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Sunday Message · Fountain of Grace International · Pretoria North

The Shortcut That's Ruining Your Life

When you're stuck in a job search, facing relationship rejection, or watching your dreams collapse, the temptation to cut corners feels irresistible. But there's a reason those shortcuts leave you emptier than before.

Pastor Ricardo Zaal · Fountain of Grace International, Pretoria North

You feel trapped enough to try anything that works-even if it costs you something you can't name.

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This message is for you if:

  • You've lied or cheated to get ahead and it still didn't work
  • You keep waiting for a breakthrough that never seems to come
  • You've stepped on someone else to reach a goal
  • You're desperate enough to consider paths you know are wrong

Witchcraft Is What You're Already Doing

Witchcraft sounds ancient and foreign, but Pastor Ricardo defines it plainly: it's anything you do to gain what you want by stepping on someone else, lying, or cutting corners. It's the boyfriend you sabotage to win the girl. It's the price you quote a client at 700 rand but charge 800. It's the job you get by trampling colleagues. It's the deception you justify because you're desperate.

The Bible says the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy-that's Satan's method. God comes to give life. These two paths don't mix, and yet when you don't trust God's provision, you naturally drift toward the witchcraft path. You tell yourself it's the only way that works. But it never actually does-not in any way that satisfies.

Why Shortcuts Leave You Empty

Pastor Ricardo shares his own story. Between 1997 and 1999, unemployed and desperate, he took his last money to a traditional healer, a witch doctor, hoping for a breakthrough in his job search and relationships. He came home with a pink powder and no real understanding of what it was supposed to do. He still didn't get the job. He still didn't get the girl. He still didn't get the provision he was chasing.

Witchcraft always demands a sacrifice-and what you sacrifice is part of your soul, part of your peace, part of your ability to trust. Every shortcut costs you something deeper than money. That cost is why you stay stuck. That cost is why the breakthrough never comes.

Grace Is The Opposite Path

If you don't have witchcraft, you have grace. Grace is what God gives when you trust Him instead. Grace is the unexpected job offer from someone you helped years ago. Grace is the meal that appears at your door when your cupboard is empty. Grace is the answer you suddenly know even though you've never studied it. Grace is what comes when you act on faith-when you give your last ten rand to someone in need, not knowing how you'll eat tomorrow.

Jesus' mother understood this. Standing at a wedding feast where the wine had run out, she turned to the servants and said simply: 'Whatsoever he says unto you, do it.' She had such confidence in her son that she knew he would act. God has that same confidence in you. He has equipped you with grace-with abilities, opportunities, and provision you haven't even discovered yet. But grace only flows when you stop trying to force your way through witchcraft and start trusting His way instead.

Trust Isn't About What God Can Do-It's About Knowing He Will

Most people misunderstand trust. They think trust means believing God has the ability to help. But the real trust is deeper: it's knowing that He will help, that His character guarantees it, that His promises are as solid as the ground under your feet. Trust isn't something you're born with. It's built through experience-through seeing God come through, even in small ways.

When you trust God, you lose yourself in the best way. You stop relying only on your own ability, your own voice, your own education, your own connections. You remain yourself, but you add Him to the equation. And when you add Him, impossibly, things that seemed impossible become possible. The shy person speaks boldly. The poor person receives generously. The stuck person moves forward.

Grace Multiplies When You Give

Jesus taught a principle that sounds backwards until you actually live it: 'Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over.' Picture a refuse bag stuffed with dry leaves. It looks full. But press down. It takes more. Shake it. More comes. Press again. Shake again. Still more. That's how God measures grace back to you.

Pastor Ricardo and his wife drove thirty or forty minutes to church with nothing in the house-no food, no money. But they went anyway, trusting. When they returned home, a neighbor had left them a chicken and other provisions. The point wasn't magical provision. The point was: they acted on trust, and grace met them. That's the cycle. You give what little you have. You trust God for the rest. And He returns it pressed down, shaken together, running over.

Preparation Meets Divine Protection

When you trust God instead of witchcraft, something shifts. You're no longer trying to force your way into a job you're unqualified for-you're studying, preparing, positioning yourself. And while you prepare, God sends teachers, mentors, opportunities you never manufactured. The old saying is true: when the student is ready, the teacher appears. But the flip side matters too: when you've learned what that teacher has to give, they disappear-not because they're abandoning you, but because you're ready for the next level.

