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Robert Begier

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Let's take that Word in the Book of John 16:33: "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.

In this world you will have trouble." Whatever name you call it - any foolish thing. What are the things He has told us? "In me you may have peace.

In this world you will have trouble." It doesn't say "you may", it says "you will" - take note of that. What is trouble? Just think of anything foolish.

Let's take it further. "But take heart! I have overcome the world." While under sickness and hardship, satan wants you to be sad. He wants you to curse God.

He wants you to lament and complain. You know when you are... At the same time you cannot expect God to be with you, while you are sad. This is what satan wants - to separate you from your Creator;

to overthrow you from your position but those who bless God in their trouble prove their sonship. Even the Bible says, when things seem not alright with you, honour Him,

and He promised to honour those who honour Him. Are you with me? He promised to bless those who bless Him when certain things seem not alright.

Like when you are sick, business is not going well, or bad news - at that moment you bless Him - He promised to bless you greatly. When you wait till that trouble is over to bless Him,

you don't prove your sonship. Are you with me? For your heart to... ...it is not possible.

If you wait to bless God when your trouble is over, you don't prove your sonship. These are the challenges we are having. Some would say, "When I get the contract, I will come and give testimony". It means you are waiting till you get the contract, before coming for testimony.

Testimony means blessing, "Thank You, Jesus". When we commit a certain matter to our Lord, Jesus Christ, our attitude towards that matter should change greatly. It should prove that really we committed the matter to God.

You say, "I have pain here, in Jesus' name". From that moment your attitude would prove that you really have committed the matter to God. "I have pain here. I'm going to doctor for treatment." After seeing the doctor, your attitude should also show that you have seen the doctor,

compared to when you see Jesus. Like the text we just read, it says, "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

Who told you that when you become a Christian, you would not face challenges? Where did you read it in the Bible that when you become a Christian you would not fall sick? Where did you read it that when you become a Christian your business would not go up and down,

that when you become a Christian something will not punch you, hit you? Who told you this? This is why Jesus said to you, "I pray your faith will not fail". If there would be no challenges, Jesus would not say that.

If there wouldn't be what? He has prophesied this, "Walking with Me - there would be challenges. I pray your faith will not fail". It means there will be something that would test your faith,

your movement with Him and your journey with Him. Something would try to stop you, discourage you. He said, "I pray your faith will not fail". Because you believe so much that once you become a Christian,

no sickness, no disease, no trouble, no attack, no this, no that - that is your belief. Now, there is an attack - "Am I a Christian? Why is this happening to me?" You allow your situation to rule you. Your situation will tell you whether you are a Christian or not.

"In me you will have peace. But in the world you will have tribulation. Cheer up. I have overcome." That means your tribulations cannot stop you - that is what the Bible is saying.

If you are a Christian, your tribulation cannot stop you but rather, improve you. Your sickness cannot impair you but improve you - that is what the Bible is saying. In what way? Sometimes our situation may not improve us financially but spiritually.

Sometimes you say, "My business is collapsing and I'm a Christian". But what you derive from that situation, you are becoming stronger in your spiritual life. That business may remain worst but what will come out of if - you become stronger in your Christian life.

Sometimes, being a Christian, when your business is collapsing, you are expecting that business to go up but it may not. It may be your spiritual life that the Lord wants to strengthen. When the Lord knows that your spiritual life is zero,

and you cannot walk with Him; God is Spirit and His worshipers must do so in Spirit and truth. When you are a zero in your spiritual life, you cannot walk with the Lord. And if you are a stakeholder in the Kingdom,

there is a need to stop you in order to strengthen your desire for Him. When the Lord knows you are a candidate of Heaven, and suddenly you are going astray, death could stop you, so that you will not lose the Kingdom.

Sometimes death is a blessing and miracle. The SCOAN Sunday Service When you see people dying, you say... You don't know they are in the Kingdom of God, because God knows

that a step would take them to satan and they are not destined for hell but the Kingdom of God. Death could do the job; take them back home where they belong.

The SCOAN Sunday Service The devil wants you to curse God while under situation. How do you curse God? When you begin to murmur...

You know - you are cursing God. But those who honour Him in trouble prove their sonship, "Yes. Nothing can separate me from God!" That is your logo, that is my logo;

if truly you are a Christian, nothing can separate you. But if you are not a Christian and you pretend; you confess to be a Christian but you are not such in heart - anything can stop you.

If truly you are a Christian and you are such in heart, nothing can stop you. Sickness cannot stop you. Affliction cannot stop you. Our relationship with God is beyond the grave.

