July 6, 2025 • 28 mins
God orchestrates divine connections to bring breakthrough, restoration, and purpose!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Pastor Paula, congratulations on forty years of ministry. I wish
I could be in person for over forty years. God
has been using you so greatly across this globe. It's incredible.
God bless you all. Congratulations Pastor Paula.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
God's word is your answer. I have a word for
you today. You're going to find that word in Second
Kings chapter eight, but it comes from a story. In
Second Kings chapter four. There's a woman who they call
a Shunamite woman. It says she is great, but when
you look at it, when it calls her great, she
hasn't done anything significant. And there's this prophet Elijah that
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is passing her by continually, and she says to her husband,
I perceive that this is a holy Man of God.
Now that perception recognition is what ignited what would become
a divine connection, and that divine connection would lead to
the restoration and all, why why does this happen? Well,
there's five things I'm going to give you today. But
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if you read Second King's chapter four, the man of
God was passing by, and basically I can hear her
saying to herself, why am I going to let this anointing,
and keep passing me by. I'm going to house it.
She constrained the man of God. It's a very strong word.
And she builds this table, this stool, this light, this chamber,
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and she houses him. She feeds him. She's good to
him that every time he's going to pass by, he's
going to stay there. That's important because her sacrifice and
her obedience to God created a covenant with this man
of God, and that covenant would bring forth a promise.
When he goes back and he sends a servant to
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Haesei and says, hey, ask her what she wants, and says,
what do you want? I have everything, I'm with my people,
I'm in my country. I've got this home where you
don't have a child. Don't play with me, lord, I mean,
it hit that trigger. It was the one thing. I
don't know if she had a physical element like endometriosis
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or barrenness or what had taken place, but here she
was without a child, and a man of God says,
go back and tell her that within a year, by
this time next year, she'll bring forth a son. Nay, Lord,
don't play with me. And what happens she brings forth
a son, and can you imagine for years her life
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is just filled with joy. Yes, there's a famine, there's
things going on, but she has her child, she has
a great husband, she has her home. And then her
son dies out in the field working with the father,
and he drops over dead. It would be an aneurysm.
She takes a child, puts in the chamber, says, get
me the horse, get me the chariots. I need to
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go to the man of God, the one who prophesied,
the one who brought this promise to pass.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
She goes.
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Haesi comes back, tries to pray over him, tries to
breathe life into him, goes back to Elisha, the prophet,
the man of God. He comes and he lays on
the child, and he breathes in his mouth and lays
on his body. It's basically mirroring it. And the child
sneezes seven times and life comes back to him. Can
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you imagine how good it is, the goodness of God.
Her promise look dead, but life is brought back to it.
And then let's go over to chapter eight. Remember ga
Hayesi's the servant. Gay Hayese's gonna get leprosy. He's going
to be healed of leprosy because of obedience to not
take the goods of the Syrians. That's a whole nother teaching.
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And he's standing before the king because a person with
leprosy can't stand before the king. He's standing before the king.
And let's look at verse four through six. The king
talked with Gehese, the servant of the Man of God, saying, hey,
tell me, I pray all the great things that Elijah's done.
And it came to pass as he was telling the
king how he restored a dead body to life. He's
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talking about the boy, and he restored this dead body
to life. That behold, the woman whose son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house
and for land. So remember it was a severe famine
in the land. And Gehese said, my lord, O King,
this is the woman. This is her son whom Elijah
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restored to life. And when the king asked the woman,
she told him.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The king appointed in to her a certain officer, saying, restore. Now,
that's where I want you to camp out. Restore all.
That's the word of the Lord for you. Restore all.
God is going to restore all that was hers and
all the fruits of the field since the day that
she left the land, even until now, I want to
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tell you how this restoration took place. Relationships are the
currency of the kingdom and the network of life. You
can go back and look at last week's teaching to
really build it up to this point, but it is
imperative and necessary for you to be spiritually connected to
the right people. Remember, when God goes to bless you,
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he sends a person in your life. When the enemy
goes to mess you up, he sends a person in
your life. And these spiritually right people are covenant connections.
They're ordained by God. They are the connections that God
has chosen, that God is ordained to release his glory
to fulfill his plan and purpose individually and corporately. God
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has a prepared place, and God has a prepared people,
and you'll not enter into the provision of his promises.
And the Bible says, she's a great woman, the greatness
of God for your life. When you're disconnected from those
that God's ordained for your destiny, when God goes to
bless you, what does he do? The man of God
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continually passing by her Therefore, if I'm going to fulfill
all that God has for me, I have to have
the ability to identify or recognize my deliver the man
the woman that God has for my life. You see,
life is governed by laws, and they always work for
you or against you. And the law of recognition teaches
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everything that you need in your life is already there,
It just needs to be recognized. Jesus said to his disciples,
you have eyes, but you don't see ears. But you
don't hear, and you don't remember Mark chapter eight, verse eighteen.
