Transcript: The Finished Works Of Christ - Renewing Your Mind
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God is still changing lives by the power of his word. Join apostle Emmanuel Guiwatifeh as he teaches the word of God that will transform your life. This is the final day of the manifest conference twenty twenty five. Father, we give you all the glory. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Please be seated very fast. Will some be done? I just felt in my spirit to answer a question. That I feel that based on our conversations, based on the kinds of discuss we have been having since Wednesday, some people might have that question. Are you with me?
You know, I said that when Jesus said that it is finished, the Greek word used is the last time And it means that there is nothing else left to do. And that is the foundation of the gospel. That the work of redemption is not ongoing. It is not progressive. It's not dependent on your participation to make it complete. It was completed at Calvary once and for all. The writer of Hebrews captures this with precision. In Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 12, it says but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, once and for all, once and for all, for sins, give me the King James version. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, he sat down on the right hand of God. He sat down on the right hand of God.
One sacrifice for sins forever. In the old covenant, the priests never sat down. There was no chair in the temple. You know why? Because the work was never finished. Every day they had to offer sacrifices. Every year the high priest had to enter into the holy of holies with blood. It was a perpetual cycle of atonement. It was never complete. It was always repeated.
But when Jesus offered himself, he sat down. The work was done. The sacrifice was sufficient. The price was paid in full. And to understand the weight of the finished works, we must see it against the backdrop of the old covenant. Because the entire system was built on repetition. Blood was shed daily. Offerings were made continually. Guilt was managed. But it was never removed.
And when you read Hebrews chapter 10 from verse one to four, you see this again. The Bible says for the law having a shadow of things to come and not the very image of the things can never with this same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not be ceased to be offered. In other words, if they were perfect, they would not have continued to offer the sacrifices. For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins. Do you see it? The old covenant could only cover sin. It could not remove it.
It could not remove it. It could only manage guilt. It could not cleanse the conscience. And the Bible says that even the old covenant was a reminder of sins offered year by year. He pointed forward to something greater. He pointed forward to something finer, something that would end the cycle once and for all. And that's something, that someone was Jesus. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 10 says, give me a note. For God's will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ. Our once for all time.
Once for all time, not annually, not repeatedly, not conditionally, once finished, complete. Are you with me? Yes sir. Now, this is where it becomes personal because if the work is finished, then you're standing before God is not based on your performance. It is based on the performance of Christ on the cross. If the sacrifice is complete, then your acceptance is not partial. Your acceptance is total. It is final. Ephesians one and verse six, the Bible says, to the praise of the glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in his beloved. You are not accepted because you broke enough altars.
You are not accepted because you fasted enough. You are accepted in the beloved of Christ to the praise of the glory of his grace. So the believer is accepted. Say, I'm accepted. I'm Your acceptance is tied to his work. Your acceptance is not tied to yours. The believer has no reason to feel condemned, to feel as though God is angry with him, to feel as though he cannot approach God. And it's not based on your works. It's based on what Christ did. This is the scandal of grace.
Because it offends human religion, because it leaves no room for boasting. That's why grace is very dangerous. It it leaves no room for boasting. So people who like to boast in the flesh would not like the method of grace. It gives no room for you to boast. Because your works was not included. So you got the kind of person who likes to say, you know, like that rich young ruler who came to Jesus and say, what must I do? You realize that the standard of God's righteousness. Go and listen to my message, great grace. Great grace.
Part one, two, and three, it will so liberate you. Get it. If you have not listened to it before, please get it. Please do. Great grace part one, two, and three. The standard of God's righteousness, no man could ever meet it. No man could ever reach it. It was too high. So if you are the kind of person that is always gloring in the flesh, you must understand that what we have received is not by works, it is by grace. Paul says this, this is I labor more abundantly more than ye all, yet not high.
It is the grace of God. Even when we labor, we are conscious that the labor is by grace. We are conscious that what now? Say it louder. Labor is Because this has not eliminated labor. We will still pray. We will still fast. But we are praying from a standpoint of victory. We're fasting from a standpoint of victory. We're laboring from a standpoint of victory.
Not to attain. Because we have already attained. Are you with me? Romans chapter four from verse four to five, the Bible says now to him who works. The wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly. His faith is accounted for righteousness. To him who does not work doesn't mean that you will not work but to him who does not attribute his acceptance to works. So we would never say, you would never hear us say, the reason why this ministry is moving and is progressing and is advancing is because we pray so much. We're not the only ones who pray.
