1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,840 You have been fasting but there is nothing to show. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:07,800 Try this from today. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:13,520 Wow! My God. You will come here for testimony! 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,880 Grace and peace to you all in Jesus' mighty name 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:25,440 and welcome to another edition of 'The Legacy Lives On'. 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,880 Now, today we will be bringing to you two clips of Prophet T.B. Joshua 7 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:37,320 speaking about a very important and instructive topic 8 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,480 that I believe will really help your Christian life. 9 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:44,520 The first clip is taken from the midst of a sermon 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,480 and then the second clip is taken from the midst of a testimony 11 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:53,520 from a young South African lady who received her deliverance 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:59,400 from an evil spirit that led her into a life of witchcraft. 13 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,800 And while Prophet TB Joshua was listening to her testimony, 14 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,640 he used her life experience as an opportunity 15 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:15,440 to teach people this important spiritual principle. 16 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:21,240 So, be blessed right now as you learn about the kind of prayer, 17 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:28,640 the kind of fasting that always attracts the attention of God. 18 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,840 Let's watch. 19 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:37,240 If you don't want satan to enslave you, please work on your character. 20 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,320 This means, as from today, don't begin to ask God, "Heal me!" 21 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:47,480 Pray against your weakness. 22 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,120 As from today, don't begin to say, "God, bless me!" 23 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:56,080 Pray against your weakness. 24 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,080 As from today, don't begin to say, "God, protect me! 25 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,000 People are after me! People want to kill me!" 26 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,120 You are wasting your time. 27 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:07,080 Go straight - pray against your weakness. 28 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,520 That is the avenue satan uses to enter, 29 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,840 to afflict you with poverty, 30 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,160 to afflict you with insecurity, 31 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,720 to afflict you with sickness, 32 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,760 to afflict you with whatever you are talking about. 33 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,720 He uses our weakness to enter us. 34 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:29,040 If you close that place, no more satan. 35 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:38,920 Brother, please come. I will disturb you today because you disturb me! 36 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:45,640 Stand here. Brother, please stand here. 37 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:51,040 Stand here. 38 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:59,480 This man will pass here to come to me. 39 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:05,280 But if two of us close, there is no avenue for him to pass. 40 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:18,320 It means you live in fullness - abundant life. 41 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,880 What is good is to close this. 42 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,600 This is weakness. 43 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:31,040 Here is the weaknesses entrance, for this man to enter here and come 44 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,640 and afflict with poverty, 45 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:35,400 afflict with sickness, 46 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:43,280 afflict with setback and barrenness - just name every affliction. 47 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,440 This is the place to pass. 48 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:51,920 Instead, one begins to say, "God, heal me!" 49 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,560 Does it make sense to say, "God, heal me"? 50 00:03:54,560 --> 00:04:03,960 Why can't you close the avenue and have abundant life - life in abundance? 51 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,880 But we keep saying, "Heal me!" 52 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,400 When you are sick, you say, "Heal me!" 53 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,880 When you are poor, you say, "Bless me!" 54 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,000 When you are barren, you say, "Bless me with the fruit of the womb." 55 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,080 No! God is aware; He knows your situation. 56 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,400 When you begin to tell God, "I want to go there" - 57 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,280 it means you say your god is blind. 58 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,440 Someone who created you knows you. 59 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,480 He knows your disposition. He knows your thoughts. 60 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,520 And you are now telling Him, "I am poor - bless me!" 61 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,720 Does it make sense? 62 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:43,680 What we are saying now - to make it and to get your life fit... 63 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,400 You need to fit your life. 64 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:52,080 Many lives have been disconnected from the Creator. 65 00:04:52,080 --> 00:05:03,160 In order to fit your life back, as from today, begin to pray against your weakness. 66 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:08,560 This is what God was telling Apostle Paul. 67 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:16,840 Three times, he came to God: 'Heal me! I have a thorn in my flesh!' 68 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:20,040 Each time, the Lord said, "My grace is sufficient for you." 69 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:30,520 This means, 'My righteousness is sufficient for you.' 70 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:35,240 Each time Paul said, 'Heal me', God said, 'My grace is sufficient for you.' 71 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:44,320 It means, 'Seek first the Kingdom. Healing, blessing and everything will be added.' 72 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:53,280 God used Paul as an example for everyone of us. 73 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,960 We never heard anything after those three times the Lord said, 74 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:58,680 "My grace is sufficient for you!" 75 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,320 There is no record about that again. 76 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:06,200 We never heard that disease is what killed Paul. 77 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:11,320 And Paul lived to the promised age God gave to him. 78 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:15,640 What is your challenge now? Weaknesses. 79 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:23,400 Tell your neighbour, "My challenge is my weaknesses, not my hardship, 80 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:28,600 not my sickness, not my trouble. 