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Our message today, our message is entitled, You Keep Fixing the Wrong Things. You Keep Fixing the Wrong Things. And I would like you to know that this message is for somebody who keep on fixing things. And as they are fixing things, it keeps still drinking. So it's almost like as if you are trying to fix certain things, but these things that you are fixing at the end of the day doesn't allow you to get better. You pay off this debt, another one comes. It's like almost as if you change to this job, thinking that this job will be a better job and it comes with another fixing again. So you keep on fixing, changing jobs, and yet it does not change the main thing. And this message is for somebody who also even changed partners, you know, like moving from one partner to another partner, thinking that that will fix things. But here it doesn't fix things. This message is for somebody who actually goes to doctor and keep on saying to the doctor, but this throat of mine is not well. and the doctor keep you can almost say keep helping you on the throat not knowing that the throat is the symptom a symptom of what is way behind that so we keep on treating the symptoms instead of the root cause of things because if your throat is sore it might be a nasal drip that comes from there. But this is who the message is for. The one who is exhausted from pitching a hole here but the moment they pitch the hole here another hole opened up that side It like the municipality of us that when they fix the potholes on this side another pothole just next to that one gets exposed. This is who the message is for. the one who asks God for a small thing and cannot understand why nothing changes. This is who the message is for. The message today is like we ask God to fix. Let me make an example. Let me make an example. We ask God to fix our financial difficulty by asking him for 10 rent for only now. In the interim. When you have your own business, you can bring in more money, which is the the core issue is there's no money. But the bigger fix might be that when you have your own business. And I'm just making this example because sometimes it's easier to make examples with money than what it is with the real issues. So this is who the message is for. And we want to pay the bills so that this headache can be gone. We want to put out all those fires. But sometimes the problem is we don't dig into the roots of the problem. And this is who the message is for. I want us to turn our Bible to Matthew 9. You will forgive me today. I will drink a lot of water today. This is the warm water because the throat has some scratchy stuff and I don't want to be the whole time. So I keep it warm. Matthew 9. And we read from verse 1. And he entered into a ship and passed over and came into his own city And behold they brought to him a man sick of palsy lying on a bed and Jesus seeing their faith saying unto the sicker of palsy Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee. And behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, this man blaspheme. And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts, for whether it's easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or say, Arise and walk. but that ye may know that the Son of Man had power on earth to forgive sins. Then said he to the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine own house. And he arose and departed to the house. but when the multitude saw it, they marveled and glorified God, which has given such power unto men. Now, sometimes we might read this as a healing story. but when we talk healing we sometimes think that healing is only the fact that my body is not well then my body needs fixing but sometimes it's deeper than just the fix of the body and here you can see it is so deep that it even goes to the sin. And the Bible even says that some of our kids have issues that they actually fighting our grandparents' sins up till today. Because when you hear in the Bible there was a scripture that says So do you say that the father sins came upon this children That is why this child is sick Sometimes it might be. Now, my question to you today is, don't be looking at the symptoms. Because when you're looking at the symptoms, what are you looking for? Because symptoms only is an indication of many things that went wrong. Obesity doesn't come from being fed. Obesity comes from something else. So you can't speak to the fed first and not speak to the thing that is behind what brought the obesity. And can I tell you something? Some people have obesity. And what is that other thing? You know, the thin one where you become thin. Okay, but let's just call it some people don't eat. Then they become so thin. the reason they become thin is not the fact that they don't eat or the fact that they vomit out their food it's not it's the psychological things that is behind the fact that that happened and i might sound like a a diagnostics machine today but i just i'm just teaching you so that you can understand that to look at symptoms does not address the real issue. Because when I look at somebody who becomes obese, the fact that they keep on stuffing their mouth is they're looking for something that keeps on soothing them, and that is the food. So when you're looking at, let's stop the food from coming to this person, you don't see the real issue that is deeper than just the food. I want to make an example as well. When you're looking at certain people's reactions to certain things, when somebody walks inside on