That's why Paul says it's not high, it is the grace of God. There's no room for boasting. Can't say, oh, the reason why God is lifting us and elevating us is because we have sanctified ourselves. We have purified ourselves. You know? We have abstained from that. We have done this and that. But you cannot understand grace and not sanctify yourself. And not purify yourself. Because grace does not permit lasciviousness.
Grace does not. You should get my method in great grace. You should. Doesn't permit lewdness. As a matter of fact, if that becomes the reason why a man becomes lascivious is a proof that that man has not even understood grace. Are you with me? But the tragedy now is that many believers have been saved by grace. But they are trying to maintain the salvation they have received by grace, by works. They began in the spirit. But they are now being perfected by the flesh.
They started with Christ. But they are now supplementing Christ with rituals. As though Christ were not enough. And in Galatians chapter three from verse one to verse three, Paul says, oh foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? Before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed amongst you are crucified. This only I want to learn from you. Did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the yearning of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Having begun in the spirit. This is the same error many believers are making today. They are trying to hard to the cross. They're trying to complete what Jesus has already finished. But the gospel says, no, it is finished. That is why it is called the finished works of Christ. So what do you do if it is finished? You stand fast in the liberty that Christ has already secured for you. That's what you do. Galatians chapter five and verse one, the Bible says, stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free.
Can you see that? Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free. And do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Stand fast. That's your own responsibility. Stand fast in the liberty. Stand in the liberty that Christ has made you free. Don't entangle yourself in unnecessary warfare. Are you with me? Many believers treat the cross as the starting point of their spiritual journey.
And yet I'm sitting like, oh, Jesus has saved me. Now I must continue to walk to stay free. But that is not the gospel. The cross is not just the beginning, it is the foundation. It is the basis of everything. It is the completed work upon which all of your spiritual life is built. That's why in first Corinthians three and verse 11, the bible says, for no other foundation can anyone lay than what is already laid, which is what? It means you don't build on the cross. You build from the cross. You don't build on what Jesus has done.
You build from what Jesus has done. No other foundation can any man lay. The cross is the settled ground. The finished works is the unshakable foundation. And everything that you do, every prayer, every act of obedience, every step of faith flows from the completed work. It doesn't flow towards it. It flows from it because it is completed. Thank you, Lord Jesus. So believers think I have to do this. I have to do that.
I have to do this. Then I'll be qualified. Then I'll be qualified. But you read your bible and you find out that your qualification is not based on your works. In Colossians chapter one from verse 12 to verse 14, the bible says, giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has qualified us. Qualified us in past tense. Do you see? Not a will qualify us. He has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance.
It means I am already qualified to be a partaker of the inheritance of Christ. The next verse says he has delivered us. I'm gonna pass things again. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the sun. You see qualified, delivered, qualified, delivered. Past tense. Completed action is already done. Are you with me? So you're not walking towards acceptance. You're not walking towards deliverance.
You're working from acceptance. You're not fighting to become a son. You are learning to live as a son. It's two different things. So many people are fighting to become a son. Looks like the same thing. What is really happening is that you are learning to live like what you already have. Like the story of the young man who lived with monkeys. You remember that story I told you? Do you think that that rehabilitation is trying to become a human being?
No. He's learning to live like what he already is. Do you remember that story? They got a young boy who had grown with monkeys. And then he speaks like them. He walks like them. And they take him to a mental hospital to rehabilitate him. They're not teaching him to become a human being. He already is a human being, but he was orientated wrongly. His perception is wrong.
His ideology is wrong, and so his realities are wrong. When you bring him to that hospital, what you are doing is you are trying to teach him to function like he is. The same way you would not try to teach a monkey to speak like a human being. You didn't see that? Because a monkey is not a human being. So you cannot teach a monkey to function like a human being. But you can teach a human being to function more like a human being. Imagine taking a bunch of monkeys into sociology class or history class. And you start telling them that in 1960, Nigeria gained independence. And you expect them to understand what you're saying.