81 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,600 My challenge is my weaknesses." 82 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,320 That is your challenge. 83 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:41,120 If you had been praying against this all this while, 84 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,080 your situation would not remain like this. 85 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:56,800 In summary, your prayer today should be basically against weaknesses. 86 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,600 "I'm poor" - God is aware. 87 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,360 "I'm sick" - God is aware. 88 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,880 "I'm barren" - God is aware. 89 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,640 Whatever challenges you have, God is aware. 90 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,400 It's unnecessary to begin to itemise. 91 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:17,080 'I am this! I need this!' 92 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,960 Block the avenue satan uses to afflict you. 93 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:29,880 Block the entrance satan is using to affect you, which is weakness. 94 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:31,800 He uses our weakness to affect us. 95 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,480 He uses our weakness to attack us. 96 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,160 He uses our weakness to hit us. 97 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,760 That is weakness. Pray against your weakness. 98 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:46,440 And once this is blocked, all other things will be added to you. 99 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,520 One thing about weakness - 100 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,400 when you open your mouth and say, 'God, I talk too much! 101 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,160 Please give me the grace. I don't want to talk too much.' 102 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:02,680 After your prayer, as a human being, you want to practice what you have prayed for. 103 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,280 When you are going and you are about to talk too much, 104 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:12,240 you will remember that you have prayed against it. 105 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,040 If someone says, "T.B. Joshua, what do you have to say?" 106 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:22,440 "Don't worry - I will see you later." 107 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,560 Because you don't want to talk too much. 108 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:31,280 Because it's only a fool who will pray against talking too much 109 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,720 and you leave that prayer and immediately talk too much. 110 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,120 You pray again, 'Lord, I don't want to talk too much.' 111 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,600 By the time you continue to pray against your weakness, 112 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:47,160 you have to begin to live the life of your prayer. 113 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,360 Tell your neighbour, "Live the life of your prayer." 114 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:56,160 That is, what you say in your prayer - live it. 115 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,160 'I don't want to talk too much.' 116 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:03,280 After the prayer, I will live the life of not talking too much. 117 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:12,240 If you want to fast, the fast that brings an answer from God... 118 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:19,200 You don't even need God to minister to your heart to go and fast. 119 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,360 Anytime you decide to fast against your weakness, God answers it. 120 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,440 If I am talking to you, let me see your hand. 121 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:31,800 But any other fasting - you are going to the mountain to fast because you are poor 122 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,560 and you want God to bless you with breakthrough. 123 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,360 If you stay in the bush and begin to fast for four days, 124 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:45,120 even if you fast for 100 years, you will die there! 125 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:54,360 Go and fast and pray against weakness and it's a direct answer! 126 00:09:54,360 --> 00:10:02,800 God answers immediately because God wants a relationship builder. 127 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,280 When you build your relationship - 128 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:09,240 'I talk too much; I don't want to talk too much' - God is always happy. 129 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:14,520 What matters to God is our relationship, not what we do. 130 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,600 Go and fast - every other thing shall be added to you. 131 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:25,160 Anytime you have the opportunity to fast because of your weakness, 132 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,000 it's a direct answer. 133 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,840 You have been fasting but there is nothing to show. 134 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,600 Try this from today. 135 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:45,720 If you can find a day to fast from morning to evening because of your weakness, 136 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:53,280 you will come here for testimony. 137 00:10:53,280 --> 00:11:00,320 The nightmare you are having - through your weakness, satan comes to attack you. 138 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,480 The hardship you are facing - 139 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,920 satan comes through your weakness to attack you with the spirit of hardship. 140 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,160 The sickness you are having now - 141 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:15,040 it is through your weakness satan comes to attack you with the spirit of sickness. 142 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,760 Barrenness - through weakness. 143 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,800 Please, let us block this. Pray against it. 144 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,240 Let this be your prayer. 145 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:35,240 With this, I am happy for your life. 146 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,920 If a person is a Christian, then we go further to look into their lives - 147 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,360 any area of weakness. 148 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,360 They will be at a certain level obviously. 149 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,320 So, we will look at that level that they are, 150 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,720 how often do they pray? 151 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,520 How often do they get angry? 152 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,480 Do they have lust or any weakness? 153 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:05,440 That could be lust, anger, unforgiveness, hatred or pride. 154 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,960 Rise up. 155 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:13,960 Is that not educative? 156 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:18,440 That is why I said stand up and stand up for Jesus. 157 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,800 We will be standing and let her talk. 158 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:27,440 It's very educative. Just write it down. Did you listen to that? 159 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,000 She began to mention all the fruits of the flesh. 