In other words, what you don't recognize, and I want
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to break down that word for you, you won't celebrate.
And what you don't celebrate will eventually leave your life.
Now stop right here. Recognize. The Bible says that we
hold eternity in our heart. So you've already met that person.
You've already been ordained to work with that person. You've
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already been ordained to pray over that person, serve that person,
give to their ministry, build a chamber table. These things
aren't random. God puts eternity in our heart because he
has relationships. And again you're cognizant of it. Can you
recognize your divine connection. Second King, chapter four, verse nine.
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She said to her husband the whole Now I perceive
this is a holy Man of God which passes advice.
Continually perceived means to ascertain by seeing. It's the same
as Luke chapter thirteen with the woman that has been
over for eighteen years. And it says when Jesus saw her.
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When she saw Jesus doesn't mean she was looking from
the outside. It means when eternity came into connection with eternity. See,
your spirit has a knowledge of things that your mind
is struggling to perceive or conceive, or hold or have
revelation of people who recognize opportunities to connect to their deliverance,
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Ruth recognized Naomi. Now Naomi would call herself Mara mis bitter.
And remember there were two sisters, Ruth and Urba. And
Naomi turns around. Miss Marr turns around and says, hey,
go back to your people, go back to your land.
I don't have any sons, I don't have any future.
And Orpa says, you're right, there's nothing with you. Ruth
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goes wherever you go. I'm going. Your people will become
my people, Your God will be my God, that's crazy
kind of talk. I mean, they would trend her on Twitter,
they would take her on x and put her all
over the social media and Instagram and say, can you
believe what Paula White? I mean what Ruth said. You see,
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because when you get spiritual and you recognize your deliver
it's not with natural eyes, it's by a spiritual eye.
Jonathan recognized David. That's insanity. Jonathan is Saul's natural born
heir Sun and all the kingdom should be inherited by him.
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But Jonathan strips off his royalty and serves David because
he recognized David is the one that's anointed. John the
Baptist recognized Jesus. He's baptizing thousands of people. Jesus is
a carpenter. He's not recognized as the son of God.
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He hasn't ascended, he hasn't gone up on the third Day.
He hasn't even been crucified. He hasn't even done a
miracle yet. And John the Baptist says, I'm not even
worthy to untie your shoes, and Jesus says, baptized me.
The Israelites recognize Moses. They've been in slavery for four
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hundred years. If they didn't recognize Moses as a deliverer,
they would have been in slavery for eight hundred years.
People who didn't recognize Joseph's brothers could not recognize him.
They sell them into slavery. God uses what the enemy
meant for bad Romans eight twenty eight Genesis fifty twenty.
They meant it for my evil, but God allowed it
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for my good. So watch this. Joseph's brothers don't recognize him.
David's brothers, Jonathan saw son, David's the anointing one, but
his own brothers. After he's anointed, after oil has been
poured on his head, after the prophet came in said
you're the one, and that oil would not go on
anyone else's head, he takes a little dinner down to
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as a lunch down as brothers because they're finding this goliath,
this giant. His dad says, go give your brothers this lunch,
and his brother said, what are you doing down here?
I know the naughtiness of your heart. They can't see now.
If it was a natural thing, they would be able
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to see. David's a master slinger. But it's not done
with natural eyes it's somewhat spiritualize. So right now, I
prayed that you can recognize your divine deliver I prayed
that every veil will be removed over your eyes, that
you will have this spirit of discernment, that you would
have the spirit of revelation and understanding, that you would
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know God and you would know your divine connection. Thinking.
Chapter four, verse nine says, this man passes by, and
it means to transition or crossover, because when someone is transitioning.
Watch I'm saying something so deep. When someone is transitioning,
when someone is moving, they have the ability to take
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you to a place that you've never been before. That's important.
Pass It by means transitioning. Some of you are stuck,
and until you recognize your divine deliverance, you won't get
out of that place called stuck. You just think that's
another person. We're all just another person. But God uses frail,
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weak things humans vessels to do his work, and they
pass by continually. It means to stretch by extension, So
he's always transitioning and he's always stretching. That's important because
divine connections will transition you from poverty to the promises
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of God, from depression to the joy of the Lord,
from lack, whether that is spiritual or relationship, from barrenness
to having a child, having a son. You see, the
problem is we have contact with people, but we don't
have connection. We see Him, but we're not connected. See,
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once you get connected, that's where you start to establish covenant.
Because as long as you have contact, only you observe
or you receive a significant signal from a person, but
that's it. A connection means you're joined, You're established in relationship,
and that's what leads to covenant because you can't succeed alone.
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Relationship is a privilege, the golden link to every uncommon
miracle for you to experience the life that God has
for you, the promises and in this case, restoration of all.
So there's just a few key facts that I want
to give you how you recognize a divine connection. Number one,
any person God uses to link you to desired change.
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I want to get out of this what is it? Barrenness, poverty, depression, sickness.