As you trust and prepare, God's protection surrounds you. Psalm 91 isn't poetry about angels as decoration. It's a promise: He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, from the nets that are meant to trap you and keep you from moving forward. Satan throws nets to halt you. God sends angels to clear your path. The choice is yours: trust the shortcuts that trap you, or trust the God who protects and promotes you.

"If you don't trust God, you will trust something else-and that something else will cost you everything."

- Pastor Ricardo Zaal

Key Takeaways

  1. Witchcraft vs. Grace Are Your Only Two Options When you don't trust God, you default to witchcraft-lying, cheating, stepping on others, cutting corners. When you do trust God, you operate in grace-unexpected help, provision, opportunities that come because you acted with integrity even when it looked foolish. There is no middle ground. You cannot have both. The moment you add grace, witchcraft has to leave. The moment you return to witchcraft, grace withdraws. Choose which one you're building your life on, because that choice determines everything.
  2. Your Ability to Trust Is Learned, Not Born You weren't born trusting God. You learned it through experience-or you didn't. If your parents never had a car, if your family never broke poverty, if no one around you succeeded without cheating, then your mind became a cage. It told you: this is not possible for me. But trust isn't inherited. It's built. Every time you take a step on faith-giving when it hurts, speaking truth when a lie would be easier, helping someone when you're barely surviving yourself-you're building the muscle of trust. And every time trust is rewarded, your capacity to trust deepens. That's how grace multiplies in your life.
  3. Grace Returns Multiplied When You Give From Nothing The most powerful giving is not from your surplus. It's from your last. When you give your last ten rand, your last meal, your last hour, your last ounce of energy to someone in need-and you do it knowing God, not knowing how you'll survive-you're declaring that you trust God more than your own security. That declaration triggers a response. Somehow, someone feeds you. Somehow, work appears. Somehow, the gap closes. Not because the universe is magical, but because God honors faith. And that's when grace returns not just equal but pressed down, shaken together, running over.

If you are in or around Pretoria or Johannesburg, come and join us on a Sunday - these messages are preached live every week at Fountain of Grace International, 323 B Danie Theron Street, Pretoria North.

Frequently Asked Questions

I've already made deals with witchcraft or shortcuts. Can I come back from that?

Yes. The moment you recognize it and turn away, God's grace is available to you. Pastor Ricardo went to a witch doctor in desperation and it didn't work. Later, when he understood Jesus, that past didn't disqualify him from blessing. What matters now is your choice: will you trust God or trust shortcuts? The grace available to you today is not limited by what you did yesterday. Confess it, turn from it, and step into trust. God will move you out of situations that held you back.

How do I know if I'm in witchcraft or grace right now?

Ask yourself: Am I lying, cheating, stepping on someone, or cutting corners to get what I want? That's witchcraft. Am I acting with integrity even when it costs me? Am I giving when it hurts? Am I trusting that God will provide? That's grace. Look at your methods, not just your results. A dishonest job is witchcraft even if you get it. Honest preparation you trust God to reward is grace even if the payoff hasn't arrived yet. Grace builds you up from the inside. Witchcraft hollows you out from within, no matter what it wins you.

What do I do when I'm desperate and trusting God feels too slow?

That desperation is exactly where Satan plants the temptation to cut corners. In that moment, act on the smallest trust you have. Give something. Help someone. Go to church. Prepare for the thing you're hoping for. Do the next right thing in front of you, and trust that God sees it. You don't need perfect faith-you need to act on the faith you have. Grace meets you in the action, not in the waiting. Pastor Ricardo and his wife drove to church with nothing. They didn't sit at home waiting for provision. They acted on trust, and grace met them on the road back home.

