WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 You have been fasting but there is nothing to show. 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:07.800 Try this from today. 00:00:07.800 --> 00:00:13.520 Wow! My God. You will come here for testimony! 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:19.880 Grace and peace to you all in Jesus' mighty name 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:25.440 and welcome to another edition of 'The Legacy Lives On'. 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:30.880 Now, today we will be bringing to you two clips of Prophet T.B. Joshua 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:37.320 speaking about a very important and instructive topic 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.480 that I believe will really help your Christian life. 00:00:41.480 --> 00:00:44.520 The first clip is taken from the midst of a sermon 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:49.480 and then the second clip is taken from the midst of a testimony 00:00:49.480 --> 00:00:53.520 from a young South African lady who received her deliverance 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:59.400 from an evil spirit that led her into a life of witchcraft. 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:04.800 And while Prophet TB Joshua was listening to her testimony, 00:01:04.800 --> 00:01:09.640 he used her life experience as an opportunity 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:15.440 to teach people this important spiritual principle. 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:21.240 So, be blessed right now as you learn about the kind of prayer, 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:28.640 the kind of fasting that always attracts the attention of God. 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:31.840 Let's watch. 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:37.240 If you don't want satan to enslave you, please work on your character. 00:01:37.240 --> 00:01:41.320 This means, as from today, don't begin to ask God, "Heal me!" 00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:47.480 Pray against your weakness. 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.120 As from today, don't begin to say, "God, bless me!" 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:56.080 Pray against your weakness. 00:01:56.080 --> 00:01:59.080 As from today, don't begin to say, "God, protect me! 00:01:59.080 --> 00:02:01.000 People are after me! People want to kill me!" 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:02.120 You are wasting your time. 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:07.080 Go straight - pray against your weakness. 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:10.520 That is the avenue satan uses to enter, 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:12.840 to afflict you with poverty, 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.160 to afflict you with insecurity, 00:02:15.160 --> 00:02:16.720 to afflict you with sickness, 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:18.760 to afflict you with whatever you are talking about. 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:21.720 He uses our weakness to enter us. 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:29.040 If you close that place, no more satan. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:38.920 Brother, please come. I will disturb you today because you disturb me! 00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:45.640 Stand here. Brother, please stand here. 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:51.040 Stand here. 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:59.480 This man will pass here to come to me. 00:02:59.480 --> 00:03:05.280 But if two of us close, there is no avenue for him to pass. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:18.320 It means you live in fullness - abundant life. 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:21.880 What is good is to close this. 00:03:21.880 --> 00:03:23.600 This is weakness. 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:31.040 Here is the weaknesses entrance, for this man to enter here and come 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:33.640 and afflict with poverty, 00:03:33.640 --> 00:03:35.400 afflict with sickness, 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:43.280 afflict with setback and barrenness - just name every affliction. 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:45.440 This is the place to pass. 00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:51.920 Instead, one begins to say, "God, heal me!" 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:54.560 Does it make sense to say, "God, heal me"? 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:03.960 Why can't you close the avenue and have abundant life - life in abundance? 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:05.880 But we keep saying, "Heal me!" 00:04:05.880 --> 00:04:07.400 When you are sick, you say, "Heal me!" 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:09.880 When you are poor, you say, "Bless me!" 00:04:09.880 --> 00:04:13.000 When you are barren, you say, "Bless me with the fruit of the womb." 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.080 No! God is aware; He knows your situation. 00:04:17.080 --> 00:04:20.400 When you begin to tell God, "I want to go there" - 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:24.280 it means you say your god is blind. 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:27.440 Someone who created you knows you. 00:04:27.440 --> 00:04:30.480 He knows your disposition. He knows your thoughts. 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:34.520 And you are now telling Him, "I am poor - bless me!" 00:04:34.520 --> 00:04:36.720 Does it make sense? 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:43.680 What we are saying now - to make it and to get your life fit... 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.400 You need to fit your life. 