the road, the moment they hear a car, they would run to the left. And you would say, look at this old man, afraid of being afraid of a car. It's not the old man is being afraid of the car. It's because the old man has a way of, something happened that he was walking in front of the road, and a car bumped him. So that psychological issue within his mind makes him to be afraid of cars all the time. Some of us sit with the situation, the moment you hear something on the roof, the first thing we think is Tokolosh. Because we are used to where we grew up, Tokolosh was too much. Now, when a cat walks over the roof, you just hear togolosh. And especially because it's not daytime. Now it's even worse. The root cause is that your past have shown you flames and you are still trained to kill those flames. And I want to be frank about it or be straight up about it. When this man had an issue with his legs, he could not walk. Now, when you're looking at prophetically, like prophetic, when somebody is prophetic. Prophetically, you will always have to say, what is the significance of one being having legs? It's to make your movement easier. So what is the enemy trying to tell you by cutting off the legs first? Is to tell you, no, you're not going somewhere. I'm stopping you from going somewhere. And some people who just see life as is they don look into the deeper diagnostics of what is the issue that is at hand at this moment So when my son got hurt in the soccer, it was not the leg that went. It was something about his destiny that somebody is trying to stop. So there's a deeper diagnostics in it. And not everything is the devil. You that keep on fighting the devil that is unfortunately not even caring about you. The devil doesn't even bother about you. But the mere fact that it's something bad that happened to you. You first run to the devil. Some of your friends are so jealous of you that the Bible says that the tongue is a small piece, but have a lot of power. Some of your jealous friends have spoken negative about you and trying to stop you from moving forward. And therefore, starting by your legs is the first thing that they want to restrict your movement. Nothing up till thus far was in my notes. But this I saw, I need you to understand that I don't like to do this prophetic thing. because some people see you as a sangoma or some person that can solve issues, not thinking that God can help them. So they're trying to rely on you being prophetically, trying to make you as a person as God. And therefore, I run away as much as possible from it up until I know it's really important that I can do it. And I will never tell you I'm prophesying. I won say to you hey and then you must go go deeper go deeper No The moment you say go deeper I stop I turn away and I go Leave me to speak as God is telling me how to. So today, when I, when I looked at this message prepared, there's one thing that stood out for me. And that was the word forgive. Now, when you're looking at forgive, the word forgive is in the Greek name. It's ephiemi. It means it's to send away. It means to release. It also means to cancel a debt and let it go completely. So it is a word used for wiping out what somebody else owns. And not just own and wiping up, but it's like gone. It's like it releases that. And here the word forgiveness is almost like as if it is a, it's loosely said. Son, be of good cheer. Thy sin be forgiven thee. and when Jesus said that it actually strikes a lot of people's perception of where forgiveness should be given or who should be given forgiveness it's like if I can ask you now and I say to you I forgive your sins I'm not God. You think I might not be doing it. Or I might not be able to do it. But can I tell you something? When Jesus said this he already knew their thoughts He already knew their thoughts In fact, when you would understand the prophetic Jesus, not the forgiving of sins or the one that fell for our sins, the one that was killed for our sins. If you're looking at the prophetic one, the one that stood by a well and said to the lady, yes, of course, the one that you even have now is not even yours. if you look into that guy not the one that that came and says to the to the legion guy to casting out no no no not that one the one who is prophetic so when he prophetically said thy sins be forgiven thee, he prophetically knew what was the root cause of the issue. The same guy who said to to another guy in front of the who said man? Like he said to somebody else, Take up thy bed and go and walk. What is thy Bethesda? By Bethesda? By the pull of Bethesda. Shouldn't he have said the same thing to this guy? Go walk. But he knew the guy by Bethesda had a different issue than this one. because prophetically in this one's life forgiveness is the most way of stopping him from not walking and this is why I'm saying to you we've been fixing a lot of wrong things and therefore it kept coming back Thank you. We've been trying to get a relationship with somebody by trying to buy them into the relationship, giving them food, taking them out for dinners. But yet the relationship wasn't that deep. I wish you can I wish you can you can take the moment and let the spirit of prophecy comes upon you prophesy to yourself this is the thing that I know that will make my life to go forward if there is an issue with you not been able to get a proper relationship prophesy to you that what your grandparents, your great-great-grandparents went through you will not go through as well. Because I see a lot of times that our forefathers has