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that you deserve my god this morning and I know for the god that this morning as we about to go through this day for the god not knowing what is ahead of us but knowing you we can be sure of knowing that whatever plans you have for us this morning for the god is a plan to prosper us and not to harm us because that is what you said in Jeremiah 29 verse 12 your plan for us is to prosper us and not to harm us this morning for the god so in the mighty name of jesus christ the lord and savior prosperity is ours in all areas of our lives because you are because you are because you are thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus greetings in the wonderful name of jesus christ the lord and savior I just want to take this opportunity and thank you if I for either if you are tuning in in either you are listening to to me from facebook if you are here I'm just thanking you this morning thank you thank you so this morning I want to also at the same time say wherever you are I'm praying for you because this morning there's so so many things that make us to think that we cannot make it but if you're looking at it just by looking at god already you know he is the one that makes us to make it in life he is the one that makes us to know what our future is because through what we can see what he has done he will do it again what he has done he will do it again so this morning wherever you are just have a look around you just look around you and when I say look around and when I say look around you let us start off by asking yourself if you die is there another chance for you to have another car that you have lost is there another chance for you to have another girlfriend or boyfriend if you if you're in the grave if there's another chance for you if the job that you just lost is been gone if you are in the grave there's no other chance for you but this morning I want to take this opportunity and tell you because you are life there is still something for you that can change because at the end of the day that boyfriend might be saying to you it's my last day with you you feel like your life is going to end today that girlfriend might be saying to you I don't want to see you anymore and it feels like your life is just everything is just falling down it's like everything that happened it's just crashing come tumbling down this morning I want to encourage you that there is still a God there is still a God because once there's still life there's still a chance for you to make it in life my message this morning I'm going to bring it into a few parts and I want to talk about addition to last week's message last week's message is trusting in God so I want to add on to that because I've missed out a few points so that you can understand what is the implications of not trusting on God because if you trust in God it means that things will add up to you it will be a positive it will be a plus for you but if you don't trust in God definitely certain things will happen I want to start off number one witchcraft witchcraft let me tell you something if there is a God that brings a blessing there is a devil that brings a curse if there's a God that gives life there is a devil that gives you death this is why the Bible says it so nicely the teeth come at to steal kill and destroy and therefore God has come to give you life so this morning I want you to understand something Satan is always out to imitate God witchcraft is an opposite of what God is giving therefore if you don't trust in God does it mean that you might be trusting in witchcraft or whatever you call it because this is witchcraft witchcraft is when you want a job but standing on others to get that job trampling on others pushing them down to get that job or that position that is witchcraft so my brother my sister stop that standing on others or killing others to get to what you want that is witchcraft so you might be asking but why when you talk about trusting God you brings in witchcraft I want to tell you a reason trust in chariots some trust in horses but as for we or we or we and you we supposed to trust in the name of the Lord because the name of the Lord is a strong tower and the strong tower that when the righteous run into them to that name or run to that name I mean they are saved because the name of Jesus once you say the name of Jesus it saves you from so many things but trusting in God means that in all else if all else fails you still trust in God so why do I say to you witchcraft is something that is the opposite of God's blessing for you now I want to share a story with you some years ago I can recall the time specific between 97 and 99 between those two years I was literally looking for a job and then as I was looking for a job I realized that I'm not getting a job so I kept on looking looking put my cv there put my cv that way put my cv this way put my cv that way I ended up not getting a job and I started believing that somebody is literally literally coming against me and this is when I realized that this might be witchcraft and and and growing up in a Motswana background we we still believe in tokoloshi we still believe in let me just say we still believe in witchcraft we still believe that certain things can happen for you to get what you want in life through witchcraft now going back to my story yeah as a young man just finishing school at my first and second job what happened is that somebody told me about I don't know do you call them do you call them a witch or do you call them a traditional healer or what you call them but I can't remember what it was but all I know here I'm taking the last money that I have at that time it was not a lot so taking the money and I said let me go and see this person because they were saying a lot of times this person helped people getting job and here Ricardo's are punished way I can still remember as if it was yesterday but I can't remember what happened in between but all I can remember is walking to a place just the side of of the taxi ring or in posmas but where the taxi ring is now the taxi ring and then I remember is it this came this something okay but it was a place that was on the corner and at the back of it where the stop street is at the back of it there was a place there where they had some traditional things like herbs and things I don't know but all I recall is getting in there the smell was active and what