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:52.080 Many lives have been disconnected from the Creator. 00:04:52.080 --> 00:05:03.160 In order to fit your life back, as from today, begin to pray against your weakness. 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:08.560 This is what God was telling Apostle Paul. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:16.840 Three times, he came to God: 'Heal me! I have a thorn in my flesh!' 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:20.040 Each time, the Lord said, "My grace is sufficient for you." 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:30.520 This means, 'My righteousness is sufficient for you.' 00:05:30.520 --> 00:05:35.240 Each time Paul said, 'Heal me', God said, 'My grace is sufficient for you.' 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:44.320 It means, 'Seek first the Kingdom. Healing, blessing and everything will be added.' 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:53.280 God used Paul as an example for everyone of us. 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:56.960 We never heard anything after those three times the Lord said, 00:05:56.960 --> 00:05:58.680 "My grace is sufficient for you!" 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.320 There is no record about that again. 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:06.200 We never heard that disease is what killed Paul. 00:06:06.200 --> 00:06:11.320 And Paul lived to the promised age God gave to him. 00:06:11.320 --> 00:06:15.640 What is your challenge now? Weaknesses. 00:06:15.640 --> 00:06:23.400 Tell your neighbour, "My challenge is my weaknesses, not my hardship, 00:06:23.400 --> 00:06:28.600 not my sickness, not my trouble. 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.600 My challenge is my weaknesses." 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.320 That is your challenge. 00:06:36.320 --> 00:06:41.120 If you had been praying against this all this while, 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.080 your situation would not remain like this. 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:56.800 In summary, your prayer today should be basically against weaknesses. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.600 "I'm poor" - God is aware. 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:04.360 "I'm sick" - God is aware. 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:06.880 "I'm barren" - God is aware. 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:09.640 Whatever challenges you have, God is aware. 00:07:09.640 --> 00:07:12.400 It's unnecessary to begin to itemise. 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:17.080 'I am this! I need this!' 00:07:17.080 --> 00:07:21.960 Block the avenue satan uses to afflict you. 00:07:21.960 --> 00:07:29.880 Block the entrance satan is using to affect you, which is weakness. 00:07:29.880 --> 00:07:31.800 He uses our weakness to affect us. 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:33.480 He uses our weakness to attack us. 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.160 He uses our weakness to hit us. 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.760 That is weakness. Pray against your weakness. 00:07:39.760 --> 00:07:46.440 And once this is blocked, all other things will be added to you. 00:07:46.440 --> 00:07:48.520 One thing about weakness - 00:07:48.520 --> 00:07:52.400 when you open your mouth and say, 'God, I talk too much! 00:07:52.400 --> 00:07:57.160 Please give me the grace. I don't want to talk too much.' 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:02.680 After your prayer, as a human being, you want to practice what you have prayed for. 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.280 When you are going and you are about to talk too much, 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:12.240 you will remember that you have prayed against it. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:16.040 If someone says, "T.B. Joshua, what do you have to say?" 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:22.440 "Don't worry - I will see you later." 00:08:22.440 --> 00:08:24.560 Because you don't want to talk too much. 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:31.280 Because it's only a fool who will pray against talking too much 00:08:31.280 --> 00:08:35.720 and you leave that prayer and immediately talk too much. 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.120 You pray again, 'Lord, I don't want to talk too much.' 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.600 By the time you continue to pray against your weakness, 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:47.160 you have to begin to live the life of your prayer. 00:08:47.160 --> 00:08:51.360 Tell your neighbour, "Live the life of your prayer." 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.160 That is, what you say in your prayer - live it. 00:08:56.160 --> 00:08:58.160 'I don't want to talk too much.' 00:08:58.160 --> 00:09:03.280 After the prayer, I will live the life of not talking too much. 00:09:03.280 --> 00:09:12.240 If you want to fast, the fast that brings an answer from God... 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:19.200 You don't even need God to minister to your heart to go and fast. 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:23.360 Anytime you decide to fast against your weakness, God answers it. 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.440 If I am talking to you, let me see your hand. 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.800 But any other fasting - you are going to the mountain to fast because you are poor 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:33.560 and you want God to bless you with breakthrough. 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:37.360 If you stay in the bush and begin to fast for four days, 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:45.120 even if you fast for 100 years, you will die there! 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:54.360 Go and fast and pray against weakness and it's a direct answer! 00:09:54.360 --> 00:10:02.800 God answers immediately because God wants a relationship builder. 00:10:02.800 --> 00:10:05.280 When you build your relationship - 00:10:05.280 --> 00:10:09.240 'I talk too much; I don't want to talk too much' - God is always happy. 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:14.520 What matters to God is our relationship, not what we do. 00:10:14.520 --> 00:10:18.600 Go and fast - every other thing shall be added to you. 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:25.160 Anytime you have the opportunity to fast because of your weakness, 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:28.000 it's a direct answer. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.840 You have been fasting but there is nothing to show. 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:38.600 Try this from today. 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:45.720 If you can find a day to fast from morning to evening because of your weakness, 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:53.280 you will come here for testimony. 00:10:53.280 --> 00:11:00.320 The nightmare you are having - through your weakness, satan comes to attack you. 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.480 The hardship you are facing - 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.920 satan comes through your weakness to attack you with the spirit of hardship. 00:11:06.920 --> 00:11:09.160 The sickness you are having now - 00:11:09.160 --> 00:11:15.040 it is through your weakness satan comes to attack you with the spirit of sickness. 00:11:15.040 --> 00:11:18.760 Barrenness - through weakness. 00:11:18.760 --> 00:11:22.800 Please, let us block this. Pray against it. 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:25.240 Let this be your prayer. 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:35.240 With this, I am happy for your life. 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:40.920 If a person is a Christian, then we go further to look into their lives - 00:11:40.920 --> 00:11:44.360 any area of weakness. 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.360 They will be at a certain level obviously. 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:51.320 So, we will look at that level that they are, 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.720 how often do they pray? 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.520 How often do they get angry? 00:11:56.520 --> 00:11:59.480 Do they have lust or any weakness? 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:05.440 That could be lust, anger, unforgiveness, hatred or pride. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.960 Rise up. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:13.960 Is that not educative? 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:18.440 That is why I said stand up and stand up for Jesus. 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.800 We will be standing and let her talk. 00:12:21.800 --> 00:12:27.440 It's very educative. Just write it down. Did you listen to that? 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:31.000 She began to mention all the fruits of the flesh. 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.480 She said there is one they must... that area. 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:39.320 Ok. Start from where you stopped now. 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:44.080 It could be anger, pride or boasting. 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:48.280 Ok, as a good example, if the person has pride, how do you use the pride? 00:12:48.280 --> 00:12:51.320 How do you get through the pride? 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.440 For example, if the problem is pride, 00:12:54.440 --> 00:13:00.280 then we are going to create situations that will cause him to be more proud, 00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:06.400 to talk about himself - his success, what he has achieved. 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:11.880 In that area of weakness, we aggravate the area, 00:13:11.880 --> 00:13:17.720 so that you are caught up in it long enough for us to enter and do what we want to do. 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:21.440 Clap for Jesus Christ. 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.360 Did you listen to that? 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.400 That is, if it is pride, they will use that pride and enter, 00:13:27.400 --> 00:13:32.840 so you will now begin to be too arrogant and proud. 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:47.880 That is enough to cause you to fall, to get you into their net. 00:13:47.880 --> 00:13:49.920 Go ahead. 00:13:49.920 --> 00:13:52.440 And then, we would use that. 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:57.000 While you are still caught up in that situation of weakness, 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.480 then we enter and we do what we want to do. 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:01.800 Then, we would finally get you. 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:03.240 What do you want to do? 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:08.240 In this case, we want to probably break up the marriage. 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:13.160 Yes, we want this man to leave his wife 00:14:13.160 --> 00:14:18.760 and marry this sister who is my client. 00:14:18.760 --> 00:14:21.560 And you have succeeded in doing that to many? 00:14:21.560 --> 00:14:25.560 We have succeeded many times. 00:14:25.560 --> 00:14:27.880 To many Christians like that? 00:14:27.880 --> 00:14:30.760 To many Christians like that. 00:14:30.760 --> 00:14:36.320 Did you listen to what she is saying now? 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:41.680 She is using the word - no one is perfect, not even one. 00:14:41.680 --> 00:14:44.320 That is the angle they are using. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:54.000 Look at what Paul said, "When I am weak, then I am strong." 