Does that make any sense? Or you can take human beings there even though they don't know it yet. You can begin to bring them into the awareness of what they don't know because it is in them to do. That is exactly what you have received in Christ. It's in you already. You are just learning to live it out. The more you receive these words, the more you learn this truth, the more you become conscious of what is already in you, a hypnosis, the fullness and the complete knowledge of God in all things ethical and divine. Divine. Are Are you you with with me? Me?
Yes, sir. So this is the question. If I am free, then why do I still have nightmares? Why do I still sense oppression in my sleep? Why does it feel like something is blocking my progress? Why does it feel like I cannot move forward? Why why does it feel like the bondage of my family is still affecting me? Why does it feel like I'm seeing patterns and all that and all these things speaking against my life? Are you with me? And these are honest questions oh.
And the answer to this question is not to deny people's experiences. We are meant to interpret these experiences through the word of God. Not through fear. Let me say this, spiritual opposition is real. It is very very real. One of my guys messaged me and told me. That he met a prophet who told him that God is increasing your rank. Something like that. And the prophet now told him that and you know because God is increasing your rank tonight, a demon will visit you. And I think the prophet is considered to be a very accurate prophet so the guy was shaking and jumping.
He said demon. And then he told me I did not reply to it. Just left it alone. The following day, message man said, Moses, you won't believe what just happened. I just woke up and I couldn't speak. I was being chalked in my sleep. I couldn't speak. I could not breathe. I could not. I was gasping for air.
Truly sir, a demon visited me. I know God is increasing my rank. Spiritual opposition is real. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Oh God. Sometimes I want those guys to visit me like that. You know, I've always said it. It's not it is not the first time I've been saying, I've been saying it since we're a partner, that they should just visit me one And you see how it used to look like, that I will not be able to breathe. And I've been like... I don't know why they why they're always afraid.
It would have come. The difference between myself and yourself is consciousness, is knowledge, is consciousness. And there are different levels of this consciousness, levels. A man of God said he was outside his house just resting. And then all of a sudden, his eyes opened and he saw a demon running to go and fulfill an assignment. And the moment he saw the demon, the demon saw him, their eyes jammed. The demon vanished. He said he just smiled because he knew that whatever he was sent to do was abolished. What kind of... That's consciousness.
That just because both of us, if I had not seen you, you would have gone scot free. But the mere fact that we damp, that your eyes saw my eyes, assignment is abolished. Means whoever you are going to to afflict is saved. Because I saw you. I didn't have to go inside and go and start a prayer meeting. It was just consciousness. Just the revelation of what is already inside of him. You know that Jesus was a prayerful person. Bible says a a great work before dawn, he would withdraw himself to go and pray. Is that not so?
And he would spend hours, sometimes three hours, sometimes six hours doing what? Praying. Sometimes baptism with a great loud voice. We learn prayer from Jesus. He's the author and the finisher of our faith. But guess what? He never stood in front of any demon and prayed. Come out over. I like that authority. You understand I was reading one scripture.
And the word Jesus used was go. That was it. Go. Consciousness. I was watching a man of God, powerful man of God, ministering to the sick and there were several, several people that needed to be healed. And delivered. All kinds of infirmities and afflictions. And I was wondering, ah, how would this man and the man ministers with them one by one? And I was wondering how would this man start doing this thing like this? And guess what he does?
He just comes like this. Amazing. It doesn't even go back to check whether you are healed or not. I said I said, what is this? What is this? What's the difference between this man and that man? The more you pray in tongues, the more the highest of your understanding is enlightened. You see? The more you pray in tongues, the more your capacity is increased. The more you fast, the more you bring your body under subjection so that your spirit man can...
Your body and your soul can be aligned to what your spirit is saying. And what your spirit is doing. Do you understand what I'm saying now? So you don't pray amiss. Your spirit man becomes more sensitive because you are killing your flesh. Whatever kills your flesh makes your spirit alive. Do you get that now? That's the reason for which we fast. That's the reason for which we pray. So bishop, we're able to share this story.
For instance, I went to a praying and fasting. And we are fasting and trusting God for a for a breakthrough. And they were living from the end of things because the man said, why would this money should not be growing? What is the mean of this? And they went on a fast way praying, and they were declaring breakthrough. And as they fasted, what happened? They came into alignment with what God was doing. The eyes opened instantly. The man went outside and saw a dark cloud. Are you seeing why we pray?