I want to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior.
This is how I want to change the nation, community, neighborhood.
You see, God shows you this is your length because
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it is connected to the change you desire. Number two,
You cannot succeed without a divine connection. When God goes
to bless you, say it over and over with me.
He sends a person in your life. When the enemy
goes to mess you up, he sends a person in
your life. Number three, It will usually require your pursuit
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of them. Ruth pursued, Naomi, wherever you go, I'm going.
The Israelites followed Moses. Nathan did whatever David wanted him
to do. Go up between that tunnel, go ahead of me.
Said there was this pursuit. In other words, when your
deliverance or your divine connection comes, it's like Elisha, or
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it's like Elijah throwing the mantle and Elisha, and he
tells him go anoint these three people. He only goes
down to Elisha, who will do double the portion of miracles,
throws his mantle on him, and then he says, hey,
can I go take care of my business? Can I
go back to my house, tell my parents and can
folk and everybody goodbye, and take care of the oxen
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that I'm sitting here searting for my dad, and shut
down the business. And Elijah goes, what do I have
to do for you? And keeps going. Elijah goes and
burns the oxen. He shuts that door so tight that
he can never go back, and he chases and catches
up with Elijah. This man right here that's doing this
miracle has that kind of pursuit for his divine deliver
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Do you see how this works? So the people around
you might try to attempt to stop your relationship with
that divine connection. When the blind man cried out to Jesus,
those around him tried to silence him. Hey, Jesus, that
son of God, mercy on me. You don't need to
be loud like that. Number five. It's your responsibility to recognize,
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to see again, to be cognizant, and to honor your
divine connection, not vice versa. Every single person has a
divine connection, everyone, even Jesus. I don't do anything except
for the Father show me and reveal it to me.
We can continue to go through these, but I want
to get you outside of recognizing. To point number two.
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She resolved to do something to move from contact to connection.
Second King, Chapter four eight. She constrained him, I love
the Hebrew word. Here sees fasten upon cleave, not letting
you go. No, she seized him. That's a strong word.
Verse ten says, let us make a little chamber. I
pray thee on the wall. Let us set for him
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a bed, a table, a stool, a candlestick, and whenever
he comes, he'll turn in. She connected by sewing what
she sewed. She created an atmosphere to house the anointing.
At first she just fed him, but then she puts
in a room, a bed which means rest, a table
for refreshing, a stool for reflection, and a candle for revelation.
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You see, what I want you to understand is her resolution,
just like Jonathan's to David, or the Armor Bearer to
Jonathan's resolution, to connect position them to receive. When you
know that God is in your life, yes, you have
to recognize and then you have to resolve. This is
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the woman of God, this is the Man of God.
This is what I'm to do, This is who I'm
to be connected to. These are the people I'm called to.
Because wishy washy people or what the Bible calls double
minded don't receive anything. You've got to be resolute, and
that's the place of receiving. Because now she is resolute,
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she sews into him, and now she starts to receive.
Why she now has access, She now has acceptance, which
is favor. She now has impartation. Second King, Chapter four,
Verse thirteen. He said, say now and to her, behold
that has been careful with us for all this care
What do you want done for you? So that's what happened.
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She answered, I dwell with my own people, etc. But
she creates her own opportunity, and he says, yeah, but
you don't have a child. How does she create her
own opportunity because the access is what she invested. She
didn't say, oh, here, here's a million dollars. You can't
buy miracles. You can't buy access. You can't buy this.
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You've got to discern it. You got to recognize it.
You got to be resolute, and this is where you receive.
You invest in it, prayer, servanthood, honor, sewing, giving. She
activated the ingredients in what was passing by making a
deposit in it. You only get dividends from investment. If
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you stay on your knees before the Lord. You have
a right to withdraw because you've made a deposit spiritually.
Verse thirteen what's to be done for thee. Now watch,
this is where she returned to it. Second, this is
point number four. After she received she returns Second Kings,
Chapter four, verse eighteen through twenty one. The child grows up,
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but all is on a day the father goes the reapers,
and he said, my head, my head. He died. He
had any aneurism. But when the promise died, she laid
it on her own seed verse twenty three. Her confidence
all is well. Verse twenty four through thirty two. You
see the connection and action. That's where the Man of
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God comes and lays on it. And though her promise,
her provision, looks dead, she has a right for resurrection life.
She has a right to boldly say, Man of God come,
and she puts on her promise, the promise of God. God,
you gave this to me. You have to restore it.
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And look what happens. Her son comes back to life.
And you think that'd be the end of the story.
But that's not the end. And this is where I
wanted to get you to restoration, because God is going
to restore you and not just raise your promise. And
at the very end there in that verse five and six,
the king asked the woman, and she said yes, And
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he said, told the officer restore everything, all our land,
all fields, everything. Because once she recognized, once she received,
once she resolved, once she returned, then she was ready
for restoration, and not just from her dead's son, but
everything in her life. And this is what I want
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you to understand. That God used her obedience to unlock
a promise that had been shut up. She had a son,
and when that promise came under attack and died in
her arms, she did what many would fail to do.
She returned to the altar of her investment. She laid
the boy on the very bed that she had prepared.
She didn't panic. She prophesied all as well, And I
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declare over you today, no matter what has died in
your life, no matter what looks lost, all is well,
no matter how bad it is, no matter how much
they're shaking their fits at God and saying you're crazy
for this, give up, don't keep following that ministry, all
is well. You see, she had an investment in a
divine connection. It wasn't done overnight. This was a covenant.
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And when we get to that place out of contact,
I just want to touch from you here, throw ah
me and we make covenant. I'm gonna pray for you.
I'm gonna pray for you to go to the globe.
I'm gonna pray for God to use your annoying thing
and your mouth. And when I pray for you, I
am a partaker as if it was me myself doing it.
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It was Elijah's servant Gahezon, who served as the bridge
between her and the prophet, and geheyes, I was sent
with Elijah's staff to lay it on the boy and
he didn't respond. Why because that dead promise could not
have a casual contact. It only responded to covenant. Who
is she in covenant with Elishah? And Elisha comes back,
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brings the boy back to life, resurrects him. And what
happens the divine restoration. The king says, restore all. Her
son's been restored, her family's been restored. But God is
not just giving her back what is lost. He's given
interest on what the enemy tried to seal. This is
not just restoration, it's divine restoration. And I believe every
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siede you've sown in tears will reap a harvest and
joy that every prayer you've prayed in the dark will
be answered in the light, that every act of faith
you've made in secret will be rewarded openly. God has
not forgotten you, You've not been forsaken. God has heard your cry.
The King's crying out, and he's commanding restore all that
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was hers, restore all that was his. And I'm believing
this is your moment of divine alignment. As you stay
connected to this ministry, you're connected to divine assignment, a
wellspring of revelation, restoration, release. I'm praying fervently over you,
and I know this is the word of the Lord,
a signpost from Heaven declaring your season is shifted. You're transitioning,
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you're crossing over. So now it's the time for you
to recognize the divine connection. Prepare room for God's presence
in your life. Don't faith, lay your broken promise on
the altar, expect resurrection, walk boldly in restoration. Give God
the glory because your connection to this ministry is not casual,
it is convenential. And I believe that as you stand
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with us, God's promises are bringing you into new season,
a full restoration of all in Jesus' name.
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God has a word for you. It shall be well.
This is not just a comfort phrase, it is a
prophetic decree for your life. Just like the Shunamite woman
in Second Kings chapters four and eight, Restoration promise and
the purposes of God are for you too. The woman recognized, resolved,
received returned, and all was restored. You were in a
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divine moment and you will recover all. This is your
moment of divine alignment. And as you stay connected to
this ministry, you were connected to a divine assignment.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'm believing that as you stay connected to this ministry,
you're connected to divine assignment. And I'm asking you to
respond in faith.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Call the toll free number right the po boxer, go
online right now and recognize your divine connection with this ministry.
Resolved to move from contact to connection and sow a
seed for Second Kings eight six. Maybe the Holy Spirit
is putting it upon your heart to sow a two
hundred and eighty six dollars seed or an eighty six
dollars seed. Seek God, but do not delay. We will
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believe together that you will receive return and all will
be restored and your support of PWM helps make it
impact every single day, transforming lives, healing hearts, and winning
souls around the world. Call the number and prepare with
expectancy for God to move like those Shunamite woman did.
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Perhaps the greatest restoration you need is salvation in your life.
See God started with the relationship with man, but man
failed when they disobeyed God. And because of the first atom,
all of us are born into sin. We miss the mark,
we fall short of the character, we don't keep the
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law the word of God. But God didn't want to
leave us in this state. According to John through sixteen
and seventeen, God so loved the world that he gave
his only begonde son. He did not come to the
world to condemn it, but to bring life through it.
So his son Jesus Christ walked this earth thirty three
and a half years, was crucified on an old rugged cross,
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buried in a borrowed tomb. He defeated death, hell, and
the grave, and he rose again on that third day.
Why because he is resurrection life, And when you receive
him as Lord and Savior, he loves you so much.
He has a life for you that you can never
give yourself, and when you receive that, he declares to you,
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I came to give you life and life more abundantly.
If you died right now, are you ready for heaven?
Hell is a very real place, a place that none
of us want to ever be separated from God. Are
you tired of the hell you're living in here on earth?
Abundant life is a very real place. It's a place
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in Christ and you can have it right now. Pray
this prayer with me, Say, Father God, I come to
you in the name of Jesus, forgive me for all
my sin. I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and
my savior. If you prayed that prayer, welcome to the
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family of God. And that's not the last step, but
it is the first step. So go to the brand
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Pastor Paula, congratulations on forty years of ministry. I wish
I could be in person for over forty years. God
has been using you so greatly across this globe. It's incredible.