instilled into us certain curses that came from them that today you are sitting with. Can I tell you, my mother, she's the one that whenever she used to speak, she spoke so much loud, like I almost say loud, that anybody who doesn't know her will think that she's angry. And can I tell you why she spoke like that? It's because it was her nature to speak loudly. And yet, we saw it as being aggressive. And as she grows or as we grow we actually realize that this auntie bark is not as bad as a bite So she has given us a lot of wrong diagnostics that we did all along. And I want you to look into your life. what have you been diagnosing that was not true or that was only a symptom of what the real issue would have been. I remember there was a time when I kept on looking for money to pay for the electricity which we were owing about 85,000 rand at the time. The issue was not the money that we owed. The issue is that we have not learned how to work with what we have. Because anytime whenever I have 20,000 you know what is the first thing I do? I buy the kids or I buy something for somebody. I don't have a way of spending. You can almost say, I don't spend accountable ways. I don't have accountable ways of spending. Yeah, let me say it that way. And I've learned over the years that priority needs to be, like you can almost say if I need to buy a cup like this and I need something to fill my stomach would I buy the cup first or eat something to eat because the cup we can still use anything from the street digging up something that's what we can do but to fill your stomach a cup can't fill it so you have to prioritize and that why we say you need to diagnose what would be the things that is most important Be a Jesus that knew. You can't just say, arise, take up thy bed and go unto thine house. You first have to start with the forgiveness of sins. Your sin has been forgiven. you first have to release the thing that held this guy captive for so many years. Your way of having a lot of things that you've done over the past years or months or how many times, there's something that you need to understand. there's something deeper than just you needing to walk. What has Satan been used to chain your legs from moving? And I'm speaking now prophetically. Because a chaining of a leg, it's not a physical leg that we are talking about here now. Let me talk about a leg that has been holding. A leg that has been holding is that pain of somebody who raped you. And you keep on keeping on to that memory of the rape that happened. Can you see? that has been a leg that has been tied for your destiny not to move forward because now the guy raped you now your relationships can't move forward because you can't trust anybody anymore because of the rape that happened your leg being tied down because of one thing that happened Somebody fired you for doing the right thing. And now because they fired you for doing the right thing. Now you don want to do anything at all Too afraid to get fired again Your leg has been tied up into that situation I need you to understand something, that this leg has been tied up for far too long. Be forgiven in the mighty name of Jesus. I'm saying to you now by the grace that God has bestowed upon me prophetically I see your leg being loosened by the forgiving of your sins the forgiving of the sins of your father's father's father father's father's father the great great great grandfather the forgiving of your mother's mother's mother the great great grandmother for that forgiveness today you are loosened up in the mighty name of Jesus today I come to you now and I say because of the fact that they have made mistakes in the past your future will not be held by that same standard because your sins has been forgiven for that today I want to take the moment and tell you now that as you have been walking through life Every time when you walk through life, you have been diagnosing the wrong symptoms. And God will open up your eyes to see where is the forgiveness needed. God will open up your eyes to see where is the exact same problem in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. God will open up your eyes not to look at something that you might think is the problem. He will show you exactly where the problem is. As I'm speaking to you today, I hear the Spirit of God is telling me that for that person that has been held so long in jail with a rope that has been tying his feet, Like an elephant that taught that the same rope that was strong when he was younger is still keeping him today. He knows that that rope can anytime be cut off. God has given me that today we cut off the small ropes that has been kept in us before. Because of our mindsets that has not changed up with our bodies. Because some of the things that we have kept in our mindsets was the fact that we are still thinking about the past where certain things were so small. And because we grew up, grown them, it's still withholding us even though it's so small. Those are the symptoms that Satan has kept us to be in bondage, to be in jail, to be kept for far too long. We're saying today in the mighty name of Jesus that has been gone. In Jesus' mighty name, we break those chains now. We break those chains. Those chains will not hold us any longer. Those chains will not hold us any longer. The problem you see is not always the problem. We see the real problem. God opened up our eyes today to see the real problem. The four friends that brought a man for his legs, Jesus saw a man who needed forgiveness more than he needed to walk. He needed