We're not fighting for victory. We are fighting from victory because we know we have authority already. So if I know I have authority, then why does it look as as though it is not manifesting? I take authority over what must be. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because when you read the bible, the bible does not deny the devil or the devil exists. And his kings exist. Because Peter warns us in the book of first Peter five and verse eight, be sober, be vigilant for your adversary. The devil walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The enemy is active.
He is strategic. He is relentless. What is defeated? Yet he is still relentless. You know why? Because there's a difference between being destroyed and being disarmed. The devil was not destroyed. He was disarmed. The devil has not yet been destroyed. He will be destroyed at the end of age when the judgment happens.
What what happened to him was that he was disarmed on the cross. His legal authority over the believer has been emptied. His power to condemn has been broken. His grip over your life has been shattered. Colossians two verse 15 says, having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of the triumphant over it. So what happened was that he was disarmed. Are you with me? The cross wasn't just a victory. It was a public spectacle. It was a cosmic humiliation of the powers of darkness.
Jesus did not just defeat them privately. He put them on display so that the whole world will see. He exposed their weakness. He stripped them of their weapons. So if the devil is disarmed, how does he still operate? Believers? How does he still afflict believers? How did he still come and press that man of God's life? Oh, you... That my young man is a man of God, by the way.
So the devil was pressing a man of God's neck. How interesting is that? Glory to God. How does this elaborate? Very simple. Very simple. John chapter eight verse 44. You have your father the devil and the desires of the father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks, this is how he does it.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources for he is a liar and the father of it. How he operates, despite he has been disarmed is true deception. That is the greatest, I think I have a tune on this, the mystery of deliverance. The mystery of deliverance. That is how the devil right now gets access. Glory to God. Amen. Come on, get this to you and listen to it again. The devil does not need to overpower you if he can deceive you. He doesn't need to bind you physically if he can convince you that you're already bound.
He doesn't need to curse you if he can make you believe you are cursed. This is why Paul says the battlefield is no longer strongholds and all of these things. The battlefield is now the mind. It convinces you that you are bound and you are bound because as a man, it didn't get in his heart so easy. The warfare of the devil with humanity is not physical. It's not a battle of grit because he knows he's got none. He has been disarmed. He knows this. However, he can lie to you that he still has much power. And he can make use of your own authority to cage your own life.
Wasn't that what he did for Adam and Eve? What he did was deception. It was a lie. Deception. Deception. And do you know that to successfully deceive, you have to know the truth yourself. You can't deceive someone if you don't know the truth. What did I say? For it to be a lie, it means you knew the truth. Because if we did not know that what you are saying is not true, you cannot really call it a lie.
If I gave you... Listen. If I gave you a phone and I tell you put that phone on that chair and I went and you also went and somebody else came and picked that phone and put it on that chair over there. Are you with me? And we ask you, where is the phone? And you said the phone is on this chair. Have you lied? But where is the phone? Have you lied? For it to be a lie, it must mean that you are aware that the phone is on that chair, but you told her it's on this chair.
That's the nature of a lie. It means if the devil is called a liar, that means he knows the truth. The idea is that he does not want you to know because the truth is not powerful in his own hand. It's powerful in your own hand. That's why he fights teachings like this because he puts power in your hands. Are you getting this what I'm saying? Second Corinthians 10 and verse four. Second Corinthians 10 and verse four. One, two, three, go everybody. The first thing you see here is that if you're a believer, there is warfare.
So spiritual warfare is not scam. This teaching is not against spiritual warfare. You will need to fight. Because in Ephesians six, the Bible says that you take up your hammer. Is that not so? Yes. But the truth is that we have now misused this scripture. We've left the terrain of the war. We have been defeated where the real war happens. We now come to fight shadows.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. We're now coming to fight shadows. It's like they passed a law. Right? They were disputing in the court of law, disputing in the court of law, or disputing the house of assembly of a law they want to pass. And then after they passed the law, the police force and the civil defense and the soldiers and everything now are dispatched to go and effectualize the law that has been passed. They are now angry and after fighting them. But is that where the real battle happened? The question was, when they were arguing whether to pass that law or not, why were you not represented?
Who was speaking on your behalf? Do you understand what I'm saying? The picture of what I've said now is Job. The real low war was happening in heaven. Are you with me? Yeah. And it was not there. So what we do now is that Jesus Christ has now showed us... Paul has showed us where the domain of warfare is. What is the domain of warfare?
Give me the scripture. The weapons of our warfare are not canal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. Give me verse two. For I beg you that when I am present, I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some who think of us as we walk according to the flesh. Next, it then says, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare not but mighty through Christ for the pulling down for the pulling down of strongholds. So what are strongholds? Because man will tell you strongholds are powers of your father's house. Is that not so? All kinds of powers who are very...
They've become very strong, and they keep you down like this. They'll be pressing your head. You will want to move. You will not be able to move because there are strongholds over your life and destiny. But let's open what this picture means. In verse five, it then continues to say, what are the strongholds? Casting down arguments. Casting down what? Hagments. So what are strongholds?
What are strongholds? Hagments. What are we casting down? And every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of... God. So what are these high things that exalt themselves? Go on. We need every thought that you have given. So what are these strongholds? What are these arguments?
Bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Give me cash, Jamie. Casting down imaginations. What are arguments? So the warfare exists in your mind. This is the enemy's stronghold. Arguments, high things, thoughts, not not ancestral spirits, not altars, not not bloodline covenants, thoughts. The war is in the mind. The battle is for your understanding. That is where the enemy plants lies.
And if you believe them, you begin to live under the weight of those lies even though you are already seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So even if what is responsible for your condition is a spirit or an ancestral demon, that is not where the warfare is. The warfare first began in your mind. It is because the devil warned in your mind that the spirit could be introduced in your life. So what do we do? We now begin to fight the spirit in the life, whereas you are losing consistently in the mind. There are still imaginations in your mind, still eye things in your mind, thoughts that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ in your mind. In your mind, you are still defeated. Many years ago, they brought a lady to me. I was teaching in an a level center then.
And this lady was brought to me. And what was this lady's issues? They said she was mentally ill. Couldn't understand what she was being taught because multiple voices were speaking to her. Multiple voices were speaking to her. So she would literally hack doll or she would literally hacked. She can't comprehend simple things. Because when she described it, it's as though it's as though as you are talking, another voice is talking, another voice is talking, and she's seen this what you are saying, but she's seen something else entirely again. It was a very serious condition. And sometimes she will be speaking.
You'll be speaking to her and she will respond to somebody else that is not there. Glory to God. It doesn't happen every time. When she sings, she's very brilliant. When she sings, she's very smart. But there are times when this thing just comes. So I sat down with her, three days. Told her, come, meet me. Two hours everyday. But the third day, I think it was more than that.
And we open scriptures. Open scriptures because we had to first win that war in our mind. The one in our life is small. All they need to do is say out. They know me, they know my voice. They know demons, demons can sight you. Because they said Paul, I know. Jesus, I know. It means you can torment them too much that they will know you. And when you begin to think like this one, they will know you.
They will be advising themselves. They will say don't pass by that one's house. If you understand these things, even witches will call you a witch because they will realize that the spell they are casting. They begin to say, ah, that one is a witch. Don't go near him. He is a witch that is talking. Three days teaching her the word of God. At the end of the three days, I held her head. I said, get out you devil. Went out flat under the power.
Was there for some for some night. I think it was definitely two hours or three hours or so. Left her there. I went home. That was the last time she had... She ever heard a voice. That was the last time she ever saw nothing. She wrote the exam and came out, hasta, hasta, hasta. That's 16 points in Cambridge. Out of 16 points.
This is someone who has been told she's mentally ill. And what do you do? You take her to the hospital and then they start doing okay. I will I will respect all these people. The battle is in the mind. If we can do something about the mind of a man to bring down these high things, to bring down these imaginations, to let Christ become the high thing. The devil is defeated already. When that man prays, his prayer is powerful. When that man speaks, his utterance is powerful. When that man...
Do you understand what I'm saying? Revelations chapter 12 and verse 10 calls the devil the accuser of the brethren who accused them before our God day and night. That is his primary strategy of the devil against believers. He accuses them. He condemns them. He reminds you of your past. He comes and he tells you, do you remember your family history? He comes to come and remind you of your family history. He suggests to you that you are disqualified. He suggests to you that you're unworthy, that you're on the course, that that they are still under a bondage.