God bless you all. Congratulations Pastor Paula.
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God's word is your answer. I have a word for
you today. You're going to find that word in Second
Kings chapter eight, but it comes from a story. In
Second Kings chapter four. There's a woman who they call
a Shunamite woman. It says she is great, but when
you look at it, when it calls her great, she
hasn't done anything significant. And there's this prophet Elijah that
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is passing her by continually, and she says to her husband,
I perceive that this is a holy Man of God.
Now that perception recognition is what ignited what would become
a divine connection, and that divine connection would lead to
the restoration and all, why why does this happen? Well,
there's five things I'm going to give you today. But
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if you read Second King's chapter four, the man of
God was passing by, and basically I can hear her
saying to herself, why am I going to let this anointing,
and keep passing me by. I'm going to house it.
She constrained the man of God. It's a very strong word.
And she builds this table, this stool, this light, this chamber,
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and she houses him. She feeds him. She's good to
him that every time he's going to pass by, he's
going to stay there. That's important because her sacrifice and
her obedience to God created a covenant with this man
of God, and that covenant would bring forth a promise.
When he goes back and he sends a servant to
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Haesei and says, hey, ask her what she wants, and says,
what do you want? I have everything, I'm with my people,
I'm in my country. I've got this home where you
don't have a child. Don't play with me, lord, I mean,
it hit that trigger. It was the one thing. I
don't know if she had a physical element like endometriosis
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or barrenness or what had taken place, but here she
was without a child, and a man of God says,
go back and tell her that within a year, by
this time next year, she'll bring forth a son. Nay, Lord,
don't play with me. And what happens she brings forth
a son, and can you imagine for years her life
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is just filled with joy. Yes, there's a famine, there's
things going on, but she has her child, she has
a great husband, she has her home. And then her
son dies out in the field working with the father,
and he drops over dead. It would be an aneurysm.
She takes a child, puts in the chamber, says, get
me the horse, get me the chariots. I need to
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go to the man of God, the one who prophesied,
the one who brought this promise to pass.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
She goes.
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Haesi comes back, tries to pray over him, tries to
breathe life into him, goes back to Elisha, the prophet,
the man of God. He comes and he lays on
the child, and he breathes in his mouth and lays
on his body. It's basically mirroring it. And the child
sneezes seven times and life comes back to him. Can
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you imagine how good it is, the goodness of God.
Her promise look dead, but life is brought back to it.
And then let's go over to chapter eight. Remember ga
Hayesi's the servant. Gay Hayese's gonna get leprosy. He's going
to be healed of leprosy because of obedience to not
take the goods of the Syrians. That's a whole nother teaching.
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And he's standing before the king because a person with
leprosy can't stand before the king. He's standing before the king.
And let's look at verse four through six. The king
talked with Gehese, the servant of the Man of God, saying, hey,
tell me, I pray all the great things that Elijah's done.
And it came to pass as he was telling the
king how he restored a dead body to life. He's
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talking about the boy, and he restored this dead body
to life. That behold, the woman whose son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house
and for land. So remember it was a severe famine
in the land. And Gehese said, my lord, O King,
this is the woman. This is her son whom Elijah
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restored to life. And when the king asked the woman,
she told him.
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So.
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The king appointed in to her a certain officer, saying, restore. Now,
that's where I want you to camp out. Restore all.
That's the word of the Lord for you. Restore all.
God is going to restore all that was hers and
all the fruits of the field since the day that
she left the land, even until now, I want to
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tell you how this restoration took place. Relationships are the
currency of the kingdom and the network of life. You
can go back and look at last week's teaching to
really build it up to this point, but it is
imperative and necessary for you to be spiritually connected to
the right people. Remember, when God goes to bless you,
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he sends a person in your life. When the enemy
goes to mess you up, he sends a person in
your life. And these spiritually right people are covenant connections.
They're ordained by God. They are the connections that God
has chosen, that God is ordained to release his glory
to fulfill his plan and purpose individually and corporately. God
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has a prepared place, and God has a prepared people,
and you'll not enter into the provision of his promises.
And the Bible says, she's a great woman, the greatness
of God for your life. When you're disconnected from those
that God's ordained for your destiny, when God goes to
bless you, what does he do? The man of God
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continually passing by her Therefore, if I'm going to fulfill
all that God has for me, I have to have
the ability to identify or recognize my deliver the man
the woman that God has for my life. You see,
life is governed by laws, and they always work for
you or against you. And the law of recognition teaches
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everything that you need in your life is already there,
It just needs to be recognized. Jesus said to his disciples,
you have eyes, but you don't see ears. But you
don't hear, and you don't remember Mark chapter eight, verse eighteen.
In other words, what you don't recognize, and I want
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to break down that word for you, you won't celebrate.
And what you don't celebrate will eventually leave your life.
