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[Speaker 1] Churches and fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God greatly desires a godly home for you. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 2] We are thankful to God for this first meeting in the year, and this first meeting in the year of our Marriage Forum. The peculiarity of today's meeting is that we may find ourselves praying more, praying more than doing more of teaching. There is so much to look up to God for, to fix our faith on Jesus for. Our discussion for today will be centered around looking unto Jesus, looking beyond your spouse, looking beyond your wife, looking beyond your husband, looking beyond yourself, looking beyond who you are, looking beyond what you can do, looking beyond what she has done, looking beyond what he has done, but looking unto Jesus, looking unto Jesus. So let us have a word of prayer as we commence the meeting for today. Almighty God, we are grateful unto you. We bless your holy name. We give you praise. We give you glory. We give you honor. We appreciate you. We thank you, our Father. We are so grateful for this first meeting of the year 2021, the first Marriage Forum of the year 2021. We are very thankful for your help through 2020. Lord, as we commence again today, our eyes are on you. That Lord, you would help us. That Lord, you will carry us. That Lord, you will see us through. That Lord, you will make our marriages, our home, our life, our marital relationship, our marital life move to higher significant meaning in 2021 in the name of Jesus Christ. You will move us from glory to glory. Our home more peaceful, our relational life more meaningful, our interpersonal relationship, oh God, more glorious in such a way that it will be far more profitable for us in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, everlasting Father. As we go on this morning, Lord, go with us. Let your spirit work within us. We trust you for our brethren who are here physically and for our brethren who are connecting with us online everywhere you are. We trust that the Lord will reach you in the name of Jesus. Thank you, eternal Father. In Jesus' name, we pray. I said the forum for today we may find ourselves praying more, this first forum. The reason why we are actually why we may be praying more, you will be understanding as we look at this topic for today: Looking unto Jesus. Looking unto Jesus. By looking unto Jesus, I am actually saying that as we commence Marriage Forum for this year, I want to encourage you. Are you already in a relationship? Or you have not started one? Are you married? Or you are single? Are you single and you are yet to be in a relationship that will lead to marriage? Wherever your position is today, we are commencing Marriage Forum by wanting to charge ourselves, wanting to encourage ourselves this 2021 that our marital life, our relational life will indeed go forward if we can look beyond ourselves and we can look unto Jesus. The topic for today's meeting is actually drawn from three passages of the Bible. The first one is the popular Hebrews 12:1-2, where the Bible says that therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. If you look at this passage of the Scripture, the Bible is saying that since we are surrounded—who are these witnesses that we are surrounded with? Of course, in Hebrews chapter 11, several heroes of faith have been mentioned. Several heroes: Abraham, Sarah, David, Samson, Daniel, the prophets, Abel, on and on like that. And he said all of these people, they could not be made perfect without us. So when he got to chapter 12, verse 1, the Bible says look, seeing that a lot of people have gone ahead of us who lived the life of faith, who were able to obtain good report by faith. He says by faith these people they obtained good report in Hebrews 11. They got good report by faith. He says so we too, since we are surrounded by this cloud, people who we have, there are people we can say yes, they trusted God in faith, they lived by faith, they looked unto God in faith, and their life was a success. Everywise, their life was a success. Those that needed issue, Abraham, Sarah, sons came. They became fertile even though they could be declared as barren. So the Bible says since you are surrounded by this great stand of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race. And you see, particularly this morning, I am actually talking of the marital race. I am using that race particularly. I am talking about your marital life. I am talking about your—that's why I said wherever you are. You are not yet in a relationship? Your marital life. You are in a relationship, engaged to somebody? Your marital life. You are already married? Your marital life. I am talking of that race of your marital life. That your race of marital life, there are things that if you don't set aside, if you don't set them aside, that race will not be a success. For example, if you are single, you are yet to be in a relationship, and by now you are messing up around, you can be sure it cannot be well with your marital life. If you are already in a relationship, for instance, and you are not living a life that is trustworthy, you are not truthful, you are not setting it aside, that race cannot be a success. And if you are married, and you don't come to the level of constant forgiveness, constantly forgiving one another, that race cannot be a success. It cannot be a success. So the Bible says therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, men who obtained good report through faith. I am saying that you can get good report through faith in your marital life. You can obtain good report. Your marriage can be a success. Your marital life, your relational life, that life can be a success by faith. That is what I am saying this morning. And that faith is the faith of looking unto Jesus. Looking unto Jesus. But look at something that—that's why I said we might find ourselves praying more today. Two things the Bible mentioned. It says let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us. Then let us run the race. Running it is looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of your faith. There are weights and there are sins. Anytime you see that as a single person, your marital life, that aspect of your life is in trouble, it is because of some weight or some sin. If you are in a relationship already, and that thing is to enter into trouble, is to be troubled, it is because of some weight or some sin. The same way, if you are already married and you notice that look, there are issues about your marriage, I want to tell you, it is because of certain weights or certain sins. Weight and sin, in whichever whatever your status is right now, is something we want to focus on as we start this meeting. I am talking about looking beyond your spouse. Forget your spouse. Your spouse did that, my fiancé did that, this and that. Forget about all those people first. I want you to look at yourself in respect of Jesus. Looking beyond them, looking unto Jesus. For example, my spouse offended me. Why is that thing still remaining a problem till today? It is because you have not been able to look unto Jesus enough to learn forgiveness. That is why it is still bothering you till today. And I want to ask you, why is it that your spouse cannot trust you in some matters? You may need to check. It is because you have not looked unto Jesus enough to take away your inability to be trustworthy. You tell lies, you are not honest, you are not truthful, then how can you be trusted? You have not been able to look unto Jesus to obtain a good report by faith. Our focus for this forum this morning is: what are the weights, what are the sins that are troubling your life, your relational life, your marital life? Weight and sin. We want to look unto Jesus. We want to particularly pray this morning. We want to look at some things. You want to call on Jesus. The troubler of your marriage is you. The troubler of your life is you. I was handling a case sometimes back, some years back. And the lady who was going out with the young man—of course, they met themselves in the church, let us leave the name of the church, that is not important to us. Now, they met themselves in church and they were going out. But this lady could not tell about her life. She has so many hidden things that she could not come to terms in terms of discussing it. She has slept with several people, committed several abortions. At some point in her life, to save her from dying, they had to remove her womb. She has lived her life, she has wasted her life. So when it came to the junction of marriage, there are so many hidden things that she could not talk about. What I am trying to say: what is the thing troubling her marital life? Is it the spouse that she found? No. It is the wayward life that she has lived. She was finding it very difficult to say, "Ah, how will I tell this man that at a point, I committed so much abortion, now I don't have a womb, who would want to marry a woman like me?" Now, what is making her looking for things to hide? Is it because of the young man? No, it is because of her own personal life. Her sin could not make her life successful. If she was to be a virgin, if she had lived her life correctly, if she was to be somebody who has been godly, who have integrity, would she be looking for something to hide? That is why I said wherever you are this morning. I am not yet in a relationship. How are you living your life? Are you looking unto Jesus to help you overcome some personal sins, personal weights? Weights that if you don't set them aside, if you don't overcome them today, by the time you come to the junction of marriage, they will become your sinking sand. Or are you already in a relationship and you have not conquered yourself in certain things? I can think back to some many, many years back again. A young man in a relationship who personally in his life have not conquered lust. And because he was so full of lust, within a very short time of being in a relationship, he is always looking for seclusion for her and the sister. He wants to touch the breast, he wants to kiss, he wants that, he wants all kinds of immoral life because he was so full of lust. I had to ask, is it that the sister was not dressing well? That is not the case, sir. It is somebody who has given his life to so much pornography, so much fantasy, that by the time he enters into relationship, those fantasy begins to come and he was so full, so lustful, that within a very short while, the sister had to complain and complain, "Brother, what is your problem? But you say you are a brother." Do you know that that thing led to the sister abandoning that relationship? So, what is the thing that is troubling the brother's marital life? Is it the sister? It is not the sister. It is his own life, his own life that was not correct. So today we are looking at looking beyond the other person. Looking unto Jesus for your life. Looking unto Jesus for your life. So, we are talking about one, we are looking unto Jesus because there are weights and there are sins that if you don't set aside will not make your marital life a success. Look beyond—leave your spouse. I give you an example. My spouse insulted me. Why is that a matter in your marriage? It is because you yourself you are not a meek person. If you are a meek person, Jesus Christ was insulted over and over and over again and He was blessing the people. So, if you are a meek person, that your spouse insulted you will not be a matter. Your marriage will still be peaceful. But it became a matter because you yourself you have not conquered yourself. You have not conquered yourself. That was why you began to, you were just fuming and foaming and like hot groundnut oil, that once water touches like this [sound effect], full of emotions, so temperamental, because you have not conquered yourself. And so many times some of the things you hold your spouse for, some of the things you hold them for, is your own sin that you have not dealt with. Your own infirmities that you have not overcome. I remember this story—I actually read the story, it was not something that I personally experienced, but I read it. A marriage, the marriage initially involved two unbelievers. But at a point, one of them became a follower of Jesus, a disciple of Jesus Christ. She put her faith in Christ and began to walk with Jesus. And that person was the wife. Because of the change in lifestyle, the change in taste, the change in values, the husband, who was yet to accept Jesus, became unusually critical. Unusually critical. Particularly persecuting the faith. Taking actions that are directly against that faith. Because he just felt, "No, what is wrong with you? All this prayer thing you now do, all this Bible reading, all this 'let us pray,' 'we must pray about this,' 'you pray about that,' all this fasting and things that you are doing, all these religious stuff is just deception. Some men are just there taking advantage of you, telling you that there is one Jesus that does that. All these things are just frame of mind. Don't be taken away by these things." But the wife was growing in her faith. Do you know that at some point, some critical point in that story that I read, the husband would deliberately, particularly when the woman is to go for fellowship, the woman would have finished cooking to go to fellowship, then the husband would just come at that particular point in time and say, "Dear, what was prepared? Oh, I prepared Amala for you to eat." The husband will say, "Sorry, I don't want to eat that one. Please, before you go to fellowship, I want pounded yam." You can look at somebody who is about ten minutes late, who is about ten minutes to leave the house and go to fellowship. The woman will quietly go and undress, change again, and then start peeling yam, get the pounded yam ready. And when she is ready with the pounded yam, she goes and says, "Dear, the pounded yam is ready. I'm now going to fellowship." She will be much—she will get to fellowship much later. The husband did that severally. But do you know as this thing was going on, the husband was surprised. "Ah, what has happened to this woman? One time before, if I do this kind of a thing, hey, it will be fire in this house. Something must have happened to this woman." I am trying to make you understand that many things that troubles your marriage is because you yourself you have not conquered yourself. You have not conquered yourself. You are not looking unto Jesus. You call your spouse your problem. You are the problem of your marriage. Looking unto Jesus. This morning we want to look unto Jesus for our life. We want to look beyond our spouse. My problem is my husband, my problem is my wife, my problem is my fiancé, my problem is—look, we want to look to Jesus. We want to say it's not about anybody. The reason why I don't have rest in this compound is because of that my neighbor. No, it is look beyond all those people. Looking unto Jesus. Looking unto Jesus. When the man noticed that that method did not work, the man took another method. This time around, he decided one day