I did is because of I'm struggling to get a job because of I'm struggling to look after my kids because I was struggling to look after certain things and I did not know God at the time I did not know Jesus at the time I was not a born again Christian all I know is I'm going to church and this at that time seems for me as if it was the only way out as I went in I come out with a little pink powder I can't tell you what I was supposed to do with it and I cannot tell you what it was about but all I know is I went in there asking myself how am I going to manage with all this it came in 1998-99 I still couldn't get a job I still couldn't get a financial breakthrough I was looking for I still couldn't get a breakthrough with the girlfriend I had at the time even though I went to somebody which is something that gives you is something that you should be taking out of your life and giving it to somebody which graph is a sacrifice of a sacrifice of what you as a person have to give out and sacrificing to the devil always gives out your soul always gives out something from you and I believe that that this is something that has been giving me a lot of difficulties I didn't trust in God at the time I trusted in this being father now my question to you this morning I want to ask you if you believe in God what should you do how would you go about getting the things that you're looking for gaining the things that you're looking for and trusting in the things that you're looking for so this morning I want to show you a few things now this is what what what I said what witchcraft is this which I will add something else again you want a girlfriend as a guide what are you doing you go to the girlfriend and stepping on somebody's toes boyfriend that you're having is this and that and the other so you bet mouth somebody to get to the girl you come up with a lot of lies to get to her telling her oh the shoes I'm wearing is expensive it's about the 2000 plus rent it's about a 30,000 plus rent shoes you gaining I trust my lies that is witchcraft my brother my sister because you are using the opposite of what God is given to you because God is saying to you that let no man owe anybody anything except love so how do you owe somebody something is that when you're making promises and the promises that you make is actually withholding you from gaining access to the things that you should be doing so this morning I want to come back to saying to you witchcraft is not an option I want to tell you another form of witchcraft as well I want to do my business and as I do my business in the process of trying to grow my business I steal from a lot of clients when I put my pricing through I said to the client the price is 700 rent but then after calculations and everything the client have to pay 800 rent that's witchcraft my brother my sister that is witchcraft because you told the client 700 rent where does the other 100 rent come from that's witchcraft so my question to you what are you doing what are you doing in your life when these things happen now I'm getting back to my let me do my scripture reading now my scripture reading today is out of John John 2 verse 5 now I want to emphasize this somebody who grew up somebody who grew up or somebody who grew up in front of you picture your mom standing nicely saying do you know what this is my child saying this his mother said unto the say it unto the servants whatsoever he say it unto you do it imagine mommy I have a trust in this child of mine when my child is saying to you do this you better do it I proud mom a mom that is confident in you as a son who can actually say that that he is or her mom is so confident in him because Jesus mother said it the mother of Jesus said to somebody now in my scripture reading I want to show you a different section if you don't have witchcraft or you don't do witchcraft to gain access to go forward it means that you have something else and when you don't have something called witchcraft you have grace you have Jesus come on let me let me explain what I mean by that now when Jesus said this he said take a pot of water I mean a pot full of water not because he wanted to do it but because his mother had so much confidence in him that he as a person had to do something God is so confident in you as a person he has given you the grace to do certain things you are gracefully equipped you are so equipped that God has equipped you to be an eloquent speaker and still you stutter because of the fear that you have of what will they think of me if I speak they will laugh at me God has given you an eloquent speaking voice that whenever you start shouting you instead of blessing people you cursing people with that strong voice of you like in this case I'm just making an example somebody in the in the location like where I come from I know a lot of people that have such a strong voice and the strong voice that they have is that anytime when you when they're out in the street they don't just greet you they curse you they die useless they can't just useless die and useless that and he can have fun from daggers day and he can have fun from daggers day strong voice God has given you a strong voice but you're using it for a wrong reason God has given you a grace to make money but every time you make money you spend it on the wrong things you have the grace to do certain things and the thing is anytime it happens that you as a person runs through a lot of wrong things because of grace now how do you how do you believe in God or how do you trust in God to have a God enough reason and not a good enough reason so let me explain when you trust in God the thing that you trust in is not his ability that he's got but your ability to know he is God because there's a difference between there's a difference between your ability to know that he's got and your ability to know what he is doing so this morning I want to take the time and show to you what is your what is the ability what I mean by God's when you trust in God the ability to trust in God because your ability to trust in God is not an ability that you are born with it's not an ability that you grew up with but it's an ability that you yourself taught yourself through experience because I don't believe God can give me a car reason being I have never seen a car in my family my mom doesn't have a car my dad doesn't have a car my sister doesn't have a car and therefore I will not have a car meaning