Now stop right here. Recognize. The Bible says that we
hold eternity in our heart. So you've already met that person.
You've already been ordained to work with that person. You've
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already been ordained to pray over that person, serve that person,
give to their ministry, build a chamber table. These things
aren't random. God puts eternity in our heart because he
has relationships. And again you're cognizant of it. Can you
recognize your divine connection. Second King, chapter four, verse nine.
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She said to her husband the whole Now I perceive
this is a holy Man of God which passes advice.
Continually perceived means to ascertain by seeing. It's the same
as Luke chapter thirteen with the woman that has been
over for eighteen years. And it says when Jesus saw her.
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When she saw Jesus doesn't mean she was looking from
the outside. It means when eternity came into connection with eternity. See,
your spirit has a knowledge of things that your mind
is struggling to perceive or conceive, or hold or have
revelation of people who recognize opportunities to connect to their deliverance,
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Ruth recognized Naomi. Now Naomi would call herself Mara mis bitter.
And remember there were two sisters, Ruth and Urba. And
Naomi turns around. Miss Marr turns around and says, hey,
go back to your people, go back to your land.
I don't have any sons, I don't have any future.
And Orpa says, you're right, there's nothing with you. Ruth
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goes wherever you go. I'm going. Your people will become
my people, Your God will be my God, that's crazy
kind of talk. I mean, they would trend her on Twitter,
they would take her on x and put her all
over the social media and Instagram and say, can you
believe what Paula White? I mean what Ruth said. You see,
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because when you get spiritual and you recognize your deliver
it's not with natural eyes, it's by a spiritual eye.
Jonathan recognized David. That's insanity. Jonathan is Saul's natural born
heir Sun and all the kingdom should be inherited by him.
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But Jonathan strips off his royalty and serves David because
he recognized David is the one that's anointed. John the
Baptist recognized Jesus. He's baptizing thousands of people. Jesus is
a carpenter. He's not recognized as the son of God.
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He hasn't ascended, he hasn't gone up on the third Day.
He hasn't even been crucified. He hasn't even done a
miracle yet. And John the Baptist says, I'm not even
worthy to untie your shoes, and Jesus says, baptized me.
The Israelites recognize Moses. They've been in slavery for four
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hundred years. If they didn't recognize Moses as a deliverer,
they would have been in slavery for eight hundred years.
People who didn't recognize Joseph's brothers could not recognize him.
They sell them into slavery. God uses what the enemy
meant for bad Romans eight twenty eight Genesis fifty twenty.
They meant it for my evil, but God allowed it
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for my good. So watch this. Joseph's brothers don't recognize him.
David's brothers, Jonathan saw son, David's the anointing one, but
his own brothers. After he's anointed, after oil has been
poured on his head, after the prophet came in said
you're the one, and that oil would not go on
anyone else's head, he takes a little dinner down to
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as a lunch down as brothers because they're finding this goliath,
this giant. His dad says, go give your brothers this lunch,
and his brother said, what are you doing down here?
I know the naughtiness of your heart. They can't see now.
If it was a natural thing, they would be able
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to see. David's a master slinger. But it's not done
with natural eyes it's somewhat spiritualize. So right now, I
prayed that you can recognize your divine deliver I prayed
that every veil will be removed over your eyes, that
you will have this spirit of discernment, that you would
have the spirit of revelation and understanding, that you would
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know God and you would know your divine connection. Thinking.
Chapter four, verse nine says, this man passes by, and
it means to transition or crossover, because when someone is transitioning.
Watch I'm saying something so deep. When someone is transitioning,
when someone is moving, they have the ability to take
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you to a place that you've never been before. That's important.
Pass It by means transitioning. Some of you are stuck,
and until you recognize your divine deliverance, you won't get
out of that place called stuck. You just think that's
another person. We're all just another person. But God uses frail,
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weak things humans vessels to do his work, and they
pass by continually. It means to stretch by extension, So
he's always transitioning and he's always stretching. That's important because
divine connections will transition you from poverty to the promises
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of God, from depression to the joy of the Lord,
from lack, whether that is spiritual or relationship, from barrenness
to having a child, having a son. You see, the
problem is we have contact with people, but we don't
have connection. We see Him, but we're not connected. See,
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once you get connected, that's where you start to establish covenant.
Because as long as you have contact, only you observe
or you receive a significant signal from a person, but
that's it. A connection means you're joined, You're established in relationship,
and that's what leads to covenant because you can't succeed alone.
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Relationship is a privilege, the golden link to every uncommon
miracle for you to experience the life that God has
for you, the promises and in this case, restoration of all.
So there's just a few key facts that I want
to give you how you recognize a divine connection. Number one,
any person God uses to link you to desired change.
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I want to get out of this what is it? Barrenness, poverty, depression, sickness.
I want to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior.
This is how I want to change the nation, community, neighborhood.