Therefore, this is how you know a Christian - such in heart. True Christians don't allow their situation to rule them. They know that in our walking with the Lord, there are good and hard times. You are walking with Him as a Christian;

good times will come and sometimes difficult times will come. The SCOAN Sunday Service If you can prove your sonship in good times, you should do so in hard times. "I'm a Christian" in good times, when the money is in the pocket,

I should be able to stand to say "I'm a Christian" when the money is not in the pocket. "I'm a Christian" when the food is on the table, but when the food is not on the table, I should be able to say the same and be happy. You have to honour God before men.

If you can honour God before men when there is food on the table, you should also honour Him before men when food is not on the table. You honour Him when you have good health and shout, "Hallelujah!" You let people know, "I'm a Christian".

You should also honour Him when there is pain in your flesh because you may be sick and not because of sin... Nothing can separate me from the love of God. You have to judge yourself if you are a Christian,

when you are facing hardship, difficulties, hard situation, rare situation - then you will know if you are a Christian. What we are saying is that even when everything seems not alright, believe Him.

He promised to bless you mightily. The SCOAN Sunday Service If you stop being a Christian, that cannot remove Him from the throne. He is what He says He is.

He can do what He says He can do. We give tests to God. You say, "God, if You bless me, I will come and give tithes, I will build the church" - this is a test to God.

This is why it is difficult for us to establish the relationship we are talking about. You keep giving tests to God... The number of years you have been a Christian, "Look at what I am, what I have achieved". Comparing yourself to others - no!

Christianity has no alternative. Our faith has no alternative. It is either you have faith in Him, or not. It is not an issue of first and second choice.

"If I don't belong to this party, I will join another party." No. It is either you have faith in Him, or not. That is all. The SCOAN Sunday Service

Hallelujah! We that have faith enter into the rest. If you believe, you enter into the rest. "Hallelujah! I am healed."

- "It is finished?" - "Yes. It is finished." We don't look back, we just believe. If you believe a house is on fire, you would not stay there. If you stay there, it means you do not believe the house is on fire.

They say, "This house is on fire". You now enter and sit down and stay there - it means you do not believe the house is on fire. That is our belief.

People claim to be Christians - they fashion out alternatives. Alternative to faith is religion, where we are coming from. You know, you are coming from religious background.

That is an alternative. I want you to think over this once again. If truly you are a Christian, we know during your hard, difficult times. The SCOAN Sunday Service

If truly you are a Christian, we know when you are sick. The SCOAN Sunday Service If truly you are a Christian, we know when everything seems not alright. The SCOAN Sunday Service

Because the Bible says: "In me you have peace, but in this world you will have tribulation. Cheer up. I have overcome." You allow your situation to ground you; many have been grounded.

A lot of situations you are facing because the way you look at it: as if you are not a Christian - that is why you have situation. As if God hates you - that is why you have this situation. As if you have no faith - that is why you have the situation.

And the moment you look at it, "I'm not a Christian, that's why I have this situation" - indeed, you are not a Christian at that moment. That your confession will rubbish your Christian life. "I have no faith, that is why I have these challenges" -

indeed, you have no faith. So, your situation has grounded you, rubbished you and turned you into a common man, whereas, as a Christian, you are not a common man, you are a supernatural man.

And a supernatural man is greater than the richest man in the world. The SCOAN Sunday Service A common man is someone who does not know where he is going, where he is coming from. How many of you know you will get back home?

You just guess, "I will get back home". That is a common man. Supernatural man knows he will get back home, knows where he is coming from,

knows what will happen next. The SCOAN Sunday Service Can you see what your situation has turned into? It has turned into that.

That is why when you have a situation, you start crying, you think that is the end of you. Or, when the medical doctor gives you a report, "Look, get your will done". You start running "helter-skelter" everywhere.

Or, when a kidnapper sends a note to you, "Get ready. We are coming to kill you". You start running everywhere... We don't know what will happen next. What kind of life is this?

The SCOAN Sunday Service This is what your situation has turned into. You just believe that once you have a situation, you are not a Christian, you are not a child of God, you are not with God, God is not with you, as a result of your sin, that is why you have this trouble,

this and that - you begin to rubbish yourself - at that moment you belong to satan. That is the confession satan wants you to give. You begin to count the time you have been a Christian,

"I have been a Christian for the past ten years. I go to church regularly. I read my Bible. I listen to the man of God..." This is what satan wants you to confess. And you don't know that your situation is not like others'.