to say that your ability to trust in God has kept you away from what God has in store for you so this is why I'm saying to you this morning you should be very careful when you want to gain access most of the time you gain access through witchcraft and I just want to make sure that you understand witchcraft is the opposite of what God has given so when when when when God has given you life Satan give death so when God gives you good God gives you good Satan gives bad so this is the reason why I'm saying to you if you want to go through to a job or get a position don't tramp on somebody to gain that position because that is witchcraft don't think by putting somebody down when you want to get that position is a good thing it's witchcraft that's purely witchcraft because it's the opposite of what God has given to you as a man as a human being and therefore you should understand when it comes to trust to weigh up where is your trust because if your trust is in God God it means that it will lift God most of the time and it will bring Satan down but the moment you trust in let's say you trust in your abilities to do certain things I mean if you're looking at it somebody not speaking English is not trusting enough or will not be bold enough to go onto a stage and speak to people that speak English if it's not a person that understand vernacular or let's say Afrikaans Zulusu Tukosa and you stand on it on a platform the moment you start speaking speaking on a dominantly English platform you will lose half of the people so meaning to say your ability there is going to kill you as a person because now you're looking at these people no one is speaking my language so trusting in God is saying God yeah I'm standing but can you help me to gain somebody who has an eloquent English voice to come stand next to me and explain so when you trust in God trust that God will appear in a situation where when you cannot do God sent somebody to help you so why do you need to trust in God if you trust in God you how do you call it you you lose yourself that's the word I'm looking for because the more you trust in God the more you you leave your abilities so therefore I'm saying to you two things it's either you have grace or witchcraft grace is something whenever you get into a situation things that you didn't know you have comes out from within is that when the Holy Spirit comes upon you he will utter words that you did not know you have so what do I mean by that on the day of Pentecost people gather together and nobody knew that that day somebody will speak a language that others will hear somebody who is it not even their vernacular language or the language that they speak so trusting in God is what you have to do is to take action like the mother the mother of Jesus was saying up straight confident in her son confident knowing that the I grew up with this guy I know what is capable of I understand that there's a need and I know because of there's a need he will do something about this being confident is trusting God being confident that he said he will do what he said he will do not the opposite because if God is saying to you you'll be a prophet the thing is to say what he will do the thing is whatsoever he say it unto you do it if he say to you you are prophet start speaking prophetically if he say to you that you are a teacher start speaking like a teacher start teaching even if you only teach how to tie a shoe it's teaching even if you only teach how to unbutton your clothes it's teaching even if you do teach on the thing that you know because some of us think that you need a platform to start teaching or doing what you're supposed to do do you know that trusting God is trusting in his ability for your life and not your inability because if your inability to speak to a stranger is coming in the way of God speaking through you he will make a way for him to speak through you just by action look at this you're not a good speaker are and somehow you learned yourself in checkers or shop right or whatever shop that you are having around you now you are carrying a very heavy basket and as you're walking and you stand in the queue waiting to be helped an old lady comes to the front and you can see the old lady is struggling you can't speak but all you can do is say with your hands stand in front of me just by that God has proven to the old lady that there is still some good people so your inability to speak your way you're not able to speak to speak comes through to your action and therefore he says it so nicely whatsoever he said unto you do it so when God has given you an idea of what to do or whatever not to do just do it because by doing it your inability of doing things will show forth in other ways so trusting God is going to my next point so I said to you if you don't trust God it means you trust something else so if you don't trust God that is why witchcraft comes in witchcraft comes in because if you don't trust God enough you don't have faith in him you're supposed to have trust in something else so if you trust in something else meaning to say that you definitely then trust in Satan and his devices number one number two if you trust in God you will always have the grace grace of certain things grace that comes out in it in in ways that you don't understand you find yourself in a situation where somebody is asking you a question and you answer and you don't understand what just happened I didn't even know I know that answer on that question that is grace coming forward to you grace is when somebody asked you do you have a ten run for me I just want to quickly buy something quickly here I'm just short of a ten run I have the money but at this moment I'm in such a hurry that I need this ten run to go you give the person a ten run by the time the person see you again my brother my sister he says to you wow you remember the day when you gave me the ten run I was in such a stress come on here is a check of fifty thousand rent just for that day that you've given me a ten run a mere ten run you he gave you a forty thousand that is grace for you so therefore seek the opportunities wherever you can with whatever you have because by that you are trusting God because trusting God is taking the last hundred rent and throw it into somebody else's life knowing that there's no food in the house knowing that the electricity is about to go out knowing that that is the last hundred rent for the kids to have