forgiveness more than he needed to walk. and God is saying today to us that the loudest of the loudest problem is rarely the deepest of the issue. So we are facing the real deeper issues today. In the mighty name of Jesus, God will open up our eyes to see the deeper ones. God deals with the root today. God deals with the root today not the symptoms but the root not just the symptoms but the root he healed inside before he healed outside God is about to open up the inside the deeper things that people cannot easily see but you will be able to see it you will be able to see it the things that has been hidden God has opened it up for you to see. God has opened it up for you to see God has opened it up The deeper things God has opened it up for you The things that no man can see, God is opening up for you. The deeper things that even yourself has not seen because of the fact that you call unto him and I will answer thee and show thee greater and mighty things which thou knowest not. God is about to open up to us the things that we did not know, the hidden things that we did not know, the things that has kept us in so much bondage over the years. He's exposing it to us so that we can go to the root cause of the issue. And remember, when God heals, he heals completely. He did not just say forgiven to this guy, your sins has been forgiven. But he also went as far as saying to you, take up your bed and go. So he saw the symptoms of the legs, yet he started with the root. and when he fixed the root, the symptoms was also gone at the same time. God is about to show you the symptoms is not the issue. So he will take you in depth into the root cause of the things. And when he give you the root cause issue and fix the root cause issue, even the symptoms will also go with it. He has given us a issue where we can see it's only money that we need. We don't see the bigger issue that is deep within the money. He's going to fix that bigger issue and give us the money as well. He will give us the money as well. Not just the things that is in depth being the issues. The things that is the deeper root of the cause. That is what God is about to give to us. You are tired because you keep fixing the wrong things You keep fixing the symptoms You keep fixing the leg the leg that has been tied to your destiny the leg that has been tied so much so that your destiny doesn move Yet we are not here to fix the leg. We are here to fix the root cause, your sins that needs to be forgiven. So I prophesy to you today that as your sins get forgiven, also the symptoms of it will also be removed and be healed in the mighty name of Jesus. I prophesied to you today that everywhere where you went and you taught that this small elephant rope that has been holding you as an elephant for so many years, that rope will be broken now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I'm saying to you the same time that the root cause of every issue that you've been having ever since you've become where there's symptoms of you getting stuck in your relationship, getting stuck financially, getting stuck in your marriage, getting stuck in your business, the root cause of it, God will open up your eyes today to see the root cause of those issues so that those issues can also at the same time be released to you. Those issues will also be the same time be said to you, take up your bed and move the leg that has been tied to a situation which happened many years ago and yet it's still in your mind holding you captive. God is releasing that now today in the mighty name of Jesus. I take your mind captive to the Holy Spirit in obedience to the Holy Spirit today. So whatever has been in your mind that is allowing you not to move forward, I come against it now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. And I say to you, you are released. You can move forward. You will be moving forward in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Today, I looked at the mere fact that something happened in the past and is still allowing you not to do what you ought to do. not to do what you are destined to do because of the fact that it happened so many years ago. Your sins has been forgiven. Your sins has been forgiven I don want you to sit with a situation where you think it because of that relationship. Whenever that guy gave me a warm clap, now I can't, when somebody just raised their voice a little bit, you are already shaking, ducking and diving because of what happened in the past. God has forgiven that there's no need for you to hold on or keep on holding on to something that is not necessary to be holding on to can you see the real love that this guy is really showing you can you see the real love that this girl is really showing you but because of previously you've been they cheated so much on you that you can't see that this guy is not cheating But just the fact that you've been held captive on your leg for moving, going forward. Those years, even up till today when life is better, you're still holding on to that same pain. God has forgiven you for that. Your mind has been renewed. Your mind has been renewed. I'm speaking to you today in a prophetic way because I believe that today is the more prophetic needed than before and you know I don't like this prophetic thing bishop not I don't like it I just don't like it for the fact that people makes you to be God they make as if you just need to speak to them what is God saying as if they can't ask God themselves I need to let you know that I have a prophetic gift on my life. I'm not hiding