it shall neither be buried nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
But he says, he that lacks these things is blind and cannot see a far off and has even forgotten that he was parts from his old sense.
Stand up on your feet.
Worship the Lord, glorify his name.

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