Others - their situation - as a result of their sin, but your situation is to prepare you to strengthen your desire. Tell your neighbour, "My situation - to strengthen my desire and determination for God". Tell your neighbour once again,

"My situation is not like others'. Others' are as a result of their sin. My situation - to strengthen my desire and determination for God". The SCOAN Sunday Service

If your colleague out there falls sick, has cancer, and suddenly you too go to the doctor and you are also diagnosed with cancer - your cancer is different from your friend's cancer. Your friend's cancer may be as a result of sin,

which would end in death, destruction. But your cancer - to pray the more, fast the more, see the need for God the more. The SCOAN Sunday Service And if indeed you die, Heaven is your reward.

The SCOAN Sunday Service That cancer - probably God is using it to change your direction, so that you will not lose the Kingdom of God. That is it.

Oftentimes, God uses foolish things to communicate. Let me give you a good example. You may be going to work; if God does not want you to go to that work because of a danger waiting for you at that work,

you may suddenly see a python on the road. While you were going, you saw a python and the python would start chasing you. By the time you have run far, it will leave you. Then you say, "No, I can't go to that work again".

They would say, "You have to come, there is no python on the road" - "No, I'm seeing it with my eyes. I'm seeing it in my brain." When you get home, your heart would be beating like this, until that day is over. The following morning you say, "I can go to work now".

You may not pass that place; you may pass another place. At the moment when the python is chasing you, you would not think of any other road. Snake is a foolish thing. Or, suddenly you wake up in the morning...

Because God wants to stop you from going somewhere, you suddenly develop a serious headache and they will rush you to the hospital. You will not even know when you get to the hospital. The doctor would be on you for six hours -

you open your eyes and say, "What happened?" They say, "You are sick. The work is over". That is that work God doesn't want you to go to. The SCOAN Sunday Service

Oftentimes, God uses foolish things to express, communicate and talk to you. God has been talking to many of you - you don't know about this. You want God to use bread and water to talk to you. You want God to use pounds, dollars and naira to speak to you.

Any voice that is not as good as dollars, pounds - you are not interested in that voice. OK, speak to yourself. Great men you know today - they were once staff, workers in the companies. Ninety-nine percent were sacked.

It is either they sacked them, or they lied against them and they took them to a tribunal or court. But today, some of them are the richest in the world. The SCOAN Sunday Service

The ministry you are in today - you don't know where the ministry is coming from. This is sixth ministry. The SCOAN Sunday Service Fire, storm, water destroying the ministry

and this is ministry number six. Not branch. I mean the first ministry was destroyed by this, the second ministry was destroyed by this,

third ministry was destroyed, fifth ministry was destroyed - this is sixth. It is not they were branches. The SCOAN Sunday Service If I were you, I would have become a businessman today or contractor.

What happened to your former business? The SCOAN Sunday Service Because of a little disappointment, you abandoned the job. You are doing another one, where you would have no disappointment.

In which business would you have no disappointments? Tell me the business where you would not have failure. Tell me the business that would not have challenges. Tell me; that man you will marry

that the whole thing would work smoothly just like that. Assume, you asked God for opinion before your first marriage - I can't imagine what would have happened to you. The SCOAN Sunday Service

Are you with me? In every situation, God has something to say. When you see "bad", ask God what does this "bad" mean, because God can use this "bad" to communicate.

But you never ask God what He has to say. You just look at that situation from "face value". Assume you took your time to look at everything that has come your way right from the beginning of your life -

today, I'm just thinking where you would have been. The SCOAN Sunday Service Ask your neighbour, "Assume you had taken your time to look at everything that has come your way

from the beginning of your life - I'm thinking where you would have been." The SCOAN Sunday Service If I wasn't talking to you now;

you want to abandon the business because of the trouble you are facing. Before you abandon it, ask God. Don't let your situation rule you, dictate the direction. Situation should not dictate the direction.

If I wasn't saying this, you were about to abandon your marriage, because of the situation that is happening in the marriage. Before you abandon that marriage, ask God. Don't let whatever situation;

either dishonesty, unfaithfulness, whatever you call it - don't let it rule you or dictate the direction. Ask God what He has to say about this situation. The SCOAN Sunday Service

I look at my life from the beginning - I don't see anything that I have abandoned, unless you abandon me, I don't abandon people. If I leave you because of your weakness, I will lose your strength.