a transport to go to school to that is the last so trusting in God is taking out the last of you trusting in God is is is giving you that grace because by you giving the hundred rent you somehow find somebody coming to you and say for this week can I take your kids to school just for this week because of the hundred rent that you've sown into somebody else's life just for the mere fact that you've given the last hundred rent that you have and somebody says suddenly say to you can you come and eat by my place look look at this me and my wife went to to to a certain church um in estrus um okay pastor herbert crystal crystal crystal fountain yeah crystal fountain we we went to the church the the one day and the morning when we left our house there was nothing in the house nothing i'm telling you when i say nothing there was nothing in the house getting to church i can't remember what happened but when we came back from the church i think we did something in church but but god be my witness i can't for somehow i can't remember now but when we get home the auntie that stays a few flights from us gave us a chicken okay yeah there she comes from it was not just a chicken it was a few things but us believing that even if there's nothing in the house we will still go to church and church is not 10 minutes a drive from where we were if you're looking at it where we are so where estrus is is about a half an hour's drive if not 45 minutes i can't but i just know it's far going there not having anything but just having at least some petrol in the car going saying to ourselves church we will go to church and come back and when we come back we had a meal to prepare so these are the things that trusting god knowing that i'm just going to go to church regardless and come back with something now you might be asking what kind of grace is that how can i get that grace to get that grace is in a simple simple way whatsoever he say it unto you do it so whenever god is saying to you in a small voice i understand it's your most expensive shoe that you have on at this moment can you see the guy that is walking there barefoot take off that shoe and give it to him my god man ish hey what i want to do ish is too expensive now and look at this guy he's so dirty is he even going to appreciate it it is not about you asking for if he's going to appreciate it or not it's just as god has said do you trust that god will do something for you by just giving it to him because as a man sow it when you sow you will reap you will reap and when you reap you don't just reap but you will reap in abundance because give and it will be given to you good measure testers down shaken together running over now let me explain that to you good measure is a measure which is going to give you enough but imagine you thinking that is enough and yet god come in and show off again then he said it's not enough it's like pressing down now now picture this picture this or let me make an example when when it's winter you will see the leaves you will see the leaves in in in around your house now when you take a refuse bag or black bag you call it refuse yeah refuse bag when you call take that and you put that leaves inside the the bag will be full quickly but it doesn't mean the bag is the bag is full that is the same thing what god is telling you here he said it's a good measure from the measuring of your eyes but it's not good enough by trusting in him he will press down so meaning to say that the leaves that is in there even though it's at the brim of the refuse bag when you press it down it means that they can it can take more now now now don't be fooled by the pressing down of the good that you already have good measure press down and then when you press it down there's not enough space for you or there's still enough space for you to shake it so press down take them together and then when you shake it together it means that there's more coming in and then it overflows pressing together running over so that is the measure of the faith and the trust that you should be having in god because the moment you think it's good enough there is still a press down that will come still shaking together and still running over that will come so please realize that when god's grace is upon you there cannot be a witchcraft that goes hand in hand with god because these two doesn't mix it doesn't mix although spayton comes in any time whenever he comes he wants to speak to you about certain things he's putting and some ideas in your mind not to trust on god like for argument's sake what he does now is that he say to you you are sick and then when you say that okay i am sick you go one step further you know the sickness is to death and and you start doubting god's ability to of healing and because you doubt the ability of god's healing there you own the sickness it's my arthritis it is my diabetics it is my whatever whatever you start owning it and by owning it you're making it as if god is a respect of a person because he can only heal this one he can't heal that one by trusting god is trust that he who is god can do extremely abundantly above all and i'm and i'm saying this in a small way building up to the reason why i'm saying to you there's so many times that we say this is good enough for me but many a times forget to ask is it god enough because god is more in store for you so building up on this trusting in god there's one more step so once witchcraft is taken out grace has come upon you there's there's another step that you have to do now there's a guy that that has or gave a thing like this now he said when wait wait when the student is ready the teacher will appear now if i tell you something when you trust god to be a doctor one day what it means is that it means that you are preparing yourself to be a doctor so the preparation that you are doing is doing the studies and all those things now when the student are ready it happens that certain things comes in your life of where you've been prepared already now sometimes whenever you study you're thinking to yourself what is the relevance of these studies that i've done to where i'm heading keep for argument's sake think that let me make an example geography why must i study geography it has to do with mountains it has to do with this and that me other why do i have to study all these things and then you realize that as you grow up the studies of your geography had to do with something that is climatology or climate things for argument's sake why do you have to study biology and then you realize biology had to do with the let's say part of it had to do with the body and then suddenly you become a doctor or is somebody i who had to cut open to check what i don't know what you call it people but whatever they are let me just say it that way now i want to say to you when you prepare from small and you don't understand why do i love cars you end up becoming like faster my pastor is a is a mechanic he loved cars and by that time he probably didn't even know why when the student is ready the teacher appear meaning to say that when you have studied enough somebody will come and take you under their wings and tell you how to do certain things and then when that person teach you how to be a pastor how to be a prophet how to be a teacher how to be a this and that the other the moment you are ready love to say it this way when this student is ready the teacher appear but when the the student is okay but when the student is already let me say that way because i can't get to the wedding now meaning to say that when the student is is now fully equipped the the teacher disappeared so does it mean that the teacher is tired of you or the teacher doesn't like you anymore it just mean that the person that was teaching you has given you everything that you need and you need to now move on to the next person so god has sent trusting you to trust upon human beings as well although the word says lean not on the arm of flesh lean not on the arm of flesh meaning to say that the teacher that you are leaning on is not the final person to trust on to think that you will be taught only by that person because when you think that that is the only person that no geography that well there's somebody better than them and then when that person disappear the person that is supposed to take you to your next level appear so it's a cycle it comes out as a cycle again because i can only give what i have if i can only give what i have god has only given me that ability so my trust in god should be more than my ability to give because what i have i can give once it's done that i've given i should trust god that something will come up that i can give more and this is why i'm going to the last point which is the preparation in preparing trust on god prepare yourself to be overwhelmed what i mean by that to prepare yourself to be overwhelmed meaning to say that god is giving you so many things and you're not understanding wow wow wow every time whenever there's something that come up every time there's something that come up and then as he is giving to you how to build a miniature small car he's actually showing you how to build a bigger car so the things that he's giving you at this moment to do is the thing that is taking you to where he wants you to go in preparation of trusting in god is to prepare yourself god is giving me something at this moment he's saying to me that when he said it in psalm 91 he will give his angels charge over you you let me let me let me let me read it with you because he's saying it so nicely he's saying it so nicely because i i literally hear him saying tell them i have not given psalm 91 for nothing prepare them because the enemy is about to to circle around you but the angels are stopping them from from getting to you so he's saying because you trust in him who is god not trusting in anything else because you're trusting in god now satan is trying to attack you in a sense but as he attack he keep on proving he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most i shall abide in the shadow of the almighty i will say to the lord he is my refuge and my fortress my god in him i trust surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the power and from the nuisance pestilence you shall cover thee with the feathers and under his wings shall thou trust the trust shall be thy shield and buckler so what he means at this moment is that as you're trusting in god satan is about to come to you and try and put some things in your mind and as he put things in your mind the only thing you can keep on saying is that the angels that is surrounding you is helping you to fight off and through the arrow of faith this i mean the shield of faith the arrows that comes to you you can take it down i'm still trying to figure out because god is speaking in such a manner that i'm not understanding i don't maybe i should just say as he said it just trust in me because if the enemy is coming to you with whatever he's trying to do by trusting in him in me nothing will happen to you maybe that makes sense to somebody but for me it i'm i'm i'm probably confused or something but i don't know so this morning wherever you are if you feel that satan is heading your way through witchcraft by taking certain areas of your life and telling you to go to certain places which is not of god just know god is protecting you in all those areas like for argument's sake like i've said to myself like in my case where i went to somebody thinking that that will help me to get the job the girls the one all those other things but at the end of the day i just made a mistake in not knowing or let me say like the bible says lack of knowledge is the reason why my people are perishing and at the time when i went to that witch doctor i didn't know it was wrong because i didn't know god at that time so satan is using these things to get you because you don't know in knowing christ the more you know christ the more you know even because his devices we are aware of we are aware of his devices but for some reason we trust that it might bring a difference in our lives and not trusting enough in god so when we don't trust enough in god it's the reason why we ended up falling for his devices so please this morning if you have fallen for one of his devices pray that god will give you the grace to know the difference because if we know the difference between what is godly and what is satan's wants we will understand when not to trust but only trusting in god you know god is speaking to me about so many things now but this is not enough time to go through it i would rather do this on a separate time because from where i am at this moment prophetically i see somebody standing with with with the how do you say you call it the net you know like the thing that when you when you have food here and you throw something over it so that