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:01.360 In our last meeting, I used the word 'affliction'. 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:08.080 Our afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit. 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:17.040 And I defined it by saying - we are sometimes tempted 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:22.880 so that we may learn to pray the more. 00:15:22.880 --> 00:15:29.680 Now, what she is saying is if that pride is your weakness, 00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:34.000 and your prayer line is still there, 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:38.840 the more you are tempted with pride, the more you pray. 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:45.440 Then, they cannot use that angle against you. 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.400 Unless they close your prayer line. 00:15:48.400 --> 00:15:54.240 If your prayer line is closed, the more you are proud, 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.640 the more you are destroyed. 00:15:57.640 --> 00:16:02.040 The more that pride, the more your destruction. 00:16:02.040 --> 00:16:07.880 But if your prayer line is not closed, 00:16:07.880 --> 00:16:19.000 the more that pride comes, the more you pray. 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:27.360 Their aim, use and purpose of weakness is to overthrow you as a Christian. 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:34.120 But instead of overthrowing you, it strengthens you the more. 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:41.720 They are lost. 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.200 Are you with me? 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:50.840 Now, I want to carry this, to push this. 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:59.960 The more you try to push me not to push this, the more I push! 00:16:59.960 --> 00:17:04.920 You can see the purpose of pushing me out of this place is defeated. 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.480 So, therefore, there is no need of pushing me. 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:14.120 The purpose of satan, the reason why satan is bent on using that weakness - 00:17:14.120 --> 00:17:18.040 they normally use weakness as a bait. 00:17:18.040 --> 00:17:27.000 Now, if the more that attack comes, the more you pray - 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:36.320 that is the meaning of 'our afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit'. 00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:40.840 Affliction could be temptation, poverty, attack, this, that. 00:17:40.840 --> 00:17:46.080 But when it comes, it's meant for your spiritual benefit. 00:17:46.080 --> 00:17:56.000 You pray the more, fast the more and seek the face of God the more. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.400 So, what she is saying now is that they look at the weakness. 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:06.920 If your weakness is that but your prayer line is there, 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:11.960 then when this attack comes, you pray the more. 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:22.800 They have no right over you. 00:18:22.800 --> 00:18:24.560 But when your prayer line is closed - 00:18:24.560 --> 00:18:32.360 if they can take your prayer line, they take your life. 00:18:32.360 --> 00:18:38.680 That is why the Bible says, "Nothing can separate me." 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:39.880 That is the meaning. 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:44.280 Can weakness? No - if your prayer line is there. 00:18:44.280 --> 00:18:50.440 But if your prayer line is closed, weakness can separate you from the love of God. 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:54.720 If I am talking to you, let me see your hand. 00:18:54.720 --> 00:19:00.640 If your prayer line is closed, weakness can separate you from the love of God. 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.720 But if your prayer line is there, nothing can separate you. 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:05.520 This is what Paul meant. 00:19:05.520 --> 00:19:09.280 He said, 'What can separate me? Can thorn? No. 00:19:09.280 --> 00:19:14.000 Can weakness? Can infirmity? Can hatred? 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:20.560 He said nothing can separate him because his prayer line was there. 00:19:20.560 --> 00:19:31.480 But once they close your prayer line and you cannot pray again, you are finished. 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:38.800 We will talk more about that. You may be seated. 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:42.280 Look at the case of Paul. 00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:45.200 He cried out to God three times, not one time. 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.720 Three times means three hundred times. 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:51.920 Each time means one hundred times. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.480 Many times, he ran to God. 00:19:55.480 --> 00:20:01.160 'Jesus, save me. Heal me. Bless me. Rescue me.' 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:09.840 How many times have you run to God over an issue in your life and you give up? 00:20:09.840 --> 00:20:19.080 Without hearing from God - but you give up? 00:20:19.080 --> 00:20:24.400 Remember, Paul heard from God, 'My grace is sufficient for you.' 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:28.920 He still continued. 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:34.240 What of you that did not hear from God at all and you give up? 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.960 Compared to a man who heard from God, 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:43.520 'My grace is sufficient for you. Don't worry yourself.' 00:20:43.520 --> 00:20:48.480 But you never from God and you give up. 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:55.200 And he never got offended that God did not remove the thorn. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:21:00.640 With the word, 'My grace is sufficient for you' - he was okay with that 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:04.240 because he knew whether he was healed or not, 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:06.960 that would not change the position of God. 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:10.160 Whether you as a person enter the Kingdom of God or not, 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:14.000 that will not change the Kingdom of God. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:20.200 God will remain the Healer and Deliverer, whether you are healed or not. 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:27.040 He knew that whether he is healed or not, Jesus is the Healer. 00:21:27.040 --> 00:21:33.400 So, why do you bother yourself? 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:39.520 Let's talk again about the weakness the sister is talking about. 00:21:39.520 --> 00:21:41.040 The Bible says no one is perfect. 00:21:41.040 --> 00:21:50.880 Whatever weakness is yours, since that prayer line is not closed, 00:21:50.880 --> 00:22:03.720 that weakness is a spiritual benefit to draw you closer to God, 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:11.080 to run to God the more, believe the more, have faith enough. 00:22:11.080 --> 00:22:13.960 Because you have faith but not enough. 00:22:13.960 --> 00:22:16.960 But weakness will make you have faith enough. 00:22:18.560 --> 00:22:19.920 Thank You, Jesus Christ. 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:21.680 I love that message. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:25.560 I especially loved in the first clip where Prophet T.B. Joshua said that 00:22:25.560 --> 00:22:29.760 what God wants is a relationship builder. 00:22:29.760 --> 00:22:32.680 Because that's what it's all about, people of God. 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:38.600 It's all about building our relationship with God. 00:22:38.600 --> 00:22:41.240 Yes, we do have weaknesses. 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:45.360 Yes, in this journey of life, we make mistakes. 00:22:45.360 --> 00:22:51.760 And yes, in this world we face trials, troubles and tests of faith. 00:22:51.760 --> 00:23:02.840 But we must not allow anything to interfere with our relationship with God. 00:23:02.840 --> 00:23:11.320 Satan may interfere with our finances, business, career or health. 00:23:11.320 --> 00:23:14.080 We are not out of touch. 00:23:14.080 --> 00:23:20.480 But don't let him interfere with your spiritual life. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:26.600 Don't let him interrupt your prayer line with God. 00:23:26.600 --> 00:23:28.960 What's our motto, as believers? 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:35.080 Nothing - absolutely nothing - shall separate us 00:23:35.080 --> 00:23:42.240 from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:48.680 I loved the example Prophet T.B. Joshua reminded us of in the case of Apostle Paul. 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:52.400 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:57.400 Because even at his level in the things of God, 00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:59.880 in the things of the Spirit, 00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:05.720 the Bible says he had a thorn in his flesh. 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:13.440 But that did not become a stumbling block in his spiritual life. 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:18.600 Rather, it became a means of even drawing him closer to God - 00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:23.240 to pray the more, believe the more, love God the more. 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:29.640 Nothing interrupted his prayer line. 00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:31.920 What an encouragement for you and me today. 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:36.600 Whatever your situation, people of God - 00:24:36.600 --> 00:24:41.560 if that situation reminds you of God, 00:24:41.560 --> 00:24:48.920 if that situation, weakness becomes a source of you depending on God, 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:55.000 increases your sense of dependence on God, 00:24:55.000 --> 00:25:00.320 know that promotion is coming. 00:25:00.320 --> 00:25:05.760 So, practically - the practical application of this Word in our day-to-day lives: 00:25:05.760 --> 00:25:12.040 Stop praying against your enemies. 00:25:12.040 --> 00:25:15.720 Start praying against your weakness. 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:21.560 Close the door to the devil in your life. 00:25:21.560 --> 00:25:26.240 Keep your prayer line with God open. 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:29.520 And don't let anything in this world 00:25:29.520 --> 00:25:36.080 become a stumbling block to your spiritual growth. 00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:40.000 And at God's appointed, perfect time, 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.120 everything is beautiful. 00:25:44.120 --> 00:25:45.320 Thank You, Jesus Christ. 00:25:45.320 --> 00:25:49.840 Well, thank you for joining us for this wonderful message today. 00:25:49.840 --> 00:25:52.480 I would love to hear from you the lessons you learned 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.000 from this practical message from Prophet T.B. Joshua. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.920 You know, words spoken under the influence of the Holy Spirit 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:03.880 are not time-bound. 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:08.440 So, please share with us what you learned from this message in the comments below. 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:11.880 And of course, remember always - 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:19.440 seek God's heart to see life clearly, in Jesus' name.