to bring in three of his friends. You can know when the enemy want to use somebody to provoke you. Three of his friends. And he brought them to the house. And what he has arranged with them is something to do to frustrate the wife. Arranged with them that when you get there, you just deliberately pour water on the floor, you deliberately say this food is not sweet, you need to add that, you deliberately say, just to get the woman frustrated. Of course, they came to the house and everything went as the man planned. His friends were there, he said, "Yes, my friends are around, we want to eat." And prepare food and then when the food was prepared, one of the friends just looked and said, "Madam, what is this that you—what is this? Is it how you normally cook? What kind of thing? Please, make this thing, go and add more of this." And the other one will come again, "Ah, is this—which this glass cup is not clean." even though those things were not like that. He just brought them to frustrate the woman. And the husband will say, "Look this glass thing—oh please I am sorry, I am sorry. You fool, hey, look at that." He told the friend to insult the woman. You can imagine your husband not defending you in the face of his friends. Even your husband bringing those kind of a thing. And the woman will be "Oh madam, what are you—look at this water, it's not clean. Please go and change this water. This water we use to wash our hand, please get this for us." And do you know that the woman went through all of that without any element of anger? Without trying to answer back. All she will say is, "Oh please I am sorry. Oh, sorry, let me quickly wash it. Oh, sorry, oh I am sorry." And they did all of that. Do you know what happened that day? At the end of their visitation, the four of them became believers. What happened was that the husband was overwhelmed by the life of the wife. The friends could not explain what kind of woman is this. And at a point, they all started saying, "Please pray for us. We—" actually, they began to confess their sin. And the four of them became Christians. What am I trying to say? Was there no storm in that marriage? There was. But what was the victory in that marriage? Did the woman see the husband as her troubler? No. She was looking—doing what? She was looking unto Jesus. And when I say looking unto Jesus, that woman had been able to conquer herself. She has been able to set aside weight and sin that easily do beset. She has been able to do that. She has been able to do that. The second scripture we are taking for today's meeting of Looking unto Jesus is Numbers 21:4-9. In that story again, you will find the children of Israel when they sinned against God, and God had to bring the fiery serpent to bite them. And the Bible says that the people they—they cried unto Moses, that Moses should do something about their situation. He should tell God, he should tell God to... It says, "And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses: 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.'" That is about the manna, the provision of God for them. "So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses and said, 'We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He may take away the serpents from us.' So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent, set it on a pole; it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it shall live.' So Moses made a bronze serpent and put it on a pole; and it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived." What was the request of the people? What was their request? Look at their request in the verse 7. What was their request? They said, "Therefore the people came to Moses and said, 'We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He may take away the serpents from us.'" I see many situations today of people saying, "Oh Lord, take my husband away from me so that my home can be peaceful. Lord, take my wife away from me so that my life can be peaceful. My problem is this my fiancé or my fiancée. My problem is this person or that person. My problem is that person or—Lord, take the person away, take that away, take this away. Oh, the way forward for me is divorce, is to divorce this woman, is to divorce this man. The way forward for me is to hate this person, the way forward for me is to cut off with that person, the way forward is to—take it away, take it away." But many times, God don't take away. What God provide for us is to look up. To look up. To look up. And we are talking about looking unto Jesus today as we begin this Marriage Forum for the year 2021. Look up. Those things that you are asking God "take away, take away, take away," many times what God wants you to do is to look at Him. What God wants to do with you is to change your attitude, is to change you. Once you are changed, the problem is over. As long as you are not changed, as long as you are that kind of person that you are, the problem will persist. As long as they keep looking at the serpent, "Oh this serpent is our problem, is our problem," the serpent wasn't their problem. What was the problem? The Lord said just look up. If you look up, just look at me. It's just to change what they are looking at. Many times the problem in a relationship is just for you to change what you are looking at. It's to change what you are focusing on. It's to change what you are concentrating on. So that you are just concentrating—sometimes you are concentrating on your selfishness. You are concentrating only on your interest. You are looking only on how you are affected. You are looking at how you can make, how things can always be to your advantage. You are only looking at that. Your focus is not changing. And what God wants to do to give you peace in your home, your relationship this year, God is saying change what you are looking at. Change what you are looking at. Change what you are focusing on. Stop looking down. Stop casting down. Stop castigating. Stop tearing down. Stop backbiting. Stop evil speaking. Stop complaining. Stop murmuring. Stop. And just thank God for that relationship. Begin to look at Jesus. Because if you look away from what you are looking at, the venom that is biting you will die. That thing that is biting you about your spouse, that is biting you about that your relationship, that thing that is making you feel so uncomfortable, the thing will just die. The thing will just take a natural death. The thing will look as if it is no more there. Do you know that as they look up, it looks as if the serpent was no more there? The serpent was still there, but the venom of the serpent was gone. What I am trying to say: that thing that troubles you in your relationship, if only you change your focus, the thing may still be there, but there is peace and rest around you. What you will need is just a change of focus. Change what you are looking at. Change what you are concentrating on. Look away. Look away from the person. Look away from your husband. Look away from your—look away from. And I want to say this particularly for those of you who are not in any relationship at all also that is listening to me right now. Do I hear you praying, "Father give me a good man. Father give me a wonderful husband. Lord, I need a good wife. Oh precious Lord, give me a woman that can be a wife material. Give me a man that will be a husband—" do I see you praying and expecting? Do I see you saying that "Lord, this year is my year. I trust the Lord to enter into something this year." Can I announce to you? The Bible says deep calleth unto deep. Do you get that? Deep calleth unto deep. Again the Bible says birds of the same feather they—oh sorry, that's an adage it's not the Bible. The Bible says, the Bible says walk with the wise, you become wise. Companions of fools are destroyed. But there is an adage that says birds of the same feather they flock together. That is corroborated in the Bible when it says deep calleth to deep. Iron sharpeneth iron. You know what I am trying to make you understand? The way to get a good wife is not to look for a good wife, it is to be a good man. Are you understanding me at all? Are you saying, "Lord, God, I need a wife that is good"? Stop focusing on who you are looking for. Focus on yourself. Focus on yourself. "Lord, I need a woman who fears the Lord." Forget that. Focus on yourself. If you fear God, your life will attract a man that fears God. If you fear God, in your company, do you know that eventually it is among those you share company with that eventually you begin to see who to marry? Have you ever seen a man that wants to marry and then begin to go to the camp of his enemies? It is those within your network. They may be close, they may be far. It is those within that same network, that same your network. It is the same company that your life can keep that you will eventually marry from. So if your life have not been truthful, you also have life around you who have not been truthful. So by the time you want to marry, you cannot get a truthful person. But if your life is a life of, of that has been truthful, you will discover that when you begin to find a young man, a young woman who is consistently not truthful, that life will abhor you, will put you away when you are still single. You will not be close, the person will not be in your so much network. The person will be a distant person, will not be someone that is within the close of your range or someone you can be considering for a relationship. What I am trying to make you understand is that the way forward is yourself. Look inward. Today we are looking at looking unto—looking beyond the other person. As we start this year, I want you to make up your mind that I want to look beyond the other person. I want to look at Jesus, my life and Jesus. How do we stand? I am telling you, if you can get it right with Jesus, you will get it right in all your relationships. If you can get it right with Jesus, you will get it right with your husband, you will get it right with your fiancé, and you will get it right in that relationship you ever eventually enter into, if you are still very single now. You will get it right. But if you don't get it right with Jesus, I don't see you getting it right in any other area. I don't see you getting it right. That is why as we commence this our Marriage Forum for this year, I am actually bringing a charge to us: looking unto Jesus. Looking unto Jesus. Looking unto Jesus. There are individuals particularly who are still carrying the grudge of 2020 to 2021. Several grudges. Against that person, against the husband, against the wife, against the father, against the daughter, against the friend, against the employer, against the neighbor, against the government, against the society, against—you are just against everybody. Grudges, inner pain. Look at this one, why is his head long? By the time you see the one that the head is short, "Oh look at this one, why is the head so short?" By the time you see the one again that the head—"Ah, why is this one? Why is the head so big?" You always have—you are just fighting everybody. Grudges here and there. All your life can focus is focus on the life of the other person at the areas of their weaknesses and faults. You can never see the good in them. You are still carrying the grudge of 2020. I am telling you, look beyond—your problem is not all of those people that surround you. Your problem is yourself. So make up your mind today that I will lay aside every weight. I will lay aside every sin that easily do beset. I will look beyond—I will look beyond the serpent around me. They are not my problem. I will change my focus this year. I will change my focus. I will change my focus. I will change my focus this year. This year I will rather focus on Jesus. I will look beyond all other things. I will look unto Jesus. I will look beyond all other things. I will look unto Jesus. I will look beyond—I will look beyond all of that, all of those things, and I will look at Jesus. And as we do that, I want us to look at the word of this hymn. It is a very popular hymn, although some of us who are not familiar with hymns may not be familiar with it. But let me just read the wordings of the hymn. The hymn is "My Faith Looks Up to Thee." The stanza one says: My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine! Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away, Oh, let me from this day Be wholly Thine! May Thy rich grace impart Strength to my fainting heart, That is the stanza two. My zeal inspire! As Thou hast died for me, Oh, may my love to Thee Pure, warm, and changeless be, A living fire! And then, stanza three: While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my Guide; Bid darkness turn to day, May your darkness turn to day in the name of Jesus Christ. Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside. And the final stanza says: All through life's transient dream, Until death's sullen stream Shall o'er me roll; Blest Savior, then in love, Fear and distrust remove; Make me Thy grace to prove, A ransomed soul. You see, I want to particularly focus this morning on the stanza one and the stanza two. I want to make it—like I told you that we will—I want us to just pray some prayer today as we look at this matter. Looking unto Jesus. Looking beyond yourself. Looking beyond your spouse. Just focusing on Jesus and yourself. Do you know that if you are carnally minded, the Bible says a carnal mind is always at enmity with God, it cannot please God. Now, if a man is carnally minded, he is an enemy of God. Can that man live peacefully with a man? So imagine that you are a wife who is carnally minded. Or imagine that you are the husband who is carnally minded. You are an enemy of God. How can you find peace in your marriage? What I am trying to say is that there are things about you you need to overcome. Look beyond the other person. Look beyond the other person. Focus on yourself. Focus on yourself. And as you focus on yourself this morning, I want you to begin to speak anywhere you are listening to us. Just if you are in a situation where you can close your eyes to pray, go ahead. If you are not in that—maybe you are working on something as you are listening to us, just be praying in your mind. Those of you connecting with us anywhere you just are, anywhere you find yourself—maybe you are in your office listening to us—just begin to pray along in your mind because I want you to pray, I want you to pray some scriptures. I want you to pray about certain things. He says, "My faith looks up to Thee." Can you pray now this morning to the Lord? And say, "Lord Jesus, for 2021, I look beyond my spouse. I look beyond my life. I look beyond the other person. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith is to Thee. I am not trusting the other person for my joy. I am not trusting my wife, my husband, for my peace, for my rest. The matter is about me and you. If I can lay aside every weight and every sin that easily do beset. If I can change my focus. If I can stop complaining and murmuring and being bitter. If I can choose to forgive, if I can choose to be meek, if I can choose to live a godly and holy life. If I can choose to be upright in my living. Lord, it will be well with me. Lord, my faith looks up to Thee." Can you look up to Jesus? And if you are there, you have not given your life to Christ and you are listening to us, can you turn to Jesus this morning? And say, "Lord Jesus, my life have not been—my life have not been correct. My life have not been right. But this morning I am looking up to you. I am looking up to you, Lord Jesus. Like the word of this hymn, my faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary. My faith looks up to Thee." Can you look at Jesus and say, "Lord, I put my trust in you"? Can you tell Jesus this morning that I refuse to look at the other person. I decide to look at myself and you. I decide to focus myself on you. Are you a believer? Can you tell yourself, "Lord Jesus, you are the author of my faith. You are the finisher of my faith. I look up to you. I put my trust in you, I rest on you. For this 2021, in this journey of my relationship, Lord, I just look up to you. I just look up to you." Do you feel there is something about your life that needs Jesus' attention? Is there something about your life that needs Jesus' intervention? Is there something about you that needs Jesus' intervention? Just speak to Jesus this morning and say, "Jesus, Jesus." In the quietness of your heart, wherever you are, just look unto Jesus. Oh, as we are speaking now I just remembered Hannah. She was in a situation where she cannot even shout loud. She was just muttering the thing within her spirit. Such that Eli thought she was drunk. She was just muttering the thing. She was just there, connecting with God. Anywhere you are this morning, anyhow your position is, anywhere you are connecting with us across the world, I want you—whatever position you have—just lift up your heart to Jesus and say, "Jesus, I connect with you this morning. I connect with you this morning for my marital life 2021. I connect with you for my marriage in this 2021. I connect with you for my marital future this 2021. I connect with you, Jesus. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee, Lord Jesus. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee." Can you turn it over? Can you roll it over? Can you just rest on Him? Can you just speak to Jesus? Can you just tell Him? Maybe you don't even have a walk with Jesus before. Can you just say, "Jesus, I've always been a sinner. I know my life is not correct. I know it is not correct. But I roll it over to you. Things I've been living my life, I have been immoral, I—" whatever you think you are, let me tell you this truth. Jesus Himself said, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." He said for the Father sent His Son into the world, not to condemn the world. Jesus did not come to condemn you. He said for the Father sent His Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that through Him the world might be saved. It doesn't matter how bad, how wretched, how wicked, how scattered, how shattered your life had been. This morning if you are listening to me, wherever you are and you are connecting with us, I want you to just turn it over to Jesus and say, "Lord Jesus, I know you did not come to the world to condemn the world. You came so that I might be saved. This is my situation. I'm just looking up unto you. I'm just turning it over to you. I'm just rolling it over to you. I'm just giving it unto you. I'm just giving you my life. I'm just turning it over. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee." Oh, hallelujah! Just talk to Jesus. Just talk to Jesus. The next thing in that hymn is our next focus of prayer. It says, "Thou Lamb of Calvary." My faith looks up to Thee, the Lamb of Calvary. The Lamb of Calvary. What that simply means is this: we will not be doing a lot of Bible exposition today, but I want you to know. When we say the Lamb of Calvary, what it means is that Jesus is the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world. When we say the Lamb of Calvary, you are saying, "Lord Jesus, I'm looking unto you, you who took away the sin of the world. You who took away the sin of the world. You who took away the sin of the world." And I want you to turn to Jesus this morning. Is there—don't forget where we are coming from—we want to lay aside every weight and every besetting sin. Is there something about you that you know that "Ah, this is something that troubles my marriage"? You are somebody or that troubles your relationship. Is there a sin? Are you somebody who lacks forgiveness? Are you somebody who is easily given to anger? You are quick to anger, you are quick to speak, you are not slow to it, you are quick, you are quick to wrath. The Bible says have you seen a man who is quick to anger, who is quick to this? The Bible says do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger rests in the bosom of a fool. Are you seeing yourself in that? Are you a man, maybe the other way around? Are you lustful? Are you somebody who is—is there something? Is there something you are struggling with? He said, "Oh, Thou Lamb of Calvary." You are the Lamb that taketh away the sin of the world. Jesus is that Lamb who took away the sin of the world. Can you say, "My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary"? Oh, Lamb of Calvary. Oh, Lamb of Calvary. Give me victory over my struggle. Give me victory over my struggle. Give me victory over my struggle. Give me victory over my struggle. Give me victory over my struggle. Give me victory over my struggle. Give me victory over my struggle. A victory over my struggle. Give me victory over my struggle. Give me victory. Give me victory over certain things. Give me victory. Maybe there is—maybe certain habits. Maybe certain—I don't know what it is, but can you tell Jesus this morning? Oh, my faith looks up to Thee, oh Thou Lamb of Calvary. Thou Lamb of Calvary. My faith looks up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee. You see the next thing in that hymn, he said, "Savior divine." Savior divine. Do you know what that means? Oh, Jesus can do anything for you miraculously. He is a divine Savior. He is a divine Savior. He says, "Savior divine. Savior divine." He is not a mortal Savior. He is not a human Savior. He is not limited by time. He can change your time. He can change your season. He can change the situation around you. He can turn things around. He can turn things around. He can turn it around for you. He can change it for you. Oh, is it about your home? Is it about your life? Is it something about you? Then you can turn it over to Jesus. He is Savior divine. He is Savior divine. He is Savior divine. He is Savior divine. He is Savior divine. He is Savior divine. He is Savior divine. He is Savior divine. He is an almighty Savior. He is an almighty Savior. The Bible call Him the everlasting Father. The Bible call Him the kings of kings. The Bible call Him the everlasting God. That is this Jesus. That is this Jesus. The Bible said in Him, in Him we live, we move, we have our being. The Bible says again that in Him dwelleth the Godhead bodily. Dwelleth the Godhead bodily. The Bible says that in His name, and only through His name, the Bible says there is no any other name given among men by which we can be saved. The Bible says when I call upon His name, it says anyone that call upon His name shall be saved. If you call upon His name, if you call upon His name, and say, "Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, your name is a mighty Savior. I call upon your name for this matter. I call upon your name for this thing." The Bible says whosoever shall call upon His name shall be saved. There is no any other name. I don't know which name you have been calling. Maybe you have been calling the name of Ifá, you have been calling the name of Ògún, you have been calling the name of a medical doctor. Maybe there is something that is there. I can remind you of the woman with the issue of blood. For twelve years she had consulted with all kind of physicians, there was no solution. But there was a time in her life, she call upon the name of Jesus. She said, "Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, my life need a solution." Is there something in your marriage? Is there something in your home? Is there something in your life that needed a divine solution? Oh Jesus is that Savior divine. Jesus is that Savior divine. Jesus is that Savior divine. Jesus is that Savior divine. He is that divine Savior. He is that divine Savior. He is that divine Savior. He is that divine Savior. He is that divine Savior. He is that divine Savior. Jesus is that divine Savior. He is the master over every storm. He is the master over every storm. He is the master over every storm. There was a time He was joining with His disciples, oh and there was this storm. There was this storm. And at a point, Jesus even though the storm was so much, Jesus was in the boat and He was sleeping. And at a point, Jesus said, oh He rebuked the storm. He said, "Oh be calm." and there was peace. Is there something that is a storm in your life? There is a storm. I'm presenting to you the Savior divine. I'm just trying to show you Jesus. He is a Savior divine. He is a divine Savior. He is a divine Savior. You can call upon Him now for a storm, for an issue, for an healing, for an help, for a lifting. Is there something about about your life? Look beyond your spouse. Look beyond your spouse. Look beyond your spouse. Just look beyond your spouse. Tell yourself I want to look unto Jesus. Oh, the Lamb of Calvary. The Lamb of Calvary. Is that Lamb that took—He took away the sin of the world. He took it away. He's also the Savior divine. He's the Savior divine. He's the Savior divine. He's the Savior divine. He's the Savior divine. He's the Savior divine. Now that, you know, can you tell Him? He says, "Now hear me while I pray." Can you speak to the Lord? Oh Lord Jesus, hear me as I pray. I'm telling you, He's the one who said, "Ask, it will be given." He said, "Seek, you will find." He said, "Knock, and it will be opened unto you." He says, "Casting your cares upon the Lord for He cares for you." You can cast that cares upon Him. You can cast it upon Him. Speak to the Lord. Lord Jesus, hear me now that I pray. Lord Jesus, hear me now that I pray. Hear me now, Lord! Hear me now that I pray! Hear me now that I pray! Hear me now that I pray! You can cast that cares upon Him. You can cast it upon Him. Speak to the Lord. Lord Jesus, hear me now that I pray. Oh, my faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine. Hear me now while I pray. Hear me now, and He can hear you. Remember blind Bartimaeus. Blind Bartimaeus shouted, "Son of David, have mercy on me! Son of David," have mercy on him! Have mercy on me! Do you know that they were telling him, keep quiet, keep quiet, keep quiet? He did not keep quiet. He kept on shouting. He kept on shouting. Do you know that while he was still shouting, Jesus heard him? While you are still praying, He can hear you. That is Jesus. That is Jesus. That is Jesus. That is Jesus. Is there something that looks dead? Oh, are you listening to me anywhere you are this morning? Is there something that looks dead? Something looks dead. Yes, something looks dead. What just came upon my spirit now was Jesus and the widow. The widow at Nain whose only son was dead. She had only a son. She was a widow. The husband—she had no husband. Being a widow, the Bible says she was a widow. So no husband. Now the son, which is the only son, that son was dead. And the Bible says there was a procession going on for the burial. I don't know where your case stands right now. The—they have concluded, it's a finished case. Is there something about your life that you have concluded is a finished case? [Yoruba language: "Go, kò sọ̀nà mọ́, ó ti parí, kò ṣeé ṣe mọ́, ó ti—"] You have concluded the case. That is the thing that just came upon me now. And I want you to pray wherever you are listening to me. Wherever you are, anywhere you are. Are you in your office? Don't mind. Just connect with Jesus in your heart. It is your heart that God needs. Just connect with Him wherever you are. Make sure you are connected, you are focusing on Him. Is there something that you have concluded about your relationship? About your marital life? Maybe you have been single all your life and you said, "Oh, it is concluded I can never marry." Or maybe you are in a relationship, as you enter into one it got—before you know, after three months, it is off. You enter into another one again, it is off. Another one again, it is off. None of them remain and—climax in marriage. Or you're already in your marriage and you have concluded this is a divorce case. I am going to divorce my wife. I am going to divorce my—is there something you have concluded? Is there something you have concluded? Is there something that looks like a death situation that you have concluded? The Bible says Jesus had compassion. Jesus had compassion. What I am sensing this morning is that Jesus wants to have compassion on some people. He says, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." Yes, brother. Yes, sister. Are you listening to me wherever you are this morning? Are you listening to me wherever you are? Jesus wants to have compassion. Compassion. Yes, He want to change your story on account of His mercy. He want to change it on account of His compassion. Jesus had compassion on that woman and He walked up to the procession and He stopped them. He stopped them. Jesus want to intervene and interrupt that process for you. Jesus want to intervene and interrupt that process for you. Jesus want to change that process. And Jesus brought that young man to life. Jesus brought that young man to life. Jesus want to change that thing that is dead. He want to bring it alive. Can you speak to Jesus this morning? Can you speak to Jesus? Can you just turn to Him? The compassion of God is coming your way. The mercy of God is coming your way. He said, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. Compassion on whom I will have compassion." The compassion of Jesus want to do something about your marital life this morning. Yes. We are concerned this morning about your marital life. It's about your marital life. It's about your marital life. Are you listening to me and they have told you you will never marry? Can you say to Jesus this morning, "Let your compassion come upon me. Let your compassion change my story." [Yoruba language: "Olúwa jẹ́ kí n rí àánú gbà. Jẹ́ kí àánú wá mi rí. Jẹ́ kí àánú tún ayé mi tò. Jẹ́ kí àánú tún ayé mi ṣe."] Can you just speak to the Lord this morning? Oh, Lord Jesus, have compassion on me. I'm saying the compassion of Jesus want to change your story this morning. The compassion of Jesus want to change the story. Have you been told that this marriage cannot work? Ah, your marriage cannot work. Your husband can never change. Look, quit this marriage. Have you been told that your wife can never change? And you have said this 2021, I want to have peace, I will be quitting this marriage. I am telling you this morning that if you can just say, "Jesus, have mercy on my marriage. Have mercy on my marriage. Have mercy on my home. Oh Lord Jesus, intervene in my marriage. Let your compassion, your compassion that fails not, let it sustain this marriage. Your compassion that fails not." Oh, maybe you have also lived your life so recklessly. And you have wasted so much of your life. And you are wondering, "Can I ever marry again? If I want to marry, how will I tell my story? Can somebody marry me like this? If I tell this story, nobody will marry me. If I tell my story as it is, nobody will marry me." Can you talk to the Lord this morning? There is compassion, there is compassion. Yes. It's a time of compassion. A time of mercy. The mercy of God want to locate you wherever you are this morning listening to me. Wherever you are listening to me, the compassion and the mercy of God want to locate you. Yes, the compassion want to locate you. I hear God saying, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will have compassion on whom I will have mercy or have compassion." When mercy shows up, it looks like favoritism. But that is how it works. God can have mercy on whoever He want to have mercy. God can change anybody's story. He can change anybody's story. God can change your story. It doesn't matter what has been said, what has been written. Oh, yes! Yes! Is it an enchantment against your life? Jesus can break that enchantment. There is no enchantment against Jacob. There is no divination against Israel. Is there an enchantment? Is there a diviner? Is there what have been pronounced over your life that, "Oh, you can never move forward. It will never be well." I want you to say this morning, "Lord, whatever is working against my life, let your compassion break them. Whatsoever is working against me—" I am talking about your marital life particularly. This morning our focus on our marital life, that's our focus this morning. You want to say, "Lord Jesus, oh Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, whatsoever is working against me, whatsoever is working against my marital progress, whatsoever is working against my home, whatsoever is working against my life, oh Lord my God, my marital life, oh Lord whatsoever is working against it, let your compassion show up for me. Oh Lord God Almighty, let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy!" Oh, yes. Yes, Lord. Let mercy speak for me. Let mercy, mercy speak for me. Oh Lord, this first oh, this first meeting of the year, Lord I'm coming to you. I will experience your mercy. So that by the end of 2021, I will have seen your mercy. I will have seen my story is a story of mercy. [Yoruba language: "Àánú wá mi rí, àánú tún ayé mi ṣe, àánú sọ mi di ẹni ńlá, àánú sọ mi di títóbí, àánú ló gbé mi ga, àánú ló wá mi rí, àánú ló tún tẹ́ mi ṣe."] Oh, yes! You can pray. You can pray. Just talk to God. Just talk to God in faith. Don't forget that word, "My faith looks up to Thee." Come in faith. Come in faith. Come in faith this morning. Come in faith this morning and talk to the Lord Jesus. Come in faith, talk to the Lord Jesus. Come in faith. In faith. In faith. Talk to the Lord Jesus. Talk to Him. Talk to Him this morning. Talk to Him this morning. Talk to Him this morning. Talk to Him this morning. Oh, thank you Jesus. Now hear me while I pray. Now hear me while I pray. Lord Jesus, yes Baba, hear them Lord as they pray. Hear them Lord as they pray. Hear them Lord as they pray. Hear them Lord, hear them Lord, grant us testimony. We want testimony to follow us. Let testimony come. Testimony comes in, testimony of your compassion. Oh, yes! The step of the Lord never cease. It never ceases. His mercy never comes to an end, but they are new every morning. Your compassion don't fail. Your compassion don't fail. Your compassion don't fail. Oh, thank you Father. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. The next standa in that—the next line in that thing, say, "Take all my guilt away." Oh, take all my guilt away. Is there something that is holding you down in terms—in the name of guilt? Is there something you know you want to blame yourself about? "Oh, if I have done it like this, my marriage would not have scattered. If I have done it like this, my home would have been better. If I have done it like this, maybe this would have happened. If I have done it like this, maybe if I have done it that way, if I had lived my life like this, maybe I will not be in this situation. If I have lived like this—" I want you to pray this morning. "Oh Lord, save me, oh God, from the guilt of sin and from the dominion of sin. Take all my guilt away. Take all my guilt away. Save me from the guilt of sin and save me from the dominion of sin." The dominion. It is something that He did. The Bible says something. It says, "For as many as were baptized into Jesus, they were baptized into His death." So that, just as Jesus died and rose up a new man, they become new people. So the truth is this: it says, "Anyone that is dead is freed from sin." It is something Jesus did at your salvation. It's something He did. I want you to pray, "Lord, let me experience this matter. Let me experience it." And if you have not met with Jesus, then go ahead to pray. Go ahead to pray. If you have met with Him, "Oh Lord, let me experience, oh, victory over the dominion of sin and the guilt of sin. The guilt of sin. Maybe you are looking into your life, you are looking into your marriage, you are looking into your relationship, and there is something you are saying, 'Ah, if I have done it this way. Ah, if I have done it that way. Maybe if I had done it like this. Maybe if I had done it that way.'" Oh, you want to bring those things to Jesus now. You want to bring them to Jesus. You want to bring them to Jesus. You want to bring them to Jesus. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, you want to bring them to Jesus. You want to bring them to Jesus. He says, "Take all my guilt away." Can you talk to Jesus? Oh Lord Jesus, take all my guilt away. Free me! Free me from my guilt! Free me from my guilt! Take my guilt away! Take my guilt away! Free me from their consequences! Free me, oh Lord, from the effect! Free me from their dominion! Free me, Lord! Free me! Free me! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me! Free me! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! Free me, Lord! And then the next thing here, it says, "Oh, let me from this day be wholly Thine." I want to be completely yours. Can you pray to Jesus like that this morning? "Ah, I want to be totally yours. I want to be totally, in everything I think, in everything I do, in everything I say." Yes, yes. In everything I think, Lord... Zeal, wake up my zeal! Wake up my zeal! Wake up my zeal! Wake up my zeal! Wake up my zeal! My zeal inspire. My zeal inspire. Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! My zeal, my zeal, my zeal for you. My zeal for you. Zeal for righteousness, zeal for godliness, zeal for holiness. Lord, inspire my zeal. Let my zeal be inspired. Let my zeal, my passion for you, my passion for godliness, my passion for righteousness, my passion—Lord, inspire my zeal. Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! My zeal! My zeal! My zeal! My zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Meekness, goodness, faith. Oh Lord my God, inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Inspire my zeal! Look at the next thing there. It says, "As Thou hast died for me, oh, may my love to Thee pure, warm, and changeless be, a living fire." Lord, because you died for me, because of you died for me, let my love for Thee be pure, let it be warm, let it be changeless, and let it be a living fire. Oh Lord! Look—I take those words again—oh Lord, oh Lord, because you died for me, oh, make my love for Thee, make me, make my love for you, let it be pure. My love for you, let it be pure. My love for you, let it be warm. My love for you, let it be changeless. My love for you, let it be a living fire. A living fire. A living fire. A living fire. A living fire. A living fire. A living fire. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. I want you to thank the Lord this morning. Just thank Him. Just thank Him. Just thank Him. Just thank Him. Give thanks to Him this morning. Give thanks to Him this morning. Give thanks to Him this morning. Give thanks to Him this morning. Give thanks to Him. Give thanks to Him. Give thanks to Him. Give thanks to Him. Give thanks to Him. Give thanks to Him. Can we pray again? We are entering to the last lap of our prayer, which is, "Oh, while life's dark maze I tread." Life is full of so many things. As I'm speaking with you now, we don't know what will happen in February. We don't know what will happen in March. We don't know what will happen in April. We don't know what will happen in May. Life is a dark maze. We don't know. But you see, it says, "While life's dark maze I tread," and "griefs around me spread, be Thou my Guide." That is, when the challenges of life surrounds me, when things look dark and cloudy, oh Lord, be my Guide. Be my Guide. Be my Guide. Sometimes when I have to take critical decision in my marriage, when I have to take critical decision for my marital life. Somebody is saying "I will marry you," just fine, and I don't know whether to say yes or no. Oh Lord, be my Guide. Sometimes something happen in my marriage, my husband offends me, or my husband offended, or my wife offend me, and I feel so pained. Oh Lord, be my Guide. Oh Lord, be my Guide. When grief surround me, when pain or hurt, when they are there, when something is hurting, something is paining. Oh Lord, be my Guide. Be my Guide. Be my Guide, Lord! Be my Guide! Be my Guide! Lord, be my Guide! Be my Guide! Be my Guide! Be my Guide! Lord, be my Guide! Be my Guide! Lord, be my Guide! Lord, be my Guide! In the name of Jesus! In the name of Jesus! Lord, be my Guide! Lord, be my Guide! Lord, be my Guide! Lord, be my Guide! Oh Lord, bid my darkness turn to day. Let every darkness that may come around me, in my marriage, in my marital life, in my home, oh Lord bid them to turn to day. Bid them turn to day. My darkness shall be day. My darkness shall be day. Even in the dark, I will have light. My darkness shall be day. My darkness shall be day. My darkness shall be day. Nor let me ever stray. Lord, don't let me stray from you. Don't let me stray from you, for my faith looks up to Thee. Don't let me stray from you. Don't let me stray from you. Don't let me stray from you. Don't let me stray from you in any way. Don't let me stray. Don't let me stray in my marital decision, in my home, in my marriage, in my life. Oh God Almighty, I will not stray. I will not stray. I will not stray from Thee. Thank you Father. Thank you Father. Thank you Father. Can we conclude this morning as you pray for your life? As you pray for your home? As you pray? Oh Lord my God. Oh Lord my God. Oh Lord my God. Oh Lord my God. Oh Lord Jesus. Oh Lord Jesus. Oh Lord Jesus. I will experience your goodness. Your goodness. The goodness of God in the land of the living. I will experience the goodness of God in the land of the living. Can you pray that I will experience the goodness of God? The goodness. The goodness of God. The goodness of God. The goodness of God. The goodness of God. In the land of the living. The goodness of God. The goodness of God. The goodness of God. Thank you, eternal Father. Blessed be your holy name. Blessed be your holy name. Blessed be your holy name in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Let me invite my wife to close the meeting. [Speaker 3] Father, in Jesus' name. We are grateful unto you, oh God, again for this morning. Thank you, Father, for your word that you spoke to us. Establish us in this truth in Jesus' name. Father, we pray in the name of Jesus, we shall not be forgetful hearers, but we shall be doers of your word in the name of Jesus. Father, for all that we have called upon you as touching our life, our relationship, in our marriage, even in every other relationship, Lord, we pray in the name of Jesus, that God you will help us, oh Lord, to go in this strength, oh Lord, looking unto you, our Lord and Savior, acting on your word, and seeing you as our exceedingly great reward in the name of Jesus. Father, we thank you because we trust in you this year 2021. We will do it in your own method for us to get the required result in the name of Jesus. Help us to change our method from every other method that is different from yours. And help us, oh Lord, to do it. If we want result, if we want testimony, if we want miracle, if we want the unexpected that people will say, "This is strange, how did it happen?" Lord, even from what we saw in the life of the woman that was given as example, it was a miracle. And what could bring such miracle is not the woman's method, but God's own method. Help us, oh Lord, as we go forth in 2021 to work with your method in the name of Jesus. And help us to know that we won't get your method outside your word, outside what we get from you. And that is the reason why we must keep looking unto you, because you have every method for every situation at every time. Help us, oh Lord, that we will not change, we will not shift our gaze from you in the name of Jesus. Help us that we will keep depending on you for every decision at every moment in the name of Jesus. And that is the only reason why we will have a different result in the name of Jesus. A result that will bear an international testimony. A result that will be unique. A result that will make us to stand out, that will make people to learn from us and from our lives. Lord, we pray, all that is required of us, help us to do so in Jesus' name. Because you are ever faithful, you have been what you say you will do. Help us, oh Lord, to also live accordingly in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, we thank you for hearing us. We lift up, oh Lord, your son that God Almighty, Lord you will water him back. For every one, oh Lord, of us that you have given the privilege, oh Lord, to be blessed by this word, Lord our life will never remain the same in the name of Jesus. Even for people that will even later on link up or download and hear this message, let the blessings, the auction of this message, of this program today, let it also affect their life, oh Lord, positively in the name of Jesus. And at the end of the day, let us all be blessed and your name be glorified. In Jesus' precious name, we pray. Amen. [Speaker 2] The grace in fellowship. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and forevermore. Amen. [Speaker 4] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in enriching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission aid. Our regular activities are: discipleship class every Monday, 5:00 PM; Adolescent and Singles Club, every first Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Marriage Forum, second Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Family Life Seminars, regular school outreaches and everyday counseling. For further counseling, you can reach us at our location: Life Camp by the first bridge, Ilaro community, opposite Very Joy filling station along Igede road, Akure, Ondo state, Nigeria. 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