the flies doesn't come in it's a net yeah that's a net yeah all right somebody's holding a net over your life like this and this net i thought it was a good one like like how do you call it i thought it was a net to help you but it was a net to stop you from getting help it was something that was meant to keep you captive and here i'm thinking wow now i understand and why god is saying that you took angels surrounding you and camping around you now it makes more sense instead of the net holding you back from gaining access to certain things you use the angels to surround you wow so so whenever there's a net don't think the net is there to keep you safe the net is also there to actually withhold you from gaining access or from moving forward so if there is a net of an fowler didn't i read something about it now surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler it makes sense so they are trying to to stop you but god's angels is there to help you i see god is moving you out of situations that was holding you back for quite some time god is moving you out of situations where you didn't trust enough on him but as from today the trust that god has given into your life is going to help you more heavenly father i am not even understanding where you are today or where you're going today with this i i my mere mind is not even there to understand it but this morning i want your holy spirit to to to totally take control and move where my words is shot is too short to explain what it is let your holy spirit be evident in this situation because i am not i i i literally don't understand because all i can understand is that when the bible says that sometimes we prophesy in part but one day we will know so i will leave it at that my god because in my human mind it doesn't make sense but in your infinite ability of proving that you are god i just fully give over to you i fully believe in you i fully trust in you my god that you will do what you said you will do because your word is yay your word is amen nothing can be added nothing can be taken away your word is a soft a double edged sword that cuts through bone and narrow for the god so that is why i'm leaving your word to do what it said to be doing for the gun because the only thing you said i have not spoken enough on trust and therefore i have spoken on trust again today and i'm leaving it at that for the god because i didn't know what you were about to do by us not trusting you enough for the god so therefore this morning i trust that you are the only one in my inability to trust for the god please help me to be able to trust you more whatever i have been doing for the god i don't understand but all i know is to trust on you for the god anybody that is listening to the sound of my voice for the god wherever they didn't trust you enough for the god give them the grace to trust more for the god the grace to to to be lifted into a the realm where you are the one and only person that they can trust on and nothing else you are the only one that will be the one that can prove to them where you had it so this morning in the mighty name of jesus christ come on and save you for the god i leave everything to you for the dark because i don't know nothing only one i know is that i know you my god so this morning anybody that doesn't know you this morning i pray for the god in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior who is under the sound of my voice for the god i pray now in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior if they want to take you up as their lord and savior my god let no demon no enemy from hell stand in their way let them know that you have given them the grace to take you as the lord and personal savior to give you the upper hand in their lives to give you the one that was there when the beginning of times has come and still will be there until end of times let them give you everything in their lives wherever they have sent my god i pray now in the mighty name of jesus father god forgive them their sins forgive them their sins for the god so that the sins that has become an iniquity between you and them for the god let their sins be moved away as far as the east is from the god in the mighty name of jesus christ for them let their names be written in the book of life for the god for i know for the god they are sons of god they are called the sons of god you have made a place for them to sit next to you for the god in the mighty name of jesus christ the lord and savior this morning i prayed and anybody for the god that has said i forgot about god somehow i need to come back i also pray for them for the god let the trust that they have lost be regained to this message or to any other forms that you have in store not what i am actually putting you on because you do more than just what i ask if i say let the trust that they have become through this message you have a different way of proving the trust that they should trust you so let me not put you in a small place do what you have to do my god because me telling you what to do for the god i am making you a small god be the big god and do what you should be doing in the mighty name of jesus christ the lord and savior i pray heavenly father i also pray for the god for those who have not enough faith that you can change their financial situations they don't believe and trust in you for the god i pray now in the mighty name of jesus show to them that they can trust of you for the god heavenly father i pray also for the god this morning for those who is not trusting you enough in their relationships in their marriage in their business relationships i pray in the mighty name of jesus prove to them that you are god my god i also pray this morning for the god for those who still don't trust you for their healing who still don't trust that you are perfect one that give help to them in the mighty name of jesus christ the lord and savior give them that trust back for those who doesn't trust you enough for a change of mind in their lives for a small mind and has not been growing their mind i pray now in the mighty name of jesus lift the mindsets give them a mind of christ a mind of christ that is so high wow in jesus name i also pray this morning my god for those who does not trust you enough in their exams in their schools in their universities bring that trust back jesus mighty name i pray amen amen
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