If I do away with you because you are a liar - I say, "This man is a liar"... Come. I'm a friend to this man but I discover he is a liar. If I now say, "This man is a liar; he has lied against me. No, I don't want to see him again." -

I have rejected his strength, and his strength can bless my life. If you are looking at someone's weakness, look also at his strength. Every man has weakness and strength. The SCOAN Sunday Service

If this man is very greedy; he cannot do away with anything, "Give me" - he wants my money all the time, I realize that he is too greedy and say, "I don't want to see him." If I reject this man because of his greediness, what of his strength?

I reject the strength too. His strength may be a blessing to me tomorrow. The SCOAN Sunday Service That is life.

You have abandoned someone who would have blessed you. Are you talking of husband and wife, business partner? You are looking for a perfect man, woman, business partner... You will get to Heaven...

Sit down. Tell your neighbour, "You will get to Heaven". You are looking for a perfect man? Ask your neighbour.

Perfect woman? Business man? Woman? You will get to Heaven.

The SCOAN Sunday Service You are because I am; I am because you are. Where you are weak, I am strong; where I am weak, you are strong. The SCOAN Sunday Service

I want you to counsel yourself. Tell your neighbour, "Counsel yourself". Tell your neighbour. It means, speak to yourself.

You speak to people, you counsel people; you don't know that you also need to counsel yourself. That is the problem we have. You are good in counselling people;

when you see people crying, you say, "Don't worry. As a Christian you have to do this or that". You do counsel people but you are not used to counsel yourself. You should have time to counsel yourself.

Speak to yourself. You can deliver yourself. Self-deliverance! You can heal yourself.

Self-healing! You can bless yourself. Self-blessing! By now, you would have got over all this nonsense,

assuming you did counsel yourself. Sit down at home, close and lock your door and begin to counsel yourself. Talk to yourself, "Look at what the man of God said today in the church. All this trouble that I used to think about; I'm lonely, I have no money, this, that...

All this, as a Christian, does not mean it is as a result of my sin but it is meant to strengthen my desire and determination for God. It means I should pray the more, see the need for God the more. I'm still a Christian.

All this trouble - God still loves me with all this trouble. Glory be to God; I should bless God". When you do that, you laugh. Did you use to laugh alone?

How many of us used to laugh when we are alone? But you cry alone. It is a common thing. You just sit down and cry.

When your children enter the room, they say, "What happened, mummy?" "No, no problem." You should learn to laugh, to smile alone. While you are alone, you just smile,

"Thank You, Lord". You can never do that when you are not counseling yourself - it is an outcome of counseling that brings out crying and laughing. I laugh.

When I needed to cry, I cried. You have to do that - that will get you out of this mess. It will give a great relief. The SCOAN Sunday Service

The outcome of counseling may lead to laughing or crying. Tell your neighbour. [The outcome of counseling may lead to laughing or crying.] These are Christian lives.

When you know you have God, you have majority with you. You with God are majority. When you develop this habit, before you know it, you hear the presence of God!

The SCOAN Sunday Service That is why I gave you these faith bracelets. This is why. Bring your camera, please, brother.

I want to show you two brothers; just sit like that. The brother here - can you see? Record this brother; this is for fashion. This is also for fashion.

Brother, what are you saying? While I am ministering to the people, you keep firing on. I was looking at you. While I was looking at you, my heart was connecting with you.

What are you saying - please, tell me. There is no way we could know what you are saying, when you are talking to God and God is talking to you. You are not talking to men.

What are you saying? I'm saying, "Take more of me, give me more of You, Holy Spirit. Let Your anointing fall on me" - that's what I'm saying. When did you start this?

I started it when you started preaching. Why can't you let this be a habit all the time, even when you are talking to your colleague? Are you ashamed?

No. Let this be a habit. When it turns to be your habit, seven days seven nights. Continue it even while eating - then you cannot take it in your hand to do it.

In the office, everywhere. Do you know what will start happening to you? When you drop it for a second, your heart will continue to say the same thing. People that have hypertension know what I'm talking about -

you will feel the blood moving in your body. Your blood will be going up. Those who have heart attack... In the same vein, you will hear that voice in your heart, "Take more of me..." without this.

You just hear that voice in your heart, "Take more of me, give me more of You". Our heart is a place where you can register what you want. You can change, delete it tomorrow and register another thing.

You have not been praying from your heart - that is why you don't know what prayer is all about. All the prayer you are offering is just from the mouth, it is not from your heart. If the prayer was from your heart, you would pray all the time.