You see, God shows you this is your length because
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it is connected to the change you desire. Number two,
You cannot succeed without a divine connection. When God goes
to bless you, say it over and over with me.
He sends a person in your life. When the enemy
goes to mess you up, he sends a person in
your life. Number three, It will usually require your pursuit
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of them. Ruth pursued, Naomi, wherever you go, I'm going.
The Israelites followed Moses. Nathan did whatever David wanted him
to do. Go up between that tunnel, go ahead of me.
Said there was this pursuit. In other words, when your
deliverance or your divine connection comes, it's like Elisha, or
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it's like Elijah throwing the mantle and Elisha, and he
tells him go anoint these three people. He only goes
down to Elisha, who will do double the portion of miracles,
throws his mantle on him, and then he says, hey,
can I go take care of my business? Can I
go back to my house, tell my parents and can
folk and everybody goodbye, and take care of the oxen
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that I'm sitting here searting for my dad, and shut
down the business. And Elijah goes, what do I have
to do for you? And keeps going. Elijah goes and
burns the oxen. He shuts that door so tight that
he can never go back, and he chases and catches
up with Elijah. This man right here that's doing this
miracle has that kind of pursuit for his divine deliver
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Do you see how this works? So the people around
you might try to attempt to stop your relationship with
that divine connection. When the blind man cried out to Jesus,
those around him tried to silence him. Hey, Jesus, that
son of God, mercy on me. You don't need to
be loud like that. Number five. It's your responsibility to recognize,
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to see again, to be cognizant, and to honor your
divine connection, not vice versa. Every single person has a
divine connection, everyone, even Jesus. I don't do anything except
for the Father show me and reveal it to me.
We can continue to go through these, but I want
to get you outside of recognizing. To point number two.
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She resolved to do something to move from contact to connection.
Second King, Chapter four eight. She constrained him, I love
the Hebrew word. Here sees fasten upon cleave, not letting
you go. No, she seized him. That's a strong word.
Verse ten says, let us make a little chamber. I
pray thee on the wall. Let us set for him
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a bed, a table, a stool, a candlestick, and whenever
he comes, he'll turn in. She connected by sewing what
she sewed. She created an atmosphere to house the anointing.
At first she just fed him, but then she puts
in a room, a bed which means rest, a table
for refreshing, a stool for reflection, and a candle for revelation.
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You see, what I want you to understand is her resolution,
just like Jonathan's to David, or the Armor Bearer to
Jonathan's resolution, to connect position them to receive. When you
know that God is in your life, yes, you have
to recognize and then you have to resolve. This is
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the woman of God, this is the Man of God.
This is what I'm to do, This is who I'm
to be connected to. These are the people I'm called to.
Because wishy washy people or what the Bible calls double
minded don't receive anything. You've got to be resolute, and
that's the place of receiving. Because now she is resolute,
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she sews into him, and now she starts to receive.
Why she now has access, She now has acceptance, which
is favor. She now has impartation. Second King, Chapter four,
Verse thirteen. He said, say now and to her, behold
that has been careful with us for all this care
What do you want done for you? So that's what happened.
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She answered, I dwell with my own people, etc. But
she creates her own opportunity, and he says, yeah, but
you don't have a child. How does she create her
own opportunity because the access is what she invested. She
didn't say, oh, here, here's a million dollars. You can't
buy miracles. You can't buy access. You can't buy this.
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You've got to discern it. You got to recognize it.
You got to be resolute, and this is where you receive.
You invest in it, prayer, servanthood, honor, sewing, giving. She
activated the ingredients in what was passing by making a
deposit in it. You only get dividends from investment. If
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you stay on your knees before the Lord. You have
a right to withdraw because you've made a deposit spiritually.
Verse thirteen what's to be done for thee. Now watch,
this is where she returned to it. Second, this is
point number four. After she received she returns Second Kings,
Chapter four, verse eighteen through twenty one. The child grows up,
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but all is on a day the father goes the reapers,
and he said, my head, my head. He died. He
had any aneurism. But when the promise died, she laid
it on her own seed verse twenty three. Her confidence
all is well. Verse twenty four through thirty two. You
see the connection and action. That's where the Man of
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God comes and lays on it. And though her promise,
her provision, looks dead, she has a right for resurrection life.
She has a right to boldly say, Man of God come,
and she puts on her promise, the promise of God. God,
you gave this to me. You have to restore it.
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And look what happens. Her son comes back to life.
And you think that'd be the end of the story.
But that's not the end. And this is where I
wanted to get you to restoration, because God is going
to restore you and not just raise your promise. And
at the very end there in that verse five and six,
the king asked the woman, and she said yes, And
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he said, told the officer restore everything, all our land,
all fields, everything. Because once she recognized, once she received,
once she resolved, once she returned, then she was ready
for restoration, and not just from her dead's son, but
everything in her life. And this is what I want
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you to understand. That God used her obedience to unlock
a promise that had been shut up. She had a son,
and when that promise came under attack and died in
her arms, she did what many would fail to do.