Well, look at this beautiful truth. The accuser has been cast down. Revelations 12 from verse ten eleven. Bible says the accuser has been cast down. And how did they overcome him? They overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony. But before this, the Bible says that there was warfare in heaven. And they were fighting, fighting, fighting. And as long as they were fighting, it looked as though nobody was winning. But eventually, they tapped into a secret that how we overcome is not in too much warfare and too much fighting.
The bible says they overcame in when they tapped into the blood that was slain before the foundation of the world. You are not getting this thing I'm saying. Because it was a literal warfare in heaven. The bible says there was war in heaven. Lucifer and Michael and his host got into a warfare. Go and read your bible. Got into a warfare and then there was war. And then they were fighting, and they were fighting, and they were fighting. And when they fought, fought, fought, nobody was with him. They said, wait.
Was the lamb not slain for the foundation of the world? See, he was slain. Let's use that now. Why are we fighting? So if the angels had to use the blood that was slain, how how about the believer who the lamb was slain for? Who the lamb was slain for? How about the believer who the lamb was slain for? If have been taught all your life that your family is cursed, that thought becomes a stronghold in your mind. Even after you are born again, that lie remains until it is confronted with truth. The enemy doesn't need to do anything new.
He just needs to keep you believing that whole lie. But it is not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Transformation comes through renewal. The mind must be renewed up to the truth of who you are in Christ Jesus. And until that happens, old patterns of thinking will produce old patterns of bondage. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Old patterns of thinking will do what now? This is why the battle is in ensuring the believer knows. Ensuring the believer knows. You know, grew up in a polygamous home.
When you grow up in a polygamous home, there is warfare on every front. Warfare on every front. And not only that there are warfare, there are patterns you see, very obvious patterns, clear ones that you see. And it's easy to believe that because you come from that lineage, then you are a victim of the pattern. What did Christ not die for? We insist based on the finished works that this will not be the same result in our lives. Based on the finished works, not by might, not by power, not in strong head. It's based on the finished works. Based on what Christ has done. That's where the deliverance is.
For the deliverance is. And because you have heard this truth once, does not mean your mind has been renewed to it. What do you do? Go to YouTube and replay it. The one, the two, the three, the one, the two, the three, the one, the two, the three. Send it to your brothers and sisters. Send it to your parents. Send it to your family members. Send it to everyone that you know. It will be on telegram as well.
Listen again and again. Augment it with if any man be in Christ. Augment it with the realities of the new man or new man part one and two. Augment it like that. Make it something you genuinely believe. That I'm not laboring to attain. I'm laboring because I have attained. I'm not struggling for the love of Jesus. Jesus already loves me. You know that song we used to sing?
Loves me. Us. Sing it again. How do you know? Because you prayed so much, because you fasted so much. Go on singing it. So how come we have been singing this for so long and then we have still missed it somehow? That's what Paul says, that you began in the spirit. We were innocent children who believe Jesus loves us, but somebody came to come and give us a YouTube message or a... That told us that now you...
If you have not prayed, we are not sure if you are loved. And then we'll start singing songs like, you know, if you don't pray, Satan will make mess of you. Make mess of me. And this is not to excuse prayer. You don't pray more than we... This is a praying church. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. This is a very prayerful church. Yes, sir.
Very prayerful church. This church was built on the foundations of prayer. Prayer is a lifeline of every apostolic community. A church that does not praise a dead church. We would not pray from fear. No. We do not. And I'd not believe that if I slept off today, I now become afraid that hey, oh, Peter had not made messed of me. If a lion is sleeping, does he stop being a lion? Be conscious of the truth.
Be conscious and don't fight it. Don't fight. This that we have done is already enough. And it is a safe place to stop. Believe this truth. What did I say? Cast out demonic thoughts when they come to your mind. Because you have authority over it. Walk like a free man. He says stand in the liberty.
Stand firm in the liberty. Stand firm in the liberty. Don't leave that liberty. Stand there. Fight from there. Walk from there. Talk from there. Stand in the liberty. Don't allow anybody to entangle you again. Can you see?
Entang... It means you were previously entangled. Now you have been saved. Now you are in liberty. Don't now let anybody now come and go and swear. They should now tie you with what you have been free from by doctrine. Rise up on your feet. You know this message has blessed you. To get more messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluwazifed, you can check our telegram page at DCN Media channel. You can also get the messages on Spotify, AudioMac, and Apple Podcast.
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