160 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,480 She said there is one they must... that area. 161 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,320 Ok. Start from where you stopped now. 162 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:44,080 It could be anger, pride or boasting. 163 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,280 Ok, as a good example, if the person has pride, how do you use the pride? 164 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,320 How do you get through the pride? 165 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,440 For example, if the problem is pride, 166 00:12:54,440 --> 00:13:00,280 then we are going to create situations that will cause him to be more proud, 167 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:06,400 to talk about himself - his success, what he has achieved. 168 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:11,880 In that area of weakness, we aggravate the area, 169 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. 170 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:21,440 Clap for Jesus Christ. 171 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,360 Did you listen to that? 172 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,400 That is, if it is pride, they will use that pride and enter, 173 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:32,840 so you will now begin to be too arrogant and proud. 174 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:47,880 That is enough to cause you to fall, to get you into their net. 175 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:49,920 Go ahead. 176 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,440 And then, we would use that. 177 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,000 While you are still caught up in that situation of weakness, 178 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,480 then we enter and we do what we want to do. 179 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:01,800 Then, we would finally get you. 180 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,240 What do you want to do? 181 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,240 In this case, we want to probably break up the marriage. 182 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:13,160 Yes, we want this man to leave his wife 183 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,760 and marry this sister who is my client. 184 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,560 And you have succeeded in doing that to many? 185 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,560 We have succeeded many times. 186 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,880 To many Christians like that? 187 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,760 To many Christians like that. 188 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:36,320 Did you listen to what she is saying now? 189 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:41,680 She is using the word - no one is perfect, not even one. 190 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,320 That is the angle they are using. 191 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:54,000 Look at what Paul said, "When I am weak, then I am strong." 192 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:01,360 In our last meeting, I used the word 'affliction'. 193 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:08,080 Our afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit. 194 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:17,040 And I defined it by saying - we are sometimes tempted 195 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:22,880 so that we may learn to pray the more. 196 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:29,680 Now, what she is saying is if that pride is your weakness, 197 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:34,000 and your prayer line is still there, 198 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,840 the more you are tempted with pride, the more you pray. 199 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:45,440 Then, they cannot use that angle against you. 200 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,400 Unless they close your prayer line. 201 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:54,240 If your prayer line is closed, the more you are proud, 202 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,640 the more you are destroyed. 203 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:02,040 The more that pride, the more your destruction. 204 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:07,880 But if your prayer line is not closed, 205 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:19,000 the more that pride comes, the more you pray. 206 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:27,360 Their aim, use and purpose of weakness is to overthrow you as a Christian. 207 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:34,120 But instead of overthrowing you, it strengthens you the more. 208 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:41,720 They are lost. 209 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,200 Are you with me? 210 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:50,840 Now, I want to carry this, to push this. 211 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:59,960 The more you try to push me not to push this, the more I push! 212 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:04,920 You can see the purpose of pushing me out of this place is defeated. 213 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,480 So, therefore, there is no need of pushing me. 214 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:14,120 The purpose of satan, the reason why satan is bent on using that weakness - 215 00:17:14,120 --> 00:17:18,040 they normally use weakness as a bait. 216 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:27,000 Now, if the more that attack comes, the more you pray - 217 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:36,320 that is the meaning of 'our afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit'. 218 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:40,840 Affliction could be temptation, poverty, attack, this, that. 219 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:46,080 But when it comes, it's meant for your spiritual benefit. 220 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:56,000 You pray the more, fast the more and seek the face of God the more. 221 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,400 So, what she is saying now is that they look at the weakness. 222 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:06,920 If your weakness is that but your prayer line is there, 223 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,960 then when this attack comes, you pray the more. 224 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:22,800 They have no right over you. 225 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,560 But when your prayer line is closed - 226 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:32,360 if they can take your prayer line, they take your life. 227 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:38,680 That is why the Bible says, "Nothing can separate me." 228 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:39,880 That is the meaning. 229 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:44,280 Can weakness? No - if your prayer line is there. 230 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:50,440 But if your prayer line is closed, weakness can separate you from the love of God. 231 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,720 If I am talking to you, let me see your hand. 232 00:18:54,720 --> 00:19:00,640 If your prayer line is closed, weakness can separate you from the love of God. 233 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,720 But if your prayer line is there, nothing can separate you. 234 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,520 This is what Paul meant. 235 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,280 He said, 'What can separate me? Can thorn? No. 236 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:14,000 Can weakness? Can infirmity? Can hatred? 237 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:20,560 He said nothing can separate him because his prayer line was there. 238 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:31,480 But once they close your prayer line and you cannot pray again, you are finished. 239 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:38,800 We will talk more about that. You may be seated. 