She returned to the altar of her investment. She laid
the boy on the very bed that she had prepared.
She didn't panic. She prophesied all as well, And I
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declare over you today, no matter what has died in
your life, no matter what looks lost, all is well,
no matter how bad it is, no matter how much
they're shaking their fits at God and saying you're crazy
for this, give up, don't keep following that ministry, all
is well. You see, she had an investment in a
divine connection. It wasn't done overnight. This was a covenant.
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And when we get to that place out of contact,
I just want to touch from you here, throw ah
me and we make covenant. I'm gonna pray for you.
I'm gonna pray for you to go to the globe.
I'm gonna pray for God to use your annoying thing
and your mouth. And when I pray for you, I
am a partaker as if it was me myself doing it.
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It was Elijah's servant Gahezon, who served as the bridge
between her and the prophet, and geheyes, I was sent
with Elijah's staff to lay it on the boy and
he didn't respond. Why because that dead promise could not
have a casual contact. It only responded to covenant. Who
is she in covenant with Elishah? And Elisha comes back,
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brings the boy back to life, resurrects him. And what
happens the divine restoration. The king says, restore all. Her
son's been restored, her family's been restored. But God is
not just giving her back what is lost. He's given
interest on what the enemy tried to seal. This is
not just restoration, it's divine restoration. And I believe every
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siede you've sown in tears will reap a harvest and
joy that every prayer you've prayed in the dark will
be answered in the light, that every act of faith
you've made in secret will be rewarded openly. God has
not forgotten you, You've not been forsaken. God has heard your cry.
The King's crying out, and he's commanding restore all that
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was hers, restore all that was his. And I'm believing
this is your moment of divine alignment. As you stay
connected to this ministry, you're connected to divine assignment, a
wellspring of revelation, restoration, release. I'm praying fervently over you,
and I know this is the word of the Lord,
a signpost from Heaven declaring your season is shifted. You're transitioning,
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you're crossing over. So now it's the time for you
to recognize the divine connection. Prepare room for God's presence
in your life. Don't faith, lay your broken promise on
the altar, expect resurrection, walk boldly in restoration. Give God
the glory because your connection to this ministry is not casual,
it is convenential. And I believe that as you stand
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with us, God's promises are bringing you into new season,
a full restoration of all in Jesus' name.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
God has a word for you. It shall be well.
This is not just a comfort phrase, it is a
prophetic decree for your life. Just like the Shunamite woman
in Second Kings chapters four and eight, Restoration promise and
the purposes of God are for you too. The woman recognized, resolved,
received returned, and all was restored. You were in a
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divine moment and you will recover all. This is your
moment of divine alignment. And as you stay connected to
this ministry, you were connected to a divine assignment.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'm believing that as you stay connected to this ministry,
you're connected to divine assignment. And I'm asking you to
respond in faith.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Call the toll free number right the po boxer, go
online right now and recognize your divine connection with this ministry.
Resolved to move from contact to connection and sow a
seed for Second Kings eight six. Maybe the Holy Spirit
is putting it upon your heart to sow a two
hundred and eighty six dollars seed or an eighty six
dollars seed. Seek God, but do not delay. We will
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believe together that you will receive return and all will
be restored and your support of PWM helps make it
impact every single day, transforming lives, healing hearts, and winning
souls around the world. Call the number and prepare with
expectancy for God to move like those Shunamite woman did.
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Perhaps the greatest restoration you need is salvation in your life.
See God started with the relationship with man, but man
failed when they disobeyed God. And because of the first atom,
all of us are born into sin. We miss the mark,
we fall short of the character, we don't keep the
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law the word of God. But God didn't want to
leave us in this state. According to John through sixteen
and seventeen, God so loved the world that he gave
his only begonde son. He did not come to the
world to condemn it, but to bring life through it.
So his son Jesus Christ walked this earth thirty three
and a half years, was crucified on an old rugged cross,
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buried in a borrowed tomb. He defeated death, hell, and
the grave, and he rose again on that third day.
Why because he is resurrection life, And when you receive
him as Lord and Savior, he loves you so much.
He has a life for you that you can never
give yourself, and when you receive that, he declares to you,
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I came to give you life and life more abundantly.
If you died right now, are you ready for heaven?
Hell is a very real place, a place that none
of us want to ever be separated from God. Are
you tired of the hell you're living in here on earth?
Abundant life is a very real place. It's a place
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in Christ and you can have it right now. Pray
this prayer with me, Say, Father God, I come to
you in the name of Jesus, forgive me for all
my sin. I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and
my savior. If you prayed that prayer, welcome to the
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family of God. And that's not the last step, but
it is the first step. So go to the brand
new Paulawhite dot org website and there's place on there.
What are our beliefs? What is salvation? Submit your prayer
request and your praise report. I want us to do
life together. I promise I'll be here for you as
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I know you'll be here with me. God bless you.
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