Prayer from the heart - all the time. Prayer from the mouth - occasionally, when there is a need, trouble, situation. Tell your neighbour, "Prayer from the heart - all the time; from the mouth - when the need arises".

The SCOAN Sunday Service A break in prayer is a break in God. There is no time we don't need God - we need God 24/7. Any moment from now, you will see me praying for almost 2000 people.

If I do pray the way you pray, for every person I pray for I would say, "Be healed, in Jesus' name! Be delivered, in Jesus' name!" - for 2000 people; I would die there. My flesh would not be able to carry it.

How can I shout to 2000 people, "Be delivered, in Jesus' name! In Jesus' name I pray! Be healed, in Jesus' name!" ? And I keep saying it to 2000 people... My blood would complain.

That is why they say the flesh cannot do the job but the Spirit. The SCOAN Sunday Service But if that "Be healed, in Jesus' name. Be delivered, in Jesus' name" is in my heart already, I would just be stretching hand.

It is the hand that is "radiating" that - see me. And I can use my mouth to do other things. While praying for this man, I can be... I would do another thing while doing this.

The medium you are using to relate with God is different from the medium you are using to talk to people. But if I now say, "Be healed, in Jesus' name!", will I say to this man, "Come. Be healed, in Jesus' name"?

The SCOAN Sunday Service How would I share my mouth? I cannot share my mouth. As you see me, while I'm praying for people, I still talk to the ushers, to people.

Because it is not the same medium. Different medium I use to talk to God and different medium I can use to talk to you. Talking to God will not stop me from doing things of the flesh like eating, talking to people... Things on the outside.

The SCOAN Sunday Service Prayer from the heart is prayer that relies on God's strength, assistance. Our heart is the communication point. So, please - your faith bracelet;

don't bother about the beauty of it. It is an instrument to register the voice in your heart. You may choose not to wear it; it is an instrument to count your faith. After finishing to count your faith, you may decide to put it in your pocket.

All the time you count your faith, but sometimes you may want to do something. Put it in your pocket, bring it out - you may choose not to wear it. We do it so you may wear it; if you cannot wear it, it's OK. The SCOAN Sunday Service

Thank you. The SCOAN Sunday Service Rise up. The SCOAN Sunday Service

I would be very happy if somebody could come out to summarize the lesson you learned from all we talked about. Thank you. Emmanuel! (God With Us - Matthew 1:23)

Our daddy in the Lord taught us that being a Christian you can be sick and still be a friend of God. The fact that you meet various situations in your life, does not equate you to unbelievers. They may face similar situations as a result of sin;

yours is not as a result of sin. Therefore, Christ is saying that, "In Me you will have peace, but in the world, in which we live, we will have tribulation". We should rest assured that He has overcome the world.

So, in times of all these difficult times, we should understand that they are bound to come. Being a Christian doesn't mean you will not fall sick, you will not meet challenges; no, Christian life is not like that. It is full of climbing and descending.

Therefore, when you meet these challenges, believe in God. Even if it leads you to death, God has allowed it to come and rest with Him. Therefore we should be assured that no matter the challenges, God is with us. Clap for him.

Thank you very much - clap for him. Wow! And I know our women there want to come out. OK, come on; thank you.

Thank you, pastor. From what I learned today... When the man of God was teaching, it was like he was talking directly to me. In me - I faced a lot of tribulations.

It was like everything was just talking to me. I said, "God, wow!" I have known where all my problems were coming from. As I go home, I'm going to practise to learn how to counsel myself.

And I know that with the help of the Holy Spirit, He is going to perfect it. I believe God has touched all us in different ways. Thank you, daddy. And I'm very happy that you used yourself as a good example.

How do you want to counsel yourself? Tell us - we want to learn too. You say when you get home, you want to counsel yourself. Go ahead - tell us how you want to start this counselling.

When I reach home after the service, I'm going to sit down and lock the door. I can remember last year when I lost my husband - I went through a lot of things. At the time, I was like, "God, what is happening? I don't really know". As I go home, I'm going to counsel myself, tell God, "Give me that heart to forget some things,

so I can look forward because at times it seems as if all hope is gone". As I'm going now, I'm going to counsel myself. And I know that with the help of God, there must be a way out. Come on, take a fruit.

The SCOAN Sunday Service Don't bother, you may carry a big one - I will help you to carry it. The SCOAN Sunday Service Oh my God!

You see - as big as it is, so big is your joy. Amen. Where is uncle? Please, take your fruit. Thank you.

The SCOAN Sunday Service Thank You, Lord. You may be seated. The SCOAN Sunday Service

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