240 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,280 Look at the case of Paul. 241 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,200 He cried out to God three times, not one time. 242 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,720 Three times means three hundred times. 243 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,920 Each time means one hundred times. 244 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,480 Many times, he ran to God. 245 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:01,160 'Jesus, save me. Heal me. Bless me. Rescue me.' 246 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? 247 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:19,080 Without hearing from God - but you give up? 248 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:24,400 Remember, Paul heard from God, 'My grace is sufficient for you.' 249 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,920 He still continued. 250 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:34,240 What of you that did not hear from God at all and you give up? 251 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,960 Compared to a man who heard from God, 252 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:43,520 'My grace is sufficient for you. Don't worry yourself.' 253 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:48,480 But you never from God and you give up. 254 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:55,200 And he never got offended that God did not remove the thorn. 255 00:20:55,200 --> 00:21:00,640 With the word, 'My grace is sufficient for you' - he was okay with that 256 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,240 because he knew whether he was healed or not, 257 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,960 that would not change the position of God. 258 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,160 Whether you as a person enter the Kingdom of God or not, 259 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,000 that will not change the Kingdom of God. 260 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:20,200 God will remain the Healer and Deliverer, whether you are healed or not. 261 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:27,040 He knew that whether he is healed or not, Jesus is the Healer. 262 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:33,400 So, why do you bother yourself? 263 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:39,520 Let's talk again about the weakness the sister is talking about. 264 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,040 The Bible says no one is perfect. 265 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:50,880 Whatever weakness is yours, since that prayer line is not closed, 266 00:21:50,880 --> 00:22:03,720 that weakness is a spiritual benefit to draw you closer to God, 267 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:11,080 to run to God the more, believe the more, have faith enough. 268 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,960 Because you have faith but not enough. 269 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,960 But weakness will make you have faith enough. 270 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:19,920 Thank You, Jesus Christ. 271 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,680 I love that message. 272 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,560 I especially loved in the first clip where Prophet T.B. Joshua said that 273 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,760 what God wants is a relationship builder. 274 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,680 Because that's what it's all about, people of God. 275 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:38,600 It's all about building our relationship with God. 276 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,240 Yes, we do have weaknesses. 277 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,360 Yes, in this journey of life, we make mistakes. 278 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:51,760 And yes, in this world we face trials, troubles and tests of faith. 279 00:22:51,760 --> 00:23:02,840 But we must not allow anything to interfere with our relationship with God. 280 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:11,320 Satan may interfere with our finances, business, career or health. 281 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,080 We are not out of touch. 282 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:20,480 But don't let him interfere with your spiritual life. 283 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:26,600 Don't let him interrupt your prayer line with God. 284 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,960 What's our motto, as believers? 285 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:35,080 Nothing - absolutely nothing - shall separate us 286 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:42,240 from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. 287 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. 288 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,400 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 289 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,400 Because even at his level in the things of God, 290 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,880 in the things of the Spirit, 291 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:05,720 the Bible says he had a thorn in his flesh. 292 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:13,440 But that did not become a stumbling block in his spiritual life. 293 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,600 Rather, it became a means of even drawing him closer to God - 294 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,240 to pray the more, believe the more, love God the more. 295 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:29,640 Nothing interrupted his prayer line. 296 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,920 What an encouragement for you and me today. 297 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,600 Whatever your situation, people of God - 298 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,560 if that situation reminds you of God, 299 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:48,920 if that situation, weakness becomes a source of you depending on God, 300 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:55,000 increases your sense of dependence on God, 301 00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:00,320 know that promotion is coming. 302 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:05,760 So, practically - the practical application of this Word in our day-to-day lives: 303 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:12,040 Stop praying against your enemies. 304 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,720 Start praying against your weakness. 305 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:21,560 Close the door to the devil in your life. 306 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:26,240 Keep your prayer line with God open. 307 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,520 And don't let anything in this world 308 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:36,080 become a stumbling block to your spiritual growth. 309 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:40,000 And at God's appointed, perfect time, 310 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,120 everything is beautiful. 311 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,320 Thank You, Jesus Christ. 312 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,840 Well, thank you for joining us for this wonderful message today. 313 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,480 I would love to hear from you the lessons you learned 314 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,000 from this practical message from Prophet T.B. Joshua. 315 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,920 You know, words spoken under the influence of the Holy Spirit 316 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,880 are not time-bound. 317 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:08,440 So, please share with us what you learned from this message in the comments below. 318 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,880 And of course, remember always - 319 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:19,440 seek God's heart to see life clearly, in Jesus' name.