it. I'm not hiding it. I'm just hiding it because of the fact that I know that when people see you as prophetic, they see you as Sangoma. And I'm not a Sangoma. I am a God gift. A gift that comes directly from God. the things that you might know that you think I don't know. I know. I don't make it obvious. I don't want you to make me a God. I am not. God's glory before anything else. If God be I need you to understand that when you've been holding on to something that has kept you in bondage for far too long, you have been fixing the wrong thing. you have been fixing the wrong thing. You have been fixing the symptoms of what the real issue is. Because the symptoms of what the real issue is, Jesus said, Son, be of good cheer. Thy sin be forgiven thee. While people came and behold, they brought to him a man sick of palsy, lying on a bed, And Jesus seeing their fate and said unto the sick of Pelsi, Son, be of good cheer, thy sin be forgiven. At the same time, arise, take up thy bed and go unto thine house. For somebody who came on a bed, the only thing that people see was the issue of being kept in prison on a bed. Somebody had to carry you. today God is not carrying anybody anymore because your sin has been forgiven anybody that is carrying you today God is releasing that whole you can call it a crowd of people around you because of the relief that he is giving you every time whenever your friends has been holding on to your issues is that reason is because of the forgiving of your sin that has been forgiven, now they are also released at the same time. In the mighty name of Jesus, your friends are being released at the same time. They don't have to carry you anymore. They don't have to take the load of you anymore because you can carry your load going forward on your own You can carry your load on your own You can move on your own. You don't have to sit in your situation that has been keeping you from going anywhere without asking somebody to help you. By the prophetic of today, by the grace of God on my life, you are being released in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. And this is not just a word, but this is a prophetic word that sets you free. No captivity in your environment, not in your life, not in your family's life, not in your children's life, not in your children's life, nor in any generation that comes forth from you. everything that happened before you has been set free now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior any curse that has been brought upon your family life has been set free today in the mighty name of Jesus nobody will carry you going forward anything that is to carry you today is releasing you today to stand on your own feet and they will also be released from carrying you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior for far too long have you been relying on somebody else for far too long have you been sitting and wondering who is going to come for me to help me out nobody is coming to help you out because you have the right to help yourself you have the right to help yourself you have the right to help yourself Jesus did not just stop at the inside he said arise take up your bed and walk he healed the leg as well he didn just forgiven the sin he healed the leg as well So when God deals with your root He does not abandon your real life problems. He handles both. But He starts where it actually counts the most. He starts where it actually counts the most. you are tired because you keep fixing the wrong things you have been treating the symptoms you have been treating the symptoms your whole whole entire life and that is why the symptoms kept coming every time today the symptoms is touched by the root cause that has been touched first and the people you keep helping with surface things go deeper the real need is under the one they are showing you Hallelujah now next week as you go through your week or let's say as from now on keep asking God this thing I'm going through now what is the root cause of it? and you will start seeing God is showing you a lot more what is the root cause? what is the things that keep you while you pondering on the symptoms you've been pondering on the symptoms for far too long take that root to God this week not the service level issues so that he can send you away now I want you to know next week I going to talk about everyone who keeps waiting to feel ready Ready to start the business. Ready to lead. Ready to step out. Here's the hard truth I can tell you now. you are never going to feel ready and waiting for ready is the very thing keeping you stuck so I'm going to show you 12 ordinary unqualified men who get sent out before any of them felt ready so don't miss that one Heavenly Father tonight I want to today I want to pray for the ones who are tired of patching the port holes, that has never been the issue. Their roads has been so full of port holes and yet they kept fixing only the surface level issues and not went in depth into the real issue. Open up their eyes to see the real issue. not just the service level issue but the real issue let everyone that is sitting under the sound of my voice today don't feel like an elephant with a small little rope and they feel useless let them see the real rope for what it is it can be broken in the mighty name of Jesus let them see that that rope because they outgrown that small rope already that rope will never be something that will hold them captive anymore in Jesus mighty name I pray Amen and Amen now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit
